Can anyone read/write in Japanese?

[animal33]

G'day,

Can anyone read/write in Japanese?

My car was built by a workshop in Japan when it was brand new then soon after, bought & imported as a personal import by an English teacher when he moved back from Japan. It came with a full breakdown of parts that were used and it was one of the best performing and sounding R33 street/sport cars I have ever seen. Over the years a range of mechanics have meddled with it when it needed maintenance and somehow usually gave it back to me with less performance than it had before. To the point I got sick of paying people to basically send me backwards and I took it off the road. I would like to see exactly what went into the car when it was built and give the whole thing a updated but true to nature freshen up. But the parts list and specs is in Japanese... 

Anyone here that could translate it for me, and would be willing to trade thier time for beer tokens?

Cheers,

IOI

[TXSquirrel]

Just take a picture and post it here, I think you will get a couple responses.

[soviet_merlin]

Have you tried the Google Translate app on your smartphone of choice? It's apparently pretty good at translating from photos.

 

On 07/04/2022 at 1:04 AM, animal33 said:

Over the years a range of mechanics have meddled with it when it needed maintenance and somehow usually gave it back to me with less performance than it had before.

That sucks. Have you asked for recommendations for a good mechanic where you are? Not that I know too much about it, but I would like to think that someone with a good work ethic is always going to return the car in a better state or be up front on why it isn't and what can be done about it. Or, if it is out of their league to be up front about that as well.

[BK]

Try something like the photo or scan translate apps like Google word lens, iTranslate or Photo translator as mentioned above. They work pretty well most of the time.

On another note I'm not quite sure exactly why restoring to the exact Japanese specification is so important to you, as just the sum of "x" parts does not equal "y" results. Even if you manage to get it to 100% of what the parts spec was does not mean you will restore any actual performance problems with the car. It sounds like you have some fundamental mechanical or maintenance issues to deal with first, and is more likely the cause of your deterioration of performance.

Parts available have changed a lot in the last 10 years and most of the good stuff is not Japanese anymore.

[GTSBoy]

On 4/7/2022 at 6:54 AM, BK said:

Parts available have changed a lot in the last 10 years and most of the good stuff is not Japanese anymore.

Since about 2005 actually!

[Murray_Calavera]

If you still want someone who can translate it for you, I can help. If you want to post it up I can just reply here with my Engrish translation.