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AE86 with 380hp back in 1991

September 27, 2008 / banpei / 0 Comments

I found this old footage on Youtube:

According to the user who placed the video this Corolla Levin AE86 has a 380hp turbo-ed 4AGE. Very impressive, and more impressive they did that 17 years ago!!

You can see the exhaust got a simple turbo manifold and a lot of piping go through the enginebay. The turbo is enormous, so I expect the boost being at least 16psi! Looking at the piping the car probably has an intercooler under the front air dam. And the engine is not a 4AGZE block which currently is a popular basis for turbocharging but a normal bigport (probably second generation) 4AGE: it still has the TVIS.

At first I doubted about the authenticy of this video, but if I look well to both surroundings (and clothing of the people) and other videos this user posted I can conclude that the footage is authentic! Back in those days the only modifications were functional modifications: tower brace, boost gauge, revmeter and that’s it. Other from that the car looks like a stock kouki AE86 which just rolled out of the Toyota factory!

Hilarious: Jozin z bazin

September 26, 2008 / banpei / 0 Comments

This weeks hilarious posting is not one from Last.fm.

I got this one from my Polish colleagues some time ago and I can’t stop laughing about it when I see it. They told me they are a bunch of comedians who performed this song at national television in 1978.

Especially the guy with the weird voice belching into the cup. It reminds me of an old colleague who invented the “haubing”, which is a technique to sing when belching!

And the dancing guy: it looks like he’s got parkinson. The guy next to him doesn’t even move at all!

Here are the translated lyrics:

1. I drive Skoda 100 to camp here on Orawa
So I hurry, take a risk – go through Morawa
The monster lives there, comes out of the bog
Eats mostly Prague citizen, its name is Jozin (Joseph)

Chorus: Jozin from the bog creeps through swamp
Jozin from the bog closes to the village
Jozin from the bog edges its teeth
Jozin from the bog bites, strangles
To defeat Jozin from the bog, who could imagine, only works a plane with manure (white powder)

2. I was driving through the village on road to Vizowice
The village mayor greeted me, said to me during drinking Sliwowica (DIY plum vodka)
‘The one who will bring Jozin dead or alive
gets my daughter and a half of National Agrarian Farm

Chorus: Jozin…

3. I said: ‘give me a plane and powder, mayor,
I’ll bring you Jozin, I see no trouble about that’,
Mayor helped me, in the morning I went up in the sky
The powder from the plane prettily fell on Jozin
Jozin from swamp is totaly white now
Jozin from swamp is running away from the mud
Jozin from swamp ended up on the rock
Jozin from swamp will meet his end here”

I got Jozin from swamp, now I hold him in my hand
A bit of money is always nice so I will sell him to a ZOO

Sad day: My old Trueno is really dead now

September 25, 2008 / banpei / 1 Comment

Just got the news: my old Trueno is dead now.

This is how the car looked shortly after I sold the car:
How the Trueno looked after I sold it

And yes, that’s the Chowini AE86 HR.com.au blogged about in the background.

Then after half a year I got the message from EircamAE86 that the Trueno crashed during a trackday:
Trueno crashed during trackday

He promised to fix it up and he did:
Trueno all fixed up

However the structure of the car was damaged and EircamAE86 did not brace the cage to the shell. After one trackday the car was bent and out of shape again. RIP Trueno… ;(

Carina Sightings: Count the carinas at the Japan A60 2008 meeting

September 25, 2008 / banpei / 3 Comments

This week another short sighting:

Can you count all the Carinas in this picture?? ;)

I came to a total of 34 here, but I did not count the ones behind the group of people in the front row…
The extra difficulty is that this picture also contains Celica A60s (Supra MK2 is called Celica XX in Japan) and it is sometimes hard to distinguish a Carina Coupe rear from a Celica Liftback in the second or fourth rows.

HachiRock!! Festa 2008

September 24, 2008 / banpei / 0 Comments

I just found this on the HR Blog: HachiRock!! Festa 2008

This is one of the biggest Hachi Roku events in Japan, maybe even bigger than HachiRoku day!

It is amazing how many Hachi’s actually turned up there:
many many ae86s at HachiRock!! Festa 2008

They claim last year over 250 hachis turned up, but this year they limited it to 250 participants who already sold out the place in May!!

They had a little nice surprise for all attendants:

HachiRock!! Festa 2008 chocolates! Yummie! :)

You can read (ahum, look at pictures) more here:
http://www.geocities.jp/tz_factory86/080914hachirock.html

I could only dream the AEU86 4th annual meeting would exceed only 50 cars! Maybe if we would make it more exclusive it would attract more hachis. ;)

Opened up a twitter account

September 23, 2008 / banpei / 0 Comments

I finally opened up a twitter account:
http://twitter.com/banpei

I did open a Twitter account when it just started, but then registered under my personal name with credentials of the company I work for. Back then nothing supported twitter so I didn’t see the added value of Twitter. Of course I also forgot the password of that account and was forced to open a new account. ;)

Anyway, I currently see the added value of Twitter. As you may have noticed I added both Twitter and Last.fm syndication at the bottom of the navigation. :)

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