Let’s jump right back into the Kday! C8 photos which I totally forgot to post after the event itself happened almost a year ago. By this time, the latest Kday! C9 event will have already happened and from the photos that I’ve seen on Instagram, it looked like another great event. Takeshi’s annual shindig is a good one, highlighted by a plethora of builds that look frozen in time, which many enthusiasts prefer and would consider to be the “golden age”. Every now and then, some really interesting stuff does pop-up though and you’ll see it in these photos below, including a RA Odyssey that just came out of nowhere with a wild engine bay set-up featuring a turbocharged F-series motor built by Bisi Ezerioha from Bisimoto. We don’t even see that type of stuff here! I got plenty to do so I gotta head-out, but make sure to look through these fantastic photos captured by the one and only Shota Mori. Enjoy!…

Kday! C8 from September 2018

Photos by Shota Mori

Words by StickyDilJoe

Task Ogihara’s EF Civic has not changed much, if at all over the past few years, still looking great on aggressive Sprint Hart CP-R wheels…

Can’t go wrong with this classic set-up on a molding-less EG6 Civic running a Spoon Sports carbon front lip and polished Mugen M7 wheels…

This CR-X del Sol should be of no surprise to you guys by now if you’ve been following The Chronicles for the last few years. It’s always looking good with an EG Civic front-end conversion paired with a Mugen front lip and Mugen MF8. Side mirrors look to be Spoon S2000 or NSX mirrors with a custom base…

More 1st generation Odyssey action with this RA sitting on Work Carving Head 40s…

The set-up at Kday! usually consists of cars being parked and sorted by make and model so it’s not uncommon to see a row of DA Integras next to CR-Xs…

EG/EJ chassis line-up…

Tomohiro Sudo’s Civic Shuttle with EF9 front face bagged on BBS RS wheels from Southsiiiiide Auto Customs…

Mokkun from Akebono USDM still has his cream EF9 after all these years…

Gales LS636 wheels on this EF3 Civic hatchback…

It’s really cool to see how much the Japanese Honda community still enjoys their DA Integras. Most are kept pretty simple like the set-up you see above and it helps to maintain a period-correct appeal…

Black EJ CIvic Coupe looks especially 90’s-themed with the Racing Hart Type-C wheels paired with Wings West front lip and sideskirts…

Some go with little details to add that “USDM” touch like this Accord Coupe with the rear sidemarker added to the rear bumper, a feature that was never available for the Japanese market coupes…

Much to my amazement, someone actually drew inspiration from my own RA3 Odyssey build and recreated it with their own touch. All the parts, like the WEDS wheels, OEM Aero Spirit front/rear lips, Ganador mirrors, Mugen grille and wing match my original set-up to a “T” but I had JDM headlights and corner lights while the owner of this RA3 added a Recaro driver’s seat and a Mugen exhaust. Even the OEM color is used. So cool to see something like that done in Japan and good to see that it lives on while mine over here is not looking so clean these days, lol…

Teru Ito’s RA3 has long been one of the better Honda builds in Japan. It’s crazy because I look back a few years ago when I first discovered his car and seeing its progression to this point is remarkable. These days it seems like he can add anything to the car and it’ll still look great. His engine bay is top-notch and he hasn’t found a set of wheels that don’t look good on his Odyssey…

The purple on this S2000 reminds me a lot of another S2000 from the U.S. almost a decade ago owned by Nancy who used to be from Hasback. Not sure if the inspiration came from there but this car looks great nonetheless, aero-less with just a Mugen hard top…

Silver 17-inch Volk Racing CE28 on the S2000 paired with Spoon Sports front brake upgrades…

Blacked-out headlights, corners, and turn signals on Takuya Miyashita’s E-AT Civic that match the Lonza taillights covers…

Custom 3-piece third generation OEM Civic SI wheels with protruding faces to keep things unique and interesting…

One of the rare Hondas that represent Japan’s Crazy Rabbit car club. Nice touch with the graphic on the bottom door as well…

BB4 Prelude SI sitting aggressively on Barramundi Design forged wheels with the Aero Magic front lip and Kaminari sides which were mentioned in Part 1…

RPS13 180SX Type-X on Advan GT wheels…

Street2Track Japan brought out this USDM 98-01 face Integra on Enkei wheels…

American Lowrider and Japanese Lowrider…

Ogihara’s Civic hatchback representing PROGRESS car club…

This line-up was organized by both chassis and generation. Looks like it could be a custom car line-up inside the Honda Museum at Twin Ring Motegi…

Imagine if the del Sol came like this… One wonders if it would have been a more popular platform for enthusiasts to modify…

The polished 15-inch Mugen M7s look great on this red EG with a meaty Toyo Proxes R1R tire…

You never know what you’ll get at a Kday! event. Sometimes even award-winning Lowrider builds show-up…

Bagged MK2 Golf GTI on Audi wheels…

This Odyssey built by Nakamura Co. LTD. was one of the stand-outs at Kday! and actually won an award with its custom engine bay and Bisimoto-built turbocharged F22 engine…

One of the other builds that won an award that afternoon was this Toyota Corsa (Tercel) with a custom engine bay hosting a Toyota 4E-FTE swap originally from a Toyota Starlet GT Turbo…

Two very unconventional cars that are rarely modded, both turbocharged now, and both winning awards at Kday!…

If you’ve been following the Japanese custom car community in the past few years, you probably have come across this Subaru Alcyone SVX, with a shaved and tucked engine bay prominently featured last year in Stance Magazine…

Only the uncommon seems common at Takeshi Kobayashi’s event…

The winner of the Akebono USDM award was this Impala Lowrider from COOL RIDE…

Not something you’d expect to see at at Japanese car event but for one catered to USDM car culture, this is probably perfect…

Takeshi presenting an award to the owner of the Subaru Alcyone…

A glimpse at the engine bay and the oddball Subaru EG33 H6 engine…

Takeshi Kobayashi, the man behind the Kday! event series, which at that point was in its 8th year…

When you have an Odyssey with an engine set-up like that, you probably should win an award, right?…

High-mounted turbo on the Bisimoto-built F22. This thing probably rips…

No matter what side of the world you’re on, a good build is just a GOOD build. Gather around and enjoy it….

Still one more photo set to come. Will I have Kday! C9 photos from this year’s event? Who knows? Stay tuned for the rest of these though, thanks for looking!!…