this hachi-roku can be yours

[kami240sx]

speaking of hachi rokus, i found this. . .i wish i could add a few japanese stickers, repaint the car and be able to jack up the price 3 grand. . . :rolleyes

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...61080

[Eklectrick]

That sucks. people bidding on that car are either the guy's friends, or complete suckers. and there's still a week to go in the auction. damn.

[lessthanjakejohn]

gay

[7thGear]

ok i think this is a good time to ask,

what da hell makes this 1986 car so god damn good?? is it the engine? is it the lightness? does it have some sort of godly driveterrain??? ( details are welcome)

what makes it better than lets say... a 1986 bmw 5 series?

[Holisticbeatz]

ok i think this is a good time to ask,

what da hell makes this 1986 car so god damn good?? is it the engine? is it the lightness? does it have some sort of godly driveterrain??? ( details are welcome)

what makes it better than lets say... a 1986 bmw 5 series?

The AE86 is a cult classic.

[float_6969]

Initial D made it a good car. Although, it had it's good points, highly overrated in my opinion.

[Cyberkreig]

sure isnt worth 6grand.

[krazy skwerel]

haha my friend with an ae86 showed me that add and told me he was gonna paint his car up like that and make some money. at least his car is modded. :batman

[Holisticbeatz]

sure isnt worth 6grand.

Are you kidding me? The Intial D graphics on the side alone are worth $1,000. It's JDM!

:pface

[Eklectrick]

ok i think this is a good time to ask,

what da hell makes this 1986 car so god damn good?? is it the engine? is it the lightness? does it have some sort of godly driveterrain??? ( details are welcome)

what makes it better than lets say... a 1986 bmw 5 series?

It's just a classic car made more popular because of the initial D anime. The thing people like most about it is it has a perfect 50/50 weight distribution and RWD which makes it perfect to learn how to drift. I forget what the significance is of the '86 model is. it is known as the tureno or levin in Japan, but I don't know what the difference is between the two besides fixed headlights on the levin.

oh, and hachi-roku means 86 in japanese. actually 8 and 6. I think eighty-six is actually hachi ju roku. just another wrinkle in your brain for those of you who may not have known that.

[lessthanjakejohn]

I think 1986 was the last model to have RWD

[NiSilS14]

my GUESS why this car is so special is probably b/c its cheap(except for this one), RWD, easy to modify, fairly good power and a redline of 11 which is a special engine from TRD i believe

[WhtTrshPunk]

hmmm......

[lessthanjakejohn]

redline of 11 which is a special engine from TRD i believe

What? no way. Do you mean TRD built an 11k rpm engine?

[Eklectrick]

why do you say that? are homosexuals into AE86's too?

[NiSilS14]

What? no way. Do you mean TRD built an 11k rpm engine?

thats what i meant

[WingsNThangs]

This car doesn't even have JDM conversions (front and rear bumper, taillights). It just has the Initial D decal and is painted like Takumi's car. That's all. Whoever bid on it was influenced HEAVILY by Initial D for sure.

[yeswepromise]

oh and the paint sucks. totally crappy panda paint job

[lessthanjakejohn]

doesn't that writing stand for like a tofu delivery business or the somewhat? lol

[Eklectrick]

are you talking about the paintjob itself or the color scheme? I don't see anything wrong with the paintjob unless you can spot some imperfections I dont see.

[Eklectrick]

doesn't that writing stand for like a tofu delivery business or the somewhat? lol

yep, the small ammount of japanese I can read, I can make out toufu in the hiragana.

[driftaholic]

it says "fujiwara tofu shop (private use)"and yes, hachi roku is eight six and hachi jyuu roku is eighty-six

[toki]

mmmm what would be the benifit of having an engine that can rev to 11k? isn't a power band a power band? be it at 2k or 8k?

[240marcuSX]

light, RWD, Cheap(not @!$@($#!@ 6 grand), good weight ratio, a classic, and its one of the only cars that looks good with panasports Id love to have one just for drifiting,and if you wreck it, it really doesnt matter because its so cheap. the 240 is more versatile though :ylsuper

[7thGear]

ive never been inside one, is it even a comfortable car if not modded?

and is the dash like REALLY old skool, that fake BOXY plastic and guages that are about 2 seconds behind??

[Flipflop]

I've driven a production race modified verison of one of these, running on avgas with some stupidly high compression, for a couple of laps around a track.

It was easier to steer the car with my right foot than the steering wheel. Never have I been in a car that gave more feedback and confidence at speed.

It is the driver's car. If you wanted a pure oldschool thrasher, that's it. A Group B rally driver I know told me it was the only car apart from a Ford Escort (the old RWD version!) that he could ever slide at 90 degrees and still recover.

They're not just popular because of Initial D.:rolleyes There's lots and lots of people into these cars. They just rarely make any sort of deal about it.

[7thGear]

ok now i gotta go watch inital D

find this car in canada

take the muffler off

paint "inital D" on the side

and ride around Rimchon hill ( AKA the boonies) and get weird stares from people.

boo ya :ylsuper :ylsuper :ylsuper

EDIT: not "ride", but maybe "slide"

[7thGear]

i just want to bring this one up for a peice of mind

so which engine exactly red lines at 11 000 rpm? which of the models have it?

while looking at car shops there are two types i find, "GT-S" and "SR5" so which one is which?

thx.

[Rockenreno]

as far as I know the 11000 RPM redline engine is not available on any USDM model...

[driftaholic]

in initial d, takumi blew up the stock engine, and bunta bought the 11k rpm race engine made by trd to replace it. the race engine wasn't stock on ANY car, even in japan.initial d is pretty realistic, but i'd do some research first before quoting it as fact.