Guest Blog:brian Tustison>>the Yamamoto Soarer

Hi there Speedhunters! I found this car on my last trip to Japan. I haven’t seen many tuned Soarers on Speedhunters in a while so hopefully you will appreciate this one.

We went to visit Yamamoto san of Garage Norikuni in Shiga and found a collection of cool cars. The focal point of which was Yamamoto-san’s personal Soarer.

Yamamoto-san spent a large portion of his career working for the Nismo racing team as an engine builder, and his car shows evidence of his racing background.

The back seat and rear ¼ windows have been replaced with a quick fill fuel cell.

The external fuel pumps and surge tank go hand in hand with the fuel cell…

All of that fuel feeds a 3.2 liter 2JZ…

…Running an IHI RX-8 turbo charger. These turbos were used on turbocharged Cart race cars and are equipped with inconel exhaust housings, and reversed magnesium compressor housings. Holding an 11 pound turbo capable of producing 900 hp was an experience.

After an evening of drinking Yamamoto-san proved that he could weld beer cans together drunk… a true sensei.

-Brian Tustison

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1

beer cans together drunk...my hero!

2

Great car!!! I would prefer the front wheels on the rear as well but still cool to look at!

Did you get a chance to drive it?

3

HA HA HA i love the last pic

4

nice article ,really get a feel for the place! definetly appreciating the raw speed hungry style of Yamamoto-san, and what the effer is this reversed magnesium they made the housing out of ??

5

wow impressive soarer

6

haha last pic is so dope

also, nice turbo on that thing

7

welding aluminum while drunk is the truly impressive thing about this post.



i almost closed the window until i saw the mechanical side of this thing, crazy!

8

Interesting how an ex-Nismo employee has a garage full of Toyotas! I wonder what that Soarer's like on the track.

9

AHHHHHH TWO OF MY FAVORITE THINGS SOARERS AND ASAHI...I LIKE HOW THESE DUDES ROLL

10

WOW. The last picture is where its at!!



11

absolutely blown away...welding aluminum cans? DRUNK? *bows* I am in the presence of a master...

12

Haha, crazy guy..... Nice car, too. The hubs is thinking of buying a friend's Soarer with a 1JZ swap.

13

Rad. I like the rawness of the work.

14

now this is a post

15

i'm loving the closing statement

16

I'd love to hear this Soarer roar after I saw a pic of that turbo. Very well done Mr. Yamamoto.

17

That is one seriously hardcore Soarer!



The high mount turbo looks tuff as and love the deep lip on the rear wheels.

18

Whoa.. it all looks very technical man.. car looks like it's 'ready to take off'.. i'd love to see a video of this tearing up the track - 10/10 for that turbo set-up too..

19

it's hard to weld beer cans as they melt so easily cos they're so thin aluminium.

20

Y34H, it looks like the intake of the turbo was made with the asahi cans... XD Pretty raw!

21

Any more pics of the JZA80s?

22

welding beer cans! legend!! lol

23

Intercooler piping out of beer cans! hahah



note- its a joke, i know it wouldnt hold.

24

Nice "wheels" !

25

Nice "wheels" !

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