Overdue final yr, I paid a protracted past due discuss with to Limitless Works in Yokohama.

I had in truth contacted the store’s proprietor Kazuhiro Sato – Kaz to his pals and acquaintances – virtually two years prior, within the hope that he may do a little paintings on my Impreza. However alas, the calendar used to be absolutely booked with buyer automobiles – most commonly Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions – with the following to be had opening a couple of months forward. So, unfortunately, I needed to glance somewhere else.

Limitless Works is a Eastern tuning store in very top call for, and possibly some of the final of its sort.

Kaz started tuning Evos within the past due Nineties. He arrange Limitless Works by means of himself 17 years in the past, hiring a tight-knit workforce of mechanics who’re nonetheless running with him these days. Discuss process pride.

It’s no marvel truly, as there’s at all times one thing thrilling to paintings on. Maximum particularly, Limitless Works helped expand some of the global’s maximum iconic and influential Lancer Evolutions – the two-time Global Time Assault Problem-winning and Tsukuba legend, Cyber Evo.

Should you chat with Kaz for greater than 54.642 seconds (that’s the Cyber Evo’s quickest Tsukuba lap time), there’s one phrase which can pop up greater than as soon as: Pastime. 

Whilst tuning Evos to set blisteringly-fast lap instances is a positive strategy to develop into well-known, the issues that stay you in favour with the hundreds are drivebility and reliability. The Limitless Works staff pleasure themselves on construction speedy street automobiles which care for a definite level of civility. That implies air-conditioning and electrical home windows can all be present in Kaz’s buyer builds. Even one of the crucial sub-60 2nd Tsukuba automobiles that Limitless Works have constructed nonetheless retain their manufacturing unit creature comforts.

Those automobiles are constructed for efficiency although, and as you’d be expecting, some neat aftermarket portions are made in area. Limitless Works’ stainless cat-back exhaust techniques are beautiful standard, and are to be had in two specifications: stay it civilised or wake the lifeless.

Speaking with Kaz about his store and the aftermarket business generally printed two issues of outrage for the veteran tuner. Originally, he sees a larger divide than there’s ever been between the collection of retail outlets who carry a long time of experience to their shoppers and convey paintings which displays this, and fly-by-night retail outlets generating sub-par paintings. His different fear is a common fear for tuning retail outlets and customers alike – portions, or lack thereof. I’m positive a lot of you too were hit with the feared ‘this section has been discontinued’ error on the checkout. So how is the business surviving? Neatly, fortunately many portions are nonetheless to be had. However continuously portions like trim, bumpers and different frame panels aren’t. Your best option is to refurbish, recycle, or in some circumstances, recreate them your self.

The recommendation from Limitless Works? Take care of your trip and take preventative measure towards unwell destiny. Stay on best of upkeep, pressure sensibly – in all fairness – and check out to not hit the rest alongside the way in which. Should you take care of your stuff correctly, then it’s going to final a number of automotive lifetimes.

When the Cyber Evo ran its WTAC victory lap in 2011 it used to be a 10-year-old automotive. It will be a 23-year-old automotive this yr, and I’m positive it will nonetheless run rings round a inventory 991 Porsche 911 GT3. Kaz doesn’t know the place the enduring Evo is now, however at the day I visited Limitless Works, there used to be a buyer Lancer that laps Tsukuba virtually as fast because the Cyber Evo did, in for a regimen check-up. I made positive to test it out, so keep tuned for that function very quickly.

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