Robin H

Taken from Wikipedia: Quote: Street racers, known natively as hashiriya (走り屋), can also occur on expressways and highways, infamously in Japan, where they are known as kousoku battle or commonly known as Roulette-zoku as they drive round and round on circular expressways [citation needed] and frequently occur on the Shuto Expressway in Tokyo. The most notorious group to be associated with it was the Mid Night Club who gave street racing a worldwide attention with its 186 mph (300 km/h) antics and was known for its high standards and organisation until they were disbanded in 1999 following a fatal accident involving a group of motorcyclists. Nowadays, with heavier punishments, patrolling police cars, crackdowns in meeting areas and speed cameras, expressway racing in Japan is not as common as it was during the 80's and 90's but still occurs on a not so regular basis. However persistant racers simply install electric license-plate swiveling mechanisms or picture-proof screens over their plates. [citation needed] As a result of these crackdowns, in 2001, the amount of hashiriyas have dropped to 4,365 last year from 9,624 in 1995 and police arrests in areas where hashiriyas gather are common, where their cars are checked for illegal modification and if there is, the owners are fined and forced to remove the offending modifications. The expressway racing scene is portrayed in the manga Wangan Midnight and Shuto Kousoku Trial. One of the cause of street racing in Japan is that, despite the sufficient amounts of race circuits, they are usually overcrowded and at around 20,000 yen per trip, are deemed "too expensive" by car dirvers, in contrasts to a highway toll of less than 1,000 yen. Also as with Japan's high cost of living, many young drivers prefer to put their savings or take out loans into their vehicles where they would usually gather with likeminded people at either the Shibaura parking area, the Tatsumi parking area or the best known of the lot, Yokohama's Daikoku Futo service area Like in other countries, street races also occurs on long straights in industrial estates, which are used for drag races, known natively as Zero-Yon (ゼロヨン). In rural Japan, racers slide around the corners of remote winding mountain passes, as portrayed in the manga/anime Initial D. This "sport" is called Touge, and is associated with drifting

Tidy ;)

standard rear bumper with TRD rear lip yep you need to get new fog's cheapest I've seen them for is £55 each and that was in japan someone has just brought 1 of these bumpers, can't think who you could fit any round fog in there if you wanted, but you would need to get some brackets made up to mount them hope thats of some help

where is it going to be

Happy Birthday Bazza

welcome to the club

wicked pics mate got myself some nice new desktop wallpaper now :)

welcome to the club there's a few members from around the MK area, so they maybe able to help when they come along all the best with your car ;)

welcome to the club

welcome to the club

looking forward to see the pics :D

very nice

very nice

you don't need gauges if you've got the power fc, as you can put it into monitor mode and see all the temps anyway

lets us know how you get on

did you have your ac on

proxes all the way real happy with mine

ok I'll give them a call and see what they say I'll post my findings up

I'm still planning on going was just about to ask what time we were meeting there and I also have a friend who's interested in coming up (he's hoping to putting his 200sx on the rollers if there was space or time)

Never made it :( Due to an unexpected phone call yesterday evening, resulting in a late night and not fancying a 180mile drive in the dark early morning with only a few hours sleep, I decided it was safer not to drive (didn't fancy waking up in a hedge) I'm just waiting to see all the piccy's appear over the next few days really rubbing in what I've missed

looking good

in the post this morning cheers John

like the phone holder idea, was/have been thinking about mounting it on the passengers side of the main console level with my head unit. making sure it's not effected by the glove box, but wasn't sure how to mount it

love'em, think they look phat Very Important Pimp

thanks for the idea