Summer is well and truly here in Okinawa, with the temperatures rising and the sun shining. Checked the weather report at 9am this morning and was told that it was 31°C but that it felt “like 36°C”. Thankfully the humidity was only 70% and a sea breeze coming through my apartment managed to keep me [...]
Summer is well and truly here in Okinawa, with the temperatures rising and the sun shining. Checked the weather report at 9am this morning and was told that it was 31°C but that it felt “like 36°C”. Thankfully the humidity was only 70% and a sea breeze coming through my apartment managed to keep me [...]
Public Service Announcement: If your brake rotor looks like this it is not a good sign: You can also play “spot the messed up wheel spacer” with today’s post: Yeah, not good. Please don’t ask as I don’t really want to go into it! But it’s back together and mobile just about. The rotor [...]
Saw this link about half an hour ago posted up in a forum I frequent, and as soon as I watched the presentation I knew I had to post it up on my site so more people would have the chance to see it. The photographer is called Brad Kremer and the video/picture presentation is [...]
It’s been a long time coming, but I drove my 1991 FC3S RX-7 home today from the garage after being inspected and registered. Yes, I am finally road legal and ready to roll. You’ve got to love Okinawa: maybe the only place in Japan where cracked tyres and stuck brakes don’t cause a fail in [...]
Picture the scene. It’s about 1am and I’ve recently managed to get my RX-7 idling perfectly. The clutch master cylinder is rebuilt and installed, and the car is just ready for a little test in my village. So I start her up and creep out onto the roads. Staying mostly in 2nd and a bit [...]
Apologies for the godawful attempt at a play on words in the title. It’s almost 1am and it’s all I could think of so please forgive me. Thought it was time I gave you an update seeing as my last post talked about me throwing a firework into the engine of my car “for testing [...]
About a week or so ago, I was chatting to my sister on the phone. She told me she’d been somewhere I would be very jealous of, but would tell me no more. Told me she’d send me info about where she’d been. Today this info arrived in the mail. “Jealous” does not even come [...]
I think after all this working on my car, I am just a boost/vacuum leak away from it running right. I used an air tank and a boost leak checker contraption last night. Fitted it up to my turbo and pressurized the system to about 0.6bar. When I turned the air off the system lost [...]
I hate being right all the time! OK, so those who know me well know that you should read “all the time” as “once every blue moon”, but in this case my scepticism was pretty well founded. Some of you might recall that in my previous post about the anti-US “Sexual Terrorists” protest at the [...]
While Yukio Hatoyama isn’t really doing much in the way of changing Japanese politics (despite his declarations of change in the run up to last year’s Japanese election), he is certainly making waves in other ways. Shockingly, he’s being criticised for some of his fashion choices in recent times. Looking at one of the latest [...]
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