The Art of Drifting and Repairing: A Gaijin's Journey

As I stood in front of my windshield, taking stock of the damage to my car, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. Despite being a little too enthusiastic with the GoPro, which had only captured a partial view of the carnage, I was relieved that the lip and bumper were still intact. The intercooler, however, had taken a slight hit, but I was confident in my ability to repair it. The experience was a humbling reminder that even with the best equipment, accidents can happen.

My friend Adam, on the other hand, had been a bit more... enthusiastic. His car's bumper had come off, and he was now faced with the daunting task of repairing it. I couldn't help but chuckle at his misfortune, knowing that I too had experienced my fair share of mechanical mishaps. But as we both knew, it's all part of the journey.

As we continued on our way to upgarage, a local garage in Neon Matsu, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. My mission was to acquire an electric blue controller for my car, one that would prevent the pesky gapping issue when driving uphill. It was a small problem, but one that had been plaguing me for far too long.

The journey took us through winding streets and picturesque alleys, until we finally arrived at upgarage. The garage itself was a treasure trove of drift-related goodness, with an assortment of wheels, parts, and accessories on display. I was particularly taken by the range of d-max drift bits available, which seemed to cater to every need and budget.

As I began to browse through the shelves, I stumbled upon a boost controller that caught my eye. It was sleek, modern, and seemed to fit perfectly into the design of my car. I couldn't resist the temptation to purchase it on the spot, despite the hefty price tag. After all, as any drifter knows, having the right equipment can make all the difference between victory and defeat.

As we made our way through the garage, we were treated to a dazzling display of drift-related paraphernalia. Drift wheels, which normally retailed for upwards of $250 per pair, were on sale for significantly less, making them an attractive option for those looking to upgrade their ride. I couldn't help but feel a pang of disappointment at not being able to snag one of these deals, but I was determined to find a boost controller that would meet my needs.

As we chatted with the staff and browsed through the wares, it became clear that upgarage was more than just a garage - it was a community. The owner, Metzger, was a renowned drifter and car enthusiast, known for his impressive driving skills and dedication to the craft. I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at his presence, knowing that I had the opportunity to learn from him firsthand.

As we prepared to leave, Metzger mentioned the upcoming drift meet at an Italian restaurant in Japan called Mama Mari's. I was intrigued - what could an Italian restaurant have to do with drifting? As it turned out, Mama Mari's was famous for its cheese wheels, which were said to be the best in town. It seemed that the restaurant had a reputation for being a mecca for drifters and car enthusiasts alike.

As we made our way to Mama Mari's, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. The promise of cheese wheels and Italian food was too enticing to resist. And besides, it wasn't every day that one got to experience the thrill of drifting in Japan.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engetting a bit of a late start today today's the day if you follow me on Twitter where I was really feeling that great last night so I decided I would sleep in but today is the Matsuri so there's 24 hours of drifting we can drift all into the night a bunch of different tracks that are normally open at MSU or open to drifting so if we're gonna go get some tandems in with the gzx 100 and finally get some seed time today not really the best day to feel like garbage I haven't really been doing any driving because there's so many people here for Matsuri and I just kind of you know we have till midnight so I'm just kind of moping around I'm gonna go get some food and then hopefully feel a little bit better so I can go do some driving but there's so many people here I gotta keep on freaking out thing that I'm going to crash into someone because be worried she's all in on the whole place but chilled out for Ben definitely feeling better now the investor you can go up and do some ops up north one of my favorite courses here get so dicey with so many people here from aster a my shifter in this cars definitely felt better in the past never seemed so much to the zoo here all the pits are filled people are parking all over wild such an anxious time the first come out the North Course I don't mean I talked to you guys about tire pressure but I was running like putting 15 pounds in the front we're car feels so much better investor I still get a little verbal in the tune I got to figure out though it seems just like a rich spot Amanda place is terrifying let's go full Sun first time I'm just fallen Musker you got this now well bad for not going on a while masks you've got a crazy line and I feel like we did a pretty good job of following that time that's a good one what's fun you guys really didn't see behind the scenes I was kind of being dumb I knew that this beat had a tear in it but I didn't want to miss Nishi short so I kept going out and getting like 10 laps and then it would be bead and then I'd have to go in and pop it back on thankfully I didn't cause any accidents is that what a song so those were some pretty rad trains between me you and neon we were driving way way too aggressively though for like 15 cars behind us so long could you tell that I kept D beating my friends yeah that's what happened both times I had a tear in the beat but I didn't want to miss a session so I just kept airing it up and going back out luckily I didn't make anyone crash I've been too lazy to mount tires so she's been running scrubs from that strip the entire time but I gotta go mount front so I might just entire changing tonight still feeling like trash to my face at least stop being so miserable I got some decent laps in but I'm feeling like absolute trash I hate I'm not complaining I'm just letting you guys know I feel like I'm never getting sick and hopefully one day to myself but you guys see me almost every single day I very rarely get second I'm gonna try to look after myself and unfortunately not drive during the night Matsuri I'm already not a fan of driving at night because like my senses aren't as good at night I've always had a difficult time like riding bikes at night drifting at night it's never been like a thing that I've been super hyped about so I think I'm gonna play smart go back try to get some rest and hopefully feel better for tomorrow so I can make the most of the rest of this trip luckily I am a day ahead in videos so I can just combine this footage with footage from the other days and we should be not really sure with the plan with this video is but it might be a continuation of yesterday if so we're heading back for the second day of Matsuri still get to drive Nishi which is a super-fun of course Mester stayed up all night driving while i complained about being sick and edited videos mess bear stole my mattress so he's not on my good side he won't be in the videos today mom I'll tell you everything this kid does wrong drop the rental I think first thing we're gonna do is go up and drive north got some fresh new fronts mounted up so if we don't have that defeating issue anymore I want to try to mess with my alignment after we enter on North York are kind of like real is on me a little bit and I feel like it's like a toe thing because you said you're running well like 40 pounds yeah and I'm running like 25 and you're still reeling maybe it doesn't make sense it's not so it's not a power think anymore because before you got me going up the hill now it's like a one-story and drift at the same angle your cars just weep but he does have adjustable arms and we don't so I don't know what we'll be able to do like adjustment wise to get the stock alignment better but I might give it a shot so one of our friends he actually made a replica of my Cresta look at how cool this is so cool so good you know time is you get stuck on the hill god damn it it's almost more than to roll back so now we try to find our pit spot somehow good luck right right this is wild Hey with a crash we can't even get to our pits oh it's a zoo here it's actually a zoo but it's not did you hear me rip the stick we're not coming up the tunnel I wish I did yeah the stupid rental car stopped on the hill I hate that I hate that for me like that's very long but things like this is a show I've never seen it so bad no it's crazy it's out control it's crazy so I said one of the things I've been dealing with is a little issue with positive camber we're positive camber we're not enough tow-in because my car feels kind of loose compared maskers so with the eccentric adjustment I'm actually like maxed out 4:02 right now so if I bring this out you can see we'll get a little bit more toe in and it should correct some the camber issue as well so I'm gonna give that a try try running a little bit higher pressure with more toe in and see how it feels I was getting frustrated because it's having such a hard time keeping up and I thought it was like an alignment thing but it's probably because I haven't mounted any new tires this trip and I'm using a heat cycle bunch of blaster tires so I guess that's kind of my fault coolest thing about that sory other than getting the drift for 24 hours straight in fact if we get to drive these shorter issues no lid open for drifting but necessary it is and we're heading down right now for the last issue session where usually there is the most carnage this is last time where baskar pushed me in the oz bow and did a couple thousand dollars worth of damage in my car when I went off track and smashed in front such gitanos so much fun crazy trains I'm excited I was getting frustrated because it's having such a hard time keeping up and I thought it was like an alignment thing but it's probably because I haven't mounted any new tires this trip and I've been using old heat cycle function blaster I'm probably mounting higher so I guess that's kind of my fault still back-to-back-to-back like clockwork dude probably 40 plus time works on my door so I only had a little GoPro on my windshield but I hope that like should shows justice of how close all our transitions were those funds like sketchy every time I thought I was scraping you and you probably spent with me so now I gotta do some some repairs it could be worse I've still got my intercooler still in one piece I think it might have been up a little bit I can fix that I'm gonna have to put my headlight back in if I bend this back out and put my bumper on but could be worse I'm gonna start working on that now look at it it's in there look at all these new tire marks not even that bad there's still so clean survived - Nisha days that matsuri looking like this that is an accomplishment for sure what are you doing Adam you know do some how they thought of every single piece of my lip and my bumper so I think it should still look good as a present that the cars - looks this good after how many memory five six degrees is this original bumper yeah no so this is this is the lip kit that I got so biologic was getting a lip kit I'd still have I can only have Molly bumpers off the Lipton's destroyed I'd stop the bumper they usually wouldn't get destroyed but somehow I've been able to keep zip tying itself tapping the left and it's held together pretty good huh is there a science to this or just well the first thing you want to do is not use Harbor Freight zip ties because as you see it just broke just putting it at all so that's that's key but unfortunately we love that that luxury here see instead of me this time it's Adam who knocked off his friend bumper and has to repair it last year really yeah womp Bom okay all right she's all drift stitched up and if you don't know why I'm so adamant about the slip check out how high this bumper would be if it wasn't for that lip underneath it it adds a lot of kit low to the car which is really nice just like that good as new looks sick you know this car kind of looks stupid at first and it still kind of looks stupid I love how stupid it looks it's got the sickest dumb patina sticker livery crap it's kind of dope this needs to go though there's a lot of nice cars here that you could be light painting but um you gotta stay here and Hans is nice as that I crest over there she be shine and so our first mission we are going to up garage the local one in neon Matsu because I need to get an electric blues controller for my car so it stops falling off when I'm going uphill and you stop gapping me the whole mission of this trip is trying to keep up with Metzger and the fastest jzx 100 there is because he's the person I like to drive with most so go in there and then we're going to that Italian restaurant Louise goes to called mama marries sounds ridiculous to go to Italian in Japan but would you agree it's probably saw the best Italian ivory is really good the wheels of cheese are free month I'm excited for the cheese wheels but for now we're gonna have to garage and we're gonna head there hey wait a park like a gaijin thanks supposed to back into the spot dude so I go only on Matsu up garage focus focus focus look a Jeep look Australian what are these are these jacks so what they'll normally do is knowing that all the guys gene are in town forever suit they'll put all the stuff that will normally buy right in front so these are the drift wheels that they try to sell to us for $250 a pair which isn't really bad a lot of d-max drift bits here it's pretty sweet alright I just need to find a boost controller should get sidetracked scored a sick gritty boost controller paid full price because it's new but this should be perfect for what I need yo dude the glowing skyline letters Megan I think are sick that is so cool I bet that's Annie l panel and they like cut it out of that Sam that's not a factory thing right no it is it's super and really yeah I just super Mary Wow Tommy doesn't have that I thought Tommy had a cool parts but I guess he doesn't hey you guys trying to race yeah thanks yo dude don't let him get the lunch don't let him get the loan yes sir boosting us they do you know you uh how about none you better hope you don't get caught dude you'll go to jail for 15 years oh dude the lag that's a nightshift where Sam's locked in the back row I almost had you yeah I could see right there that I could just see the light something like oh man I'm going for it yeah you almost Alicegetting a bit of a late start today today's the day if you follow me on Twitter where I was really feeling that great last night so I decided I would sleep in but today is the Matsuri so there's 24 hours of drifting we can drift all into the night a bunch of different tracks that are normally open at MSU or open to drifting so if we're gonna go get some tandems in with the gzx 100 and finally get some seed time today not really the best day to feel like garbage I haven't really been doing any driving because there's so many people here for Matsuri and I just kind of you know we have till midnight so I'm just kind of moping around I'm gonna go get some food and then hopefully feel a little bit better so I can go do some driving but there's so many people here I gotta keep on freaking out thing that I'm going to crash into someone because be worried she's all in on the whole place but chilled out for Ben definitely feeling better now the investor you can go up and do some ops up north one of my favorite courses here get so dicey with so many people here from aster a my shifter in this cars definitely felt better in the past never seemed so much to the zoo here all the pits are filled people are parking all over wild such an anxious time the first come out the North Course I don't mean I talked to you guys about tire pressure but I was running like putting 15 pounds in the front we're car feels so much better investor I still get a little verbal in the tune I got to figure out though it seems just like a rich spot Amanda place is terrifying let's go full Sun first time I'm just fallen Musker you got this now well bad for not going on a while masks you've got a crazy line and I feel like we did a pretty good job of following that time that's a good one what's fun you guys really didn't see behind the scenes I was kind of being dumb I knew that this beat had a tear in it but I didn't want to miss Nishi short so I kept going out and getting like 10 laps and then it would be bead and then I'd have to go in and pop it back on thankfully I didn't cause any accidents is that what a song so those were some pretty rad trains between me you and neon we were driving way way too aggressively though for like 15 cars behind us so long could you tell that I kept D beating my friends yeah that's what happened both times I had a tear in the beat but I didn't want to miss a session so I just kept airing it up and going back out luckily I didn't make anyone crash I've been too lazy to mount tires so she's been running scrubs from that strip the entire time but I gotta go mount front so I might just entire changing tonight still feeling like trash to my face at least stop being so miserable I got some decent laps in but I'm feeling like absolute trash I hate I'm not complaining I'm just letting you guys know I feel like I'm never getting sick and hopefully one day to myself but you guys see me almost every single day I very rarely get second I'm gonna try to look after myself and unfortunately not drive during the night Matsuri I'm already not a fan of driving at night because like my senses aren't as good at night I've always had a difficult time like riding bikes at night drifting at night it's never been like a thing that I've been super hyped about so I think I'm gonna play smart go back try to get some rest and hopefully feel better for tomorrow so I can make the most of the rest of this trip luckily I am a day ahead in videos so I can just combine this footage with footage from the other days and we should be not really sure with the plan with this video is but it might be a continuation of yesterday if so we're heading back for the second day of Matsuri still get to drive Nishi which is a super-fun of course Mester stayed up all night driving while i complained about being sick and edited videos mess bear stole my mattress so he's not on my good side he won't be in the videos today mom I'll tell you everything this kid does wrong drop the rental I think first thing we're gonna do is go up and drive north got some fresh new fronts mounted up so if we don't have that defeating issue anymore I want to try to mess with my alignment after we enter on North York are kind of like real is on me a little bit and I feel like it's like a toe thing because you said you're running well like 40 pounds yeah and I'm running like 25 and you're still reeling maybe it doesn't make sense it's not so it's not a power think anymore because before you got me going up the hill now it's like a one-story and drift at the same angle your cars just weep but he does have adjustable arms and we don't so I don't know what we'll be able to do like adjustment wise to get the stock alignment better but I might give it a shot so one of our friends he actually made a replica of my Cresta look at how cool this is so cool so good you know time is you get stuck on the hill god damn it it's almost more than to roll back so now we try to find our pit spot somehow good luck right right this is wild Hey with a crash we can't even get to our pits oh it's a zoo here it's actually a zoo but it's not did you hear me rip the stick we're not coming up the tunnel I wish I did yeah the stupid rental car stopped on the hill I hate that I hate that for me like that's very long but things like this is a show I've never seen it so bad no it's crazy it's out control it's crazy so I said one of the things I've been dealing with is a little issue with positive camber we're positive camber we're not enough tow-in because my car feels kind of loose compared maskers so with the eccentric adjustment I'm actually like maxed out 4:02 right now so if I bring this out you can see we'll get a little bit more toe in and it should correct some the camber issue as well so I'm gonna give that a try try running a little bit higher pressure with more toe in and see how it feels I was getting frustrated because it's having such a hard time keeping up and I thought it was like an alignment thing but it's probably because I haven't mounted any new tires this trip and I'm using a heat cycle bunch of blaster tires so I guess that's kind of my fault coolest thing about that sory other than getting the drift for 24 hours straight in fact if we get to drive these shorter issues no lid open for drifting but necessary it is and we're heading down right now for the last issue session where usually there is the most carnage this is last time where baskar pushed me in the oz bow and did a couple thousand dollars worth of damage in my car when I went off track and smashed in front such gitanos so much fun crazy trains I'm excited I was getting frustrated because it's having such a hard time keeping up and I thought it was like an alignment thing but it's probably because I haven't mounted any new tires this trip and I've been using old heat cycle function blaster I'm probably mounting higher so I guess that's kind of my fault still back-to-back-to-back like clockwork dude probably 40 plus time works on my door so I only had a little GoPro on my windshield but I hope that like should shows justice of how close all our transitions were those funds like sketchy every time I thought I was scraping you and you probably spent with me so now I gotta do some some repairs it could be worse I've still got my intercooler still in one piece I think it might have been up a little bit I can fix that I'm gonna have to put my headlight back in if I bend this back out and put my bumper on but could be worse I'm gonna start working on that now look at it it's in there look at all these new tire marks not even that bad there's still so clean survived - Nisha days that matsuri looking like this that is an accomplishment for sure what are you doing Adam you know do some how they thought of every single piece of my lip and my bumper so I think it should still look good as a present that the cars - looks this good after how many memory five six degrees is this original bumper yeah no so this is this is the lip kit that I got so biologic was getting a lip kit I'd still have I can only have Molly bumpers off the Lipton's destroyed I'd stop the bumper they usually wouldn't get destroyed but somehow I've been able to keep zip tying itself tapping the left and it's held together pretty good huh is there a science to this or just well the first thing you want to do is not use Harbor Freight zip ties because as you see it just broke just putting it at all so that's that's key but unfortunately we love that that luxury here see instead of me this time it's Adam who knocked off his friend bumper and has to repair it last year really yeah womp Bom okay all right she's all drift stitched up and if you don't know why I'm so adamant about the slip check out how high this bumper would be if it wasn't for that lip underneath it it adds a lot of kit low to the car which is really nice just like that good as new looks sick you know this car kind of looks stupid at first and it still kind of looks stupid I love how stupid it looks it's got the sickest dumb patina sticker livery crap it's kind of dope this needs to go though there's a lot of nice cars here that you could be light painting but um you gotta stay here and Hans is nice as that I crest over there she be shine and so our first mission we are going to up garage the local one in neon Matsu because I need to get an electric blues controller for my car so it stops falling off when I'm going uphill and you stop gapping me the whole mission of this trip is trying to keep up with Metzger and the fastest jzx 100 there is because he's the person I like to drive with most so go in there and then we're going to that Italian restaurant Louise goes to called mama marries sounds ridiculous to go to Italian in Japan but would you agree it's probably saw the best Italian ivory is really good the wheels of cheese are free month I'm excited for the cheese wheels but for now we're gonna have to garage and we're gonna head there hey wait a park like a gaijin thanks supposed to back into the spot dude so I go only on Matsu up garage focus focus focus look a Jeep look Australian what are these are these jacks so what they'll normally do is knowing that all the guys gene are in town forever suit they'll put all the stuff that will normally buy right in front so these are the drift wheels that they try to sell to us for $250 a pair which isn't really bad a lot of d-max drift bits here it's pretty sweet alright I just need to find a boost controller should get sidetracked scored a sick gritty boost controller paid full price because it's new but this should be perfect for what I need yo dude the glowing skyline letters Megan I think are sick that is so cool I bet that's Annie l panel and they like cut it out of that Sam that's not a factory thing right no it is it's super and really yeah I just super Mary Wow Tommy doesn't have that I thought Tommy had a cool parts but I guess he doesn't hey you guys trying to race yeah thanks yo dude don't let him get the lunch don't let him get the loan yes sir boosting us they do you know you uh how about none you better hope you don't get caught dude you'll go to jail for 15 years oh dude the lag that's a nightshift where Sam's locked in the back row I almost had you yeah I could see right there that I could just see the light something like oh man I'm going for it yeah you almost Alice\n"