Bosozoku kei cars: Daihatsu Move
For some time I’ve been collecting pictures of Kei Bosozoku cars and since we already covered a lot of rare and popular bosozoku cars the Kei car collection can be a nice change!
For people who do not know what a kei-car is: a kei car (or K-car) is the English name for keijid?sha (????) which literally means light automobile. These smaller cars have a lot of advantages due to lower tax and insurance. Also in some areas (like Tokyo) it is exempted from the parking space rule which require you to have a (paid) parking space for your car! They are limited in size, displacement and since 1990 in maximum output. That last one was because several manufacturers were already delivering cars with 62HP out of a 550cc supercharged engine. In return the Japanese government stretched the displacement to 660cc.
The current limitations are:
| Max width: | 1.48 meter |
| Max lenght: | 3.4 meter |
| Max height: | 2 meter |
| Max displacement: | 660 cc |
| Max output: | 63hp |
We start with this great second generation Daihatsu Move:
Bosozoku kei car Daihatsu Move
As you can see the front has a sharknose, but if you compare it to the original nose almost everything has been redone! The fenders are custom, the bonnet is custom and if you look closely to the headlights you will notice a great resemblance with the Toyota Crown S140 Royal Saloon grille and foglights!
Bosozoku kei car Daihatsu Move
Also the back had some modifications: retro fitted Skyline taillights while its own taillights have been disconnected and blinded. It also features a nice set of quadruple exhaust pipes!
First generation Daihatsu Move Custom
The first generation Daihatsu Move was quite well known as the phonebox on wheels. Just tilt your head 90 degrees and you know why!
First generation Daihatsu Move RS-XX
Abroad it featured a quite capable engine, but on its homeland Japan it only featured the 660cc 3 cylinder engine with an output of 54HP. Not long after its release it got upgraded with the 15 valve EF-DEM and EF-DET in the RS and RS-XX trims. The EF-DEM was a low pressure turbo charged engine with an output of 60HP while the EF-DET had a intercooled high pressure turbo charger and an output of 63HP. The last one tuned to stay just within the Kei specifications. It doesn’t take much to get more out of those two engines. 😉
EF-DET 15 valve engine with turbo intercooler
If we look at the original second generation Daihatsu Move it looks just as boring as the first one, despite being designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. But there was also the Move Custom with a slightly more acceptable design. In my opinion the third and fourth generation Moves are the best looking, especially if they are slightly tuned like this one:
Third generation Daihatsu Move tuned by garage Athlete
Kei cars are very fun cars to turn into bosozoku cars. On one hand they mock the larger saloons and sports cars and on the other hand they are so cheap that it should not cost too much to turn it into something beautiful! The Move is an excellent example how to make something beautiful out of a very boring and dull car!
by banpei with no comments yetHow deep is your dish?
The second “how deep is your dish” posting we did was about some 10J (or more) wide Hayashi Streets. So imagine buying 12J rims and mounting them under your car, what would you do with your old less wide rims?
Well, we know now:
Hayashi Street rims used as garden hose reel
Use them as a garden hose reel! 😀
Thanks to 86ers.org for finding this gem!
by banpei with 1 commentMeeting monday
In last year september 7Tune decided to attend to a bosozoku car meeting at Daikoku Futo, a famous rest stop in the Tokyo bay, and took some pictures of it.
Bosozoku style Celica XX with MZ10 nose conversion
The most impressive was this Celica XX with MZ10 front conversion! It makes the Celica XX look even more bosozoku style this way! Great shot with the long exposure time!
Bosozoku style Celica XX with MZ10 nose conversion
And there were also a few Cresta and Mark II GX71 cars
Kyusha style GX71 Cresta
Note that this car has wirewheels! That is a very different kyusha styling than we are used to!
And these two shark nosed Mark IIs are a bit more bosozoku style, like we’re used to.
If you want to see all pictures of this series, please visit 7Tune
by bosozoku with no comments yetExhaust of the week: Inside-out pipe #2!
We found another inside out pipe:
Toyota Mark II GX71 inside out exhaust
Maybe it was a bit of a fashion around 2005 to have your exhausts sticking up from the passenger seat?
Bosozoku lifestyle: Takenokozoku dancers
What would a bosozoku do on his sunday afternoon? Drive around on his bike or in his zokusha? Don’t think so: he would rather dance in Yoyogi Park next to Harajuku station:
According to the poster of the video the guy in slowmotion @1:35 has a pompadour of 50 cm in size! Amazing!
Officially this is called Takenokozoku, which roughly translates into bamboo shoot kids. This cult started out in the mid 70s and took on till the mid 80s. What happened is that gangs of school dropouts just start dancing in public places (parks, sidewalks, streets) on music played with portable music playes (what we would call ghettoblasters). Back then it was a big rebellion against the old generations and considered as immoral to do!
Most of these guys and girls were bosozoku and they still do meet up regularly in this park on Sundays to do their act. So if you ever visit Tokyo you definitely need to go to Harajuku and go have a look in Yoyogi Park!
by banpei with no comments yet