Silvia S15 touge drift

Team Dragtimes hits the Ukrainian mountains. Check them out at Dragtimes.info!

R34 vs AE86 @ Gunsai Touge

Battle of two giants, Keiichi DK Tsuchiya and Nobuteru Taniguchi. Battle of 2 legendary cars: Nissan Skyline R34 and Toyota Corolla AE86 Hachi-roku.

Can a little NA Hachi-roku keep it up with boosted monster Skyline R34? Battle on the ultimate racing area- Touge.

Techno Toy's Corolla AE86 with F20C Swap

Toyota Hachi-Roku with Honda's F20C engine? That's right, complete swap with all the accessories taken out from Honda S2000 and installed to AE86. Video from Hot Version: US Touge, Keiichi Tsuchiya and Manabu Orido are impressed. Car didn't make it to final because it has no LSD installed.

Civic EG6 and Corolla KE70 having fun on touge

Public road, Tougeking does it in his honda Civic EG6 with camera on-board. Visit his blog tougeking.blogspot.com for his touge videos;)

Hachi-rokus touge run video

Toyota AE86 Hachi-Roku on the touge run. Not one, but two Corollas having canyon fun.

Subaru Impreza Sti vs WRC comparison touge battle

Great comparison of stock street legal Subaru Impreza Sti and a tuned rally racing version of Impreza WRC.
WRC starts touge battle 17 seconds behind, and catches stock Sti in no time.

Subaru WRX Sti touge battle

2 Subaru Imprezas WRX Sti racing on touge. Picture by Michael Clee

Fujita Engineering FD3S RX-7 Touge

Fujita Engineering RX-7 is a monster I posted a video about it.
Here are some nice pictures of Fujita Engineering RX7 on touge race, looks really hot, boosted rotary engine sounds dangerously serious.

S2000 touge battle: Amuse S2300 GT1 vs J's Racing S2000

Great battle of two top modded JDM Hondas S2000. J's Racing vs Amuse.

Tsuchiya in Amuse S2300 lost the battle, but is this the ultimate final test? J's Racing S2000 has advantage of better gear ration (final drive), Amuse maybe choose wrong tires and too big wheels... but who knows

Amuse S2300 track test by Keiichi Tsuchiya

Amuse company continues building an ultimate S2000 for the track. This is Amuse S2300 GT1 car. Amuse increased bore and stroke on original F20C engine, that's why it's an S2300. It produces 289 horsepower. Track test by Keiichi Tsuchiya, the Drift King.

In a video we see Hideki Tanabe, founder of Powerhouse Amuse. Tanabe-san died on 20th of September 2008 after a hard battle with health. Memory will live on forever in his cars, he will forever be an icon, legend of JDM tuning scene. Rest in peace.

J's Racing S2000 on the touge

How does the 1st generation of J's Racing Honda S2000 handle on the touge? It's designed to be a daily driver car with stereo and navigation system. Keiichi Tsuchiya is really impressed with cornering abilities of J's s2k. When he's suspiciously quiet while driving any car, that only means he really enjoys the drive. Taniguchi and Orido are also impressed with J's s2k, is it better than Amuse S2k?
J's Racing Honda S2000 specifications:
Engine - F20C moded by J's racing - 280 horsepowers
ECU - J's Racing
Headers - Mugen
Exhaust - J's Racing
Transmission - stock
LSD - Cusco RS
Final drive - 4.777
Dampers - J's Racing coilovers
Brakes - J's Racing CV with Grooved rotors
Bodykit - J's racing
Weight - 1240kg
Tires - Advan Neova 255/40 R17

Touge Drift Osaka Japan

Great video presenting nightlife of drifters in Osaka, Japan. Drifting is illegal of course on a public road, but that doesn't stop anybody.
Drifters in this video are driving mostly tuned Nissan Silvias, real drifting machines

RX7 FD3S Fujita EngineeringTouge Keiichi Tsuchiya

FD3S Fujita Engineering FEED RX7 is a 1260kg light touge monster with boosted rotary engine which produces 450hp... It's really a touge monster and who else but DK Keiichi Tsuchiya would handle it?
Here's a video of FEED RX7 on Touge driven by Tsuchiya

Top Setup EG6 K20 swap

Top Setup EG6: K20a engine swap from Honda DC5, n/a tuned with JDM parts... It produces 220hp and it's 910kg light. Drivers are Keiichi Tsuchiya and Manabu Orido, US touge by Hot Version. Could this US tuned EG6 be better than JDM Spoon?

Definition of Touge Battle Ghost battle, Sudden death, Straight up

Touge means pass, in JDM scene it refers to races on the mountain roads or any of the narrow, roads that can be found in Japan and other geographical similar areas.
We know 3 types of touge battles;
Sudden death - cat and mouse race
It's used when he road isn't wide enough to pass the opponent. Two cars start the race one behind another and a car in front must increase the gap between them to win a race. The second car must keep the gap or decrease it until the finish line to win the touge battle. If the first car gets passed, it automatically looses the race. Than they change positions and they race again...
Straight up
When the road is wide enough for cars to pass each other, they start the race in the same line and the first one through the finish line is the winner.
Ghost battle - Time attack
Cars don't drive together at the same time, they drive separately and they are timed from start to finish line and the one with better time is the winner.

Keiichi Tsuchiya the Drift King

Who is Keiichi Tsuchiya aka Drift King?

Born 30.1.1957, he is a professional racing driver known also as a Drift King because of his drifting skills and for making drift popular worldwide. He's also known for touge driving. He retired in 2004, he has a big career behind (Nascar, Le Mans, JGTC...) He is now a host of video magazine Best Motoring, where he tests new JDM cars, and a special magazine of tuned cars in a section called Hot Version.
Tsuchiya isn't like most of other racers which came from rich families with racing background and tradition, he gained his skills in underground street racing scene and made his way to the top.
He drives Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, known as Hachi-Roku in Japan.
Here are video of young Keiichi Tsuchiya, driving his Hachi-Roku in one of the first ever filmed touge and for this video Keiichi Tsuchiya got his driving license suspended in Japan back then. Enjoy the touge movie