Thursday 7 February 2008

Kids Heart

A morning with little planned led us via the Shinkansen to Nagoya and then a short local train journey to Kids Heart, a drift car garage/dealership. The garage manager is D1GP driver Tsuyoshi Tezuka. Kids Heart also made the 'factory' Nissan SilEightys in limited numbers

I really liked this 'Zenki' (early) S14 Silvia

Still not sure if I like Toyota JZX110 Verossas or not


Toyota JZX100 Mark II, they like chrome wheels at Kids Heart, well they have good roads for them so why not

Not only do Kids Heart sell drift cars, they also buy in cars and prepare them for drifting

As seen by these subframes....

and a ER34 4 door up on the ramp, pity the staff were all in the roasting hot office watching drift DVD's and drinking coffee, its an easy life working in a drift car garage in Japan, well apart from the nice girl slaving away in the office

But they still find time to make some lovely cars, this PS13 Silvia being a good example



The main reason I came to Kids Heart and to Japan!! Tezukas D1 JZX81 Mark II, which is my favourite D1GP car, ever! Under the pink paintwork there is a 600bhp 2JZ-GTE with a Trust T78 turbo, Kei Office suspension and plenty of other drift mods. This car is pure evil in my eyes, it should really be kept in a cage!! Tezuka now drives the Bee*Racing B324R Skyline in D1GP but he still finds time to bring this car out for practice days and Kids Hearts own drift series. Look closely in the background and you will see Chris and Tezuka having a chat. A very nice guy like everyone we met in Japan, he remembered me from Silverstone in 2006! Small world. Check out Tezukas blog to the right to see what he gets up to as a lot of what goes on at Kids Heart and in D1 is mentioned

Heres a video of the car in action:


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