Category: Cars/Motorsports

Car Make TANTRA

Car Make TANTRA

Our services include but not limited to: fabricating custom parts and accessories; installation of parts for on-road and off-road vehicles; helping you think for yourself & question everything; performing shamanic rituals; enhancing your primitive understanding of the world and the universe; channeling ancient powers, deities and long dead gods.

When it comes to vehicles, Our main focus is creating custom parts and accessories for your Running Temples. What is a Running Temple? Examples: 1. 2. 3.

N1 MДGIC product line: shift knobs and exhaust

All of this is brought to you by P. Runner aka Run The Monk of The Private Runners Street Family. “The streets always know. The street is nature. In the end nature always wins. It’s not a competition. It’s the truth.” 📿🙏📿

Stay tuned. ✌️☮️

Glory Days

I’m glad I can look back at my glory days and be happy that I never tracked my car because the streets is where my heart is at. I am also happy that I don’t do that shit no more, but don’t get it twisted, that past life is what motivates me til this very second and gives me pure nostalgia every time I think about it.

“Does street racing count?” Yup! In my case it’s Street Running. Even the few auto cross events I’ve attended, I was just teasing myself. Who the fuck was I foolin!? I was always dreaming of running in the streets! 😁👹
Mmhmm. I passed you on this wheel and tire set up. I could of easily ran a Toyo R888 but as my brother Hex would say “those are cheater tires” RUN WHAT YOU GOT.

It doesn’t matter if it’s Wangan Running or Kanjo Running, it’s all Roulette Running at the end of the day. Whether it’s Osaka or Tokyo (or the streets of Sacramento) it’s all the same. The thrill of running is different than an organized race event. Only the ones who do it and have done it can relate. I had nothing to prove back then and I still have nothing to prove now. Long live the glory days.✌️

If it ain’t ghetto it ain’t KANJO

“No lift? That’s ok, I’ll find another way.” That’s kanjo.
Painting the car outside? Yup that’s kanjyo.
With a roller too? Yup that’s kanjyo!
Rigging up your own device to hide your plate? Yup that’s kanjo.
Inside a mess? Yup that’s KANJO.
Battered and bruised but still running it? Yup that’s KANJYO!!!

And I wouldn’t have it any other way. 💪✌️🫡 #kanjo #kanjyo

How Tuned Are You?

Pick your class: Tune – Full Tune – Maximum Tune

The Running Temple’s class is Tuned. Which is sometimes called “light-tune” or “mild-tune” with more room for gains. Mods may include an upgraded/chipped ECU or a stand alone with bolt ons. Perfect for short range fighters.

Many Kanjozoku cars are in this class.
Kanjozoku’s doing what they do best… causing HAVOC. 👹

An example of Full Tune:

A prerequisite for Wangan Runners is a full tuned vehicle. Long hours on the dyno fine tuning to get optimal horse power gains. These long range fighters mean business.

Maximum tune vehicles have reached their full potential and there is no more room for gains. These are the monsters of the concrete jungle. 👹😈👺

No matter what class you’re in, if you’re into the car culture, it all started with you being a speed fanatic and the journey to feed your addiction…! ✌️

Mad Max Street Style: Which Max Are You?

Do you have it? Are you dedicated?

Road Warrior 💯

In my early days of PVT, I was just Max (not even Mad yet). Like in the beginning of the first film, before he tried to take a vacation… then things started to turn him MAD.

Being a Road Warrior is having little to no ammo yet still carry your gun, and use it as a melee weapon… even willing to use your teeth to rip off an arm. Having bad shot gun shells and still somehow find a way to make use of them.

Beaten and battered but still have the will to survive. That’s a Road Warrior. A Road Warrior has one belief, one “religion” and that’s Survival.

This is a state of mind, a mentality. It’s all part of the MAD MAX STREET STYLE.

What is TRA Kyoto? Who is Kei Miura? TRA Kyoto (Top Racing Arts) is a company based out of Kyoto, South Japan towards Osaka. Known mostly for their fiberglass work, TRA has a few other product lines – 6666 Customs, Rocket Bunny and Number 6 – that produce aero parts, wheels and a few other custom parts. Kei Miura, the owner of TRA, designs all of the aero and wheels from CAD software and machining. His CAD design skills have even landed him contract work doing fiberglass work for everything from drift kits, to VIP kits to off-road 4×4 projects. Some of the companies that get in line for his services include Supermade, D-Max, NKB, B-Spark, Schmieden, Top Rankaz and Quadruped. The first time I noticed TRA was from an ad for their wheels. They offer some of the sickest wheels for K-cars. These things look like old American wheels from the 80’s and look completely gross. So wrong, it’s right. That’s what I love about old school wheels. They’re so ugly and distinctively unique, nothing like any modern design. Unfortunately, all their wheels are made for K-cars, meaning they’re small and come in four-lug only.
TRA most notably got everyone’s attention when they built a couple S13s and a S14. With style and swagger no one else in Japan could do, they mixed NASCAR style wings, Goodyear tires, deep dish BBS RS mesh, wild 6666 Customs aero parts, all with gangsta low stance.
Miura is a bosozoku rider. More or less, a punk, rebel or outlaw. Bosozuku is similar to the rockabilly scene here. They dress similar and love styles of previous generations. Typically the bosozoku guys ride around making painfully loud exhaust noise with their wild bikes (like choppers but not really) or in their old ’70s and ’80s Japanese cars, like Nissan Cedrics and Toyota Crestas. But Miura is not from Tokyo, Kanto, or the north. He’s from the south side of Japan. In the Kyoto-Kansai region the bosozoku scene has been changing into newer ’80s and ’90s cars. The S13s and S14 that Muira built to showoff his 6666 Customs line are a testament of the Kansai bosozoku style. Miura-san is a fan of old school race cars, drifting, the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and everything American of those eras. And liking American fads includes Civics, which aren’t nearly as popular in Japan. For his EF Civic build, Miura designed an all new 6666 Customs body kit like no other. A set of old 14″ Mugen CF-48 rims were mounted with a set of stenciled Advan tires. And to complete that ’80s look, custom gold, orange and red graphics were added. On the inside, thermal barrier tape replaces the carpet, while a rollcage replaces all passenger seating. Both sides of the car is equipped with window nets not only because they’re cool and remind Miura of NASCAR, but they also have another purpose. Top speed runs on the Osaka kanjo (highway loop) are illegal. To avoid being caught, they used to wear Jason masks to cover their identity. The window nets help to cover their face relieving them of wearing the bosozuko style mask. To add to the menace, their cars don’t have license plates and aren’t insured or registered either. As with all TRA cars, underneath the hood, the engine bay is a dirty mess. This is all part of the Mad Max street style that Miura grasps so well.
This Civic might not be done with the same style as I would have, but TRA still remains one of my favorite companies from Japan. You just can’t go wrong with white cars slammed with gangsta stance.

Fast Facts
Honda Civic EF
Owner Kei Miura Of Tra Kyoto
Hometown Kumiyama, Kyoto (Japan)
Daily Grind Making Parts and checking out Kate’s Playground
Power 160hp
Under The Hood B16A; EK Civic head; Fujitsubo stainless steel header and exhaust Stiff Stuff Cusco coilovers and adjustable front strut tower bar
Rollers 14″ Mugen Power CF-48 wheels; Yokohama Advan A048 185/55/R14
Outside 6666 Customs front bumper, side skirts, rear spoiler; black painted mirrors
Inside Safety21 rollcage; ATC steering wheel; reclinable bucket seat; billet shift knob; custom carbon-fiber center panel with engine starter button; Omori water temperature gauge; thermal barrier floorboard
“As with all TRA cars,underneath the hood, the engine bay is a dirty mess. This is all part of the Mad Max street style that Miura grasps so well.”
Throwback to my early Mad Runner days

Dirtiness is a natural sign you’re a true wastelander in heart. An attribute to the Mad Max street style.