Ok. Our newly christened 'Noisy Cricket's' performance on the strip wasn’t quite what we wanted it to be. But we’ve got a nice wad of cash burning a hole in our pocket thanks to Jimny being a cheap car in the first place.

Let's go back to the Shop on the way home from the circuit.





Let's have a look at the Buy Parts menu. There's a couple of menus here we haven't explored yet:

Buy Parts

: Which parts should I buy?








Interesting. There's quite a few parts here we can choose from.

Parts available:
I have no idea what a ‘hypercharger’ is...

Of particular interest here are the different tyre compounds. Slick makes sense, but Rain and Studless? Are we going to have variable weather conditions?

Also it looks like we can buy Nitrous now, since we don't have Kino around to make it for us. At a whopping $750,000 I'm hoping it's not single use like in the first game!

Let's check out the Tune section.

: Which car would you like to tune?



Well, we only have one. The Noisy Cricket.


: Which tune will you play?






Looks like we have quite a few tunes to play!

We’ve got quite a healthy budget of $17,602 to play with.

I decided to go ham on this all this stuff. Bought a mid turbo, intercooler and slick tyres.

Also gave it an Aero Tune, Bore Up, and lightweighting, leaving $3,900 left.

Time to go back to the circuit and…


: What? Are you going home already?


: Actually, there is something good.



Wait - something good? That sounds familiar... Oh yeah, that's what Kino used to say before he'd inevitably .. Ooh I think we know where this is going...




: Here’s some hand cream!


: Only $100!


: How about it? Want to buy it?



:stare:

Well, I guess this is Zero4 Champ II’s version of the random shit to purchase.

What on earth would we use Hand Cream for?

Yes… of course we want to buy it.


: Thankyou every time.


: Please come again.


Ok. Time to head back to the ranch!








Ok now i’m curious what that was all about. Let’s check our inventory…

We can equip the hand cream and equip the photo of Kayo chan and… Oh…





…No, thankfully that did not do anything. I guess we’ll see what this actually does later...


We can now head to the tuning screen. Interestingly enough, we have to install the parts ourselves, they’re not preinstalled.



I wonder if they're interchangeable between cars? I hope so. That would certainly make things cheaper.

But doing so bumps us from 58hp / 8.8kg /m torque to a more respectable 94hp / 13.3kg/m

This should be a decent improvement!