Wolfreign Motors

Hi, I'm Joss Rota from Drift Life in Australia. We've got a special guest here that we thought we'd have a chat with. This is Aaron. Aaron, just tell us where you're from, firstly. I'm from the United States and Oakland, California. Is this your first time to Japan? No, this is my second visit to Japan and my first time at Meihon. How are you finding the Japanese scene compared to America? I'm a big fan of the Japanese scene and I would Japan's very turbo engine based and decent and Toyota turbos, whereas America has gone the way of the V8, particularly for the high end Formula Drift stuff. So it'still quite different to what you've got over there. Yeah, I mean there's a good amount of us that are fans of the turbo-forces and the sixes, but yeah, there are a lot of people that go for the easy reliable power of the V8. But the sound, I'm not the biggest fan of, so I am definitely a fan of SRs and JZ motors. Now you also got a connection to Nakamura and that's one of the reasons you've come over here to Meihon today. Tell us a bit about how that came about. Okay, so my company, Wolfrain Motors, me and my business partner Alexander have been doing business with Shane at Stacked Inc. And he's close friends with Naoki Nakamura, so we had this project to bring him over and showcase some Japanese driving and with the help of Animal Style and Stacked Inc. we got them over there. What was the name of that event? That name was SuperD. SuperD Matsuri. At Grange Motor Circuit. They had a good time and I think it was a good wake up call for a lot of American drivers on Japanese style. And the fact that you don't need as much as a lot of people think in the US, a lot of people I feel over build their cars when they should be working more on driver technique. Now you've decided that you wanted to hire a car. Is that correct? Yeah, so we have our buddies at Stacked, Shane and he lined us up with a nice little missile for us to have fun with. And it's just a standard 180SX with SR20 coil overs, knuckles, just the basic mods and obviously it's not the prettiest thing. Not too much in the. . . I mean it has over vendors but it's more to cover up prior damage. Talk us through what happened out there on track because there's only second time driving right hand drive. Obviously you used the left hand drive over in the States and it all went a little bit wrong. Yes, it definitely did. Yeah, just reaching for the e-brake and shifting is way different on the other side. I had a hard time getting that all sorted out. There's a couple runs where I felt The timing was just totally off because my arm moved slower and it doesn't really connect with my steering wheel. And so for that particular run, just ran a little wide and wasn't able to adjust and pull the car in and clip the rear. And I thought I was just going to drive away from it but it bounced back and shot me towards the wall and I was counter steered. So it just kind of rolled me up. Real low speed I would probably say 15 miles per hour or something. Something pretty slow and it all happened real slow in my eyes at least. How did Shane take it? Well everybody was in pretty good spirits about it. I wasn'too happy but the community is real nice and they offered support and h They took pictures of me with the car and they're laughing about it. I appreciate that because back home I think there's more judgement and I don't know. I just think the environment is a little different and I would feel much more comfortable rolling a car in Japan than back home. That's why it's good to know. If you need to roll a car, roll it in Japan. There's been some interesting modifications to get the car going again involving jacking the car and the roof to bring it back up. So it's looking resembling a 180SX again. Back up a little higher to where it was. Just a couple mods with the intercooler. I had to fix a couplers that ripped and after that it wasn'too bad. Thanks for having a chat to us. For sure. It was a nice meeting you and thanks for wanting to interview me.