With the engine screaming and your tightened knuckles as white as snow, you shoot through a fast left-right chicane without lifting off as much as a hair. A short straight approaches and you let the twin-turbocharged VQ engine sing. Baaat, fourth, baaat, fifth, baaat, up to sixth. More corners appear and you snap the sequential shift lever forward in two quick motions. The gearbox meshes metal on metal, dropping back to fourth faster than lightning. Coming up is a fast, left-hand sweeper that promises to work the racing slicks and aerodynamics, punishing your body to the tune of almost three lateral g's.
And then, just like that, you wake up.
While everybody has dreams of piloting a Super GT race car, the odds are that you will never get behind the wheel of one of the fastest GT machines on Earth. But just because you can't get your hands on a million-dollar machine doesn't mean you can't rock the million-dollar look, thanks to JDM aero manufacturer Pass Limit.
Takanori Inoue founded Pass Limit in 2001. A few years prior, Inoue began making custom one-off body parts for friends as a weekend hobby. With the level of skill, design and determination that he put into his parts, it was only a matter of time before demand and passion outgrew mere hobby. With the establishment of Pass Limit, Inc. came the founding of Inoue's first aerodynamics brand, Sorcery.
Sorcery started off primarily as a Honda tuner, with Inoue's focus fixated on the king of Japanese pure sports cars, the Honda NSX. With a great chassis, mid-engine handling and looks that still draw double takes to this day, the NSX was the perfect platform.
Sorcery began with production on a NSX front bumper for entry into the JGTC race series, now called the Super GT series. With racing success under their belt, Sorcery released its first NSX widebody kit with great acclaim. Media attention and industry buzz began to swirl around Sorcery, and there was no other way to go but up.
In 2004, Sorcery was contacted by Alpine Electronics to build a demo show car and by TODA Racing for race car aerodynamic parts. The following year, Sorcery built cars for Yokohama Tire and Bridgestone Tire, as well as racing parts for Tajima Racing. After the success of their NSX lineup, Sorcery turned their attention to Honda's other sports car, the S2000.