Super Gt Street Shoot Out Drift Challenge Rd. 2

The recently concluded Super GT Street Shoot Out Drift Challenge was held on last Saturday & Sunday (23 & 24th of June) in Sepang as a support event next to the Super GT round in Sepang. It was held in the scorching sun with most of the regulars local drifters participating. The judges were T. Djan & Faisal from R3. The tight duel battle between Lim Zee King and Tan Tat Wei in the finals were awarded to Tan Tat Wei after a tight battle between the two.

The winner of this SSO with his TE71

Ivan Choo with a borrowed S13 battling with Ariff Johannis in the R32

Winner of the Novice Category


2nd Spot for the Ace Category


Winner of the Ace Category

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D1GP Calendar For 2007

Below is the schedule for D1GP series in Japan and USA

2007 D1 GRAND PRIX USA
May 4 [Fri] / 5 [Sat] Old Bridge Township Raceway, NJ
Jul 13 [Fri] / 14 [Sat] Las Vegas Motor Speedway, NV
Nov 24 [Sat] / 25 [Sun] Irwindale Speedway, CA

2007 D1 GRAND PRIX Series JAPAN
R1 Mar 24 [Sat] / 25 [Sun] Ebisu Circuit, Fukushima
R2 Apr 28 [Sat] / 29 [Sun] Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka
R3 May 26 [Sat] / 27 [Sun] Suzuka Circuit, Mie
R4 Jun 9 [Sat] / 10 [Sun] Sportland Sugo, Miyagi
R5 Aug 25 [Sat] / 26 [Sun] Ebisu Circuite, Fukushima
R6 Sep 22 [Sat] / 23 [Sun] Autopolis, Oita
R7 Oct 20 [Sat] / 21 [Sun] Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka

***All Schedule subject to change without notice***

International Domestic Series

New Zealand / Australia Series
Taiwan / Korea / Thailand Series

Courtesy of www.d1gp.com

Seems like Malaysia is not in the calendar anymore unlike last year, maybe due to sponsor problems.
Its quite sad to see the state of our motorsport comunnity going downhill.

Rear Lamp For My JDM Carina AA63

Finally the rear lamp for my JDM carina have arrived from japan. Got it from yahoo Bid Japan and its quite costly due to the air freight charges, but its all worth it due to the fact that I can't source it locally and its also not easy to find it in japan.

The Rear Lamps fresh from japan, still in its bubble wrap

Another view of the lamp

Both the JDM rear lamps

Actually these lamps are for spares just in case I bust my old lamps and these are facelifted lamps which is slightly different from my old rear lamps and I term it as the "red line".

Carina Owner Meet Up

One boring afternoon at work, received a call from hanif, the owner of this immaculate condition 4 door carina. He wanted to meet up for a quick tt(drink) session cause he came up from malacca due to work commitments. I met him up when I was drifting in Star Drift in Malacca a couple of months ago, so we exchanged ideas and places to get parts for this rare machine, due to the fact that our country doesn't sell this model when it was launch in Japan. So we were discussing about the possiblity of grouping up all the owners of these cars to strengthen the network and getting parts.

The back view of the carina, notice the rear lamps, its not from the carina.

Actually he got this car from a second hand car dealer from Malacca in 1989 and kept the car until now, so its a first hand car. The car was built in 1984 before being brought over to Malaysia as a reconditioned model.

The front view of the car with a corona jdm lip.

He transplanted a 4age 16v TVIS engine from the reowned AE86 front clip and customise the header till the rear muffler with a 2" piping. Basically the engine is left untouched for street drivability.

Basically he uses this car for long journey, whenever for going outstation trip causes its more stable and relax to cruise in a rwd. The car was just painted ferrari red when I took these photos.

This car was originally an AA60 which means that it has got an underpowered 1.5liter 3-AC engine from a lower spec model, so to get more power and ease of getting spare parts the owner opted to transplant a better power 4age 16v into the engine bay.



p/s: The 17" fwd rims will be replace in a later stage.

Items For Sale (4AGE 16V TVIS Loose Parts)

Coil for toyota 4age 16v tvis engine.


Distributor for 4age 16v tvis engine

Rocker Cover for 4age 16v engine

These are a few loose items i would like to let go due to me using a different type of engine so Its no use to me anymore. Contact me if you would need some of these stuff.