Cyprus Style - Fastaxessories

Let me introduce Mike and Marios who send their hellos from Cyprus.
These guys are rotary fanatics that own a tuning shop in Nicosia with a rotary focus.

We are dealers of Knightsports here, and already a couple of cars have been "treated" with our goods. Attached are some photos of two FD3S, one thats already on the road, and one which is being "treated".

The first car (black one) is fitted with a T51R turbo, and its a ported 13B in there. HKS intercooler, 2 Greddy oil cooler kit, PWR radiator, Racing RS 18inch wheels, lots of other goodies.

The blue car (work in progress), full exhaust system from Knightsports, ECU programmed by Knightsports Power FC, Advan RG 18inch wheels +22 offset, 9.5J all around. Feed fenders front, T04Z coming in, V-mount in near future. Lots of other goodies. That's Mike's car by the way....

When in Cyprus. Contact Mike and Mario at Fastaxessories Ltd
Naxou Str., 21, Shop # 6, Nicosia,
Cyprus
Tel: +357 99474472, +357 99439800

Russ.

7's Day - Perspective - William - (AUS)

I think there is two types of car lovers, the first is people interested purely in power, burnouts, and who can be faster, often labeled as rev-heads or petrol heads, or whatever! The second consists of people interested in particular types of cars, interested in the genuine parts and the nostalgic value. I would catergorise myself in the latter.

For me, Rx7s represent so much more than just a performance car. The shape of the car, the unique engine that lies under the hood, the curves of the bonnet, sides and roof, the popping sound of the exhaust and a cabin that feels like its moulded around the driver, are just a few points that makes this car such a special car for me.

It was no doubt that the first car I purchased in Japan was an Rx7. I looked for almost 6 months for perfect car, searching all over Japan for what I wanted. I finally found what I was looking for only moments from my apartment in Okayama. The car had many genuine Mazdaspeed items, and was irresistible. Coincidently, and something that I didn’t realize until later on, I actually purchased my first FD Rx7 on the 7th of the 7th month in 2007. Fate?

While I have sold that car, my passion for Rx7s still lives. Last weekend, I attended the Rx7 and Rx8 yearly gathering at Central Circuit, a festival that celebrates these truly amazing cars.


On my arrival at Central Circuit, I was rewarded from my two hour journey from Okayama to Hyogo prefecture with a extensive variety of Rx7s. The cars in the carparks were equally appealing to the eyes as the cars on display. Many workshops from Kansai and Chugoku areas had there cars on display.

The FEED cars were of particular interest with there interested body designs.

Also present was a NA 20B Red Bull FD that sounded very angry when it was started up and attracted a lot of attention.

While not an Rx, another car of particular interest was the small Wankel powered 1963 NSU Spyder in mint condition. Many people were taking photos, but I really wondered if they actually knew that this little German car was actually the first model to house a Wankle engine.

There were several events throughout the day, including dyno power checks, D1 demos, Workshop drives around the circuit and a time attack battle for the best times. It was great to see a variety of cars, with each car having a degree of individualism. Makes me glad I didn’t by a Honda!
William Terry.

Ed Note: Will is currently FDless but looking.... we shall wait for his next purchase.

7's Day - Perspective - Daniel (SWE)

Russ wanted me to write something about my Tsukuba experience so here we go.

This machine is more my style. I have seen a lot of images and have followed the project on Revolutions webpage since they started building this car. I am VERY impressed as everyone else who has seen this car, and what it can do.

If I was Batman I would ride in this!

Looking good on the track as well.

The car sounds really nice on the straight just imagine what it would sound like from the drivers seat.

Sitting nicely in the first hairpin

Here you can see the TA-2's main rival in the background.

And here overtaking Fam-Speed's FD

The Pit's were really busy between the heats, here we are overlooking Panspeed and Revolution

When I first saw this car I thought the fenders were all wrong, but man has it grown on me.

Sitting low with all the ground effect

I just love this car!

The Pan speed 8 was also out playing on the circuit. Although wrong day and wrong month it did show it is a race car.

Fam Speed's new car with twin turbos producing over 500hp. I feel a small craving!

Some regular attendees

Here you have Koseki-san in his Scoot 4rotor down the finnishing straight. This is sound heaven!

RE-Amemiyas SuperGT replica looked good. Like the rims! (ed. I wonder why Dan?)

I have seen this car for a few years now and I really like the way the owner put it together. He drives it properly and it just looks so clean. AD-GT kit is never wrong. Except for speed bumps.

Now THIS is what Amemiya-san should be doing. I just love this car!

Looks incredible in white and green.

Takayama-san really went for it in R-Magic's D1 car. He was wide fast and the wheels were....

SMOKING

I got a ride in this Knightsports Rx8! Man when I get a family I know what car I will buy!
That's it from me and Thanks Russ for the ride, and usual pleasant company!

Daniel.

ed Note. Dan is a crazy fd guy who lives in Sweeden and visits Japan almost every year. His usual ride is this very well sorted FD.

This is the second time I go to Tsukuba for the 7's day. And my anticipations since last time were high. They had brought the 767B, Time attack cars and some D1 machines. As soon as I found out that Revolution were coming I knew the day would be good.
Left my apartment at 5:40 to meet up with Russ and we headed for Tsukuba circuit, and here is my contribution to this great site.
I don't know what to say about RE-Amemiyas new car. But I don't agree with Russ on this one. I love the old Touge monster, and the new D1 car. But this Green machine is just wrong for me. Then again it did move on the track!

7's Day - Shizuoka

Yep, it's a sevens day event. This one was held in Shizuoka. Near mt Fuji. In case you don't nitice the cars are aranged in a big "7" configuration. The lead car caught my eye.

Of all the stuff I saw at 7's day this year, there are still more unique cars around. This is probably the coolest FD I have seen so far this year. I am loving Matt Black at the moment.

His blog is also the source of images.

A solid gathering of over 120 cars including all generation of Rx7

I don't visit any mixi blog internet pages in Japan because you have to be invited... Cry!

Some of the FD blogs on there include club13b and others that organise events around Yokohama and Tokyo and are a very big community.

http://cronosworks.com/7day/ organised this event with over 150 cars turning up. There should be some pictures here soon. http://cronosworks.com/7day/event_photo/index.html

Russ.

ps. This is one of the few swapped engine FD in Japan SR20 on tap.

7's Day - Perspective - Myles (AUS)

My name is Myles. I am an Australian that has been living in Japan for the past 2 years. This was my first chance to get to a 07/07 7's day track event, and I am glad that I went.
I have seen most of the cars before at various events and last years 7's day at Daikoku parking area, but this was the first time to actually see them in action and really being pushed as they should be.

The styling on this scoot car is very unique, it looks like its straight from Japanese sci-fi animation. I have never like the scoot bonnet, but with the wheel covers and smooth styling it overall looks good.

open wide, it shows how warm it was on the day every part of the cars was open, bonnet to boot. In Australia the 86 and variants are very popular due to the popularity of Inital D\ Tsuchiya-drift king. I have never seen one with a 13b though.
This car would later take part in the drift runs and eventually a 4 car train which was great to watch.

I really like dark colour cars, and black FDs are very tough, but after owning a dark purple\black FC its very hard to keep them clean. The black FD car was very loud and very fast on track, it was first in its group. I loved the stance on both of these cars.

Everything during the day was non stop racing, there was always cars on track which is fantastic for a spectator like me. Here another group get ready for their entry onto the track.

You cant have rotaries without flames, as this FD showed time and time again. Its interesting to see the colour coded tape that people are starting to use, another yellow FD had yellow tape.

I don't even remember taking this picture, the drifting was great to watch so I wanted to do nothing but sit and stare, especially at this point when they started running 4 car trains. In one instance the drift samurai in the bone coloured FC had a sight touch and spun but of course soldiered on afterwards. The rear R-Magic D1 car left continuous black lines around almost the whole circuit.

This class of cars was very diverse. Here you can see all three generations of rx7.

Im a big fan of the original sa22c rx7, I still have one in back in Aus that runs on LPG. This guy unlike a lot of cars was running at full speed for the whole session.

I got to Daikoku PA at around 7:30 and it was already full. I thought last year was busy this year was just pure chaos. Not long after I arrived the exit became blocked as more and more cars tried to find places to park, and consequently nobody could actually leave even if they wanted to so everything came to a stand still. The police station backs onto the parking area so in standard Japanese police style they yelled at everyone via the speaker system, and as the road was at a standstill even the police cars could not move (not that they really cared, their job is to drive that car and yell at things- nothing else). After a while the roads started to move and people started to leave. For me after seeing all the newer cars at tsukuba I was really drawn towards the older cars, their looks, sound and smell of what driving a rotary car is all about.

This car sounded and smelled best of all!

It was quickly surrounded by like minded fans, the driver looked about 70 years old (I hope I still have a 7 at 70).

07/07 also means its a special day for the owners of similarly numbered cars, here a lotus 7 group hides in the corner. This is another 7 I hope to own one day.

When I first saw this car I didnt know what to think or even what it was. I realised it was based on an FC, and was insanely wide in everyway possible.

It was even more confusing as it is left hand drive, and talk about RED!

The old RE-Amemiya logos were all over the car, and Russ later told me this is the Greddy III car that was originally red. http://www.re-amemiya.co.jp/retuden/c_d_greddy.html according to this site was debuted at the 1991 Tokyo autosalon.

Daikoku-Futo Parking Area is an amazing place, especially on 7's day.

Ed. Note: Myles is an FD owner also. Last year we went up Tsukuba Mountain and had some fun in his FD and my NC.