Sumo Power Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 http://www.timeattack.co.uk/g/tsukuba%20trip/tanewssmall.jpg Info : Time Attack takes on Japan! Yep you read it right.....its happening..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 That must be a cool thing to be looking forward to! Are you all well known out in Japan like Top Secret etc out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Good luck guys! im very very jealous. id love to drive round tsukuba, even if its just one lap! Are the cars boxed up yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 That sounds like all the fun. Would love to give that a good. Enjoy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveL Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Good luck guys, have fun out there..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgen-Jm-Imports Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 awesome i will be in japan shopping around that time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockys96 Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 wow, wonder what the zen will doo against the best of japan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Gotta love that Celica.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumo Power Posted November 7, 2007 Author Share Posted November 7, 2007 The first of the adverts was out in Japan recently in Revspeed mag, I scanned it up as below : http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/Revspeedmagpage.jpg 1 month to go! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee P Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Well done Andy, Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Good Luck Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockys96 Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 your going to get killed, by the comp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Ooh, happy hunting I saw your pink Skyline at the MPH show at the weekend, mad as a box of frogs but there isn't much actual Skyline left -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan.G Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I hope Pauls car (zen performance) does well, Great guy In fact hope all the UK teams do well Ryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumo Power Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 Afternoon, I received these pictures from Glen today, all 4 cars arrived safety and are now sat in the Do-Luck workshops awaiting our arrival at the weekend. Its finally real it seems.... More pictures to follow a soon as Glen can sort them out. Schedule for us next week is Testing at Tsukuba on Tuesday and Wednesday and then the actual Time Attack event on Thursday. Hopefully we'll all make it though the week Continued big thanks to everyone who is helping us and sponsoring us for this amazing trip including Do-Luck, Toyo Tires (UK/Europe/Japan), Japaneseusedcars.com, HKS, Autoglym, ARC, TM Works, RevSpeed, Sumo Japan, Blitz, DAMD, Sunoco, Power Enterprise and everyone else in the background making this happen. Pictures : http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/1.jpg http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/2.jpg.jpg http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/3.jpg http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/4.jpg http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/5.jpg http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/6.jpg http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/7.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Wow must be very exited I wouldnt sleep for a week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Wow must be very excited I wouldnt sleep for a week! What he said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbonut Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 yeah yeah!!! I've followed time attack through two seasons now, nailbiting stuff. All the best of British mate!! will be keeping everything crossed Linda xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike B Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 I hope you do well, or at least don't get slaughtered! I have a soft spot for that celica... that's quite a piece of engineering! wish you all the best of luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Fish Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 that looks awesome good luck to everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tones Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Cool, some achievement! i foookin love the rc developments evo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 all 4 cars arrived safety http://sumopictures.sumopower.com/tsukuba%20pictures/1.jpg Except that it looks like some scroat's nicked the tailgate on your Z! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Good news guys!! Best of luck in the series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumo Power Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 Hi all, Ive just sat here in at Do-Luck in Japan for 20 minutes writing out an update of our progress so far and managed to mistaknely hit the delete key and lose it all!! arrgghhhh . So, the short version for now.... Its 4am in the morning, were having a good time and already lots of stories to tell between us having been here a day and a bit. Update is we are at Do-Luck today to check over the cars and get everything ready to go to Tsukuba for testing for a couple of hours. Adrians car is ready after all he had to do was polish it but had a minor short lived panic when his ECU wouldnt recognise his password and he needed to remove the 3K rev limit but it suddenly did, Our 350Z now has a new ARC intercooler and TM Works proto coil packs and has been retuned by Mr Ito on his dyno. Clive`s RC Evo has been photographed inside and out for Evo mag in Japan and Paul from Zen ventured off to Super Autobacs to retune his car on thier 4WD dyno to only call us all about 1hr later to say his engine`s camshaft sprocket ( one of them ) had sheared off completely smashing valves into the pistons... panic..... Within 40 minutes of the car being back at Do-Luck, Paul his crew and Cive and his crew had the engine out of the car and sat on and engine stand and started removing the heads to reveal the damage. Paul seemed undeterred by the major hiccup and said ` yeah, we`ll rebuilt it tonight if we can get the parts ` like it was no major issue After searching around Mr Ito from Do-Luck located the 10 valves, gaskets and...At 9pm everything arrived fro different locations including calling in a favour at JUN to supply us with sprockets which Mr Abe from Blitz did for us via Koyama at JUN as he was here helping Adrian. As I sit here its 4.15am,Paul is still putting his engine back in and we are supposed to leave at 5am for the track. Most of the 29 strong crew at back at the hotel which a handful of us here to load the trucks and help Paul where we can ( but he doesnt really need it which I am pleased about as I have no idea how to put a Subaru back together ! ) Weve all been up for around 24hrs already and just knocked but some super high strength energy drinks which are likened to cough medicine so were all upbeat again. Thats it for now, good times, big dramas already but were mustering on to get it all done. Hopefully we`ll have a bit of luck and all 4 of us will get to the track as planned. Pictures and more info to follow when we get time, great to be here with an enormous amount of people taking huge interest in us all. I will be back soon with more info after today`s testing at the track ..... Cheers all Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgen-Jm-Imports Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 nice one am there from saturday - how long will yous be in japan for ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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