Monday, May 4, 2009

Kawasaki and driving around

Met up with some friends in Shinagawa and we went to Kawasaki and walked around Bic Camera. After we went to CPK for lunch and then back to the one friend's house for a bit.
I headed back home to grab some stuff then back to Kawasaki where I met up with Mason and we headed out on the freeway. We met up with the guys that we met on Saturday but this time they had different cars. Saki, the first guy to meet us drove a Silvia S14 with light performance mods and some suspension work. Koji showed up about an hour later in his blue Mazda RX-7. This car was turning heads all night! All the body mods alone totaled over $5,000 and the engine I'm sure was well over that. He had a fuel regulator in the back to help maintain fuel presure to the engine when cornering and the battery was relocated to the back. He had a massive turbo which he ran at a lower PSI to keep the engine in good running condition. The car looked and sounded awesome but when he took us on the freeway, it showed that it had the performance to back up the looks. The suspension is a tripple spring setup which combines 3 springs of varrying rates giving it an awesome feel. There was no body roll in the car at all and it cornered like it was on rails. The entire time I was inside the car I could not stop smiling because it was so awesome.
Despite it being a Monday night the cops had closed down most of the parking areas so we wound up exiting the freeway and hanging out in Ginza for a while before heading home.

1 comment:

Rich said...

Beautiful RX-7. Sounds good too!