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Holiday Customs

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This is one part of a series of videos that documents “Makers” in Portland, Oregon. These businesses bring things back to high quality custom hand built goods for people who want to stand out from bland mass produced goods. Holiday Customs is a one-man operation owned by Jared Johnson. He builds reasonably priced custom motorcycles.


MAKERS Part 3: Holiday Customs from Shwood Eyewear on Vimeo.

2013 AE86 Matsuri

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Hoon TV brings us coverage from the AE86 Matsuri held at Tsukuba Circuit. They get a really good look at some of the cars in the revived N2 series including those from SS Works and Crystal Body Yokohama. Toyota is planning a one-make series for the GT-86, but I’d be curious to see how feasible it would be to race the new cars alongside the N2 AE86’s. The event took place alongside the Initial D festival that celebrated release of the fifth stage of that anime.


Source: Hoon TV on YouTube

Close Quarters Drifting at Tokyo Auto Salon 2013

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Manabu Orido picks highlights from the on-board cameras fitted to the cars that participated in the D1 Drifting Grand Prix’s demonstration at this year’s Tokyo Auto Salon. The focus of the footage is to show off how close the guys are able to get to each other while tandem drifting. These guys are some of the best in the world.


Source: Extreme Driving TV on YouTube

The Mazda6 Diesel at the Rolex 24 at Daytona

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Mazda debuted their new diesel Mazda6 race cars at the Rolex 24 hour endurance race in Daytona in January. The entire lineup of engines in the new 2013 Mazda6 have benefited from Mazda’s SkyActiv engine technology initiative. It’s interesting to note that while the gasoline engines have increased compression ratios to improve efficiency, the diesel engines worked the other way. Diesel compression ratios are generally in the neighborhood of 20:1, but Mazda found that lowering it about 14:1 meant that all of the engine parts could be significantly lighter which allowed for higher rpm’s and lower bearing friction.


Source: Road and Track on YouTube