Remembering Japanese cars from the past

Tag: 40 weber

What looks better on a Carina? N2 or zokusha fender flares? – Carina Sightings

Fender flares will give you the ability for a much wider track than with your standard OEM fenders. Fender flares range from the simple bolt-on types as introduced on the Hakosuka Skyline to the bizarre wide creations of the Group 5 and N2 racing. Zokusha were copying racing designs, hence a lot of the zokusha have giant wide fender flares. I found this Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 from Okinawa on Cartune and it actually featured both N2 and zokusha fender flares. So my question to you: N2 or zokusha fender flares?

N2 style

I’ll first start with the N2 Style (not to be confused with the N-style) fender flares:

Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 with N2 over fenders
Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 with N2 fender flares

The N2 used to be a one-make racing series in the 1980s and early 1990s where it was based upon the FIA Group N rules. In Japan, the Group N was already driven as the N1 series which later became the Super Taikyu Series. N2 started out as a racing series organized by Toyota to have the Toyota Corolla Levin AE86 and Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 compete against each other. Keiichi Tsuchiya, who just graduated from the Fuji Freshman series, wanted to join the series but was denied entry because he wasn’t an established driver yet.

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Hilarious: Datsun Bluebird 910 with 2×40 webers

A second hilarious posting today?? Well, I just couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this video by The Doctor and D.Wars:

And when they finally got the set running:

And the end result:

Damn, now I want a set of them on my Carina as well! :o
Currently looking at a set double carbs from a 2T-B. Bolt on upgrade of 11HP! May be worth it after all! :)

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