7's Day - Sanai's Garage 31 & TiR

This is what a 5Million Yen FD3s looks like. Perfection!

The street version or track version of the Reiden 7 are basically the same. All customisable by conversations
with Garage 31. This company builds and sells complete cars from Sanai Works.

I was soooooo impressed by the finish and quality. These cars are NEW!!!!!

2010 FD3s!

Small vent is just part of the full Sanai Works body kit. The vent allows a tiny bit of air to enter close to greddy airinx Filter.

This car features a single turbo NEW engine thats finished to perfection with NEW componets.

Some nice features are the water air separator tank, but basically it looks like everything was meant to be there from the factory.

Ever seen white prodrive GC06 rims this clean. Yes, when they are NEW! Check the calipers! NEW!

Inside, the first thing you notice is the FULL "Bride" retrim (pronounced Bu-ree-doh in Japanese) retrim. Adds a nice shape to the doors.

Delve a little further, and the deeply blostered drivers seat is just one of the countless highlights on the interior. Blue stitching is everywhere and notice the fan knobs. Rapfix GT-C boss for exit past that seat.

These craft square mirrors are sitting in the A-pillar. they look like the older design.... right

Wrong... they are now much smooother in plan view. the carbon parts on the car are painted in blue tinter. Awesome.

Notice the blue tinted Carbon Vatman wing, Sanai diffuser and under skirts among others.

The second Garage 31 car was the race focussed car. (you can just see the cage in this pic) Just as pretty, it would be a shame actually to chip the paint.

Try and get myself out of the reflection... no way.

This one was running the older Craft square mirrors on the OEM door locations. (A cheaper option.)

This car was running NEW Dunlop 03G tyres and Forged Dunlop Direzza Wheels .... NEW

These cars are for sale! around 5~6Million Yen.

Ti-Racing also use Sanai racing gear, this customer car is not quite standard.

Their Demo car is another perfected track machine. Rays CE28N complement it well.

This car runs fast! Lap after lap! While others over heat, take slow laps and try for something unfocussed. The TiRacing car keeps on going.

If you are looking for reliable tuning. You can't really go past what these guys offer. Pretty and Potent!

Russ.

7's Day - Tsukuba - Static Displays

Tsukuba 7's day offers a lot. The show cars and trade displays have more than just race cars. In an attempt to finalise the Tsukuba coverage I'm lumping some posts together.

Gra- m Lights 57 Accellerate are a new offering. The machining rims are a bit bling but these are a cast model that offers good cost performance.

This is something that doesn't offer good cost performance. Any race engine is expensive to maintain. 5000klms is maybe a long life for one of these.

TCP Magic have this D1 car almost almost ready for Yoshioka.

It's going to be awesome seeing the Mad-Mike spec engine built by them finally fire up in anger.

No one looked at the rear of the car all day. It doesn't really make much sense to put sponsors stickers here. It's going to be COVERED in SMOKE!!!!

RYO also had their D1 car at Tsukuba. It seems to have retired from competion though recently. Uras bumper, just hanging around. Probably needed removal to get on the truck.

A closer look reveals the most amazing side treatment ever invented, you almost miss the seibon?? bonnet. If it is, it's finally an original-ish design from the rip off kings.

These wings and things are o-u-t-rageous

Remember when this car was THE HOTTEST FD on the plannet. Apexi D1 car with Vertex Ridge Widebody and R-Magic bonnet.

57S pro wheels with chrome finish are still the bomb!

Judas had this car for a while I believe. There were a couple I believe. One in Japan and one in America.

Profile of the Fuel Bank FD from Super Autobacs Omiya is a mad mad thing. No Rear window, repositioned rear lights and more.

The main reason for the wide wide machine is a set of 275/30/20 tyres on super offset rims.

The second reason is a showcase of interior trimming skill. The white and red suede is simply perfection!

Unfortunately the most important design feature of any car is the front. It seems that this was forgotten to be designed.

Lucky creativity is subjuctive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolfG867D8E

The Autobacs Naganuma car is a much more convential design. However it's is impressive.

Merging RE-Amafflux "RE-A and FEED" fenders is no easy task. That makes each fender worth about $1500 dollars or 6K for a set of fenders. for what! No one usually notices. Only freaks like me pick these things.

For 6K, these days you could almost build a less showy version of this FC! Vert's in Japan these days are super cheap @ about 2K, the rims about 1.5K and the body work from yahoo would be cheap. But... the paint on this car would be somewhere in the same 6K region.

Some items raise the cost of this baby though. Silver carbon parts and cool interior turn this into probably my favourite car at Tuskuba. Front bumper opening is a very cool design. D-Max and BN sports style creates an awesome machine.

More FC's to come and only a few more posts... had enough yet??

Russ.

7's Day - Tsukuba - Panterifying

Does this sum up the Tsukuba atmosphere? Sometime in the day all the cars were on the grid.

 

This shot of the RS Pantera "Ultra7" Time Attack Car is straight from the GT video game. The window sticker doesn't help much?!

This image also fits the scene.

Regularly running Work Emotion XC9 wheels, the  car can handle itself well. 1:04 in the wet wasn't as quick as others with radials, but this is an S-tyre machine.

On track the car seems in it's element.

Lots of power and all the right tuning..

These TE37SL are not exactly the same size as the R-Magic car... in fact far from it.

I'll let you decide if you like the finish. I am 50:50 up close.

But in this distance shot, TE37 are still the money wheel!

Their NA 3 rotor was also circulating on Black CE28N.

Making all the right noises. Bwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaap

RS Pantera aero parts are unique. The big feature on this car are the carbon doors hatch and bonnet that are painted to reveal carbon in some areas. Custom vent in the front bumper leads straight to tripple ITBs (throttle bodies)

Subtle centre aero spoiler covers the space between the rear lights and a slight fender flare is all thats needed.

Rus.