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Mar 12 2010, 12:22 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Allen over at Tomei Powered just sent me the link to this Motive DVD video of the Advan/Hi-Octane Racing R34 GT-R testing in preparation for the upcoming World Time Attack Challenge in Eastern Creek Raceway. Enjoy the scream of that RB30!
-Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Mar 06 2010, 02:00 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Once again I was down at the Daikoku Parking Area last night for the final meeting of this week, celebrating what is without a doubt the most legendary car to come out of Japan, the Skyline. Even though the all-new R35 GT-R bears no Skyline badges whatsoever, to enthusiasts the link is still very much there. Being a Friday night the PA resembled a meeting out of a Fast and Furious movie rather than the quite gatherings we have seen this past week. I arrived around 10 pm and the place was buzzing...
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Mar 04 2010, 11:34 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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I've dropped by the Daikoku PA four times straight this week and last night, at what could have potentially been the best meet of this Skyline week, the weather turned for the worst and spoiled everything! The rain was coming down so strong at one point I was contemplating whether to bother going or not. But I'm glad I did as a small group of R34 owners had gathered despite the dismal conditions. I counted about 10 cars which, kind of makes this meeting comparable to the R32 one on Tuesday...
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Mar 04 2010, 06:16 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Luke of WeAreDrift just released this cool short video of a couple of backward entries at Nikko. As Luke says, if you are not entering corners backwards you're not trying hard enough!
-Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Mar 04 2010, 04:34 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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I thought I'd show you guys another cool BNR34 which after the Garage Ito/ProStock time attack monster proves just how versatile the Skyline GT-R can be. As the name suggests, this is a complete Top Secret project, a car that one of my friends here in Tokyo had built with a specific set of goals in mind. It didn't need to be the fastest R34 out there, nor the most extreme looking, it just had to be the kind of supercar that you wouldn't think twice about using on a daily basis. Every...
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Posted
Mar 04 2010, 12:34 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 28 comment(s)
The last time I was over at Amuse I saw, probably for the last time, one of the most legendary cars that the late Tanabe-san had every built, the Carbon-R. Tanabe-san wanted to create the ultimate time attack R34 GT-R by taking inspiration from the Super GT R34 GT-Rs. This meant a very responsive and torquey engine and a lot of weigh loss which was achieved through the full dry carbon body and the conversion to rear-wheel-drive. I only saw the Carbon-R in action once at Fuji when Tanabe-san took...
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Posted
Mar 04 2010, 06:34 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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You are looking at one of the most far out GT-R time attack projects ever created. It cost a massive $350,000 to build and has yet to see the light of day on a race track. It all started back in 2006 when Hiroya-san, a very good customer of Garage Ito in Osaka, decided to see if he could challenge the lap time record at Tsukuba set by the HKS CT230R. Hiroya-san is a very successful business man, and with his company pretty much taking care of itself he decided to dedicate some more time to his passion...
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Posted
Mar 04 2010, 12:34 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Been holding on to this special picture for a while now. March 4th, so this is the perfect time to post it up. This group shot was taken with a few of my friend's R34s, mine is the one in the middle with the bronze wheels. -Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Posted
Mar 03 2010, 07:45 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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So it was back at Daikoku last night for the R33 March 3rd meeting that turned out to be pretty good compared to the previous day's R32 gathering. The line-up of cars was great and I was happy to see that not only GT-Rs had shown up but also GTSs in both 2-door and 4-door variants. Cars kept arriving and taking off throughout the night giving a continuous selection of rides to snap away at. There were also a couple of R34s around too, probably checking what the Daikoku scene is like this week...
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Posted
Mar 03 2010, 03:33 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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I got a few requests to post up more coverage from the GT-R track day that I attended back in 2000 at Tsukuba Circuit. I think I'm not the only one that likes to check out pictures of the "old" days to see just how much styles and trends have changed. Seeing it's March 3rd I thought it would be appropriate to open this post with a shot of a nice R33 GT-R getting very crossed up around the in-field hairpin. When I took these pictures the R34 GT-R was still a very new car, probably...
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Posted
Mar 03 2010, 12:30 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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To kick off the March 3rd R33 celebrations I have picked one car that I will forever remember for scaring me silly. It all started with one of those phone calls I often get from Miguel at Newera Imports . Sourcing cars for export means Miguel often gets his hands on some pretty cool rides, but this car was something else. Don't let the 400R graphics on the side fool, you this is not one of the 33 authentic 400Rs that were built, but something dare I say more special. Miguel let me have the car...
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Posted
Mar 02 2010, 08:20 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Just added the shot of the Tsukuba GT-R meeting from back in 2000 in the Desktops section. Enjoy. -Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Posted
Mar 02 2010, 09:15 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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For the true Skyline connoisseur there is one model that has for years been enjoying legendary status. It isn't the Nismo 400R or even the Z-tune but a car that was conceived well before these. Back in the early nineties HKS decided to do what RUF in Germany was doing with Porsches, and started to create a high-performance bespoke version of the BNR32, the Zero-R. The idea was to inject the tuning knowhow HKS had accumulated after years of tuning the RB26 and help the GT-R achieve its fullest...
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Posted
Mar 01 2010, 11:45 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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My first contribution to this Skyline week was supposed to be an R31 gathering, a meeting that never actually materialized! Not sure if it was the rain that kept people home but I haven't seen Daikoku that empty in a long time! So to make up for it I though I'd post this random shot of a very clean R31 Skyline I shot in the parking lot of the old Red Park Prince & Skyline Museum in Mitsukaido, Ibaraki-ken. Tonight it's down to the Daikoku PA again, I hope this time round I will not...
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Posted
Mar 01 2010, 11:15 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Well to kick off the Skyline week form over here in Japan I though I'd post a shot I took back in 2000 at one of the biggest Skyline-only track days I ever been to. The location as you can see is Tsukuba circuit, which aside from a small new building in the paddock hasn't really changed much! Back then I was still shooting with film! This is going to be a great week! -Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Posted
Feb 27 2010, 12:10 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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After seeing a widebody JZA80 at Fuji Speedway last month for the HKS Premium Day I was instantly reminded of this Abflug - Curve Supra I shot a few years back. To this day it is one of the most extreme body conversions I have seen, along with another mega-wide Abflug JZA80 I snapped years ago. You can always count on the guys at Abflug to shock and come up with unique designs with this particular GT-05 kit taking inspiration from the Supras that used to race in the JGTC championship, now known as...
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Posted
Feb 25 2010, 07:30 PM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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I'm not quite sure why, but I felt strangely drawn to this KP6 Toyota Starlet during the recent Omega Oil track day in Tsukuba. How can you not like its 70s/80s old-school feel, enhanced with body modifications that include massive N2-like overfenders and a set of vintage wheels. The interior was kept pretty simple to start off with so the owner obviously didn't feel the need to go crazy and remove too much trim... ...the stock dash and instrument binnacle remaining, but sporting a custom...
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Posted
Feb 25 2010, 10:45 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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When I recently found out that the owner of this dedicated track S15 Silvia manages to lap Tsukuba in 55-sec I knew I had to dedicate a small post to this incredible car. Suzuki-san, the owner, had his time attack project built by Scorch Racing and Ennepetal with a goal of achieving the fastest possible amateur time around the small Ibaraki-ken circuit. For a privateer to achieve times dedicated tuning shops employing professional drivers would boast about, is simply mind-boggling. And the base of...
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Posted
Feb 25 2010, 06:45 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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I have had a thing for the R30 for a while now. The more I see these angular eighties Skylines the more I like them and this particular example sporting massive overfenders has to be one of the coolest I have come across. I have no idea who it belongs to but from the license plate it's from southern Japan. Absolutely stunning! -Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Posted
Feb 25 2010, 02:15 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
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In the first part of the Omega Oil Tsukuba track day coverage someone made a comment that Tsukuba seems to always be packed with some pretty mean cars. The track's location and proximity to Tokyo makes it the most popular circuit in the Kanto area and is as challenging to drivers of extreme modified cars as it is to those with more humble machines. Fuji Speedway for example is a very fast track where power is something that you really need to get through those fast straights and corners. I decided...
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