JDM Sight Seeing.

[Antihero983]

It makes me beyond happy to see that Yashio Factory is still around. Don't really hear much about them these days.

[BryanSayWhat]

Originally Posted by Antihero983

It makes me beyond happy to see that Yashio Factory is still around. Don't really hear much about them these days.

Really? They've been making steady youtube videos for the past year (along with SAMMIT who makes videos with them as well). Pretty sure AdamLZ has been doing stuff with them for a couple years also.

[BennettWT]

Originally Posted by BryanSayWhat

Really? They've been making steady youtube videos for the past year (along with SAMMIT who makes videos with them as well). Pretty sure AdamLZ has been doing stuff with them for a couple years also.

Adam runs a YF body kit on his FD S15

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[Thursday7]

Cool stuff. I've done a fair bit of scouting maps in Japan, I like doing it the hard way and have found some pretty cool small shops. Typically I search via satellite through countryside outside of urban areas for lots of parked cars. Occasionally you'll find yourself upon a boneyard of Schassis, corollas, etc. Pretty fun when you're bored.

[Antihero983]

Originally Posted by BryanSayWhat

Really? They've been making steady youtube videos for the past year (along with SAMMIT who makes videos with them as well). Pretty sure AdamLZ has been doing stuff with them for a couple years also.

Originally Posted by BennettWT

Adam runs a YF body kit on his FD S15

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Admittedly, I don't keep up on youtube shit, or Adam LZ's fleet that everyone seems to love. *shrug*

[BryanSayWhat]

Originally Posted by Antihero983

Admittedly, I don't keep up on youtube shit, or Adam LZ's fleet that everyone seems to love. *shrug*

Probably a good thing... With youtube's algorithm you pretty much can't look up anything "JDM", or "drifting" and not get LZ, SAMMIT, or Hoonigan in the recommended.

[DRIFTER-M]

Originally Posted by BryanSayWhat

Probably a good thing... With youtube's algorithm you pretty much can't look up anything "JDM", or "drifting" and not get LZ, SAMMIT, or Hoonigan in the recommended.

Proooooo Tip.

Google translate your car/ drifting related term or description to Japanese, and search that. I find a lot better content using that method ^^^

Super cool thread, but definitely a bit sad. The drifting and Japanese tuner scene is dying, relatively quickly. Heightened by immense price gouging and regulations. This is a world wide problem, not exclusive to Japan, but I think much of these will be memories in the next decade.

The hyper-inflation of drifting cars, products and "tuner parts" in the last couple of years within the states has had a massive affect globally and especially in Japan as their car prices are becoming too high for youth to get into the sport. Greed will contribute to the end of a very long term hobby for many of us here. / end rant

[BryanSayWhat]

Originally Posted by DRIFTER-M

Proooooo Tip.

Google translate your car/ drifting related term or description to Japanese, and search that. I find a lot better content using that method ^^^

Super cool thread, but definitely a bit sad. The drifting and Japanese tuner scene is dying, relatively quickly. Heightened by immense price gouging and regulations. This is a world wide problem, not exclusive to Japan, but I think much of these will be memories in the next decade.

The hyper-inflation of drifting cars, products and "tuner parts" in the last couple of years within the states has had a massive affect globally and especially in Japan as their car prices are becoming too high for youth to get into the sport. Greed will contribute to the end of a very long term hobby for many of us here. / end rant

Yep, I figured this out a while back. You can find a lot of JDM/ Schassis content this way and the recommended stuff is usually all Japanese as well. Also, seems like more Japanese people are slowly making more youtube content, or uploading old videos. So, maybe there's still hope. lol