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The second running of the Classic Japanese Car Show put on by the Z Car Club of Queensland was held today in Brisbane. And what a show it was! A good turnout of around 150 entrants saw everything from V8 powered Celica’s to Subaru Micro cars being entered for judging.

 After the rain and storms that we have had in Brissy over the last week there was some doubt as to whether the event would go ahead. There must be a god of classic japanese cars though as the day produced blue skies and mild temperatures. The only let down was the amount of flies that were around. Thousands of the buggers, apparently a bit of a problem around the area at the moment.

 With me being out of action due to continuing back pain the camera duties were assigned to my better half Belinda, and I think she did a great job. It was also our mate Jerry’s first show outing with his twin turbo RA28 Celica and it certainly got it’s fair share of attention.

See the full picture gallery.

 The date for the race has been set. The cars are well, as ready as they can be and the scene set for the funniest event since Paris Hilton got locked up. To get an idea of what is happening take a look at the original Race Wars post.

 The Starion has gone on a diet big time and lost all un-necessary interior fittings. I only wish we could replace the doors and rear hatch with something a bit lighter, those things must weigh a ton.

 The engine is another story in itself and to be honest it has me doubting whether it will make the three passes under it’s own steam. The head gasket is blown and we have never had less mosies around here since we got it going.

 A bottle of chemi-weld has helped the head gasket issue and a helping of stop-smoke has been added to control the oil situation. Not a good start! On the “performance” side we’ve made up a cold air intake which houses the original air-flow meter, advanced the timing as much as possible without huge amounts of detonation and will fit a bleed valve to boost it up to around 14 psi.

 The exhaust is reasonably free flowing except for the dump pipe (see picture) and I think will stay as is. If I had more faith in the engine a quick shot of nitrous would help to win this thing but seeing as we are starting out with a sick engine we don’t want to push it too far.

 The date for the battle has changed again! see this post for the latest update. If you are in Brisbane looking for something to do get behind team s**tbox and head out to Willowbank Raceway for what should be a piss-funny night. If you have any ideas of how to squeeze more power out of this rocket without breaking our now $250 budget please feel free to leave a comment.

Craig