Mr. Doricar - Nagoya, Japan

GP Sports knuckles fitted today!

MrDoricar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:02:47 +0000

Got the following goodies fitted today. A few weeks ago my friend Masao welded up the Yanack lower-arm kit for me, then some D-max goodies arrived in the post. Fitted it all today, and setup the suspension with some settings recommended by Mr Bon Bon Most Honourable Sir…I’ve got man-flu today though so I can’t go and test it tonight. There’s a big meeting at the local touge which I wanted to go and test it on, but too bad. A night on the computer for me! Zannen!

Oh, and we may have added another spline onto the rack too! Air grinders are awesome!

End result!

1996 Nissan Silvia S14 Kouki

MrDoricar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:51:01 +0000

Hi everyone, this is another one of my friends cars which is for sale. The car was built properly, and intended to be used as a D1SL car, but in the end my friend changed plans and now has a RWD Impreza. The car has full aero, including FRP bonnet. The engine has low KM’s and has only basic tuning so is in very good condition. The car has light tuning…Intercooler, front pipe, muffler, etc. Suspension wise, the car has RG (Racing Gear) coilovers, and a 2way LSD. Suspension arms are currently standard, but can be swapped for D-Max items for extra money. As always, more tuning can be completed before shipping.

Inside the car has a Bride racing seat with 4-point harness, rear roll cage, Momo steering wheel, fully stripped including sound deadening, and white painted floors. The car also has a boost controller and a Bee-R rev limiter fitted.

Car also comes with the spare wheels in the trunk. Please review the photos for yourself.

FOB Price is 550,000 Yen.

Cheap 180SX Non turbo SOLD

MrDoricar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:34:08 +0000

Hi all,

I currently have this 180SX in stock.

Its a late model Type X Non turbo 180SX. It currently owes me 200,000 Yen FOB, and can be sold as is…Or for an extra 100,000 Yen I will convert this car to turbo using a good condition 180SX Black-top engine. Any other parts you require such as coilovers, LSD, intercooler, muffler etc. can also be added to the car. But for now it is a bone-stock 180SX non turbo manual 5 speed car. As its a Type X it comes with the very cool and sought after “kouki” rear lights and 180SX pattern seats.

* Sorry for how dirty the car is. We had a Typhoon this week and the car got a little wet in the yard! *

Today my friend Masao made these for me

MrDoricar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:23:33 +0000

They’re not finished yet as I want to sandblast them and paint them up to make ‘em all prettttyyyy!

Green machines arrive in Finland

MrDoricar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:55:45 +0000

“Yokatta!” - Japanese for ‘good feeling’

Two of the green machines that I recently sold to Kimmo (my agent in Finland) arrived safe and sound and the new owners are over the moon. Being an extremely rare car, the JZX100 and the S14.5 were immediately wanted for a photoshoot, so Kimmo took them to Helsinki airport to have some expert photos taken. Looking good!

Photos are Copyrighted and are here courtesy of the photographer “Exorcist”.
More can be seen here: http://exorcist.1g.fi/kuvat/Autot/Doridori-shoot/

1998 Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2 Door SOLD

MrDoricar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:35:59 +0000

Hi everyone,

This is a one-week only purchase. If you want it you will have to contact me ASAP and get deposit to me before 15th October 2009. Car is a 1998 model with 105,000 KMs on the clock. It has a centre diff controller and can be fitted with RWD only kit if customer requests so. The body condition is OK at best, but upon deposit it will be compounded and polished to return to former glory. Has aftermarket bumpers F and R and comes with aftermarket ECU. FOB price is 400,000 Yen. Engine fitted is a GC8 model STi engine, but not the original, as the original engine blew up recently. Apart from that it had GT Wing brackets on the bootlid, but no wing. This possibly can be replaced with normal boot lid before shipping.

BE QUICK

Message from god? Hakosuka GT-R

MrDoricar — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:26:04 +0000

Everyday this week I`ve seen various Hakosuka GT-Rs driving through my neighbourhood. This is a pretty rare occurance…I`ve probably only seen 10 of them in the whole time I`ve been in Japan but this week Ive seen heaps of them! Anyway, today I was woken up by one idling outside my house. So I woke up early and went out for a walk. Then I saw another one parked outside a house.

Decided to go for a coffee to shake off this feeling that GT-Rs are stalking me. Thought I`d try that “WING” cafe in the next neighbourhood. WTF

I knew it was owned by a petrol head as they`res usually a Ferrari in there. But not today….Oh no! Better get saving haha

Kimmo Blom appointed to official Doricar agent

MrDoricar — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:35:49 +0000

It’s my pleasure to announce that Kimmo Blom of Finland is now appointed to Scandinavian sales representative. I have had a long-standing business relationship and friendship with Kimmo and have every confidence in him to help any customers from Finland, Sweden and Norway. Kimmo can speak Swedish as well as his native tongue Finnish. He speaks English perfectly and can understand Norwegian also. This year Kimmo come to Nagoya to visit us and we’re looking forward to another visit soon. Kimmo is based close to Helsinki and together we can arrange shipping to Helsinki and Hanko as well as any other Scandanavian ports.

Quick message from Kimmo:

“Teen kaikkeni auttaakseni teitä löytämään haluamanne auton Ystävällisin terveisin Kimmo”

Charles Ng from HK/USA came to visit

MrDoricar — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:51:03 +0000

My customer and friend Charles Ng, came to Nagoya for a few weeks to visit his family and wanted to drift at YZ, so I loaned him the “Doricar Rental”, our S14 Silvia that is available to rent at various circuits in the Aichi/Gifu areas of Japan (Suzuka, YZ, Mikawa etc). I organised the tyres then met Charles at his local train station. We then drove together to YZ. Charles is a professional driver originally from Hong Kong but now living in L.A. See his website for more information: http://www.charlesngracing.com/ After a few warm up laps he started drifting like a champ and impressed both myself and the circuit owner. The car came back in one piece so I was happy, and Charles had a ball too.

If anyone is interested in drifting in Japan through Doricar please contact me for more information.

Here’s the photos to tell the story:
“Ok Charles, here’s my car keys….I’m going to hide over there. I don’t wanna watch”

“Now, you’re gonna drive sensibly right?”

“Thaaaatttsss it! Nice and sensible…well done sir”

“What the hell…ooooh I can’t watch”

“Good work sir. I like your style. Lots of awesome drifting and no damage in sight!”

“Now time for passenger rides while I change the tyres on the Silvia”

Otsukaresamadeshita! I hope you enjoyed your day Charles. See you again soon!!!

Oh my god…Yahoo auctions is a nightmare

MrDoricar — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:05:42 +0000

I have been trying to setup my Yahoo Auctions Japan account for months and months now. Finally I found out that someone from Yahoo had to come to my house to verify my ID and address. They came tonight and everything was ok. They left me with a code that I had to verify my account with. Once that was done I had permission to sell as well as buy. So I put up some drift videos that I don’ want anymore, but more-so just to test how it works. It took 30minutes…Oh my god. Everything in Japan is hardwork. TAIHEN YO!!!