Ura-Harajuku is like no place I have ever been to in this world and is definitely worth going to. Think of it as a center of youth culture and a tourist trap sort of. Like I said most of the people in the shops are teenage American and European girls working on there authentic Harajuku look to wear back home.
Here is Christa’s own twist on being a Harajuku girl. She mostly dresses like an Orange County beach chick and her skinny jeans, Hurly, Vans, Billabong look, straight out of Pac Sun or Tillys and she stood out like a sore thumb in Japan. No female dresses like that in Tokyo! Harajuku is all about personal style so maybe she was actually cool, I dunno.
This was a badass shop that has crazy Cosplay outfits I think. Maybe not because I didn’t recognize any of the outfits. I am a closet Otaku so I know a little. The shop could be catering to Wamono style which is a Harajuku mix of traditional Japanese and Western looks with a crazy flair to it.
Harajuku style requires sick wigs. This shop had just about anything you would need. I don’t know about you but blue hair does it for me!
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Kind of confused by the exhaust situation on that concept car, It clearly has side exhausts, plus a big center exhaust at the back, you said it also has a blown diffuser.
I’m gonna guess that center exhaust at the back is fake, and the “blown diffuser” is the side vortexes from the front exhaust that seal up the diffuser from coanda effect losses.
If this ever goes to any kind of production they would probably move the side exhausts to that big rear exhaust so that you don’t gas yourself at every stoplight. They could bypass to the sidepipes at higher speeds.
It’s the exhaust for the electric motor!
Mike, as a suspension guru, do you have any experience with removing some of the anti-dive geometry a the front to help weight transfer during braking.
I know it’s not feasible on a low car like that concept car but I know it’s a normal mod for gravel/dirt/snow rally cars.
Is it a concept that translates to road cars at all or is the grip of a tarmac surface enough that it would negate any gains from that weight transfer.
Yes I always remove Anti if the rules allow it.
Thanks, dive and squat are much less talked about than other parts of suspension setup and some cases are still a mystery to me like FWD drag cars.
Your “Ultimate Guide To Suspension and Handling” was one of the first things I read when I was just starting to work in cars. It mentions dive and squat in that it makes excessive body roll worse “…The driver feels this as a car that is twitchy and unstable at the limit. Dive and squat when combined with roll can make all of these issues worse.”
Even Herb Adams’s awesome “Chassis Engineering” mentions anti-dive only when talking about how its undesirable for the effect it has on caster. But it does go in depth about anti-squat (those live axle boys sure love anti-squat).
Many years ago I took one of my friends to Manhattan. We planned on eating in China Town (Ajisen ramen the best) But he wanted to go to this mall under the Manhattan bridge.
Apparently you could get the software to play foreign market DVDs and ps1 games (that’s how long ago it was)
Well the mall was nice. But in the bottom bottom story of the mall (in a dark corner) they sold things like those figurines. It was a little creepy. But I did find a Star Blazers model. And Gundam figures. So the creepy had a plus.
I remember he bought about $500 worth of Anime.