Anyone has some of the more obscure and rare photos from mid

>>16010653
Check the archive

Does anyone have any info on the RX-7 car? Everyone knows about the GTR, Z and 911. But I can't find dick on the RX7

>>16010653
>>16010716
Lurking hard on this

I wish I had stuff to contribute so the thread doesn't die ;_;

More interested in the third generation supra

Anyone notice none of the midnight club cars were fwd? Makes you think

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Commencing mini dump of somewhat rare/kinda well known I guess pics

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>>16010804
This one is iffy, it's from like 2014 and allegedly Mid Night Club, but I feel like that doesn't count as original MNC.

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>>16010653
>>16010763
Anyone notice that despite having the resources of clandestine master tuners on doctor budgets with connections to be able to have parts like turbo off Senna's F1 car, all of these are slower than a solid axle turd built by Yosemite Same in a shed? Makes you think.

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>>16010818
Yeah, but they also daily drive their cars.

>>16010818
Slower in a straight line from the street right into the junk yard

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>>16010853
2nd to last

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>>16010867
Best for last, IMO

>>16010818
Supra is a 3.0 right?
And the GTR is a 2.6 liter

Big red had a 540 ci big block (8.8 liters)

Japan is taxed to shit on displacement and freedom land isnt

>>16010872
Oh, and here's a link to the last thread about this with more pics and info

http://archive.4plebs.org/o/thread/12864978/

>>16010867
oh fuck, save'd

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>>16010875
But hang on, I was under the impression there was a replacement for displacement, called forced induction, and top secretu Japanese elders were the masters of it..?

>>16010897
>http://archive.4plebs.org/o/thread/12864978/
thanks anon
also is it just me or exotics in japan do look alot different and better than ones you see in yurop or usa?

>>16010884
Your duct taped, unsafe, unreliable, only capable of a quarter mile before needing a rebuild junk car is not capable of real street racing. It would be slow as fuck in the corners(which the Wangan does have), then it would shit the bed and kill you before even completing a single lap of the loop.

Take your poor trolling practice back to the corvette vs gtr thread.

>>16010903
Nah there is an upper limit of what a turbo can do with such a small engine.

If the nips had access to large displacement v8 engines back then they'd be using those.

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>>16010945
>he doesn't know that Big Red is a road racing cruise missile specifically designed to demolish open road races at more than 220 miles an hour

Lol.

>>16010954
They did have access to v8 engines, hell even bigger engines too. They're called the toyota uz engine. But I don't think any of the mid night cars had engine swaps, I know smokey once built a supra with a toyota v12 in it.

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>>16010979
>I know smokey once built a supra

wut

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What does midnight club thread think of Smokey Nagata. It is said that he was rejected from the midnight club because he was too reckless.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qr6IZF14Y
The shit this guy makes is bonkers.

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>>16010996
gook version

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>>16010996
Worst Smokey right after Smokey the Bear.

>>16010979
They did, but most countries outside of USA & Australia never had easy access to big displacement motors to play around with. You can thank things like the displacement-based tax system on cars for that.

>>16010996
>>16011006

Only these niggas can prevent forest fires.

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i'll post what i have.

Do any pictures of the Midnight Club Pre-1991 exist?

>muh japanese car club
autism

>>16010818
they also double as track/daily drivers... not a 1/4 mile queen trailered from strip to strip

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and thats it.


Here's a video, around minute 54:00 they interview a shop owner who says he use to run with mid night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui-cIzkk11U

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>>16012421
I wonder why they didn't blackout their eyes or blurred faces?

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Kek, a 944 outta all things

>>16012429

No way to prove THEY were the ones driving the car unless they were stopped by the police.

>>16010818
doesn't this have a full tubular chassis with just a camaro body on top of it ?
because the first one was sooo good it crashed ?

>>16012324
>they also double as track
kek!

If you honestly think some 600hp weebtuned top speed car is going to be doing actual track days on actual tracks, you're retarded. It just won't last. Any jap with a thick wallet and a half-decent tuner friend can make a car that's built to do a few top speed runs on the highway per month, but making a car that is putting down 2-3x as much power as it did stock track-reliable is a monumental task. Not only must the engine be perfectly overbuilt, but the cooling and tune must be 100% perfect. Not as easy as it sounds. Time attack cars blow up all the time and they're only making a couple of laps then going in for more tuning, not getting hammered on for sessions that can last a half hour or more.

>>16012429
Just some guys enjoying dinner and looking at a car

>>16012834
t. bench racer

>>16012932
Wait, you think people are just willy nilly making 600hp track reliable cars when manufacturers spend MILLIONS on R&D to do it?

and you're calling other people bench racers

it takes more than a strong meme engine like a 2jz and a couple of big turbos to make power and last doing it

>>16012834
this is very true. you cant just throw something high-powered together and expect it to work reliably like a stock motor. i understand where the idea comes from now when all the magazine features are showing 1200hp cars left right and center, but 5-10 years ago the big name tuners would send 600hp cars to magazine shootouts and several of them would grenade or be unable to complete the tests without some failure. i know firsthand how much tweaking, parts-swapping and work it takes to make a small 4 cylinder make 100 hp/L and then how much more it takes to prepare it for beating on. A 500, 600, 800hp machine is exponentially more difficult and expensive. 90% of the modified cars you see featured in magazines or online arent ready for the track. start beating on them and EGTs rise, coolant temps go up, you start getting detonation, or some sensor the owner has been too lazy to fix causes it to start sputtering. remember that Veilside Fortuna RX7 from Tokyo Drift? that thing was someone's high dollar showoff car that they borrowed or bought for filming, and it barely ran. the stunt drivers could barely make it drift, because it had been built up but not fine tuned, or it was done once and then just driven and shit failed over time. or the numerous cars that caught on fire from a oil return line contacting the header. so many little things like that only rear their heads when you do extended track sessions. flat-out highway pulls dont compare

>>16012834
>If you honestly think some 600hp weebtuned top speed car is going to be doing actual track days on actual tracks, you're retarded.
>turn the boost down because you're gonna be stuck behind several 50 year old men in their Corvettes and Porsches
>track day survived
Easy stuff my dude.

>>16013106
maybe you should go to a trackday like a productive adult instead of a 'high performance driving event' like some virgin who got to go as a gift from his parents

>>16013138
>trackday
I suspect you don't actually know what a trackday is or what it entails. Suffice to say it is not a race which is what you seem to think.

>>16012324
Big Red isn't a drag racer, it's a road course car.

>>16012602
A full tubular chassis built by a redneck in the desert, although the chassis isn't of the most importance since top speed cannonball runs are an aerodynamic battle before anything else and they specifically kept the thing that would hamper them most and STILL skullfuck the absolute best of the best the land of the rising sun can bring to bear. And the original was good enough to blow every Ferrari and Lambo away and hold the course record for the Silver State classic for some twenty years.

>>16013172
i've done over 30 trackdays in the past 2 years, i know them pretty well.

>>16013313

>redneck hillbilly being autistic over some 50 year old car

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>>16013313
>skullfuck the absolute best of the best the land of the rising sun can bring to bear.

You realize you're comparing a full blown race car to modified street vehicles right? I get that you're just trying to strike a nerve with weeaboo's, but please stop acting like a retard.

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>>16013341
>weeb neckbeard being autistic over 30 year old cars and the automotive world's own "I once caught a fish this big" tall tale

And goddamn right I'm a hillbilly- My neck is red and my collar is blue and my wife shares a parent with me! Don't you ever forget it.

>>16013322
I didn't know they took city buses out on the track. How much does the ticket for that cost or it included in the pass?

>>16013359
Big Red isn't a full blown race car though, it makes compromises for looks and the original body for non-performance reasons. A real TRUE all out race car would be cast up in fiberglass, no dashpad, unpadded seats. Big Red actually kept the heater, believe it or not. A lot of the Mid Night cars were gutted and running cages with tubbed wheel wells and modified suspension arguably more advanced than Big Red (still runs a solid rear axle with shocks and springs rather than coilovers). It might be more serious, but it's not a full blown race car.

>>16010996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAIEEaOM7fo

>>16012834
>If you honestly think some 600hp weebtuned top speed car is going to be doing actual track days on actual tracks, you're retarded. It just won't last
you are clueless. just stop posting

>>16014656
fucking weebs think these midnight cars are built by god or some shit baka

>>16012834
Mid-Naito Krubbu guys would run a lot all night on the freeway loops if I remember correctly, there's no reason to think they weren't well built.

>>16014966
I'm not saying they weren't "well built" I'm saying they weren't track day cars.

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>>16010996

>>16010818
They are 100% more stable at 300 km/h, while your cannot blink inside the car without it meeting the rails.

>>16010991
APOLOGIZE

Yeah let's glorify a group that modifies cars and goes againts the engineers wishes and ruins the resale value. Fuck em, why do you think we have a epidemic of tuner kiddies and stancefags? because of this bullshit. How the fuck do you justify them endagering lives of civilians because of their bulllshit JDM tyte yo crap

>>16010818
those were top speeds on a ring

How did they avoid the police? You'd think their notoriety would get the cops to crack down on them. Were they just a product of their time and wouldn't survive today?

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>>16010979
Yeah, this ugly piece of shit powered by the v12 from the yakuzamobile

>>16010755
Basic 1JZ-GTE supra, not much more information on it besides that unfortunately; and the usdm 3rd gen supras didn't get the 1JZ, pretty sad desu senpai

>>16010813
Its not actually MNC, iirc its the Yoshida Special 930 which was a 'tribute' to Blackbird

>>16015787
fix the headgaskets and you got something much better than the 1J. The ka24 is similar in this regard. PEople always wanna get the engines the japs got when you got a better engine with more displacement and torque right under your nose

>>16010979
'a toyota v12' it was literally 2 2JZ's that he somehow put together since they were both straight sixes; and afaik it isn't done yet, but i haven't looked up anything in a long while

>>16015774
Due to the way car registry insurance etc worked in Japan street racing was viewed as more of a man's hobby and less of a boy's IIRC. Cops left them alone as long as no one was hurt, they couldn't catch them anyway.

>>16015774
a) street racing is less enforced there
b) all their cars were over 100km/h faster than the top speed of japanese cop cars at the time

>>16015800
Not him, but I would not say it is better motor. The 1j is much more advanced and has a superior design. I wouldn't ditch a 7m if it came with the car, but it is not better.

>>16015800
>>16015837
I'll agree that both are good motors if you get past the head gasket of the 7M, but the 7M would need more work than 1J for higher horsepower applications, but its not a bad engine in any regard

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Have hundreds of photos. Even from modern times. I can dump, if anyone's interested.

>>16015912
pls do

>>16015912
DO IT

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>>16015943
I'll start with more modern ones then.

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>>16015978

This is one of the best threads /o/'s had in a while

Keep it coming brother

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>>16016012
I'll start mixing it up a bit. Posting some older stuff.

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>>16016080
are you in the country or just a collector? i've been in tokyo for 6 months and not attended any car events or meets

fml

Thought you guys might like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLpsDb71g2c

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>>16016094
Just a collector. Planning to go to a Daikoku meet once I'm done with collage.

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>>16016101
Toyota i6's sound so weak compared to Nissan's.

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>>16016151
And here is, perhaps, the most iconic MNC car..

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>>16016155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcAQxDiYk
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>>16015715
>100% more stable at 300 km/h

Probably because Big Red is accelerating past that in fractions of a second to a top speed of more than 357 km/h.

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>>16015952
Modern Mid Night? I thought that shit disbanded. I thought jap car culture was dead. Is the Mid Night coming back?

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>>16016293
jap car culture is alive and well. performance cars and still very common (i see something "initial d'y" almost every day in my suburb of tokyo)

skylines (and gtrs more often than not) and rx7s in particular are a dime a dozen

seen a couple of very heavily modified cars, but nothing Mid Night related. afaik they are a historical group, maybe the old members still rep the stickers? not sure

spotted pic related by Meguro Station tonight

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>>16015772
Big Red still demolishes them. (203 mph is some 326 km/h).

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>>16016313
pic related in Yokohama for something more heavily modified last month

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>>16016293
Not quite. Mid Night never disbanded.. after that bosozoku crash, the members layed low with the racing, but never stopped racing altogether. Since cops pressure street racers too much nowadays, they only race on short distances of the wangan.. not like the long runs they used to do before. They still gather for meets and they still race, but they are more cautious and not as serious as before.

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>>16016313
>>16016332
casual TOM's modified (from the factory?) Aristo or similar land barge parked up beside a dry cleaners in north tokyo

>>16016333
It's such a shame that crash happened. It was inevitable, but street racing as a whole would be very different if it hadn't.

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>>16016293
Forgot to mention that some members went the legal way, and go to tracks now.

>>16016293
Some old members still like to wear the mid night sticker

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>>16016356
Perhaps you're right. We may never know. Their influence is still strongly felt in today's Japanese car culture.

Does anyone have a video of them in action? Like actual street racing footage.

>>16016325
''demolishes''
>>16012184

This was some 20 years ago. And if the legend about the 911 blackbird is true then that's 350km/h. Today they could go, much, much faster with an r35 or something.

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>>16016406
Personal car of one member.

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never thought i'd get to use this pic again

i want a midnight club car speciall sticker for my twingo. so i get extra street cred when i do 180kph on the shutoko

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>>16016444
>exactly 1 godzirra MONSTUHRU skyurine can catch a glimpse of a geriatric boomer mobile with an i-beam rear suspension and pushrods

That road and track article with Big Red was done 26 years ago.

>if the legend is true

It's real convenient the flat out speed of these things were never recorded so that they can perform more miracles than the Bluesmobile when the need arises. Protip; the legends aren't true, and that fish your uncle caught was never actually "THIS BIG."

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>>16016500
>sticker for my twingo
Enjoy getting your car keyed, faggot.

>>16016432
Jeremy clarkson's motorworld has a bit of footage on his japan episode

>>16016444
actually I don't think the blackbird was able to ever reach that speed. In fact, the real life blackbird wasn't even a ruf ctr

>>16010653
I've never heard of these guys before. Street racers with high respect for safety. That's admirable. Especially how it ended.

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>>16016504
I wonder if you are actually a Middo Naito Currabu member and are trolling guys here and LMAOING hard.

I actually believe this now.

Secret is safe with me Misterru Jones

>>16015812

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_GZ_engine

It's lifted from the Toyota Century.

>>16010996
>you will never drive smokey nagasakis soopra

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>>16023169
hory shit, I was just reading this story on the can this morning. I miss SCC

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Anyone have scans of the other cars that were featured in the same edition as these two?

The current car with the highest top speed was a Cressida or some other 4 door Toyota.

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>tfw an ancient R31 is faster than you on the highway