Sure, we’re again at Gunsai Touge.

We’ve coated the varied thrills and dangers of drifting at this venue previously, so at Hardcore Tokyo’s newest Gunsai day I made a decision to deal with a number of of the vehicles that make these occasions particular. There are some actual gems in right here too, so you’ll most likely need to get snug.

You may know me as an AE86 fanatic, however I do have an affinity for Nissan Silvias as properly. Enter the Storage Mak vehicles.

Storage Mak is well-known even exterior of Japan, and taking a look at these two S-chassis you rapidly realise why. They’re virtually exhausting to explain. Excessive with out trying absurd, maybe? The Storage Mak 180SX boasts a myriad of customized aero bits together with full time attack-style bumpers and stacked overfenders. It’s a refreshing type for a 180SX, particularly in Japan the place nearly each aero mixture has been tried.

Japan has by no means been identified for clear engine bays, however Storage Mak has actually smashed it out of the park with these two. Their S15 has one of many cleanest bays I’ve seen in a Silvia right here in Japan, full with sew welds, customized wheel tubs and bracing completed in a battleship gray. A easy gloss black rocker cowl, big HKS turbo and a shiny pink HKS Tremendous Energy Stream filter suggests this SR20DET has the ability to again up its wild aero too.

And wow do they get pushed, quick. For vehicles that appear like they belong at a Tsukuba time assault occasion, they go sideways at velocity extremely properly. Seeing them fly by each programs at Gunsai was unbelievable, particularly given the well-known penalties and the way properly put collectively each vehicles are.

And simply because I can’t assist myself, right here’s some extra AE86 content material.

This yellow and gray 2-door duo appear like they’d had their fair proportion of guard rail rubs, but had been nonetheless in preventing type. Storage Infinity was out in pressure as properly; their traditional anime-look Trueno hatch was tearing up the programs at an unbelievable tempo. That jogs my memory – I used to be not too long ago at their store in Gunma organising a little bit of a shock, so get excited for that story coming quickly…

In fact, it wouldn’t be a correct Gunsai day if there wasn’t some drama, so listed here are a number of pictures of the carnage that unfolded all through the day. Maybe the scariest crash was the S15’s – it flipped over on one of many banks because of engine oil on the observe and virtually triggered a pile up. Sadly, I wasn’t there to snap pictures on the time.

Then there was the Mark II, which was rescued by a tiny kei truck. It’s all the time hilarious to see one thing this small tow a automotive twice its dimension.

Occasions like these are all concerning the visuals. It truly is exhausting to take a foul picture in these settings, so these are a few of my favorites from the day…

I can’t say for sure when, however I’ll find yourself again at Gunsai sooner somewhat than later, and I’m trying ahead to it. I’m curious nonetheless, what your favourite automotive of the day was? Let me know within the feedback…

Alec Pender
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