I was just browsing through some of the blogs I visit on a daily basis. One of them pointed me to a new website called HKS TV, It's some sort of HKS version of youtube. You can find all sorts of cool video's, from product reviews to onboard Time Attack video's of the HKS CT230R. Although everything is in Japanese you still get a good understanding for all things HKS. I especially like this video where you can see some ‘historic' HKS race cars like the Drag 70 Supra and their...

Today as I was driving out to Tsukuba Circuit, I realized that it has been quite a while since I have shot any traditional "tuning car" race events. I have covered other Tsukuba events recently like the Idlers Games and the JCCA Summer Meeting, but I was looking forward to seeing some fully tuned GT-R's, RX7's, S2000's attacking the circuit. With fall in the air, Tsukuba is again becoming busy with time trial and soukoukai events and I for one am happy be putting the humid, rainy summer behind me. The event I was going to was the HKS Hiper Challenge at the Tsukuba 2000 Course, part of a series of events held by HKS at tracks all over Japan. This particular event was it's second of three Hiper Challenges at Tsukuba this year. The Hiper Challenge includes time trial and free run classes for everyone from beginners in their daily drivers to pros driving shop demo cars. After spending a little time at the Hiper Challenge, my tuning car thirst would be more than quenched....

Once a week I always check the Japanese Yahoo auctions for cars. It's just a habit I have, a lot of the times there's some real junk, but there's always one seller that seems to have the most well built Skylines. I'm talking about Global Auto, that name should sound familiar to at least some of you guys. When I was browsing today I spotted this monster R34 Skyline with a massive spec. list. I don't even know where to begin! So I'll guess I will start at the front where the...

Fuujin Gets 7.5 second spec cage in preparation for 2008. We've just finished the work to make our Drag GTR ( and current European 4WD record holder ) even more compliant and safe to meet the rules for 7.5 second doorslammer cars. The car was previously spec'd to 8.5 second rules however late last year we started to dip into the lowe 8's with a best of 8.27 @164mph which was the milestone for the next phase of our cars development. Since the inception, the cars purpose is to run quicker...