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Test Drive	By : kougaslover Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 31185 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
Disclaimer: Sadly, I don’t own Inuyasha or any of the Inuyasha characters; they’re Rumiko Takahashi’s (lucky!) I don’t make any money; these just amuse me and take up my spare time. Please Read and Review!!!

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It's how you use it :P Or so this group of cars would have you know. Welcome to chapter twenty nine of Test Drive, hope you all enjoy. I have to say, I'm surprised no one got the movie reference, or just Googled Matt Munro :P It was the original "The Italian Job" featuring Michael Cain, the opening scene of which features his friend driving a Miura through Italy until he enters a tunnel and drives straight into a Mafia bulldozer and is killed to death. Great film that one :P
SplendentGoddess- And when did I say cheating wasn't acceptable :P I like that Captcha box, now if we can only stumble across one that says "Racing" :P Thanks for the review!
Just for all of you normal, functional, non-car people I thought I'd include a little mini-glossary of sorts for this one, located at the bottom of the chapter.
Thank you all for reading, and please review!
~~~~~~Test Drive~~~~~~
Inuyasha pulled up to the starting line for his first race in Italy, behind the wheel of the sweet little OSCA. His first race in Italy was not one of razor sharp, cutting edge supercars but was actually much more…conservative. Engine displacement was capped at one point six liters, natural aspiration only.
So the big block V8’s, four bangers with huge turbos, and slick V12’s were all off the table. Instead, it was a less is more group of cars, light little ragamuffins that had to make the most their diminutive power plants had to offer.
It was further complicated by the additional restrictions; most modifications were off the table. Factory performance modifications were acceptable, as were road-legal works team modifications. Tires could also be swapped for any street legal modern radials that would fit the factory or period correct wheels.
Not that there was much after the period that could meet those criteria competitively, but the age was capped as well; nothing after the 1970 model year. Thus, the field was mostly kept to small, two seat, four-cylinder sports car with low curb weights.
Such as the sweet little Lotus Elan that Ginta arrived in shortly after Inuyasha. It was a good choice on his part; the Elan was light and agile it’s 1.6 was a sweet little Ford-Lotus hybrid that was designed on the track, much like the OSCA’s power plant.
“Hey there Inuyasha.”
“Hi yourself, Ginta.”
“Sounds like we finally caught a break on the starting order huh?” They had indeed; Inuyasha randomly getting first while Ginta had gotten second.
“Yeah, nice to be leading the pack, can get lonely though being all way out in first.” Inuyasha prodded as he saw another car approaching from behind them.
“Oh I’ll keep you company Inu. Hakkaku on the other hand…”
Hakkaku had arrived behind the wheel of his car, another British rag top like the Lotus. Hakkaku though, had brought an MG, specifically an MG MGA. The British four-banger had sleek lines, a well-designed chassis, and a low curb weight. And, as Inuyasha identified a “Twin-Cam” logo along the side of the car, he had to laugh a bit.
“Hakkaku, that’s a Twin-Cam MGA?”
“You’re damn right. Four-wheel discs, alloys, nearly a hundred and ten horse from the 1.6 mill. Why would you pick anything else, even if that OSCA is drop dead gorgeous?”
“Well, for one, this has a better chassis still and has four wheel discs and alloys too. And aluminum body panels and a tubular chassis. And for that matter, we both have what are essentially one point six liter racing engines. Except the OSCA’s was famous for powering pretty Fiat’s and the Twin-Cam was famous for…it was exploding, wasn’t it?”
“Oh so a few of them detonated, a loving hand to keep them in tune is all they really needed. Guarantee this one runs like a raped ape, I tuned it myself.”
Inuyasha’s prodding wasn’t unwarranted; the Twin-Cam engine was a temperamental beast. Tuned to a very high compression it was susceptible to knocking with anything but very high octane gas. It had a reputation for burning oil, it reacted poorly to over-revving, and overall it developed a not entirely undeserved reputation for horrible unreliability.
Which was a shame as the engine, when it ran, was potent. The MGA was overall a very good platform, light and agile but if there was anything it lacked it was power. In standard trim the four cylinder displaced about seventy horsepower; with no displacement increase the twin cam engine pushed that to nearly a hundred and ten. Big gains for a car that weighed nothing.
“I guess we’ll see about that, though I’m still not gonna be surprised if your race ends in a cloud of smoke on the side of the road.”
“Not gonna happen.”
“We’ll see, though speaking of reliability look an Alfa’s come among us.”
Indeed, Kouga had arrived behind the wheel of an Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti Super. The sweet little Italian four door packed a beautifully tuned 1.6 liter, five speed manual, and rear-wheel drive. Of course it was an Alfa Romeo so it could all disassemble itself in a heartbeat if it so chose.
“So what did you guys get for starting positions, I got boned with eleventh.”
“Sixth.”
“Second.”
“First.”
“Lucky bastards.”
Kouga griped as they were joined by more of their competitors. A Fiat Abarth 1000TC Berlina Corsa arrived, the hardcore racing variant of Fiat’s old 600 family car. Behind it arrived a green Porsche 912, the oft overlooked entry level version of the 911.
It was actually almost identical to the 911, save for the one point six liter boxer four in place of one of the numerous flat-six engines of the full 911. With the smaller engine in place, the entry level Porsche had about ninety horsepower on tap with the chassis of the agile 911.
Behind it was another Porsche, this one a Porsche 365B Carrera GTL-Abarth. The rather…elegantly named Porsche was a special race prepped version of the 365 sports car created through a partnering with French tuning company Abarth.
An Alfa Romeo Spider followed; this Alfa a bright white with a red, white, and green stripe running the length of the car. A second Porsche 912 was on its tail, this one a silver example with Porsche’s old “cookie cutter” wheels. Behind the German was another Fiat, one that actually shared the same OSCA motor that powered Inuyasha’s sports car.
It was a Fiat 1600 convertible, the sharp looking little Fiat convertible livened up with the addition of the well-sorted one point six liter even if it lacked the chassis, aerodynamics, and disc brakes of the OSCA car.
“I have to say, I thought this was gonna be a potentially sad group of cars but it’s actually turned out to be a group of sports cars I’d love to have.” Inuyasha admitted as the competitors continued to arrive.
The final two to arrive were a Lancia Fulvia HF 1.6 and an original Mini, prepared in Cooper works form. With the two front driver’s bringing up the rear, they quickly organized themselves into a group of twelve on the small back road.
Inuyasha and Ginta had first and second respectively, followed by the Alfa Romeo Spider and the Porsche 356B in third and fourth respectively. The Mini was in fifth, Hakkaku in sixth, with the Fiat 1000TC and one of the Porsche 912’s in seventh and eighth. The Lancia had ninth and the Fiat 1600 had tenth, leaving Kouga to eleventh and finally the second Porsche 912 bringing up the rear in twelfth.
“Alright ladies and gentlemen, let’s get this show on the road. Three…two…one…GO!” The club’s appointed stager flagged them forward and they took off in a hail of slightly chirped tires.
“Come on little OSCA let’s go!”
Inuyasha willed the little OSCA on as he took it to redline and changed up into second. Pulling slightly on the slightly less powerful Elan Inuyasha reached the first corner and took it hard, the light and agile 1600 diving into the right hand bend.
The course was tight with a lot of hard bends and elevation changes, which would play into Inuyasha’s favor with the four wheel discs all round and the rev happy engine under hood. It was also playing into the favor of the featherweight Elan, or the MGA, or the Porsches, or in fact any of the cars present.
Hammering along, Inuyasha did a great job holding his lead as they wound through the tight back road. The OSCA was great, so agile and balanced and easy to place right on every apex. The engine too pulled strong and eager and accelerated fast from each bend.
However, the Mini seemed to be pulling harder still. From every turn it was exploding out, pulling much harder than the microscopic engine it packed would suggest. The original Mini’s were torque laden little things for their diminutive size, especially with some modification, but it was really kicking it.
As they wound their way through the bends the Mini managed to quickly overtake the Porsche 356 and the Alfa Spider, both of which should have had it on raw power. Kouga wasn’t doing too badly either, having moved from eleventh to eighth in short order.
“Come on little OSCA, just hold these wolves back to the end.”
Behind Inuyasha Kouga was about to get a big jump in the standings. Coming into a hard left hander Kouga slowed as the Porsche 912 he’d passed powered by on the right. It got ahead of him but overcooked it and locked the brakes up. Sliding, the Porsche collided with the Fiat 1000TC and the Fiat was sent into the grass on the inside of the corner as the Porsche slid out.
Kouga got ahead of them with a cleaner line and got on it hard, chasing down Hakkaku who was pursuing the Alfa Spider himself. Though, the ookami wasn’t sandwiched between the two Alfa’s for long as Hakkaku attempted a gear change and was rewarded with a hard grinding as third gear decided to retire from the whole business of being a gear.
Ironically in a car famed for its unreliable motor, it was the transmission suffering failure though Hakkaku wasn’t to be deterred. Grabbing for fourth he revved it hard and let the clutch out keeping the car accelerating. Unfortunately, while he could hope to finish the race winning or placing was simply unrealistic; without third he was essentially crippled coming out of the corners.
“Come on you bitch, rev!”
Second gear would get him out of the corners fast, but as soon as he was at the redline he had to go for fourth and then the gearing meant that he was out of steam when it came to accelerating with any real urgency. Sure enough, the next few corners saw him falling back to twelfth place, his race effectively over.
Inuyasha meanwhile caught the sight of Ginta being overtaken by the Mini in his rearview as he came out of another bend. They had only a few quick turns and a short straight to the finish, but the overly quick Cooper was right on him already.
“What the actual fuck!”
If they were on dirt, he could believe it. The Mini had a torquey little engine, and with front wheel drive and its wheels pushed to the corners it had great handling on the loose stuff. It even had a great run in British touring car racing, but here, on a tight winding road, against a road going Maserati race car…there was just no way it was doing what it was doing.
Such as overtaking Inuyasha, as they came out of the last corner onto the final straight. Fighting the urge to ram the fucker of the road, Inuyasha could only watch as the bastard pulled ahead, in a car with a motor that was almost a third of a liter down on the already diminutive 1.6 under hood of the OSCA.
“FUCK!”
Inuyasha could only look in anger as he was shown taillights, the Cooper crossing the finish line in first. Disbelief that lasted until he heard the driver of the Mini push the clutch in.
“You sneaky little shit!”
As the Mini slowed Inuyasha surged ahead and pulled the handbrake, sliding the 1600 Zagato in front of the Cooper and blocking its path. Behind them, Ginta saw the maneuver and pulled up behind the Mini, blocking it from backing up, he too suspicious of its odd fistful of power.
“What the hell are you doing, trying to cause a fucking accident?”
“Don’t question me you prick, you fucking cheat!”
“What! Oh just cause he lost the half-breed gets all sensitive and has to start throwing out lies.”
“Oh fuck you I heard your blow-off valve shit head. Pop that fucking hood, I guarantee there’s a snail in there.”
“No there isn’t, and I’m not popping shit.”
“What’s going on here?” Kouga asked as he approached the two arguing drivers. Inuyasha seemed to be rather agitated, and the other driver Richard seemed none too happy either.
“This fucking half-breed loses and has the balls to start slandering me.”
“Fucker I know I heard a blow-off valve. That Mini is fucking turbocharged, I guarantee it.”
“The fuck it is you dumb shit!”
“Enough! Now, first thing, you call Inuyasha a half-breed again and I’ll break your neck. Two, Inuyasha, are you accusing him of using forced induction to gain an advantage, given this was an all N/A race?”
“Damn right, I know I heard that blow-off valve when he pushed the clutch in.”
“In that case, I’d say why don’t we pop the hood and see once and for all.”
“You’re not laying a fucking finger on my car.”
“I don’t need to lay a fucking finger on your car, just pop the hood for us. If there’s no snail plumbed up to your intake manifold than you can close it up and go home with first place.”
“No! I’m not gonna sit here and take accusations from a half…demon.”
“How about from a full one? I’ve owned a lot of Mini’s and none of them pulled out of the bends quite like that one is.” Ginta accused, he himself having been knocked from second to third by the fire breathing little compact.
“Oh this is just real slick, you lot get beat and all turn on the winner how fucking cute. I should have known this was just a fucking racket you’re all running.”
“Listen here you little shit. I co-founded this little club of ours, and it is not a fucking racket. It’s a gathering of gentlemen, and lady, racers and it’s beginning to become apparent that you aren’t one. Now, you can pop the hood or I can do it for you. But let me say this, if I have to open that hood and that Mini is breathing with help, I’m gonna smack the shit outta you.”
“Too late.” Inuyasha spoke as he undid the straps and popped the hood of the Mini. Sure enough, underneath there was a 1.3 liter that looked very much new, and plumbed up to it was quite obviously a turbocharger.
“Well fuck me if that doesn’t look like there’s a snail hooked up to that little four pot. Let’s cut out the bullshit for a second shall we; going by your resistance, you’re aware this race was restricted to naturally aspirated engines don’t you?”
The male just gave an angry huff as his cheating was exposed, unable to come up with any reasonable excuse for his blatant cheating. Nodding, Kouga considered the options a minute before speaking.
“Given that you obviously knew that you were cheating by bringing a turbocharged Mini to the race, and your extreme ignorance in trying to keep it covered up I have no choice but to demand your removal from this club. You obviously fail to comprehend the spirit of friendly competition and betting this group stands for.”
“Yeah kick me out, see if I don’t go and run to the authorities about your little test drives, I’m sure they’d be real interested.”
“You assume we don’t have friends in high places for one. And for two, if you even try, I’ll kill you get that through your head. When you joined it was made clear that we do not disclose any club activities to non-members. Now, you can be mature about this and keep your mouth shut or I can beat the shit out of you right here, your choice.”
Kouga glared the bastard down, forcing the other male to back down. Shaking his head he slammed the hood on the Mini, got in, and roared off before the ookami made good on his promise of kicking his head in.
“Well, that was fun.”
“Sneaky prick, so what’s the policy on disqualifying his ass?” Inuyasha questioned, having finished tentatively in second after all.
“He’s out no question, which makes you the winner. Ginta’s got second, and Elena takes third. Damn, I was hoping to get the prize today.”
“What prize?” Inuyasha’s brows furrowed at that, not realizing there was a wager over the norm.
“A group of small sports convertibles and targas. There’s a Lancia Beta Zagato, a Toyota MR2 Supercharged, a Honda S600, an early Alfa Romeo Spider, a Porsche Boxster 550 Spyder edition, a TVR 2-litre V8S, and a Fiat Barchetta.”
“That’s an odd little group, nice though.”
“Yeah, one of the competitors put it up as part of their wager. They’re all well-kept, low mileage examples.”
“Sounds good to me.” Inuyasha smirked as he got back in the OSCA, taking off with a chirp of the rear tires.
“Damn, I didn’t get to ask if he wanted to mount me again.” Ginta dejectedly slumped his shoulders before turning to get back in his Elan.
“Well, we could always drop by, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.”
~~~~~~Test Drive~~~~~~
Turbocharger- A turbo charger is a method of forced induction, as is a supercharger, used to coax more power from an engine. Essentially the turbocharger is a sort of compressor wheel, turned by the pressure of the engine's exhaust gases. As it spins, it draws air in and compresses it, then feeding it into the engine's intake. This compressed air means there's more oxygen in the engine to be mixed with gasoline and burned. More air and fuel in the same space means a more powerful bang, more powerful bang equals more power.
Snail- A sort of nickname for the turbocharger, referencing the snail's shell like shape of most turbochargers.
Blow-Off Valve- This is a valve that releases excess boost generated by the turbocharger. Used when the engine's revs drops quickly, such as when the throttle is released and the clutch pedal depressed. This sudden burst of air escaping the system often creates a distinctive noise, Youtube it, which is easily identified.
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