Sleepy-z

Please dont get your hopes up for this, its really not a huge deal. I learned today that at the mazda reman plant Yoshii(TT/Takayoshii, whatever) is coming back tomorrow and he is bringing the master with him(boss said simply call him Mazda)......The master aka the original rotary builder from mazda japan who is the trainer/boss of the small crew in japan. He has been there since they first started building them and is simply known as the Master by Yoshii.
Anyways I am going to try to take them both out to eat Friday night with a coworker or a few of us, I asked one of the boss's if it was ok he said ask the head boss tomorrow. If I get the yes I will take them out and drop by the Richmond weekly meet at starbucks(huegonot rd I believe) if any of you are up for it. I will find out tomorrow but if your interested in meeting who has been building your short block for the rx7/8 there may be a chance of it Friday night. The only issue is I dont want to really make them feel like celebrities, Yoshii barely understands english and the master pretty much doesnt from what I learned. Just figured since I am a Nissan Z fan and having a chance to meet Mr. K(father of the Z) would make my day maybe I can make your guys/girls day by giving you the opertunity to meet one of the main parts of building your engine before you get it.

I will post up tomorrow or the next day either way, me and a fellow coworker will come out to starbucks either way that night, we both have dropped by before.

A few last pics before I turned in the 09 btw....

neXib

I'm assuming someone at your location speak Japanese then? How about bringing him to translate and some questions for a quick Q&A? Nah guess they are tired of that sort of stuff, but I think you are lucky to work there and meet these guys, I'm a man with 10 thumbs myself so could never work on stuff like this, but sounds interesting.

rx8convert22

Wow that sounds awesome. I would be willing to leave work early to try to make it down. When you have details let us know. I just need to know when and where! It would be a huge honor to meet them both. Will be hard not to ask for a picture with them, but like you said don't want them to feel odd. Hopefully you can make it happen. Thanks again!

Sleepy-z

The head of the plant can speak both but he is also from japan and pretty high up in mazda, I will offer the invite to everyone there anyways but I doubt he would want to go. Honestly I would prefer to go to a different spot then the usuall meet since its more of a every import meeting spot but since its the rx7/8 normal spot I will just go there. One thing to realize is in japan they train you to do a exact job and thats it, for instance yoshii can build the motor in a half hour but when he first came and saw that we are rebuilding them he was a little confused and unsure on how to disassemble since they dont rebuild motors in japan. In other words I know that yoshii is not mechanical when it comes to fixing a car, he just knows his job very well and I am not too sure for the master since I haven't hung around with him too much. So even if there was a translator they cant answer too many questions you may want answered, Yoshii drove a rx8 for the first time when he arrived here, funny to realize the person who more then likely built that motor had never gotten a chance to drive what he was building but its different in Japan.

Also if it does work out please dont drive too far, I wont make them hang out too long, I figure it would be nice for them to get out of there hotel and meet customers who might want to thank them. They might be willing to take a pic though, I have a few with them, they always give a thumbs up in every pic, kinda funny.