Jun Kitami also known as the "Tuner from Hell" (Japanese: 地獄のチューナー Romaji: Jigoku no Chūnā), is a tuner in Wangan Midnight. Jun Kitami, is the one that originally tuned the Devil Z and later Black Bird as well. He laughs in the face of danger and will gladly take anything past the "safe" 600BHP mark. Unfortunately, the cars he tunes are so powerful that they are extremely difficult to control (if the car does not result totally undriveable), someone even died when driving the car tuned by him. Hence his reputation as the "Devil's Tuner."
He has a big scar on his face, presumably from a past racing accident. When he was young, he loved car racing, but unfortunately he had some accidents. Even though he drove powerful cars, he is now only a mechanic and a bicycle shop owner.
Throughout the Maximum Tune games, it is implied Kitami is the one who tuned the player's car.
Bio[]
- "All I want is somebody that understands my work."
- ―Jun Kitami
Kazuhiko Yamamoto met Kitami on a circuit in Fuji. According to Yamamoto, he was a private race mechanic, he tuned cars that would compete against rotary engine cars. One day the pole position was taken over during the preliminary by a private 240Z. Yamamoto commented on how frightently fast that Z was. The tuner was Kitami, he was both the driver and mechanic. However, during one race day it rained which caused the Z's overwhelming power to back fire which resulted in early retirement for the car. After month later, Kitami raced in the Z again.
According to Yamamoto, Kitami placed a license plate on the car and drove around it around the Tohmei Freeway, which resulted in a bad accident. Two years after that accident, Kitami returned to tuning cars. He raced from Yogha to Gotenba in the middle of the night (referred to as the Tohmei race). He also tuned race cars there. As a result one of the drivers that rode Kitami's tuned cars got into a accident with serious injuries. Ever since then there were numerous accidents in his tuned vehicles. This led to him receiving the nickname "Tuner from Hell".
Later fewer people asked him to tune up their car due to Tohmei racing accidents. This led to him losing his business and leaving him in debt. Later, Yamamoto mentioned that Kitami built another 240Z with a custom modified L-28 twin turbo with the remaining parts left in his workshop to fail shortly after, and the resulting car was what would later be known as "Devil Z" .
Compared to other tuners, he has a few strict requirements: for one, he absolutely hates fuel injection engines, favoring carburetor since he is old fashioned about cars; even when he accepted the offer to tune the Blackbird just to make a car that can challenge Devil Z, he still complained a lot about it. Incidentally, he owns a Bike Shop named Kitami Cycle, and was once a pro racer, racing in GT back in his younger days. He prefers to drive older Japanese tuning cars and also carburetor over fuel injection.
Later, Kitami even said that he had a sense that only Akio can save the Devil Z from destroying itself. Somehow, he not only helped Akio to tune Devil Z, but also helping Tatsuya Shima to tune the Blackbird as well.
Cars[]
- Nissan Fairlady Z S30Z (Wangan Midnight PS3)
- Toyota HiAce Wagon (Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 onwards and Drift Spirits)
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