Thursday, 27 January 2011

RX7 Meeting Winter 2010


RX7 Meeting is held at Tsukuba a few times a year. This was last years 2010 Winter meeting. Be prepared for variety in this post.  About 60 rx7 FD3s on track!!


No I'm not going to show them all. RX7 Meeting was kind enough to give me access to their gallery for you to enjoy. Some of these cars you will have seen before.


This car is always entered as "Pacman 7" I don't know why. On Direzza radials it runs just over 1 minute.


Some you probably haven't seen for a while. But they are still out there running hard.


I love the JGTC body on this ERC tuned car.


It can accommodate some serious dish. Painted rear wing is a nice change too.


Lights up still means "get out of the way" in most countries. 1'00.613 was 3rd quickest time.


RE-Amemiya customer on a charge.  '59.717 was the second fastest time on this day.


The older rounded front bar is still a favourite.


Charging up behind some others. This black car has someinteresting pieces. Border bonnet, older RE-Amemiya mirrors with built in winkers. Free style front is popular.


Another Red one. I'll stick with red for a while. Cool number.


Normal rear fenders on this one and some feed bits. These car's look the same at first glance, but with sooo many variations on the FD3s, you rarely find two exactly the same (even stock)


Tsukuba regulars.


This car has some coolness. I've come to like the Kazama Style kits, But I can't tell the subtleties anymore. Maybe I've almost given up trying to identify all the different kits. Could be Kazama (a couple of variations exist) or Freestyle fenders. Modified Border bonnet is cool too.


This one is easy to identify, STOCK Efini FD3s with Rays wheels. Sliding around just as you'd expect without a decent rear wing. But thats half the fun.


This car has slowly transformed over the last year into something very cool. Recent additions of Black TE37 have it setting a style mantra. +50mm rear fenders allow massive rear fitment.


Budget parts sometimes make do. With drivers of all levels times can be a misrepresentation of outright speed. It takes a lot of skill to get a fast time.


How wide to go?


Full RE-Amemiya AD GT kit with 2002 N1 Facer and sleek lights, still makes a statement.


Scoot bonnet always adds a touch more agression than the hood9. A very common addition.
Not as fast as it looked on the day. Reasons unknown.


Silver car's are still elegant. Ti Racing Sanai, Cwest and the cheap but popular Silkroad canard sets. supported by A048 to 1'01.712


TFR's Demo car is running their new canards. Slightly different. Wing on this car is very BIG. Mirrors look great... Bike Style? might have to investigate a set. A050M compound S-tyres managed 59.311 making this car the fastest on the day.


Another one of those similar second glance cars. Lack of  sleek lights makes this an easy spot.


Almost all these track focussed cars are running front fenders of some kind.


These are those freestyle/Kazama versions. Without the rears though, one might say, unmatched. But the owner, probably doesn't care. He is out there running.


Garage I.R.S running on RE01R radials consistently in the 1'01 range. 



we saw this car at seven's day. the mixed bag DIY machine that cuts a darth vadder image.


Knight Sports Type V front bumper and canards.  Simple.


Another owner with a fat front. Cwest Feed Knight Sports combo and a Vmount for good measure.


Black cars really don't need a body kit. You can't even tell they have one half the time.


With this normal bumper the feed front fenders are hard to spot. FD3s look sooo tiny compared to the Imprezza.


And this car looks 100% stock. Baseline 1'11 on RE-11


Sunday, 23 January 2011

TAS 2011 - Pan Speeds


Pan Speed Double Take.



Just another quick look around the panspeed stand. The cars weren't in any great area to get some good images without a wide angle lens.


So just a few close ups. Rays G2 are 18x10.5 with 295/30/18


GCG tuned turbos and some other Aussie components on these machines.


 Want the scoop and the poop + 510ps @ 7120rpm & 54kg at 6850rpm


Pan speed still mount the wing on the carbon gate. No problem. One off rear light cover spoiler.


Having recently gone into a lot of  detail on the PS cars at Rev Speed  you can read more about them elsewhere on RE-Xtreme.


Check this post for action and detail on the Street SPL.

Russ.

Saturday, 22 January 2011

TAS 2011 - Wing


RH9 Stand featured the RE-Wing TA Fd


This car is soo BIG up close. I don't know what it is about the proportions of this car but I always feel it's much bigger than an FD is.


Maybe it's the squareness of the front and the huge front tyres on the stockish body. 18x10J up front and 18x11J on the rear TE37 SL Tsubasa.


Maybe it's the near normal geometry ride height.


Whatever... I don't care because it's still MFAwesome! All Purpose.

322kph -> ON THE ROAD!!!!
Suzuka Full Course 2'13.   compared to  Ferrari F50 2:32   Super GT 300 Class qualifying RX7 2'06

520PS @  7800 rpm
500kg/mm @ 6200rpm

Side port T88-33D
Twin bosch Fuel pumps and 4x 1000 cc injectors

HKS Six Speed Sequential and ATS Carbon Clutch, OS Giken 1.5 way LSD.
and more goodies.

This car has now become genuinely serious.

Russ.

Friday, 21 January 2011

TAS 2011 - Kenji's Pinker


Kenji! . . .  Kenji! . . .  Kenji! . . .


Note the details. Yellow side is not my favourite though. Gram Lights 57D in luminous yellow. Scroll back up and you'll notice the big chunk out of the front splitter.


The R-Magic Pink 6 is definately a rear drift har that is pushed to and beyond its limit at very close quarters.


Kenji and Kawabata on it. In this confined space the R-Magic beast takes a while to get going but soon pumps out FULL POWER. It's these shots that show the car at it's best.


This is the pink side, you will also notice the logo's on the pink side are luminous pink also, just like the 17 and 18" wheel combo


Check the different wheel cambers here. The wierd angle of the front bar is quite noticeable here.


R-Magic have taken a "maintenance only" approach to Kenji's car for the year. That means these body panels will remain.


Every time I see it. It gets a bit more "character"
Kenji finished 7th on the D1 Kick Off and he will run #7 during the D1 season.


Under bonnet is 500hp for the loud pedal. I like the sound of that!

Unfortunate parking place infront of the "dunny" "loo" "WC". Burning rubber or burning ass.
Which smells better?

Russ.