Beer Baron's Japan Photo Diary

[Mr. Keets]

More Saurus pic plz Richard...mmmm white 32.

[Beer Baron]

on the way to saurus right now.

[phunky_monkey]

Awesome, thanks for that mate. Very cool car, and damn quick!!

[writeoff]

Oh wow. A 205 GTI. I never thought I'd see pics of one on SAU let alone from Japan. I showed them to my car and then went for a squirt through the hills. We both thankyou.

[Beer Baron]

current trip has come to an end. at the gate right now very hard to leave japan as always

[imprsv]

Ahh man, i come back 2 days without checking the thread and uve put up more stuff!!

Fantastic!

So are you coming back for good? or just back for holidays?

[West]

current trip has come to an end. at the gate right now very hard to leave japan as always

I know the feeling, but at least you pretty much get to go to Japan once a year.

[Beer Baron]

well twice a year for the last 3 years actually

half a day back in sydney and I'm already pissed off and stressed out. fark, 10mins off the plane and I was appalled at the attitude or some people in this country. no one takes responsibility for anything and most don't even take pride in their work. unlike most japanese people I know and have seen who take great pride in even the most menial of task. anyway, hopefully going through and uploading pics either tonight or tomorrow will cheer me up a bit.

[Beer Baron]

Ahh man, i come back 2 days without checking the thread and uve put up more stuff!!

Fantastic!

So are you coming back for good? or just back for holidays?

home is sydney for now. got too much good stuff going on here with work, family, friends etc to leave. but the temptation gets stronger every time I go back to japan to just stay there.

[Blitz]

You have a few weeks to prepare your liver then its on.

Meet you at PJ Mcf**kers in Shinjuku, 8pm

[Beer Baron]

PJ Mcf**ker is expanding too, he has a fancy new establishment in shibuya too. i'm sure you can't wait to go there!! lol.

[GoldZilla]

Pack me in a suitcase please Richard or Nick... I weigh next to nothing anyway!

[Beer Baron]

some more nismo festival pics.

Fuji Speedway media centre. nice place. but like all places in-doors in japanese winter it's about 35% with 0% humidity so your skin dries out in about the time it takes to walk from the door to your desk.

plenty of old school nissan goodness there too

Group A GTR engine

2 Group A GTRs. 2 of the most famous even.

a giant sized pad.

used GT 500 disks. $50 a piece.

Sunline Racing front pipes. Very, very nice. I was sorely tempted to buy a set. but a bit of a mission to carry around, even with a lift.

The yellow hat Z looks pretty cool.

having all areas access means you can get right up to the cars even when they are receiving service in the pits, and get shots like these

one of the team nismo cars.

who wouldn't want to get into that cockpit?

I now have one of these bad boys on it's way to me. 19X13 inch forged magnesium GT500 wheel. noice

A Zed fans wet dream. dozens of Super Taikyu Cars. They sound awesome too. They actually raced one against a new R35 GTR road car. The R35 absolutely spanked it. Especially when they did a 0-400m test. but the ST car sounded better.

The ST cars look like a nice place to be inside too. 1 is shift RPM the 2 is launch RPM. nice.

ST engines looked pretty sweet. Sounded very tough too, but not a huge amount of power in them sadly.

The endless cars always look super cool. This is the endless ST car next to the endless GT car. nice and easy to spot differences.

GT car receiving service.

GT Engine

[Beer Baron]

more group A goodness.

ummmm, yes please!

LM car aint to shabby either I reckon!

Inside a Super GT GT-500 34 GTR. just amazing cars. They really are the F1 of tin tops.

GT500 RB26. The grand daddy of all GTR engines. God I wanted to wheel it away. It's amazing how compact they are with small cam covers, and with dry sump the sump pan under the engine is tiny. making it a much smaller power plant than stock.

what can you say about these bad boys? just breathtaking. and sound insane.

Ok, that's enough for now. Some more of the heavy hitters after lunch.

[Beer Baron]

a taste of what's to come.

[DRD-00F]

I already finished lunch! Get on with it!

[Bass Junky]

I just lost my lunch

[CamGTS]

stuff lunch, I want now. *taps foot*

[Nightcrawler]

OMFG I couldn't be more jealous! Seriously, are you willing to take some other Nismo enthusiasts with you next time? *drool*

Unbelievable once-in-a-lifetime pics! Keep them coming!

p.s. I can't believe the RB26 is running internal wastegate turbos .... I guess they are limited somewhat by factory specs ....

[DRD-00F]

I'm pretty sure there was a factory high mount T04Z option...

At least, that's what some of my friends tell the police officers