Hard and low

Saturday 5th July was car tuning time.
I met up with Hirakawa-san and headed off for some tasty Ramen at his favourite ramen shop.
After that it was off to his parents house to fit some bits.
I had bought a NISMO suspension kit for my Nissan Silvia but had desided to fit it. The standard suspension is rather good but the NISMO kit lowered the car so it would look better!
It was very hot and humid, I can't imagine how much body mass I lost in sweat. After about 2 hours it was all fitted and the car looked good.
Initial impresions are that it is way to firm for driving in the UK, the buffer clearance is not enough at the front and the rear rebound damping is too much - sorry for the techy talk.
In the evening I met up with Jamie and went to watch Indian Jones film. I wont spoil it for those that haven't seen it but it had some good bits and bad bits but I am glad I watched it.
After the film Jamie and I met up with Mark and wne to MacArther's Garage for a few drinks.

Sunday Emi was at her mothers.
I decided I would ride to the nearest gym that gave me a discount for working at Nissan. I checked it on the map, hopped onto EMi's bike and off I went. After about 45 minutes I could see NTC (Nissan Technical Centre) which was in the next city so I knew I had missed it!
Instead I headed off to QB at Akio-Ishida.
This is a marverlous hair salon. Turn up, put 1000 Yen in a machine, take a ticket and wait in the queue. When it is your turn sit in the seat, tell them how you want your hair - in my case "3 milli kudasai (3 mm please) - and in 5 minutes my hair was cut. When they had finished they put a funny tube on your head and vrooooom. They fuuny tube is a vacuum cleaner that removed all the cur hair! In the end it took 10 minutes, very stereotypical Japanese efficiency.
In the even i met up with some guys over form the UK for food at Outbacks in Ebina. because of this I missed the British GP but I did get to watch it a few weeks later. Hamilton was lucky but then again Ferrari were playing "my first F1 race" and making all sorts of mistakes from bad strategy to a poorly setup car for Massa.