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Mux213 · 14-12-2004, 07:54

Ahhh, an introduction thread

Damn 25 pages long, think you may get to learn who's on the board.... got alot of catching up to do

Okay, so who am I? I'm just some dutch IT bloke that got into cars not that long ago. Couple of years ago I was introduced on the Nurburgring and with some friends bought an RX7 to run there about once every month. After about a years worth of fun one of my mates thought it be nice to have the RX7 meet the top of 3 guardrails and that was the end of that

Since then things have moved a bit slowly for me, for the mate that broke the RX7, he's now running around in his 911 and getting pretty good at it. Me, I bought another RX7 but a fix her up, so she's in the garage in pieces at the moment desperately awaiting to be finished but I recon that wont be till the end of next year. I eventually wanne use her for trackdays and drift days..

Since that seemed to be fairly far away into the future, and I see all my mates getting ahead of me, I desided to take anothing turn. As any moron who watches initial D to much would do, I did the most stupid thing of my life, I bought a HachiRoku as a daily driver to replace my company car next year. For the last 3 months I've slowly been fixing her up which luckely for me, was alot less work then the RX7 since this one just got a very little bit of rust to take care of and has most of the basic suspention mods already done. The weirdest thing was probably taking the buckets and 4points out and replace them with the stock interiour (one of those things my girlfriend made me do

). I do plan to put an adjustable semi-bucket seat back in for the driver side some day, stock seats just dont give you the support you need...

I figured the best way to learn to properly drive an RWD car is not to drive an FWD car as a daily driver. Having an RWD car as a daily makes much more sence and having the ability to do a track or drift day with it while I'm still working on my RX7 seems like a good idea....

But really?!? Man, I can't get my hands off of this thing, I have never in my life had so much fun in a car as I've had in my hachiroku in the past 3 months, and I've hardly been driving her and I have yet to start drifting her... Its put the RX7 on the backburner and really made me think if I wanne keep my DeLorean (yeah I got one of those aswell, and no I am not rich, I guess I just got unlucky at some point

).

Anyways, check out my website at http://mux.speed.planet.nl and if you are into hachirokus, check out our new european based forum http://ww.aeu86.org (although most hachi owners I see posting here have already found their way there

)

14-12-2004, 07:54	#251 (permalink)
Mux213 High on rubber Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 377	Ahhh, an introduction thread Damn 25 pages long, think you may get to learn who's on the board.... got alot of catching up to do Okay, so who am I? I'm just some dutch IT bloke that got into cars not that long ago. Couple of years ago I was introduced on the Nurburgring and with some friends bought an RX7 to run there about once every month. After about a years worth of fun one of my mates thought it be nice to have the RX7 meet the top of 3 guardrails and that was the end of that Since then things have moved a bit slowly for me, for the mate that broke the RX7, he's now running around in his 911 and getting pretty good at it. Me, I bought another RX7 but a fix her up, so she's in the garage in pieces at the moment desperately awaiting to be finished but I recon that wont be till the end of next year. I eventually wanne use her for trackdays and drift days.. Since that seemed to be fairly far away into the future, and I see all my mates getting ahead of me, I desided to take anothing turn. As any moron who watches initial D to much would do, I did the most stupid thing of my life, I bought a HachiRoku as a daily driver to replace my company car next year. For the last 3 months I've slowly been fixing her up which luckely for me, was alot less work then the RX7 since this one just got a very little bit of rust to take care of and has most of the basic suspention mods already done. The weirdest thing was probably taking the buckets and 4points out and replace them with the stock interiour (one of those things my girlfriend made me do). I do plan to put an adjustable semi-bucket seat back in for the driver side some day, stock seats just dont give you the support you need... I figured the best way to learn to properly drive an RWD car is not to drive an FWD car as a daily driver. Having an RWD car as a daily makes much more sence and having the ability to do a track or drift day with it while I'm still working on my RX7 seems like a good idea.... But really?!? Man, I can't get my hands off of this thing, I have never in my life had so much fun in a car as I've had in my hachiroku in the past 3 months, and I've hardly been driving her and I have yet to start drifting her... Its put the RX7 on the backburner and really made me think if I wanne keep my DeLorean (yeah I got one of those aswell, and no I am not rich, I guess I just got unlucky at some point ). Anyways, check out my website at http://mux.speed.planet.nl and if you are into hachirokus, check out our new european based forum http://ww.aeu86.org (although most hachi owners I see posting here have already found their way there)