Perfection Inside

It seems as though the trend of smoothing out and shaving your Hachiroku‘s engine bay has started to catch on in Japan, and the subject of my final spotlight from the recent Black Mark Day at Nikko illustrates this point perfectly.

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I actually walked by this flat-white Trueno, bonnet down, a couple of times during the morning of the event. But aside from a rather clean exterior and some deep-dished RS Watanabe wheels, there wasn’t anything else pointing to the fact that it was so much more than your average dorifuto-shyo (drift-spec) AE86.

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But as I was heading back to my car to grab another camera, this is what I saw. An open bonnet and lots of orange!

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Man, talk about a welcome surprise. Not to take anything away from all the other 4A-G-powered cars in the class, but this Trueno’s engine bay was on another level.

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We’ve seen shaved and tucked works of automotive art at stance events before, but I’m so happy to be able to show you one belonging to a car that gets driven hard. It sort of shuts up those haters who incorrectly categorise cars modified in this way as trailer queens built only to look good at stance shows and the like. Not in Japan!

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Within the orange bay lives a cleanly-executed AE111-sourced 4A-G 20-valve ‘black top’ conversion running polished velocity stacks and a hand-crafted exhaust header showing all the colours of the rainbow through heat discolouration.

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Watanabes on an AE86? Nothing new here, but the white stripes applied on the inside of the deep lips do so much for these popular rims.

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The interior was very much function over form, stripped down to bare metal and equipped with a race bucket and a few auxiliary instruments to keep an eye on the engine’s vitals.

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If you happen to be at an event in Japan and you find one of these stickers inside your car or under your wipers, it means you’ve officially been ‘Hunted’ by yours truly. In simple terms, I liked your car so much that I decided to do a little impromptu spotlight, in which case you should check the site regularly to see it presented to the world in all its glory. Think of it as a high-five from Speedhunters for a job well done!

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The simplicity of the exterior that I saw from the front is carried through to the rear.

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Here you’ll find extended fenders and a N2-spec rear deck spoiler.

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The 20-valve motor sang beautifully out on track, a perfect mix of induction howl combined with that unmistakable raspy 4A-G exhaust note. Talk about the perfect AE86 drifter!

Dino Dalle Carbonare
Instagram: speedhunters_dino
dino@speedhunters.com

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1

thats a clean engine bay! nice

2
Chris 'Haffy' Hafner

The last paragraph of writing, you tell us:
The 20-valve motor sang beautifully out on track, a perfect mix of induction howl combined with that unmistakable raspy 4A-G exhaust note.
Yet no video, are you here just to piss us off Dino? :)

3

I think the sticker should be a black and white Dino doing a salute or fist.

4

i love BLACKTOP

5

Beautifully built!

6

Cool sticker idea!

7

This hunted sticker idea is brilliant, I guess this will become the one of the hardest stickers to get your hands on, hope the other Speedhunters do give out those as well

8

This hunted sticker idea is brilliant, I guess this will become the one of the hardest stickers to get your hands on, hope the other Speedhunters do give out those as well

9

Thanks jdmRob, most of the Speedhunters do have them and have been handing them out at events! They will eventually be made available for purchase through our store too

10

Thanks jdmRob, most of the Speedhunters do have them and have been handing them out at events! They will eventually be made available for purchase through our store too

11

Nebraska plates looks sweet. "This Aint JDM This is Hardcore" in the cabin says it all.

12
speedhunters_dino

Chris 'Haffy' Hafner haha yes I am! Pretty sure it's in the vid I uploaded on our IG though ;)

13

Speedhunters I'd personally prefer them to not be sold in the shop, so only the people with the most awesome cars will have those

14
Chris 'Haffy' Hafner

I'll have a look, cheers!

15

Nice idea and paint scheme on the wheels. It also has the effect of
adding some light to the black. Oftentimes black wheels will not show up
because they don't reflect any light.
The monotone exterior combined with the bright engine bay is also an effective change of pace. More often than not it's the other way around.

16

Speedhunters jdmRob I agree with jdmRob make it an exclusive, it has to come from a speedhunter.

As soon as it is sold it becomes worthless.

17

jdmRob Speedhunters  I agree, I would prefer these not to be sold.

18

I've said before on this site that I'm not that into shaved/tucked bays, but I really like this. Something about it just seems different from the other examples, but maybe I'm just crazy and starting to like shaved bays haha. The Hunted sticker is a really cool idea too, but like others said in the comments, putting it on sale defeats the purpose almost. Nice little spotlight!

19

Love this thing, props to the owner, looks sweet!

20

crispykrem3 I used to have similar thoughts, I think because I traditionally associated a shaved bay with horrible show cars of the early 2000s. When it's done right though, I love it!

21

Love it! But it also makes me sad that I will probably never own one :( for me, an almost perfect '86!

22

willis85 Speedhunters jdmRob you all seem to forget that anyone could have the sticker recreated easily

23

with fuzzy dash cover and electric fan to boot!

24
speedhunters_dino

rayyuson Must haves!

25

<3 Me some Naturally Aspirated

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<3 Me some Naturally Aspirated

27

Good to see some R1R love here

28

Good to see some R1R love here

29

True but one search of speedhunters and you could determine they are a fraud.
Thats where these fraud stickers I made up come in handy.

30

jdmRob Speedhunters yeh If you do end up making them available in the store make a variant just for giving to cars that have been featured. Maybe make holographic or chrome or just something hard to fake

31

_nemisan Ça va c'est pas du ricer

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_nemisan Ça va c'est pas du ricer

33

_Rayners eh les jdm c'est pas du rice

34

_nemisan Les JDM non japonais c'est possible

35

_Rayners c'est ce que j'allais dire mdrr

36

_Rayners t'façon la rice c'est limite un sport en europe

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_Rayners AH NAN PAS EUX

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_Rayners dat porn meme

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