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Recently I was talking about one of my past characters, as the topic of the red Supra came up. As it turns out, this character was Wail Hung Lo, a somewhat destitute Chinese man who managed to earn some fame & fortune in the Gran Turismo 2. Sadly, I lost the memory card all his cars were on--I think it got left behind in a basement when I moved to the east coast, which means it's probably 3,000 miles away (if it's not in a garbage dump somewhere).
I was having a conversation here at GTP with LeGeNd-1, and the topic of the red Supra and the character who drove it, and it got me thinking. 💡 I don't have time to create an entire story like I did with Yuppy Scum in that other thread, but perhaps I could just put the journal entries down instead. These journal entries would have been made sometime back in 2004 and 2005, when I was fervently playing GT2 every single moment I had time to! Looking back, it's amazing they got written at all. I was going thru a bunch of **** at the time, dating this loser chick who turned out to be a backstabber of sorts, and also fell into some heavier drugs, which I got addicted to within a matter of weeks. All that's in the past, of course, but what's odd is nowadays I'm not nearly as creative with my gaming as I was back then. Anyways, here's the story of Wail Hung Lo.
As it turns out, I didn't start journal entries from the Sunday Cup, which is a shame. Instead, the journal started just as Wail was making his name to the virtual world.
Partially, this is due to the fact that I've never lived in Asia, so I have no idea what day-to-day life is over there. All I know is what I've read in various books & magazines. So some of you may find these entries....a bit stereotypical. 
And I hope nobody gets offended or anything. This is just entertainment, folks. 
The journal entries shall be written in the Courier New font. Spelling mistakes will be included, because when I originally wrote these journal entries, I would often be very psyched-up to race. I didn't really care about my grammar. It's amazing that I wrote so much in the past...nowadays I hardly ever use a pen to write ANYTHING unless I'm at work...the computer has taken over all this.
Along the way, there may be a few notations from me to further describe stuff, and I'll write these in the regular font with blue text.
So without further ado, here's the partial story of Wail Hung Lo.
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This one apparently starts just before I was about to do the GT Regionals. Like I said, I never wrote the Sunday Cup or other early races for this character, unfortunately.
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1st entry: Living on Ramen Noodle Packs and Chinese food luch buffet specials, Wail Hung bought his 2nd car to enter the 3 Pacific GT2 national B races, winning at Midfield, Tahiti, and Laguna Seca.
This "2nd car" is the red Supra, I think. Although I didn't write this. I thought I had written all that stuff up, but apparently not.
2nd entry: finally came out of nearly a year in seclusion with his fanily, which had been observing Buddhist practices. He bought his mom an $80,000 (@ 620,000 yen) home staffed with a cook,asfd- (Chung-ree), bonzai gardener (Yung Tree), and an armed guard (Shoo-Tehm). The new house was located outside of Shanghai. He also won her a Mugen Accord Wagon, which she never drove. Today, He would attempt to finish up the Pacifiic regionals. He had placed 2nd at Seattle last time. This time, he though he might try something new. H The Honda S2000 caught his eye pretty good, and he bought a yellow one. Goodbye anti-materialism doctrines....
His car was blue w/Enkei wheels, Stage 3 tuning w/racing asp (370 HP@9,000), and street tranny with all appropriate parts xcept the carbon drive shaft. He also had the car (can't read word) with sports car tires at Midfield, but these were upgraded to a medium/hard combo at Seattle_
Notice how it says he "bought a yellow S2000"...and then a few seconds later I describe the car as "blue". Oh my lord...
The S2000 lost at Midfield, (MotorHead plased 1st) possibly due to brakes or tires. Wail did not need to win this race to take season championships. but he did make GTU record (1:18)
SEATTLE. A close-ratio gearbox was used, + twin clutch and mid-weight flywheel. The car was raised to 123 mm (118 rear) for better manuerability over the mutitude of curbs, and the rear brakes softend from 11 to 7. The front brakes were left at 4. The light car stopped too quickly - leaving Wail at a crawl when he only needed to be at a monentum. The LSD was softened considerably (6/20/14) Andfroht da dampers were softend from 6 and 7 to 3 and 4. Upon one last run, the Decel setting on the LSD was se doubled ( less tuckin) and the rear camber lowerd from 2.3 to 1.5 (better traction up the stair case).
He Won! This race became famously known in Seattle news as the "blue race". All cars in this one happened to be blue! dang I wish I still had this memory card Even Ray Gunn's'98 Macaar '99 Nissan 300ZX was purple. The race was not easy, the Honda was lighter than others, but also more difficult to control as it bounced around
Laguna Seca- Back in California, The S 2000 was now equipped w/ street transmission, but this was changed back to closer gears. Car lowered, stronger brakes and dampres, more initial power on the LSD unit (16/20/23), more camber on the rear wheels (2.5). The Honda was a bit too tempermental at this track, too. Perhaps the Medium grade front tires should have been changed to hard - tuck in became the S2000 main enemy here. Good news was that Wail Hung won the Pacific regionals, was eligable for the World Cup, Normal Awareless! races, and the Trail Mountainaduo enduro.
Yikes! That's the first few entries. Warts and all!!!
:embarassed:
Note--towards the end, it says he won the chance to do the World Cup, "Awareness/Normal" races, and Trail Mountain enduro. I used to have a system....if a driver won the Regionals, it opened the way to other events. The "Awareness" races were really Arcade-disc races. They were supposed to be done for charity, rather than money, to bring "awareness" to the world community.
I also used the term "tuck-in", which is what happens when you steer too hard, and the front-end of a car "tucks into" the inside of the turn with too much force. .
I was having a conversation here at GTP with LeGeNd-1, and the topic of the red Supra and the character who drove it, and it got me thinking. 💡 I don't have time to create an entire story like I did with Yuppy Scum in that other thread, but perhaps I could just put the journal entries down instead. These journal entries would have been made sometime back in 2004 and 2005, when I was fervently playing GT2 every single moment I had time to! Looking back, it's amazing they got written at all. I was going thru a bunch of **** at the time, dating this loser chick who turned out to be a backstabber of sorts, and also fell into some heavier drugs, which I got addicted to within a matter of weeks. All that's in the past, of course, but what's odd is nowadays I'm not nearly as creative with my gaming as I was back then. Anyways, here's the story of Wail Hung Lo.
As it turns out, I didn't start journal entries from the Sunday Cup, which is a shame. Instead, the journal started just as Wail was making his name to the virtual world.
Partially, this is due to the fact that I've never lived in Asia, so I have no idea what day-to-day life is over there. All I know is what I've read in various books & magazines. So some of you may find these entries....a bit stereotypical. And I hope nobody gets offended or anything. This is just entertainment, folks. The journal entries shall be written in the Courier New font. Spelling mistakes will be included, because when I originally wrote these journal entries, I would often be very psyched-up to race. I didn't really care about my grammar. It's amazing that I wrote so much in the past...nowadays I hardly ever use a pen to write ANYTHING unless I'm at work...the computer has taken over all this.
Along the way, there may be a few notations from me to further describe stuff, and I'll write these in the regular font with blue text.
So without further ado, here's the partial story of Wail Hung Lo.
------------------------------------------------------------------
This one apparently starts just before I was about to do the GT Regionals. Like I said, I never wrote the Sunday Cup or other early races for this character, unfortunately.
[
1st entry: Living on Ramen Noodle Packs and Chinese food luch buffet specials, Wail Hung bought his 2nd car to enter the 3 Pacific GT2 national B races, winning at Midfield, Tahiti, and Laguna Seca.
This "2nd car" is the red Supra, I think. Although I didn't write this. I thought I had written all that stuff up, but apparently not.
2nd entry: finally came out of nearly a year in seclusion with his fanily, which had been observing Buddhist practices. He bought his mom an $80,000 (@ 620,000 yen) home staffed with a cook,
His car was blue w/Enkei wheels, Stage 3 tuning w/racing asp (370 HP@9,000), and street tranny with all appropriate parts xcept the carbon drive shaft. He also had the car (can't read word) with sports car tires at Midfield, but these were upgraded to a medium/hard combo at Seattle_
Notice how it says he "bought a yellow S2000"...and then a few seconds later I describe the car as "blue". Oh my lord...
The S2000 lost at Midfield, (MotorHead plased 1st) possibly due to brakes or tires. Wail did not need to win this race to take season championships. but he did make GTU record (1:18)
SEATTLE. A close-ratio gearbox was used, + twin clutch and mid-weight flywheel. The car was raised to 123 mm (118 rear) for better manuerability over the mutitude of curbs, and the rear brakes softend from 11 to 7. The front brakes were left at 4. The light car stopped too quickly - leaving Wail at a crawl when he only needed to be at a monentum. The LSD was softened considerably (6/20/14) And
He Won! This race became famously known in Seattle news as the "blue race". All cars in this one happened to be blue! dang I wish I still had this memory card Even Ray Gunn's
Laguna Seca- Back in California, The S 2000 was now equipped w/ street transmission, but this was changed back to closer gears. Car lowered, stronger brakes and dampres, more initial power on the LSD unit (16/20/23), more camber on the rear wheels (2.5). The Honda was a bit too tempermental at this track, too. Perhaps the Medium grade front tires should have been changed to hard - tuck in became the S2000 main enemy here. Good news was that Wail Hung won the Pacific regionals, was eligable for the World Cup, Normal Awareless! races, and the Trail Mountain
Yikes! That's the first few entries. Warts and all!!!
:embarassed:Note--towards the end, it says he won the chance to do the World Cup, "Awareness/Normal" races, and Trail Mountain enduro. I used to have a system....if a driver won the Regionals, it opened the way to other events. The "Awareness" races were really Arcade-disc races. They were supposed to be done for charity, rather than money, to bring "awareness" to the world community.
I also used the term "tuck-in", which is what happens when you steer too hard, and the front-end of a car "tucks into" the inside of the turn with too much force. .
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Check it out, I'm re-starting this thread again almost exactly a year after starting it. Spooky, man!
I should know better. 
And as usual, I didn't bother to finish it. 
