Not far away from the Rigores, there are a couple of Hakuryūs that attracted many eyeballs.
Well, one of them at least.
Background cars by @Be_gone_thot and @Sky-High
Yahallo! My name is Haruno Hiroyuki. I am an ECU tuning specialist at Overkill Engineering, and my father is the legendary tuner Jun Hiroyuki. I heard this year’s AVCM is really big, so today I brought something really special.
Overkill Engineering SRB-01 Top Speed Trial Car
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You guys might remember the Yatabe speed trial craze back in the 90’s, and this car you see here, was the car that ended it. The year was '93 I think, and my father was a senior engineer at Hakuryū. He was quite interested in snatching a speed record, so he gathered many of his collegues and created Overkill Engineering. Since the 280BX was the highest end sports car Hakuryū makes back then, that’s what he has to work with. However, there was this unspoken rule in the Yatabe scene back then, which is that an engine swap from another car were not allowed, you have to work with the original engine. If you ignored that, you will be more or less considered “cheating”. While many other Japanese sports car engines from that era has amazing tuning capability, the BR30-TT from the 280BX was fragile and unreliable. Fortunately, my dad had a lot of internal connections in the company, and his team was given permission to use many development facilities and tools, including a wind tunnel, for his top speed project.
The team developed a full carbon body kit for the car that not only reduced the weight to under 1 ton, but also significantly reduced drag on the already slippery 280BX body and gave it the slantnose look. The open undertray of the car is also covered up with a full-cover venturi tunnel that makes the car far more stable at high speeds than its competitors. Compared to the “tuning cars” that this thing was up against, it is almost like a purpose-built prototype, but with the original chassis. About a year into the development, the car performed its record run. It could have gone faster, but a conrod blew on the second run. I actually kept a photo of the car during its run.
takes out a picture from her pocket:
Still, it pretty much obliterated anything else at the time. Maybe it’s because how weird this thing looks, there were a lot of rumors about it. Some say that it has formula 1 turbos on it, some say it is actually a prototype with a shell that looked like a 280BX, some even say that my dad used his personal connections to get a group C engine for this thing. Nope. It still has that BR30 that only made around 600hp, compared to the opponents’ 800-900hp. After that there were many attempts at beating this thing. None of them succeeded, and they drove up the development cost so much that many groups turned their attention to circuit time attacks instead. Only very few groups are competing, and the Yatabe craze died soon after. Since then, Overkill slowly transitioned into a tuning company, and the SRB-01 has been sitting in our storage since then. You know that Hirochi Prasu GT that went on sale recently? We discovered that the R20BLM 3.8L flat 6 in it has a lot of tuning potential. To celebrate our company’s anniversary, we now have plans of swapping a highly tuned version of it into the old girl that you are seeing here. With the power output more than doubled, our computer simulation suggests that it is capable of more than 500km/h when it’s finished. As it is right now, it is not quite roadworthy yet, so I trailer-ed it here with my minivan instead. I dunno about you guys, but I’m super excited about seeing her going again at bonneville salt flats this year. Oh while you guys are here, why don’t you check out my new daily?
Haruna’s Hakuryū Ryuo 300 Executive
Automationverse people are actually anime girls
I used to daily a kei car, but sometimes I need to carry family members and clients around, so I bought this thing. Yeah… I know this is not really the kind of car for us petrolheads, but when you compare it to other cars, it’s a pretty good deal, and I also want to try some new things, you know? Even if you’re driving, this thing is insanely quiet and comfortable. Although the steering wheel feels like it’s connected to nothing, and the throttle response is non-exisistant, it’s quite easy to drive around despite its size, although parking with this thing is a real headache for me. I bought it not long ago, so it’s stock for now, but you can bet that I’ll give it some magic touch in the future.