Cali is on another lockdown with a curfew. This is how I feel about that:
P.S., happy birthday to PVT. Ocean!
Current Mood/HBD
Category: Car culture
Tyrone Biggums
Is the name of the dude who processed my order. I ordered a generic reservoir socks and they give me knock off Mugen socks. Let’s call them Mugan. Lol
I also decided it’s time to drain my catch can. It’s been two years since I installed it, let’s see what’s inside!
Graveyard Body Parts
The goal in life is to not have your car end up there.
Trap Scholar
Osak-October Thoughts
Us PVT Runners have a holiday every year. It’s October, the whole fuckin month. A time of the year where Friday the 13th would pop up on TV along with other horror movies due to Halloween. The hockey mask used in the franchise didn’t appear until Friday the 13th III in 1982. By 1983 it was released in Japan.
The change of the season is enchanting for me. As if the month was waiting for PVT… Waiting for a mischievous offering. Almost like a changeling waking up and finding trolls and goblins to guide her to new life. Perhaps we are all changelings placed here on earth. An offering from another realm.
The transfer over from a young individual, into the world of car culture is the same feeling. You feel like a changeling; you meet new people, friends, families and even rivals. It is a whole new universe. Just like when Kazuhiro entered the world of kanjo culture when he was younger… With that being said I will end this post with this:
80年代から90年代初頭にかけて環状ブームにより
これらの車が一般道で害であった事は事実である。
40代前後の人達にはかなり身近な思い出として記憶に残る存在である。
大阪府警から特に集中取締を喰らったのがシビック系CR-Xなど、
車雑誌などで「大阪名物 府警のシビック狩り！」とまで言われる程であった。
95年に改造車検の規制緩和
「日本自動車協議」
「日本自動車部品協議」
いずれもアメリカの強引な外交に日本が合意し
「なんじゃそりゃ～」と思った同世代の人も多くいたと思う。
結局は車の改造だけでなく、善悪は自分の見てきた事や、
経験から得た事で判断し、環状を通じてそんな事をふと感じた。
僕らの世代はある意味恵まれているかもしれない。
ヤングマガジン なにわ友あれ 南 勝久
92年高校2年の時に環状線横乗りデビュー、衝撃でした。
ワンダーEF、メッチャ見て来ました。
免許を取り、即効でシビックを購入！何台も壊しました。
環状線 パレード暴走…害な事をして来ました。
馬鹿だと思われても仕方ありません。
大阪の文化とも言えるような「環状線」
チームの中で厳しくもあり、優しい先輩達からの男の縦社会と言う物を学び
また、シビックと出会い環状線を走り、車に夢中になりました。
各年代、各チームのやり方、走り方等、様々であったと思います。
その中で環状線は外せない存在であり私の時代はHONDA車
欠かせない存在でした。
先輩・シビック・環状線の出会いで今があります。
車を好きになり運転している時はいつでも楽しくて仕方ありません。
どの様な形でも良いと思います。
車で楽しむって事を忘れないで欲しいです。
古川 一弘
(古川 一弘氏 株式会社カークラフトブーン代表)
(南 勝久氏 ヤングマガジン連載 ナニワトモアレ・なにわ友あれ作者)
Didn’t Realize
With this last stretch of summer heat left, it made me consider the following topic (sidenote, I remember by this time of the year as a kid, it was already cooler… Even cold. But anyway…). I didn’t realize how much this intake set up is slept on. Honda engineers of that era designed it to comply with the economy and at peak performance, as if they knew they were going to drive the Civic chassis in N1.
But outside of N1 regulations, some still rock the oem air box simply because it works, some even remove the filter completely.
At various track events drivers will opt for the this setup. It’s as if it’s a homage to the N1 days, showing that “yeah I have the OEM air box and I’m passing you on the track” mentality. People will even put their own twist to it by adding a metal intake arm and/or wrapping the air box in heat reflective tape. You’ll even see it on cars that run the kanjo.
Mugen and Comptech/CT Engineering iceboxes are essentially fancier air boxes.
Don’t knock it if it works. This set up isn’t for everyone, especially if your motor is built for high horsepower. But at the end of the day, give the car what it wants, not what you want. ✌️🙏
🟥🟨⬛
EF-cloud-9
Dem Dice
Aquatic Mine
“I’m the protector of the Emerald and gems“
Sharkfest
Around this time of the year I always looked forward to shark week. Back in the days it acted as an aquatic mine of info on one of my favorite animals on the planet.
Since shark week is different now, I look forward to National Geographic’s Sharkfest. I am sure it’ll be more informative than watching Rhonda Rousey dive with sharks (no disrespect to her at all). The name Sharkfest is also shared with a car meet that focuses on a specific BMW model which my pops used to own; the BMW 635 CSi. These are the only pictures I can find before it was lost for good. The feature that never happened.
For those who don’t know, they get the nickname for this specific body style because the front end is shaped similar to a shark (along with many other BMW’s).
Some little shark facts:
The NGR red shark was transformed into the orange and black red bull NGR EG6 years ago. From my understanding the boss of NGR doesn’t own it anymore.
The NGR teal shark transformed into the “highway maintenance” themed EG6 which debuted at the 2020 Osaka Auto Messe (Wrecked back on April).
The NGR blue shark got into a bad accident a few years ago, but made a full recovery and still hauling ass on the track and street.
The white, yellow and pink NGR EG6 Civic’s still exist. They’re rarely seen at track events but when they appear they let it rip, even on the streets.
The shark sticker on my car also serves as a homage to the NGR shark Civic’s. The short fin mako is the fastest shark on the planet. It uses speed rather than brute force to catch it’s prey. Sharkfest continues tomorrow for 3 weeks, peep it out. Have a good week y’all.
