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Posted Feb 13 2009, 06:06 AM by Mike Garrett with 9 comment(s)

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If you ask a Japanese person what their home country's most important landmark is, without a doubt they'll tell you it's Mt. Fuji, or Fuji-san as it's known in Japanese. If you've ever had the chance to see the towering mountain on a clear day, then you'll know why. Fuji is also important to motorsports fans, not for the mountain itself but for the race track located nearby. Fuji Speedway is the holy ground of Japanese motorsport, history, dating back to the 1960's when legendary race cars like Hakosuka GT-R and Toyota 2000GT could be seen running on Fuji's banked corners....
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Posted Jul 29 2008, 04:30 AM by Mike Hayes with 11 comment(s)

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I'm concentrating on "D to D: Drift & Driving Entertainment Magazine" in this post. I've found that there is a great deal of technical depth in D to D. What would likely be a paragraph blurb on a new intercooler from Greddy/Trust becomes a 2 page spread with temperature graphs by RPM, etc. The very first thing I noticed about these JDM mags is that even though we in North America think we run a lot of advertising in our print media... We got NOTHIN on japan. With a car culture...
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Posted May 22 2008, 11:00 AM by Jeroen Willemsen with 6 comment(s)

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I’m a great fan of Garage Saurus. In the past they have build some really outstanding cars, like their R32 Drag R that ran consistent 9 second runs on the quarter mile. They even have a race team called 884 Racing. Some of the top contenders in the Japanese Drag Series are in that team. One of those cars is this Skyline R32. It was built by Garage Saurus for a customer that wanted to race it on the circuit and on the drag strip. For the quarter mile it recorded a time of 9.167 seconds. What...
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