Even though the Toyota Supra 3.0 turbo MA70 isn’t that rare I hardly spot one in the wild. This one was driving in front of me when I visited our second Dutch office for my work. Lucky enough it parked in the same multi-storey car park as I did.
Toyota Supra MA70
I took a quick snapshot with my phone cam and a better picture with my analogue camera that still needs to be developed…
Picture tag: The walking man (Page 5 of 7)
Now this is an amazing video: someone took the time to recreate the Seibu Keisatsu opening with Grand Theft Auto IV footage!
It is all there: explosions, cars, violence, explosions, car chases, fist fights, guns, explosions, police sirens and did I already mention explosions?? :D
In the following video both openings are compared to each other:
Now that’s accurate!
Back in 1989 when Toyota rebranded the Toyota Celsior to the Lexus LS400 it introduced the car with an almost unbelievable ad: a stack of champagne glasses was placed on the bonnet while the car drove 145mph (240km/h) on a rolling road. The champagne glasses remained steady even though the engine under it revved all the way up to 5000rpm. Amazing!
This Lexus owner tried to recreate that stack on his brand new 2009 LS460 (XF40) and see if it would be as good as the LS400 and his Youtube video went viral this week. He utterly fails and the stack collapses around 4000 rpm:
Now, you may think that the ad was wrong, but in reality the owner actually failed to stack the champagne glasses properly.
Lexus responded by recreating it on both a 2009 LS460 and 1990 LS400 and amazingly the stack remains stable:
Now how about that?
Also fun to watch, a parody on that 1989 ad:
Now that’s more like it! :D
Found at [Jalopnik]
You’ve probably seen two or more photos used in this video before. The Fairlady Z S130 owner mixed his family album together with Hamada Syougo’s song Still 19 from his 1999 album J.Boy.
I also found a video clip of the song featuring J-drama queen Ishihara Satomi starring in Be-Bop High School:
I think I definitely need to find that J-drama now. ;)
Found at [Moss]
I found this video of a Bisimoto tuned 3T-GTE engined Carina TA14 on a set of SSR Longchamp xr4s.
That sound is like music to my ears!
This Carina GT-R AA63 Cluster has already been lying in my shed for two years now.
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: opened up
Why? Well, there are three modifications I need to make:
1. Speedo cable on the wrong side, so I need to modify the cable-bracket to be mounted on the other side
2. An additional hole for the odometer reset button on the dash
3. Rewire the connector to match the AA63 pin layout
1 and 2 are not really problematic, but can only be solved when I’m mounting the new cluster. 3 is a bit more difficult since these clusters are not documented outside Japan. So I started following all wiring paths and documented where they went and what their use should be.
This is the table of changes (I found so far) to make:
AA63 Cluster pin layout
As you can see it is far from complete: there are still seven questionmarks. So, next time I’ll try to figure these out as well.
In case you are wondering where the numbers are located on the clusters:
AA63 Cluster layout
I did find a CD with all Japanese workshop manuals for the A40 and A60 series at Auctions Yahoo, but a steep buy-me-now price of 48 euro (68 US dollar) refrained me from buying it. I’ve trieed to contact the seller by email and asked if they can sell it directly to me, but no answer so far… So if anyone has the AA63 cluster pin layout, please contact me! :)