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Mon May 12, 2003 9:22 am
I've got it in mpg format if anyone needs it. I'll try to find the link where I downloaded it.
The thing everyone's got to realize, is that most those Honda and Nissan guys know each other off the track. It wasn't like it was to slam Nissans. It was all done in good fun.
Kojima's car broke because they just put in a sequential gearbox, and the splines on the input shaft were wrong or something, and they sheared off the splines.
Honda's won because they were racing on a tight track. Even before the race, all the Nissan guys were like "well, it'll be close, we got power, they got handling." It's not like anyone was bragging. All the BS they talked on the show was all done for TV. Kojima actually said on the SE-R mailing list that it was kinda stupid how he had to "pretend gang fight" the Honda guys.
Anyway, it's a good episode to watch though. It was cool seeing a bunch of Nissan guys who I actually know on TV. (well, on mpg, since I don't have cable). It was nice of the show to actually show performance cars for once, rather than a civic with 37 15" subs and a "trick DVD navigation" system in it. The other good thing was that it showed that import guys aren't all young teenagers. They are old fogies that race imports too.