Bakadesu!

I have no idea how he keeps doing it, but Chris came second... Pics HERE Results on page 3 HERE

Initial Drift club members, but if you have a CAMS L2NS licence or higher already, you won't need anything else as far as that's concerned.

You probably won't get quite as much track time in as one of our practice days (there's one on there in August - check HERE) but we had first timers qualify for the comp last time.

Initial Drift is proud to present, in association with Evo Motorsport: D-DAY CHAMPIONSHIP NSW 2005 - ROUND 3 at Wakefield Park. The third round of the Initial Drift D-Day drift championship 2005 will be held at Wakefield Park on the 2nd of July 2005. A full morning of practice, followed by qualifying, then a top sixteen battle to win! Spectators more than welcome. Full cafe facilities and plenty of parking available at the track. DETAILS: Gates open at 7:30 AM Entry is $100 for club members, $150 for non-members. You will either require a CAMS L2NS licence, CAMS day licence or Wakefield Park licence, all of which are available on the day. Please register HERE. Payment up front will secure you a spot. All cars must pass CAMS scrutineering - no fluid leaks, batteries must be clamped securely, seats and seatbelts must be safe, any harnesses and roll cages must be safe etc. All drivers must wear non-flammable clothing neck to ankle to wrist, and wear a Australian Standards 1698 approved helmet (like a motorcyle helmet). Judging and full commentary by the Initial Drift council. For directions to Wakefield Park, CLICK HERE. Wear warm clothes - this is Goulburn in July we're talking about. Bring lots of tyres! The results from Round 1, which was held on the same track, were as follows: 1)Michael Spencer - lime green Onevia 2)Chris Easton - black/silver R31 3)Greg Host - black JZX90 Mark II 4)Stuart Borrows (Noddy) - maroon R33 GTS-t 5)Jarich Van Horch - light blue Gazelle 6)Pete Carruthers (Fatz) - black R31 7)Nathan Weissel - blue VL turbo 8)Mark Watling - Multi-Colour R31 9)Fernando Wiehrl - black/gold Sileighty 10)Anthony Bilic - dark green S13 Silvia Edit for Skylines Australia forum: Look at that - four out of the top ten were Skylines. Come along and prove you're better than Fatz and Chris. Round two results will be updated here soon. Prizes include a Hybrid FMIC kit OR a DRFT body kit, an X-Force stainless steel turbo-back exhaust system and an X-Force stainless turbo manifold. A pack of cable ties is awarded for the best crash, as well as trophies for podium finishers. Take a look at some of the photos from round two HERE and round one (as seen in Drift Battle magazine) HERE.

Want to buy: One 17x9 R33 GTR wheel. No rubber preferred, minor gutter scratches are OK (no big gashes on the edge though), plastic centre cap not required. Sydney only, I'll pick it up from wherever you are and pay cash. Let me know what you have.

Initial Drift D-DAY 5th MARCH A full day of drifting to be held on the north Oran Park circuit, otherwise known as Driftland. Drifting starts at about 9AM, so get there 8AM to get your car scrutineered and yourself signed on. You will need to wear neck to ankle non-flammable clothing (cotton long sleeve shirt and jeans are OK) and have a helmet that conforms to Australian Standard AS1698 - just look for the sticker on the back of the helmet. You will need a CAMS L2NS licence. If you don't have one, you can purchase a day licence there for $20. The entry fee is per driver, not per car. Your car will need to be in safe condition - battery securely clamped, no leaks, brakes working, seatbelt working, seat secured etc. Wheels need to be suitable for the car, and attached by all wheelnuts. Please register online here http://www.initialdrift.com.au/events_calendar.php Because this is a little bit of a late notice for this forum, please pay cash on the day. Members $100 Non-members $130 Day CAMS licence $20 Spectators $10 (Oran Park entry fee) Take the entrance on the Northern Road into Oran Park. There will be a sign indicating "Driftland". Motul Motorsport will be giving away a bottle of Motul 300V engine oil as an encouragement award to the most improved driver on the day. - Alexi

No speedhumps in Japan. They really are that low, all the time. One of these would make a fun daily hack. Anyone got a spare Datsun 240K for sale?

Project Mu Drift-Spec pads are only the sort of thing you should get if you're going to use them for drifting. They have a very nasty initial bite and a more consistent friction coefficient than other pads. This makes them good for drifting, but results in a much lower heat tolerance and difficulty of use. Some more progressive pads might be good for daily driving/track. The ads for them in Japanese magazines actually advise you not to buy them if you drive a very heavy, light or FWD car.

Add a towbar and trailer for taking the 180SX to the track, and I'll buy it.

Smarty. However, female gymnastics is a good spectator sport... :wassup: Much like anything else, you can just ignore it if you don't like it. Stuff gets popular for a reason.

You don't buy coilovers to have "less grip". My car's suspension is set up pretty much as a "drive to work and weekend track car" (slight front toe out, rear toe in, slightly more front camber and caster), the only major difference being a slightly stiffer rear swaybar and not much rear camber to keep the tyres sitting flat. Beginnners start of with low grip, but as the speeds increase, so does the need for grip on demand. My car was set up by a guy who specialises in racing Commodores. I reckon he'd know something about making cars grip. I took it out to Wakefield in stock condition and drove it, and have done the same since with all "drift" mods installed. It goes four seconds faster, with only 0.1 bar more boost. Neither is freestyle or vert skateboarding/wakeboarding/big air motorcross, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. :uh-huh:

Perhaps he meant a visit to Adult Shop M's?

I was on a Yamanote line train a couple of weeks ago and noticed on the monitor a "cease of operations" on a certain line due to an "accident". That must be what they call it... Akeenan, is RE Amemiya easy to get to in Chiba? I was there a couple of weeks ago to visit Top Secret and used the monorail from Chiba station, then a taxi, so it was pretty easy. I had planned to go to RE Amemiya but due to shady directions, I didn't bother. Should I be kicking myself?

I was in Tokyo on holiday from the 17th to the 23rd of July... Checking my notes, I would have been walking from Shinonome station to Super Autobacs at that time...and I remember it being obscenely hot. Thank you Japan for having vending machines every five metres.

It's a Japanese porn video fetish called tamakeri, which basically involves cute girls kicking guys in the nuts.