When we last left off, Keisuke Takahashi was trying to block Zoey Nishidake. A guy was holding up a warning reflector to tell them there was a car immobilized up ahead. Keisuke slammed on the brakes to avoid running over the guy. The guy got out of the way just in time before Keisuke would run over him. Keisuke then said passed the disabled 180SX but then started to spin out. Zoey did likewise. She slid next to Keisuke's FD.
Keisuke then said "That was a surprise."
Zoey then said "Man, it was just getting interesting."
Zoey then turned her car facing the right direction. She said to Keisuke "We will try it again very soon." She then drove off.
Keisuke then said "Don't act so cool. There are all kinds of racers. I have one more thing to look forward to."
The next day, Zoey was driving Dawn in her silver Porsche around Haruna village. They were stopped at a traffic light. Zoey then said "They didn't need you on a Sunday afternoon? Maybe you aren't that useful."
Dawn then said "How rude! It was super busy in the morning. I've worked two weeks straight, so they gave me an afternoon off."
Zoey then said "That's okay, then."
Dawn then asked "Why did you come here, anyway?"
Zoey said "Well, I wanted to see how you were doing. Your mom worries about you."
Dawn then said "I am fine. I'm working very hard."
Zoey then said "I hope so. Uh, oh. I'm low on gas. I should fill up."
Dawn then said "My friend works at a gas station."
Dawn and Zoey then pulled up to Yuichi's gas station. Drew was finishing up a Mercedes when he Zoey's silver Porsche pull in.
Drew said "Welcome! Hey!"
Dawn then waived to Drew."
Dawn then said "Zoey, that's Drew Nakazato."
Drew then walked over to Zoey. He said "Welcome!"
Zoey said "Fill her up with 30 liters of high octane."
Drew then said "Right away!"
Drew then said "That Zoey girl Dawn was talking about is really good-looking!"
Max then looked at Drew filling up Zoey's Porsche. He said to himself "I have seen that Porsche 993 Turbo."
Zoey got out of the car and said "I hear you and Dawn are friends. Isn't she too strong-willed?"
Drew said "No, I don't think so."
Dawn then shouted "Hey, Zoey! Don't ask him stupid things like that!"
Zoey then said "She's a good girl, so be nice."
Drew said "Sure."
Zoey then said "This is a complete change of topic, but I hear that Gunma has a really fast R34."
Drew turned around to hear what Zoey had to say. Zoey then said "They say it's undefeated. I know Gunma is pretty big, but I thought you might know something about him."
Drew then said "Of course I do! She's my best friend!"
Zoey then said "Seriously? A girl drives an R34."
Drew then said "Yes."
Zoey then said "Your name is Drew Nakazato, right? I know we've only just met, but do you think you could arrange a meeting with her? I want to talk with her. I'm curious about her R34."
Drew said "Piece of cake! She's a bit slow, but she's a nice girl. How about tonight?"
Zoey said "You sure?"
Drew said "No problem! I was planning to go see her after work anyway."
Zoey then said "That'd be great."
Zoey then got in her Porsche and left. Drew thanked Zoey for coming. She then said to Dawn "I can't believe he's your friend's friend. I'm thankful that you guys became friends."
Dawn then said "I don't like this. You seem to only care about Drew's friend, and not about him."
Zoey then said "That's not true. He seems okay."
Dawn then said "Why are you meeting that girl with the R34?"
Zoey said "No reason. I just want to meet her. She must be skilled to have won all her races in competitive Gunma Prefecture."
Dawn then said "I hope that's it. You tend to lose your cool when it comes to street racing."
Meanwhile at Yuichi's gas station, Max was reading a magazine inside the store. He was hearing Drew talk to May on a pay phone.
Drew said "COME ON, MAY! I just want Dawn's girlfriend to like me. This is a good opportunity for me to score some points."
May said "Okay, I will be there. But I'm not interested in racing her at all. The new engine isn't that good."
Drew then said "Don't worry about that! I learned my a long time ago. Dawn's girlfriend seems very nice. You'll see when you meet her. She drives a silver, 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo."
That night at Lake Haruna, May was driving there to meet with Dawn, Drew, and Zoey. She pulled into the grass.
Drew said to himself "It's cool to see three awesome sports cars! You got May's R34, a Porsche 911 Turbo, and my GC8.
May then got out of her car and stared at Zoey. Zoey said to herself "She's so young."
At Yuichi's gas station, Max was talking to Yuichi. Max said to him "You know that Porsche 993 Turbo that came in this afternoon? I saw it once when I went to see the Red Suns race the Emperors."
Yuichi said "Yeah?"
Max then said "It had amazing uphill acceleration. Since that girl drives a car like that, Dawn might not be impressed with Drew."
Yuichi then said "There you go again, Max. Your way of thinking won't help your social life. Drew doesn't look like he worries about things like that. Clumsy but positive guys have an upper hand over guys who worry too much. You're still young.
At Lake Haruna, Zoey said to May "You just got a new engine?"
Drew said "Yeah, but it's a lot slower than her old one. Isn't that right, May?"
May said "That's right, Drew."
Drew then went on to say "That's why she won't be able to race for a while. Right?"
May then said "Yeah, that's right."
Zoey then said "Is is a normal RB26DETT?"
May then said "I don't know much about engines, but my friend Ash knows a lot about engines. It has okay power, but it's hard to control. It's a weird engine."
Zoey then said "Do you mind if I take a look?"
May said "Uh, no, I don't mind." May and Zoey then went to look at May's engine. Zoey popped open the hood. She took a look at it and saw something that got her attention.
She said to herself "It's not an RB26DETT, even though it is an RB26DETT. It's an RB26DETT N1."
Zoey then said "Is this a joke? Are you teasing me?" Zoey then closed the hood and said to May "I don't know where you got this engine, but don't insult me by saying it's slow."
Drew then said "Well, but, um… Why is she mad?"
May said "Who knows?"
Zoey then said "I thought we were fellow racers. Is my Porsche not good enough for you? You owe me an explanation."
Dawn then said "STOP IT, ZOEY! What are you talking about?"
Zoey then said "Stay out of this, Dawn. I've never met anyone who has an engine like this for street racing. That engine is for professional racing. I could never afford something like that no matter how much I wanted it. Picturing an engine like this in my Porsche makes my mouth water."
Dawn then said "So what?"
Zoey said "I don't care what kind of engine you have, but why lie about it? Why can't you say you're fast? Both of you disgust me with you deliberate lies."
Drew then said "We weren't really lying."
May said "Don't be ridiculous. It's not a lie. Let's go, Drew. I'm done talking to her."
Zoey then said "Running away? I'm not done with you."
May was fighting herself to open the door."
Drew then said in his head "OH, NO! May is losing it! This can't be good!"
Then Dawn slapped Zoey across the face which took Zoey by surprise. Dawn couldn't believe what she did.
Dawn then shouted "What's the matter with you, Zoey?!" Drew introduced his friend to you out of kindness. Apologize to them!"
Zoey then turned her head to Dawn.
Drew said "DAWN!"
Dawn then said loudly "If you don't want to, then go and never come back here! Don't be rude to my friend! I'm doing my best to live on my own here. Don't show up randomly and mess up my life!"
Zoey then said "Okay. I will go, then." Zoey then walked to her Porsche. She started it up and drove off. Dawn was about to cry.
May then said "Drew?"
Drew said "Yeah, May?"
May said "I am going, too."
Drew then said "Hey, wait! Don't leave me here alone!"
May said she was going and Drew said "HEY, WAIT! MAY! MAY! HEY, MAY!" May then drove off.
Drew then looked at Dawn.
At the top of Mount Haruna, Zoey was laying on the hood of her Porsche. She said to herself "I didn't expect her to react like that at all. I guess coming to Gunma think for her after all. But for me…"
Then Zoey heard a car coming. It was May and her R34. She pulled over to see Zoey.
Back at the lake, Dawn said "I am sorry. Zoey gets so intense when it comes to cars."
Drew then said "There's no need to apologize."
Dawn then said "When I saw your confused face, I got so angry with Zoey. My hand moved before I could stop."
She then went on to say "Please don't think that I have a short temper."
Drew then said "Don't worry! Actually, I was sort of glad. I know that you got upset because you wanted to defend us."
At the top of the mountain, Zoey said "Why did you stop? You know I wouldn't have chased after you. Now that you're here, I want to pick up where we left off."
May said "I don't care what you want, but there is one thing I need to know. I need to know for sure if this engine is that great. I can tell it's not a normal engine, but if you're right and this is a great engine, I want to know why it lacks power. Like I said earlier, I know absolutely nothing about engines."
Zoey then said "Are you serious about that? How can the owner not know about her car? Where did you get this treasure, then?"
May then said "My friend Ash said he got it as a gift from Nismo. I don't know, because he didn't tell me anything."
Zoey then said "Your friend? He must work in the racing industry, then.
May said "He is a mechanic but he doesn't work in the racing industry. He works on a lot of sports cars, though."
Zoey then said to herself "I see. Nismo must have known about her rise to success. That's probably why they gave her that engine. This isn't something you can simply buy with money."
Zoey then said to May "Never mind. I, too, am curious about this engine's full potential. Can you drive me around? I want to feel the engine for myself."
At a sushi bar, Masashi and Ash were talking about the new engine. Masashi said to Ash "What's your plan now?"
Ash said "Well, I imagined it would take about a month. She's had more than enough practice with it."
Masashi then said "The thing you ordered is here already. Isn't it about time?"
Ash said "I don't know. I have not gotten enough of a reaction from May yet. It's good she's trying to compensate with her technique, but she should have noticed by now. Well, I will just wait and see."
At Mount Haruna, May was driving Zoey in her R34. Zoey was trying to see how May was using her car's power.
Zoey then said to herself "It feels weird. The shifting stalls the acceleration. It has tons of power at the rev limit, but up-shifting causes a power loss. This engine is defective. No need to compare it to my 3.6 litre twin-turbo flat-6. It's dull. Why? This can't be its full potential."
May then drifted into a corner and continued the drift into the next corner.
Zoey then said "AGAIN! Why?"
Zoey then looked at the tachometer and said "Now I get it! I know why."
May then drove the car back to the top. She pulled into the parking lot.
Zoey said "I can tell you why you don't get much power. It's very simple and basic. That thing. It's your tachometer."
May said "My tachometer?"
Zoey said "The tachometer is no good. It doesn't go high enough. This is a high-rev engine that generates its power at a very high RPM. Professional turbo engines are all like this. The fact that you get a surge of power right before shifting is proof of that. You need to rev it higher. You have not been able to use it to its full capacity. I would say that this engine is capable of turning at least 10,000 RPM. A tachometer that only shows 8500 RPM or so won't cut it. The treasure is left unused."
Zoey then opened May's hood. She said "This isn't an original R34 engine. This engine is the RB26DETT N1 used in the JGTC. It has Garrett GT25 turbochargers which are high performance variant of the T25 turbochargers in your original RB26DETT. Also, the turbine wheels are made from steel rather than ceramic. The reason why they did that is because they found the ceramic turbine wheels to be unreliable at high RPM. I'd say it produces at least 500 horsepower. That's only 20 more horsepower than my Porsche 911."
Zoey closed the hood and said "I noticed something while sitting next to you. The interior panel looks too cheap for the engine you have. At least, you need water temperature and oil pressure gauges. Your friend, the person who installed this engine has terrific knowledge of auto mechanics. The tires and braked are well balanced and so is the body. So, why aren't the essential gauges there?"
May said "Well, I bought new tires right after the new engine was installed. My friend, Ash, installed new braked while installing the engine. The tires are the same Yokohama Advan Sport V103 tires that originally came with the car."
Zoey said "I see. There's one answer to why your engine is slow. The engine's true power has been sealed off on purpose."
May said "Sealed off?"
Zoey then said "It's a simple but reliable way to do it. A good racer won't over-rev, so without a new tachometer, he won't rev beyond the red zone."
Zoey then walked to her Porsche and said "I really want to defeat you. I have this fire burning inside me. No matter how well you can race, you're lacking an essential element as a racer. I absolutely can't afford to lose to you. We will settle this shortly." Zoey then left for Saitama.
May said "I am lacking an essential element?"
While driving, Zoey said "I am in shock. I got scared. The way she entered corners was beyond belief. She can go way beyond the limit that my body is used to. She's ignorant about cars, but her technique is unreal! It makes no sense! If I lose to her, everything that I am will shatter into pieces. My very existence depends on this!" Zoey then drove off
