desu’s drift archive 🇯🇵

Shinji Minowa AE86, 2004

This car still exists and sits in the back of Hey Man products!
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Auto Salon

I luv this car
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Weld S14

I’m back

Yoichi Imamura 2 wheeling his AE86 at the 1997 (?) Ikaten OB battle at Sportsland Sugo kart course. I wish they still used this course for drifting 🫠 #jdm

Koguchi’s 180sx drift technique! #jdm

image credit: whimsical_whirlwind

Entry 7: Shingo Murao’s AW11 drift car. This is the same car that Hiroshi Takahashi learned how to left foot brake with! #jdm

Ueo’s AE85, 2005

Katsuhiro Ueo vs. Naoto Suenaga AE86 battle at the 2000 Ikaten Regionals in Mobility Omuta. Ueo probably has one of the most aggressive steering techniques ever!

Credit to Killian for the rip

Entry 6: S13 at Nikko circuit

cred. Defense4444

Entry 5: Hiroshi Takahashi / runningfree86 being chased by Yoichi Imamura at Ebisu Circuit south course, 1998. This was before the jump line was used, which Hiroshi is heavily credited for being the first person to do it. #jdm

Entry 4: Ebisu Circuit south course AE86 Matsuri, taken 1997 (?) the red AE86 is Koichi Yamashita of Running Free, who also runs the parts shop Run Free!

Credits to perotan for the original upload.

Entry 3: T. Mogi’s S15 front swapped S14 @ D1SL Ebisu 2007. #jdm

Entry 2: Tetsuya Hibino’s D1 Street Legal spec AE86, which used a stock bigport 4ag combined with a Route 6 gearbox. This car was recently bought by someone I know online, who hopes to restore it to its former glory! #jdm

Spent a day cooking this up

8/6 day was fun. Will be back next year!

If you have a JDM car and don't replicate it in Initial D The Arcade, do you even really have one?

Obligatory introduction post, I post random old school drifting stuff from my archive!

-drifting history
-80s, 90s, 2000s drifting
-magazine scans
-VHS rips
-repost really anything car related I find

I’ll try to follow as many people as I can back, so follow if your interested 👍

Is there a car community on here? I see a lot of art and stuff. Where the car enjoyers at??

#jzx81 #jdm #markii #トヨタ #1jz #jdmcars #rhd #toyota #jzx

Meaty tires, topped off with a bent front lip, giving off a “hot rod” style look. (3/3)

Downshift from 3rd gear straight into 1st gear, then jamming it back into 2nd to kick out the rear end. This would result in Nakai often showing up to Tsukuba, blowing his engine within a few hours, then abruptly leaving. Nakai would also introduce “Demon Camber” by combining small wheels and (2/3)

Before he was known for his wide body Porsches, Akira Nakai was the leader of a (mostly) AE86 team called “Rough” (later Rough Unity, then Rough World) around the touges of Mt. Tsukuba. Living up to his team name, Nakai would run stock engines without a rev limiter, which he would use to (1/3)

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