Let’s swiftly move on with the coverage of the Exciting Car Showdown and what better car to get things started for Part 2 than Goto-san’s new crazy ride! You may remember his matte green AE86 I did a spotlight on at last year’s Spring Drift Matsuri, well he’s stepped the game up when it comes to originality with this slightly unfinished KP61 Starlet.

But who cares if it’s not 100% yet, this thing deserved to be show and not only for it’s cool matte mint-green overfendered exterior…

…but especially the very original engine swap. That’s a 1,100 cc GU74A from a Suzuki GSX, complete with sequential bike gearbox! Might only have 135 HP at 9,500 rpm and a puny 74 lb/ft at a rather high 8,500 rpm but it will fit Goto’s style perfectly. The car looks like it’s light enough anyway!

At the URAS stand Nomuken was trying to keep up with all his fans and was autographing t-shirts, caps and other various monkey-man gadgetry through the weekend.

He brought two of his demo cars, a 4-door R34 Skyline with full D1 livery…

…and the very cool ER34 2-door that we saw back at TAS in January…

…running the Infiniti 4.5L V8. While for some it might be sacrilegious to see such engines replacing the mighty RB line up of motors you can’t ignore the coolness factor. At least it’s still a Nissan lump!

And on the subject of Skylines, here is Tezuka’s new ER34 Bee-R D1 machine.

It carries over the unmistakable Bee-R style with a very original wide body kit…

…and a massive rear spoiler on which Imai-san let me place a couple of Speedhunters stickers!

Hoshino Carstyle FC3S going for the Drift Samurai look!

These “Power Up Higashi-Nihon” magnets were selling like hot cakes and no doubt contributed substantially to the money the organizers raised for charity. Gotta love Dai-chan’s caricature!

I think Ueno at T&E must have used one of the best mixes of pearl white when painting Taniguchi’s Vertex Edge S15 as every time I see the car it just seems to pop.

Under the bonnet is a special HKS-built engine good for 460 HP thanks to the GT2835R turbocharger. I think a feature of this car is in order!

More slammed to the ground street drifter goodness from Paint & Cutting Make Nagano Koubou. Like the S13 we saw in Part 1 this 180SX was on 15-inch Work Meister CR01…

…as was this Garage Number’ SIXX NA6. The extreme lowering is achieved through a set of Buddy Club racing spec dampers. You just got to admire the simplicity of the car, which also stretches to the engine, only running HKS cams and a full exhaust system.

We saw the Phoenix Power R35 yesterday but their Z34 demonstrator was hard to ignore riding on those massive 20-inch BBS LMs!

The 600 HP Wacky Mate R34 was sporting the sort of extreme time-attack style we’ve come to expect from them.

Massive GT-wing complements the front aero treatment.

FF drifting anyone? This cool 4E-powered EE-A Honda City on the Doriten stand proved to be quite the attention grabber as people tried to get a better look of the engine conversion.

Here is one for the rotor-heads, Girls Collection FD3S on Gram Lights 57Accelerate-Pro. The widebody aero is from R-Magic with a few other bits and pieces through in for originality. The car is built for grip and response retaining the stock turbines, good for about 350 HP.

A Daihatsu Mira built for drag racing, something that really can’t get more Japanese. The guys at Line Up Car Service managed to extract 205 HP from the JB-JL motor, stroking it to 720 cc and force feeding it with a rather large IHI turbine. Best time it has achieved is a 13.6 sec pass which, considering the stock car probably takes about a minute to cover the quarter mile, is quite impressive!

The king of FF drift and oni-camber!

Here is Manabu Suzuki showing off the money that was collected during the charity auction. Great work guys!

Got wing? This Fierce Racing 500 HP widebody time attack S14 really grabbed my attention as it looks like something you would see at a Battle Evome meet in Tsukuba. The car is privately owned and competes in the Meister Cup and can often be seen lapping Okayama Circuit.

I spotted this R31 House Skyline Wagon RC-car body for sale in one of the shops at the show. Wagon RC drift anyone?

Next up is a look at the parking lot of the Nagoya Port Messe!

Nagoya Exciting Car Showdown 2011

-Dino Dalle Carbonare