My Five Japanese Beauties...

in #story7 years ago (edited)

A look at the cars I currently own..

A 1993 Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R with only 86,000km, I imported this car back in 2013 from Kobe, Japan.

It was standard, except for the kakimoto exhaust. Since arrival I've done quite a few supporting modifications and managed 404hp at 1 Bar boost on the stock twin turbos. Not bad considering. I do have single turbo plans for the future.

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This RX7 FD was my second ever import, a funny story actually. I never meant to buy this car. I was playing the Japanese car auctions in August of 2016 and had a limit of around $6000 for the car(Excluding shipping, customs duties and tax) and unfortunately I was still very green to the system. I kept bidding on cars that would sell for double and sometimes triple the value I had in mind.

This went on for a few weeks, I started to get despondent and I still remember the night like it was yesterday. My daughter was born in September of 2016 and she was keeping us up at night, while feeding her I logged onto the auctions and bidded on every RX7 FD for sale that week as I figured I'd never win one anyway.

The following morning I received a phone call from my broker in Japan congratulating me on my 1997 RX7 FD Touring X. I was in complete and utter shock. I had learnt that I won the car for $1995. It was definitely not what I wanted as it was an automatic model with 150,000km and heavy interior wear and tear. It is what it is, I still own it and don't regret it anymore!

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Once the black FD arrived and I finally got to drive it, I realised that it wasn't that much fun driving an automatic and not having control of gearing and RPM. This is when I figured I'd bite the bullet and import myself a mint RX7.

I landed up winning a completely standard 1997 Mazda RX7 FD3S Type RS model in February of 2017. These have slightly better turbos, better vacuum lines, much bigger brakes, harder suspension, weighs slightly less than the standard model and a few other small things that I've already forgotten about.

Unfortunately for me when the car arrived it wasn't able to drive and I was not even able to rev it, I spend 2 weeks troubleshooting and it turned out to be a faulty ECU. I've subsequently bought an Apexi Power FC with a hand controller. I also picked up a 76mm downpipe, Apexi Intakes, HKS exhaust, HEL braided brake hoses, purple radiator hoses(I'm doing a black and purple engine bay) and a host of gauges. I'm not sure what the next plans are but I can surely tell you it's going to be awesome!

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This was my most recent purchase, I picked up this 1991 Toyota MR2 SW20. This was an impulse buy to be honest. I saw it for sale on a local site, it was imported into the country 10 years ago by the previous owner as a delegates car. Now some of you may not know but the laws here in South Africa we aren't allowed to import any car. There is a collector's list which has a few vintage, veteran and classic cars. On that same list there are GTR's, NSX, RX7's etc but no MR2's! If you are a delegate and bought a car overseas you were able to import it. That's how this MR2 landed up getting registered here.

Now you understand why I say it was an impulse buy! It's not in the greatest of conditions but I am definitely planning on sorting it out. The front end needs a respray and the interior could use a bit of cleaning up. Other than that it's in really good driving condition.

My plan for this car is to buy era specific parts, I want to know what it felt like to drive this car modified back in the 90s. So I've started picking up 90s Apexi and HKS parts to modify it as if I was doing it in the 90s.

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Ah, my daily driver.. Not many people like the looks of this, I must say I didn't either initially but it's grown on me.

This is my Nissan Juke Midnight Edition 1.6 Turbo, great daily driver and enough power to keep me satisfied with 140kw and 240nm.

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Let me know what you think and which of these are your favourites? Also what would you like to see done to my cars?

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When I visit South Africa I definitely gotta stop by and check the cars out!

Yeah bro, would be awesome to have you here!

The optimal number is 7, one for each day. But, the most important thing if you are a petrolhead is to have a gf/ wife who understands

She sort of understands, as long as I can buy her what she wants and needs then I can buy myself anything :) And you are right... I need 7! Honda NSX + Toyota Supra would make this a JDM dream garage :)

Well fancy meeting you here.

Well hello there... Okay so what you need to do is make a post and introduce yourself, who you are and what car etc etc with some photos and a link back to your YT etc. Pay massive attention to tags as they have different payout amounts, they can be found here www.steemit.com/tags but for your first post use introduceyourself cars life story blog :) Drop me a line when you are done and I'll upvote you and try get some traffic toward your blog

Well shit man it's take me 3 days to find your response . I can't navigate this platform... I did slam up a video today though...

Lol, just gave you $0.25c on your video... post an introduction and fix your tags. No one going to find that video you posted except spammers.. change your tags to cars life story vlog youtube

Oh and I thought I nailed t 1st go lol

Hey tangles! Welcome to Steemit. Also, consider importing most of your YouTube videos to dtube, I've made more on here than I probably ever will trying to on YouTube. Just gave you a follow and when your first post is live let me know and I'll upvote and resteem it for ya too.

Yeah that's the plan I see no penalties for it?

A true JDM car collector! I have to say I'm not a fan of the Juke, but the one that you have doesn't look half bad.

JDM for Life 🤘🏻

Yeaaaaah!!!!! :)

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Awesome rides man, probably every petrol head had a poster of a GTR on a wall at one point :) Have you ever seen the Nissan Stagea turbo version?
Is the FD 3 rotor?

You are so right, I drooled ever them when I was a kid... I'm honestly incredibly lucky and would love for my fellow Steemians and YouTube friends to own one too. I've never seen the stagea in real life as they aren't allowed for importation here @mfxae86 actually owns one, check out his blog :) Nope both of my FD's are 2 rotor 13B twin turbos :)

Ah in Aus we have stageas coming out of our ears... cheap as, highly under rated. Would have one as a tow car for the R32 time attack car, but... can't tow that weight with it.

nice cars u have there. wish i can have just one of those, but where i am. it's not easy to get due to the policy created to protect some interest. i'm like cars too

I'm sorry to hear kllam :( Are there policies in place to protect the new car market in your country?

In Malaysia, the government set some policies to protect the local auto industries, so any cars that is imported will have high price due to this.

I love each and every one of them! (not too much love for the Juke though xD) Resteemed! :)

Thanks for the resteem man! What's wrong with my Juke :P

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