Looking for Car Parts

Continuation to the Chapter 8 of 'Kyushu High Stakes' ( https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11952093/8/Kyushu-High-Stakes ).

If you see, hope you enjoy!

Working on the race segment!



The city is start to unleash it's large flow of lives, streaming out on the streets and fields of work, as well as inside tall office buildings, schools and universities, to minimalist small shops. The passing Tomei Expressway to the north never saw a complete emptiness even at night, now it too brims with flow of machines, that takes human and goods from Tokyo to Nagoya.

Nagoya city, it's a nearby. It simply takes a train ride by Oigawa railway or driving along the Tomei Expressway, with bus ride being the cheapest even compare to the train ride.

Her 'AllDrive' app were buzzed, she tap her phones and receive the info.

Tomoyoshi Hirate 2+4+2 - 8
((Minami Sonozaki 4+4+0 - 8))
Klutch 4+4+0 - 8
Yo_VTak-Uya 4+1+2 - 7
Rampage666 4+2+0 - 6
Tetsuo Kawamori 0+4+2 - 6
Sp33dy 1+4+0 - 5
Kurt 2+0+2 - 4
EMP_Error360 2+2+0 - 4
Keisuke Yamano 1+1+2 - 4
Izanami 0+2+2 - 4
Todd 2+1+0 - 3
Suzuki Uesaka 1+2+0 - 3
Tsuyoshi Sasaki 1+0+2 - 3
Fujinaka Osada 0+0+2 - 2
Neville 0+1+0 - 1

Next - Tomei Gotemba to Nagoya
Speed Run

Sp33dy - Subaru Impreza WRX Sti (GD) Type RA
Kurt - Nissan Silvia S15 Spec-R Aero
EMP_error360 - Mazda RX-8 Type S
Minami Sonozaki - Nissan 180SX

She closed the App and shove it to her jacket.

She just sigh as she rest her forehead by her hands.

Gotemba, Shizuoka
7.27

She were just stand idle there, sitting on the dinner table on the corner of a local ramen shop, just waiting for her breakfast with the stress looming around already, now, before, and then.

The former two was what might be the hardest punch on her face.

"Excuse me!"

She snapped out of her time, someone were right before her, she has a pan with a bowl on it, "Here's your Udon!" She said to her politely. Minami just nod her body to the waitress putting her soup to the table before leaving her alone again, full of thoughts.

Thoughts of being defeated, hands down it was a clean defeat that part to her lack of preparation. She just sit on the road, her legs were crossed to each other, all by herself on the deserted mountain road. Minami were devastated by it, she could do nothing but staring at her car, scratches in particular, from the front left intake under the headlight to even small crackS of the taillights, under it were partially token off bumper that just dragged it's way here at the finish line. "Fhew!" Minami just sighed, exhausted with the driving.

And the useless attempt to maintain her self, to not shedding tears, gazing to her own cause of the wounds the car she have shared itself to her within, for all she could remember, she's nearly defeated a Huracan from Haneda to Daikoku on an E46 M3 at a night race to celebrate her graduation from Junior High School with Kenzo, which supposedly he only take her to see the tuning and car scenes there and not more than that, but Kenzo just let flow of it, hoping this would motivate her to learn and work harder in tenth to twelve grade so she could either take herself to the athletic academy or Nippon Automobile School, or NATS. She also remembers when she's eleventh grade she spent her one ever saturday night running across the Tokyo Bay to, again, Daikoku, in a Supra against an MC Stradale, like her graduation celebration, she prevailed. Then when she's driving for the third time prior to her runaway from her school, she span away her gap on another lent R33 Skyline from five Racers, across the Tokyo Bay to Haneda before returning to the Aqualine, it was then the few recognized her has grown to swarm who already tell that she would be an undefeated protege of Kenzo Sasaki.

What if Kenzo find out about her setback tonight? She couldn't think anything else but crying on her own, looking hiding her face from the beast that brought her this far. Then, a car were coming up from the Southside base of the mountain road, Minami stare to the road led to the Golf course, she recognize the sound of JZE engine as it's bearer come close to her. Soon the white lights occurs before her, coming from the headlight of the red RB duck tailed Toyota Chaser, it's going in a very stable speed for the narrow twisty road the kind of where it's at now, going at around 80 MpH and lowest above 60, it handles every single turns without a single problem, so balanced that it does not drifting at all, nor having an oversteer, though it could make and still recover from one, or make good use. Eventually the TRD kitted RWD sedan made a stop at an empty small roadside stop area, row of benches were neatly put overlooking the Golf Course, it's sits away from the crowds at the occupied rest area, nothing but the MNP Datsun it goes with, exposing it's battle gores it just endure.

"Seems there just more and more people who loved a purple Nissan today, eh? Fan of Team Burst?"

"Eh, no! I-i mean, I'm not a fan girl, my car is yes purple but it had nothing to do with them!" Minami replied her, "B-but...then again, im neither a hater!" She added right away.

"Oh well! I'm just starting to take a like to those guys!"

The two girls were sitting before the edge of the hill to the greens, taking a small supper of chocolate bars, candies and Bottled ice tea, all as they just sink to the sea of blinking lights far away to Shizuoka downtown in the darkness of night. She, Amami Miki, the driver for the JZX Sedan, were knowing Kenzo for a long time, himself were her mentor for four years until she can slide around the mountain road of Osaka without an instructor, just herself and a joyrider, like Minami, Miki start to enter the underground world at the age of 16, in the end Miki too were a year older than her."Where's your Skyline? You sell that thing?" Miki asked the Mito Schoolgirl, "No, the blue Skyline's belong to Kenzo when i drive it, he asked me drive it at the Aqualine because he were at Okayama that night", "Oh! Where'd he get it?" Miki asked again, "Haneda dockyard, previous owner crashed it at....I forgot, Haruna? He restored in anyway, all by himself!" Minami replied her, the older girl nod in understand. Miki is just seems another of those Harajuku youths, with all those little Kawaii fashion all over her, but deep within, she were a car enthusiast from which she weren't in school yet, even ever taking a Level 3 Car meister test once when she's 10th grade, dreaming of being a car reviewer for a publishing group, "We gotta get that thing back to the streets ASAP!", "Only if he's here", it's the only answer she can give, the only hope she wished to grant now.

Speaking of him, "Have you seen Kenzo around?" She asked Miki, to which she just shook her head around, "Last i heard, he's going to Shimane from his friend's place at Oifuto District. Not sure what he's doing there!" So it's pretty certain that she won't see him again, well, neither Nozane or Darius, "Problem with him?", Miki asked, "Not really, it's just ...err...i just got a setback as you see, i-i....it's not that...." from that moment she about to continue, Minami knew better of her determination, but then she do aware of her expertise of cars though may not enough for what's ahead, actually, neither enough that she still need an insight from Kenzo. Maybe it's not a good thing to say to Miki "I just need a new car parts!", that's what Sonozaki said instead. Miki knows well that Minami seems to be crushed with her race and prefer to avert talking about it, but when Miki look at her again, it seems she's eager to make her gain again, as if there is a must for her to redeem her setback, if talking about anything but tonight's race is what she want, then Miki can comply with that, especially about car parts, "Hey, i know a place at the Downtown Shizuoka where you can get some!".

Downtown Shizuoka
09.13

The very next morning, her S13 were out again, roaming around the downtown streets of Shizuoka capital city, to check out the shop Miki says Minami may find what she want, check the items and pray the prices would fitted. I took her less than ten minutes to find the shop she looking for, it's near the Jōhoku Park, the building itself is plain looks, white exterior with grayish black roof, just look like an ordinary shop, probably might mistaken for place to get furniture items, until she get greeted by the cashier staff inside the building after she parked her car in the shop's small park lot, which is pretty much a racing focused car shops of the one automotive shop back in Tokyo, turbo parts, suspension kits, brakes, exhaust kits, even some racing slicks, horrendously but reasonably expensive racing slicks which were only found in the Super GT. Hopefully she found her gems for a price of mid-package Sushi from her local town, but if not, the plan is to look for a garage she could rent for some days to work on the car, if she has the cash for the parts, if not, she'll just look for the items and the garage, then go back again when she can deal with it after some races.

And this races, were meant that she had to bet some instead relying on the giveaway by whoever runs this race from the Capital to the famous mountain of Kyushu.

She finally found the new intercooler set to compensate for her scratched ones, made of titanium, the bar is larger than what she have and the set is really adding up some surplus of power to her car, it has good air filtering as well, '¥63.500, eh?' she thought, "How about the cheaper set!" She thought, it was a quick found despite the trove of the available JDM parts, ¥38.500, for that she might even get to spent on few other parts that either fixed her S13.5, or if she dares it, a complete pro-circuit suspension kits for sharper handling. But she then remember that she's to save some money for a new car, which is the Efini RX-7, remembering the scratches...it's not that bad, not to mention if there's anything happen in the next race. She walk away from the parts she after, Minami decided that it's better to scout the parts she might need for pretty later of her race, as far as she know the intercooler still kicks in when she tried her car high speed on her way here. But even her intention to cancel her shopping for parts she couldn't look away from various car parts that really intriguing for her, some were very expensive, ¥520.000 for the highest spec Turbocharger kits for her SR20DET, with the cheapest being three hundred seventy grand cheaper, five grand lesser and she'll get the most expensive Intercooler kits the shop has, besides, she still have to scout some shops at Nagoya and Osaka, all she can do were taking notes of those and bails off the shop.

That night, she were back again.

19.12

She get to meet one of the mechanics that worked there too, skinny afro hair, with face that to pput it simply, he's little bit look alike the vocalist of the japanese band RIZE. "Sumimasen, err...I need a little help!", the man wipe his hands as he Minami come to him, "Oh....what can I do for you?", "I'm not going to buy anything here, not just yet, I just want you to take a look at my car!"

The purple Sileighty were parked under the lightpole of the parking area, even if it was absolutely beaten, the man were absolutely impressed by it, Minami even opened the hood so the mechanic can see the SR20DET that sit inside, fitted with a semi-racing turbocharger. "I'm going to do a high speed run on Tomei, but you think this car can do it in this condition?" She explained the mechanic, whose also bring two more, each with electronic devices, a sensor that adjust how her SR20 would operate, the other were laptop which would connected to the car for power examination, the mechanics were like with what they see "It's...it's still looks good, the condition aren't that bad either....I think you can do a hundred eighty miles with little or even without struggle at all" the afro man verdict her, Minami looked to a contact lenses wearing man whose holding the laptop, "Can I see the power output of it?", the man get to sit within and plug into the hub under the steering rack, the laptop screen were popping out graphs, measuring her engine's output and it's mapping, and the drawn mapping is even amazed them more, peaking to around 400 pound foot of torque in between 4700 and 5800 engine revs per minute, the 427 Horsepower SR20 engine she has were able to take her slightly above 200, which she's really happy about it. But then again, "I don't know whose you're up to, so you better have a rival that falls down even 10 horses below you!" The contact lenses man warned her, the afro man nodded to him as he explains more, "Actually, I was there when you were racing the Hachi Roku at Ashinoko Skyline. Yes, it can do around a two hundred and maybe one with what you have here, but the damage were seems quite severe, it lost several horses because of the damaged intercooler here!" He pointed to it, scratched badly everywhere, a grim sights for the mechanics seeing right before their eyes, "I've seen a man in the race driving a green RX-8, he has 20B-REW engine with semi-racing turbo, same specification like yours here, to run both on Touge and freeways, but that's not all, there's these two americans running a 2004 Impreza and an S15 Silvia, I don't know about the Nissan guy at all, but this Subaru driver were i assume seeing under the hood of his car to have more than 460 from the EJ253 inside, i also see like...amateur level turbocharger, so...i...err....", Sonozaki getting antsy about the glasses man's report, "Your only best bet will be your Nitrous, you have to know when to use it, because even if you did so i still can't guarantee that you'll win the race, let alone holding the number 2 spot without some hard fights!". What the glasses man says more were even worried her more, the afro man and the other mechanic were trying thinking more for her, "Bossu! Think we should remap her ECU and Turbocharger for highway focused race?" the other man talk to the afro man, "Hmm....When you going to need it?" Bossun asked, "At least three days before i go!", "We're near our closing time, though. Come back here tomorrow in 9, we can remap it for tomorrow, maybe recommend some upgrades for you!"

East Yaizu 23.17 From her momentary inn back in Gotemba, it take her less than half an hour from she entered the eastern part of Yaizu city, to a Pachinko parlor near the Horai Bridge, has a parking area so vast which it were also used as go karting area once every weekend, rarely the owner, whose used to be street racing, do a drifting. When she arrived, she saw the Pachinko already occupied with cars of street racers amidst ordinary sedans and SUVs, none of the parlor's visitors seems to be bugged by their presences, some were she caught take some snapshot of the cars there, even the owners just let them about it, of course, those are all the likes who excited about cars. But Minami didn't come here for the Daikoku vibe, presently before her are ten cars, three were her opponents on the race tonight, a lone sleeper, glittering effect on the metallic WRC mica plain blue 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX Sti, fitted externally with nothing but a set of 19 inches mate black Advan TC3 wheels, assume to be the one harnessing over 460 horsepower under the hood. Then somewhere among the others, a metallic green Mazda RX-8 were present for a night fight, kitted externally with Varis Extremor four pieces bodykits, underbody blue LED Neons, set of metallic 20 inches 5Zigen Gravis and a straight matching color rear spoiler as a plus, it has grey stripes with orange outlining shadow and several cuts along the way from the rear of the front wheels housing to the taillights, It has many brands decals, mostly on the door behind the front wheels, the front doors were opened for people to see the lavish interior of the comfortable front only alcantara seats in silver and maroon two tone, blue LED neon tubes on both the C-Pilars, in the white transparent glovebox put to the onyx dashboard, baggage case in place of the rear seat and in the rear trunk under the rear strut and many among the audio systems comprised of two 10 inches BOSE sub-woofers, a 125 Watt Kenwood AMP between the former set and a 12 inches Panasonic LCD Screen attached to the trunk itself, "Hey, pop the hood, bro!", a man said to the skinny bald young masked man maybe around 21 in tight black jacket over the white shirt and black jeans, when the guy did open it, everybody were glued to what's inside, including Minami herself, true to the mechanics she meet before, 20B-REW with a small Tomei turbocharger and Mazdaspeed intercooler, even with those glittery and colorful additions, the RX-8 were still to be tough to fight with. Then comes the one white car differ than others, a white Silvia S15 with G-Sonic Evo full aerodynamics body package, the plain car were made with nothing but a stylized black fox livery with black and white Kitsune head, it comes with 'The Eastsiders' on the black body on top of the rear wheels, which were same size to the former of white spoke Enkei RS6 with silver rims, the glazed Carbon Fiber GP Sports hood were closed, she too had no idea what's inside, unlucky. Other than those three, there were pearlescent lime green 1999 DC2 Integra Type R, the JDM Honda only facelift version that goes to production until 2001, AeroTech bodykits were outfitted to the front-wheel propelled japan exclusive car, liveries were come with pinkish sakura leaves schemes over the side body panels and Honda associated parts decals over the only two coupe doors, silver Ro_Ja F7 wheels sizing up 19 in, glazed Spoon Carbon Fiber Hood and custom Carbon Straight Wing, the other ride were white Nismo GTR R35, then there's the blue FTO, which to her surprise, it was Uesaka's FTO which it's master were conversing with another girls. But then, the last of the race car is what makes her nerves shackled, beside the FTO were a silver Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, either it's Evo 7 or to 9 as the AWD were kitted entirely with Original Runduce full kits and 19 in black, five spoke Ralliart wheels after the large Original Runduce brake kits, it has black Wyvern on the rear part over the plain grey, the Wyvern has wings which it too has 'Eastsiders'. Rest of the cars were two Honda Odyssey's in the same Chameleon and pimped Lexani wheels, then the 2008 model orange Toyota Crown, a total of eleven Kyushu racing cars in the Pachinko PA with her in. Then there's three cars joining the party, a red Mazdaspeed Ver. 2 RX-8, comes with CF molded hood that has small triangular air inlet to the right side near the front edge section and mid-curved black rear spoiler as the only exterior modification With it's black outlined white vinyls, coming separately from the second rotary-motor car to show up were two more popular japanese coupes to the entire world, bulking up the power along the Silvia and the Evo, the two were making up four man team of the 'Eastsiders', each two has different creatures emblazoned to the rear sides, a yellow and black HoK (House of Kolor) paintjob Veilside Fortune RX-7 complete with chrome Andre EVO-V wheels of the same shop that craft the car's stylish wide aero kits, the 'VeilSide' were written between the taillights, the other were candy glazed brown Nissan Skyline R34 GTR with Top Secret Time Attack full aero package and the set of silver Enkei RS6 wheels, seems things were pretty tensed for her here she thought herself seeing all this building up vibe. "Eastsiders?" Minami whispered the name, her stomach just then feeling a little funny, she really laughed a bit to the S15 she saw now, her fate clearly hangs on her hands, her legs, pretty much her whole body, mind and soul, as well as her car, especially with it's lacking well being of the whole intercooler kits, the S15 bumpers were already mended back to it's places, cracks ripe to be torn apart were reunited and held altogether with red zipties, leaving several areas still scratched, and dented. She felt bad about anything, more to the very nemesis about to come to her face, belonged to the most notorious street racing team from the Olympic City. How would she beat the elite likes of the Eastsiders she thought around, perhaps she could only wish that these guys would DNF or anything. The fact that one of the racer she'll face were a driver of the elites, it would take her some times to spiritually prepared her for pretty everything that might happened to her tonight, could it be the Eastsider's Silvia that somehow just blister away from the competition without trying, or a car accident that befall to her, or if the police just breaks into the night? Either were all she would see when she hit the highway, because now the big man, apparently a Yakuza, called all the racers around him. Minami comes out from her car, people take notice just by that, some were praising her aggressive driving particularly during the highway race with a Kouki Silvia that saw her pull a stunt under a lorry, her aggressiveness too are also the reason some others, especially the Eastsiders, mocked her, explicitly or subtle from her ears, comes to her setback on the previous duel with the Hachi Roku, but not few still praised her ability behind the wheel regardless of what some people laughed her about. Another test for her, very few of them were clearly, or faintly heard by herself, takes up for her race at the Hakone Turnpike, spicing it up, they really blamed her for the crash of the NSX, trying to kill the known class monitor of her school, what Darius said to her that day was true then. It was also a Psychological attack on her, heavier hit than she ever faced before at the school, she know that the only option she has to prove them wrong about everything about her, at least to shut their mouth, is to go far beyond, cross into the unknown, and even conquer it. Three other men were followed her, side by side with the RX-8 owner and herself between the american, one six foot two Rastaman in yellow soccer shirt and white baggie short, and the one that looked really an american origin, probably southern hemisphere from his sharp chin and wide cheekbones, done in gray shirt with white armsleeves out of it, paired with gray levis and black beannie hat. The Yakuza man, maybe under 35, extend his hands to them, "Device, please!" the man asked calmly, the four competitors did shuffle out their smartphones with AllDrive ready, the man then did out his and tap some on screen pads, which in no time later, the course is submitted to their systems, highlighting not only the race course, but also four checkpoints to clock their speed, real time, the Yakuza looked to his gold watch to his left hand. "Off you go!"