The shop is always a hustle and bustle bee hive of activity, with builds ever-present in varying stages of completion. The timing for this special couldn鈥檛 have been better for the day I arrived, as there was a delectable array of machines to drool over and immortalize. It鈥檚 always the way and I have often caught myself staring at the detail in these machines and losing focus; they are that hypnotizing. It鈥檚 so difficult to find fault in anything on them; especially on a mechanical level. Inoue begins every build with a blank metal canvas and finishes with a banshee-like, naturally-aspirated, 380-horsepower, straight-six-equipped, track-and-street-screamer the likes of which nobody else on the planet can replicate in quality, sound, or fury.
So, it is no secret in Japan that Star Road is among the upper echelon of classic Nissan tuners, but it would be remiss of me to not want that to stretch further. Through , Inoue is ever reaching and developing; he has a range of classic 15-inch forged alloys through the brand that he designed, which has been working its way through global markets on an international distribution level. Not stopping there, Star Road have engineered a range of bespoke damper, brake, and exterior bodywork pieces that they鈥檝e created for market, so it鈥檚 worth considering Star Road for pieces on a build you鈥檙e currently undertaking or looking to get into. The quality, as I have observed, like everything else Star Road creates, is second to none. The newest edition yet to go public are the side mirrors in carbon fiber, mirroring the paint finish.
Without wanting to sound clich茅, it鈥檚 hard to appreciate perfection (from both a euphemistic and humanitarian perspective), but when perfection is a constant and never-ending goal, the lines are blurred. Time may be the most important commodity we have as humans, but if time was a Nissan Fairlady Z, I鈥檇 be spending every second of it with Shoji Inoue at Star Road.
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