Ranking Battle

Ranking Battle 2007 is aiming to select the best FD3s Rx7.

2007 Final.

• RE-Amemiya Touge Monster (35%)
• RE-Amemiya TA2000 (18%)
• Fujita Eng Touge Max (16%)
• Craft Company with Feed (16%)
• Scoot 4 Rotor (9%)
• Mazdaspeed GT-C (7%)
• RS Feast (5%)
• Pan Speed TA 2006 (5%)
• Fujita Eng Afflux V (5%)
• KnightSports Type IV (3%)
• R-Magic Pinky 4 TA (3%)
• Mazda SP (3%)

To prove this was a tough competition these other fantastic cars scored very few votes

• Maru with R-Magic (1%)
• Revolution Demo (1%)
• Border Wide Body (1%)
• Mazda 2000 RZ(1%)
• Border Type III
• Auto Craft with Cwest
• Veilside Tokyo Drift
• Veilside Fortune #1
• Mazda 1993 RZ

Here's how you voted.

Round 1 ... RE-Amemiya (Winner! RE-Amemiya's Touge Monster)

• Touge Monster (77%)
• Super Greddy TA Car (55%)
• Greddy 9 (22%)
• Super Greddy 20b (22%)
• D1 2007 New Model (11%)
• Super GT 300 (11%)
• Street Beat 7 (11%)
• Greddy Final (11%)
• D1 2004/5/6 Model (0%)

vs
Round 2 ... Veilside (Tie: Tokyo Drift & TAS Fortune FD)

Actually the exact same car. Funny that.

• Veilside Fortune TAS Championship Version(50%)
• Tokyo Drift Fortune FD (50%)
• D1 TAS Sakura Version (25%)
• Fast and Furious Vin Diesel(25%)
• Veilside Combat II(12%)
• Veilside Combat I(12%)

Round 3 ... Knight Sports (Winner Version V race car.)

• Knight Sports V Race (66%)
• Knight Sports IV (33%)
• A&L Racing with Knight Sports
• Knights Sports III
• Knight Sports V Street
• Knight Sports EVO

vs
Round 4 ... Fujita Engineering (Winner Touge Max Champ)

• Feed Touge Max Champion (70%)
• Feed IV Street (22%)
• Feed With Craft Company (22%)
• Feed V GT (11%)
• Feed II
• Feed II 99 TAS
• Feed III 00 TAS
• Feed IV with Advan
• Feed V Street

Round 5 ... Mazda (3-way tie:)

• Mazda SP Street Version (33%)
• Mazda 2000 RZ (33%)
• Mazda 2001 Type R Bathurst R (33%)
• Mazda Spirit R (16%)
• Mazda 1991
• Bathurst Race Car
• Mazda 93 RZ
• Mazda SP MMM
• Mazda 1997
• Mazda 1999
• Mazda Al. Special

vs
Round 6 ... Mazdaspeed (Winner R-Spec)

• Mazdaspeed R-Spec (60%)
• Mazdaspeed Type GTC (40%)
• Mazdaspeed Type 15th (20%)
• Mazdaspeed Circuit Trial (20%)
• Mazdaspeed R-Prototype
• Mazdaspeed Type II

Round 7 ... Pan Speed (winner Time Attackers)

• Pan Speed Time Attack 2001 Spec (50%)
• Pan Speed Time Attack 2006 Spec (50%)
• Pan Speed D1 2005 Spec with Asamoto (25%)
• Asamoto D1 2002 with Pan Speed
• Asamoto D1 2003 with Pan Speed
• Pan Speed Street Demo

vs
Round 8 ... R Magic (Winner Circuit Cars)

• Maru with R Magic (66%)
• R Magic Circuit Spec (66%)
• Pinky 7 Street Spec (33%)
• Pinky 4 Time Attack (33%)
• R Magic Drag Special
• R Magic Wide Body
• Makers Time Attack with RMagic
• Power Magic Super Taikyu

Round 9 ... Border (Winner Wide Body V)

• Border V Wide (66%)
• Border Type III (33%)
• Border Type II
• Border Type II with Biot
• Border Type IV
• Border V
• Border Type I Wide

vs
Round 10 ... C-West (Winner Autocraft with Cwest)

• AutoCraft with CWest (100%)
• DRFT D1 (66%)
• Okabe Jidosha Super Taikyu (66%)
• C-West Type N1 (33%)
• C-West Type N1N (33%)
• C-West Type I
• C-West Type II
• C-West Super Taikyu
• Makers Super Taikyu

Round 11 ... Specialised I - VOTE NOW!

• Scoot 4 Rotor 100%
• AB Flug GTM 50%
• Auto Exe FD02 50%
• KSP Drag 50%
• Scoot Speed Trial 50%
• Speed Connection Super Taikyu 50%
• Auto Exe FD01 50%
• Tamon Murata 7 50%
• Tamon Spyder 50%

vs
Round 12 ... Specialised II Winner RS Feast!

• Feast Demo (60%)
• Revolution TA (40%)
• Leg Sport (20%)
• DL Urgent with INGS (20%)
• Apexi D1 with Vertex
• Auto Select Yellow Eagle
• Bomex Demo
• CAM e-Setup
• HKS Original
• Sanai Works Fighting FD

Now that votes are closed I will be making the final ranking battle to choose the ultimate car.

2007 Final.

• RE-Amemiya Touge Monster (35%)
• RE-Amemiya TA2000 (18%)
• Fujita Eng Touge Max (16%)
• Craft Company with Feed (16%)
• Scoot 4 Rotor (9%)
• Mazdaspeed GT-C (7%)
• RS Feast (5%)
• Pan Speed TA 2006 (5%)
• Fujita Eng Afflux V (5%)
• KnightSports Type IV (3%)
• R-Magic Pinky 4 TA (3%)
• Mazda SP (3%)

To prove this was a tough competition these other fantastic cars scored very few votes

• Maru with R-Magic (1%)
• Revolution Demo (1%)
• Border Wide Body (1%)
• Mazda 2000 RZ(1%)
• Border Type III
• Auto Craft with Cwest
• Veilside Tokyo Drift
• Veilside Fortune #1
• Mazda 1993 RZ

7's Day Report Links

Get out your translator and check out the reports from the top tuners.

Mazda Report (40th Aniversary).



RE-Amemiya Amasan's Report (000km/h?)

Knight Sports Report
Craft Company Report with awesome video!
TCP Magic Report on their blog.
AutoCraft Report on their blog.
Makers Report

Just a few to show whats happening.

Russ.

7/7/7 - Seven's Day - Chiba

 A Multi-National contingent headed out to Makuhari Carrest for a small meeting in the morning of Seven's day.

Cars like these were just casually parked around. Mazdaspeed Represent!

This Grey car was representing the Fujita camp.

 
But with RE-Amemiya in attendance this was a pre-decessor to the main Tokyo event at Daikoku.

New Touge Monster and the D1 machines.

The New one having curious design.

 Fattening the AC kit was a priority.




Touge Monster and D1 Street Legal Machine.

At 3-4pm everyone cleared out and we headed to part two. Daikoku Futo.

The Carrest Event showcased the New D1 Rx7, the New Boost Up Seven with Greddy 9 front and the Touge Monster, Street Legal and Super Greddy Cars also on display.

About 40 cars at this small event, but there were some very nice examples.

A Salute to the MAN!

Just when you think you've seen all the RE-Amemiya machines. There's More.

Russ.

7/7/7 Seven's Day - Daikoku Futo

Daikoku is guaranteed to draw a crowd and with 500 or more Rx7's in SA, FC and FD and other forms of rotary cars, this event was huge.

R-Magic brought a few nicely tuned machines.

Amongst private owners, tuners like Zimax, Scoot, Amemiya, R-Magic and amazing customs, the Newera FD looked right at home.

As you walk in between the Vertex wide bodies and ex and current Auto Salon machines, race cars and road cars, you realise how passionate people are with their rotary vehicles. I wish mine had been ready.

It would have looked like this one.

For me the re-finished Scoot 4 rotor was the best there and was even better than before. With this level of detail work, few can match it.



Event's like these give you hundreds of ideas

about what works and what doesn't.

What looks driveable and not.

As we stupidly contemplated heading down to Osaka with the guys from Scoot, we realised in the last two days we didn't have much sleep and although Osaka would be special, it will very similar scene. Sometimes you can see toooo many FDs. hehe.

20b Super Greddy brought Ama-san to the event.

Russ

Piers' Sunline Racing FD

Piers certainly loves cars, with a couple of pimped out soarers, a full carbon body GTR and this FD, his garage is the envy of many. (Update FD now Sold.)

This car has been a progression of sorts but remains first and formost to be a fast streetable FD. Sure it can lap Aida Ti circuit in the 1.40 region, but it does this through finesse rather than raw power as it still operates on twins which makes it a perfect demonstration of what can be done with a lightweight machine.

Piers enlisted the help of Sunline Racing in his hometown of Okayama to perform daily maintenance of his new FD and it just went from there, an RE-Amemiya GT AD Widebody kit + Cwest front bar and lights. Rear diffuser and Sunline Cooling Bonnet were added.

I met Piers after owning my own AD GT +Cwest Rx7. I'm sure we would have followed similar tuning If I'd met him earlier.

RE-Amemiya AD is simly awesome. SSR Type C wheels are UBER COOL.

Sunline's original Bonnet is a cheaper version of the AutoExe design that does a great job of venting bonnet temp.

The car was so good that it was selected as a feature car for SSR wheel company and it adorned the pages of option Magazine and others for some time. This car is used for regular track meets in Japan where piers can tune his driving skills and simply have fun racing GTRs and the like.

He regularly runs in the Meister cup and recently got his first class podium on the track.

You can read a lot more of the evolution of this car on this thread

Inside the car remains streetable. Only the battery box gets in the way of shopping. Carpet remains.

Unfortunately with the evolution of Piers' Carbon R34 the FD was sucking funds, so it was sold.

Something this good was for sale later.

It's legacy will be around for some time.

Russ.

Touge Time

The Summer Touge run in Hakkone area saw us travel over our favoirite roads. With view of Mt Fuji, the weather couldn't have been better for the trip in the mountains. Empty roads allowed a great day of "cruising".

Our route included. Tomei -> Odawara, Toyo Turnpike, downhill to nantoka Parkway, Izu Skyline --> end Golf Course Loop Road, Return Izu Skyline, Ashinoko Skyline -> Gotanba, Tomei -> C1 -> Higashi Kanto.

With my car in the shop getting paint and panel, I again thank www.NeweraImports.com for the drive. Battling cars on the day included, Newera FD & AE86, Mines GTR, Tomei AE86, S-tyre R34GTR & R33GTRs and a Supra. Oh yeah, don't forget the Sunline Racing Carbon GTR!

A long but fabulous day for driving an FD. More pics are here on the GTR Forum.

Russ.

Rotary 40th Anniversay

Happy birthday celebrations for the birthday of the rotary engine. Mazda will probably track you with these new web widgets.

Japanese Web Site
http://www.mazda.co.jp/philosophy/rotary/

English Web Site
http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/index.html

Russ.

1/10 Drift Update

I have been drifting a bit more recently, and luckily I think I am improving. I am still yet to try to get a good set-up for the car, but its still addictive fun. I took it down to Daikoku the other night and realised that all black was a bit boring to see at night even with the active light kit. So I added the metallic red stickers from the apexi sticker set. Looks more aggressive now. I also got two blue LEDs for the yokomo active light kit so there are no spare head light holes. Well, except the parking lights.

I also haven't put the hachi rocku body on the chassis for ages so I think its time to cut the body posts. I have no plans to run any other bodies on this chassis anyway. I think this one will stay until its falling apart. I installed the RE-A mirrors also from a GT Wing set I had and finished the windscreen wipers. The next step involves making a rear diffuser.

Russ.

RE-Xtreme Ryuga Concept

There has been a lot of talk about the next Rx7. If something is to surpass the FD it should be the design that has been circulating in the last year. The Ryuga. It is an amazing design but the rear hatch should be returned to a similar hatch design for two seats only.

If you were in doubt about how good it will look then don't doubt. It's good, although one could say it needs some tuning! So I started with photoshop tune.

So here's the spec we want. Renesis 20b-MSP with at least 380ps @ 8500rpm

I have added the carbon front spoiler from the Porsche Le Mans prototype and the side skirts are modified RE-Amemiya GT AD.

I'll definately take one of these.

Russ.