Hi guys:Thumbsup!
Not been on here much since i swapped my FD for a Skyline:flamed
However i have decided to sell that post haste because a good mate of mine imports (mainly modified) cars from Japan. He picked this up from the dockstoday & seen as it\'s probably the most mental RX i\'ve ever seen i don\'t think i have any choice but to buy it.
It\'s an RS-R edition (pretty sure there\'s only 1 or 2 of these in the country)
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s021.jpg)
and has a wide body kit (possibly RE-A) along with a genuine AD9 bonnet and a nice carbon kevlar spoiler.
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s003.jpg)
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It\'s clearly bridge ported judging by the sound of the engine!
It\'s running a T51 SPL turbo the biggest intercooler i\'ve ever seen, it has an additional fuel rail welded onto the lower inlet manifold just above the secondary rail.
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s009.jpg)
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It gets better....
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Thats an HKS FULLY SEQUENTIAL gearbox! and it\'s completely mental!!
Combined with the most aggressive diff i\'ve ever experianced full throttle gearchanges are completely nuts!:yes
All the coilpacks have been removed from the engine bay & instead it has these in the place of back seats
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s014.jpg)
It\'s also runs an Apexi power fc ASWELL AS an HKS Fcon ecu????
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s018.jpg)
WTF??? I didn\'t even know that was possible! The power FC appears to be running a very old base map so the FCON must controlling the bulk of the engine map (along with the additional injectors)
It\'s also got S**t loads of gauges & controlers
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s020.jpg)
along with some special anniversary dials?
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s013.jpg)
This car is obviously a serious weapon and appears to have been drag raced in japan(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s019.jpg)
Any comments are welcomed along with any info on parts i may have missed or not noticed!
Is there anyway i cannot buy this??:yes
Oh yeah it\'s also got these...
(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/lum90/GTGarageRX7s016.jpg):flamed
fell in love with it till i saw the lambo doors.......big no no in my book, but up to you Liam
Yeah i know mate! They\'d have to come straight off! Surely this has the spec to be one of the fastest FD\'s in the country doesn\'t it?
what power and boost is it running?
cant see any water injection though
its the kazama wide arch kit isnt it?? :S lambo doors are a big no now tho!
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h235/k-tec_tne/poster44648200.jpg)
how much is it?
Is that a standard rad though ? The bonnet doesnt seem to fit well near the bumper.
But other than that it looks ace, really unusual bodykit.
yeah it is standard. Cant see it running much boost. Get the rad changed mate
Yeah i thought the standard rad was a bit rubbish!
No idea about the power or boost level as we don\'t wanna drive it on too much boost till we\'ve checked the map & AFR\'s, however with it running both Power FC & FCon that\'s not gonna be as easy as it sounds lol
Quote from: gmogle;528583Is that a standard rad though ? The bonnet doesnt seem to fit well near the bumper.
But other than that it looks ace, really unusual bodykit.
The bonnets not shut properly mate thats all.
Check engine rebuild status and boost map, last thing you want is to buy it and then blow it on the way home.
Looks quite good, ECU\'s need tidying away and the lambo doors is a personal thing really, potentially very fast rx :Giggle
Anybody have any info on the Sequential box? I didn\'t realise HKS made one for an FD?
its running pfc as you can see the f con isnt plugged in
Quote from: Lum;528593Anybody have any info on the Sequential box? I didn\'t realise HKS made one for an FD?
Darren @ Whifbitz runs run
The Fcon is plugged in mate! (the red light is also flashing so looks like it\'s been locked)
The wiring\'s an absolute mess but they\'re both plugged in & doing something.
Is an FCon designed to run alongside a standard ECU?
yes and they are pricey....around £5k.....if this has been used for drag mainly the std rad would be fine.....if it were track then a big no no......buy it coz if you dont i might just have to!!!
lambo doors are a big no no on an FD, but no for looks, they should have some serious reinforcement as the FD chassis is very flimsey. Thats why the have chassis braces underneath and a frame around the door windows. Look at any other car in its class and they all have no metal frame work around the door glass. Jack one corner of your fd up and open a door. It wont like shutting as the chassis will be twisted! The door provides chassis rigidity, by making the doors lambo style you loose a lot of that.
Looks like it needs a fair bit of money spending to get things right and as tidy as your old one. The engine isnt worth that much if you dont know its history as it could last a week or a year. The turbo and gearbox are the most valuable things on it if you like that sort of thing. Sounds like it would make a good basis for a track/drift/drag car but would need a lot of effort to make it a nice road car.
If its the right price and it ticks the boxes for you, then go for it, only you can decide really mate.
Fcon is a piggyback, isn\'t it?
yeah my F con is plugged into my original ecu to manage some things on the car like oil metering pumps etc, but the F Con controls all the timing fuelling and ignition. You can run the F Con as stand alone
its impossible to run 2 aftermarket ecu\'s i have been told. If you want to borrow my fcon monitor to check let me know mate
Personnally, i can\'t see how doors will be a structural part of a car.
That may be very useful Ash cheers mate.
I\'m not even sure if it\'s for sale yet, my mate may be keeping it for some drag action!!
Let me know mate and ill run through how to use it to set it all up
If its locked and Japanease you might not be unable to unlock it. I know there are some that Re:Worx cant unlock as there arent many of us running Pro Gold.
Speak to Max and give him the serial number and version and he will be able to tell you
they are a very important part of the car. same as the windscreen. Look how thin the roof on an fd is (thump it). That and the floor is the only other thing holding the chassis from twisting without the doors. If you drive a turbo II convert with the roof down, you can feel the flex in the chassis.
Cheers for the help mate, do RE-worx map your FCon?
Regardless of whether i buy it or not we\'re gonna have to get the map checked over before giving it some!
That is an early Kazama kit. Not as wide as Bens on the front due to the lamo doors and the wings being shaved down. The kit is worth a bit of dollar.
Quote from: Lum;528613Cheers for the help mate, do RE-worx map your FCon?
Regardless of whether i buy it or not we\'re gonna have to get the map checked over before giving it some!
yes mate, only people i trust with Pro Gold in rotary world
Quote from: nikp;528606Personnally, i can\'t see how doors will be a structural part of a car.
Having crashed one really quite sternly, I can assure you you want the nice, robust FD doors next to you when you do, geez! The rest of the car really doesn\'t put up with too much.
Car looks ok, but not awesome tbh. It is a nice spec (except the doors), but it seems quite unfinished in a few places, not sure I\'d want to own an ex-competition car with all the usual features (like vital bits of ECU wiring loom hanging out of its gusset lol) unless I was only using it for competitions myself. Doesn\'t lok the sorta thing you could pop up the shops for a pint of milk in!
go for it liam, you know it makes sense, get rid of that silly skybus and buy another rx7 :yes
Quote from: Nik da Greek;528619Having crashed one really quite sternly, I can assure you you want the nice, robust FD doors next to you when you do, geez! The rest of the car really doesn\'t put up with too much.
what i meant by structural was not in the sense of safety. I would agree that they are an important safety requirement!
I meant adding to the overall chassis stiffness and resistence agaisnt twisting.
Quote from: nikp;528606Personnally, i can\'t see how doors will be a structural part of a car.
tell ya what. perfect example of the flex. jack your rex up a few inchs with door open the try closing it
Quote from: skybusr34;528625tell ya what. perfect example of the flex. jack your rex up a few inchs with door open the try closing it
or even jack it up and look at the panel gaps :eek:
that looks lovely! where abouts are those photos taken as it looks familiar! BUY IT!
Mental car that mate. I\'d get it for the body kit alone. Have always loved the Kazama Kit :D
Adam
Buy it!!!!!!!!!!
1) It has alot of bloody expensive stuff on it.
2) With a little personal adjustment and styling on certain things it will be one hell of a mean street car
3) You will kick yourself if you dont, Why? because for the price of that car it would cost you a hell of a lot more to make another FD to the same specs.
4) If you buy it with a rebuil in mind, New large alloy rad, and a clean up think of the awsome car you would have for the price.
Quote from: AshRX;528616yes mate, only people i trust with Pro Gold in rotary world
you mean the only people to tune them for rotaries over here!:rolleyes:
Quote from: nikp;528622what i meant by structural was not in the sense of safety. I would agree that they are an important safety requirement!
I meant adding to the overall chassis stiffness and resistence agaisnt twisting.
Also to do with the panels behind the fender/door being cut up to fit the rail on most kits for the fd, it\'s not ideal!
Car looks great, just needs a few minor adjustments- more aggressive wheels & a darker paint job & it would be perfect :D.
U can\'t go wrong... depending on how much your getting it for, the parts alone are worth a bomb! The fact that it\'s an rs-r is quite nice too i suppose :cool.
Quote from: nikp;528622what i meant by structural was not in the sense of safety. I would agree that they are an important safety requirement!
I meant adding to the overall chassis stiffness and resistence agaisnt twisting.
You would be surprised, a door is designed to make a big A brace from the two front hinges to the Door catch, Basically the theory is the same as welding two bars in a v from the door hinges to the quarter.
Quote from: Ed_RX7;528654you mean the only people to tune them for rotaries over here!:rolleyes:
yeah as im not going to the states or Japan to get mapped :evillaugh
I tried to buy this in Japan, nice spec, best bit being the box. Proper jap tuned quality rex.
I would buy it you can sort the doors out later.
You can piggy back an F-Con pro and PFC
Nice car, the kit has the other front Kazama fenders that blend back into the bodywork rather than the sticky out ones I have. My kit has been tweak to make it wider than the standard Kazama kit (heh why not eh)! But its still my favourite of the wide kits out there.
Your gay if you dont buy this.
What you\'ll probably find is that they\'ve upgraded the ecu from standard to apexi and probably binned off the standard ecu, then upgraded to f-con. Leaving the Apexi to run bog standard things that the standard ecu would of controlled, and having the mapping done on the f-con.
I had a similar setup on a supra that was brought over. Although I sold them both and just replaced it with a motec.
Seen a few cars use the PFC with F-Con Pro. Think they do it so you can still view the info from the PFC commander. ie injector duty, knock etc. So many quality HKS goodies on that car.
Man, i really do think that is awesome......all it needs is things tidying up on it (and get rid of those headlights! :D), and that is mega.
How much are those HKS boxes....something like 5k arnt they?
How much is the whole car btw?
Lum - av it and buy it now!!! Looks great! Enjoy #;o)
Amazing matey! mmm.. Kazama kits r the lushness.
Give me a shout if you want a hand tidying it up, I\'m only just down the M5 in Stroud, would love to see it in the flesh!
Can start the yellow widebody crew lol;
(http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/6288/image005kh2.th.jpg) (http://img184.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image005kh2.jpg)
(And get rid of the friggin lights! Mine are going asap - quads for sale, any takers? :))
Nice car aswell BenLewisMav, would look awesome lowered a tad!:driving
Yeah agreed, Only problem is..
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And that is a smallish speed bump!
Quote from: BenLewisMav;528857Yeah agreed, Only problem is..
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And that is a smallish speed bump!
The ugle URAS bumper? Best thing you can do is hit a speed bump and kill it, then replace it with a lovely N1 Facer.
Isnt this car up on eBay?
Yellow Kazama car looks lovely! I know who has it in the UK. Euromillions tonight, buy it tomorrow? haha
Quote from: BenLewisMav;528857Yeah agreed, Only problem is..
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And that is a smallish speed bump!
Ah......... simply solution to that........move house!!!!:rollin
Dont listen to Kieron, that Uras front bumper is mega!:Thumbs-up
GT-Garage said they arent selling the car. Thought they were GTR boys. What do they plan to do with it?
They can do allsorts, prob keep it as promotion car or something ??
Cheers for the input guys!
Had a chat with my mate who owns the car today & looks like he\'s gonna keep it for a bit to use as a company demo car! Which means i can still be involved with it without having to actually buy it!
Then as soon as he\'s bored with it i\'ll buy it! :)
We\'re gonna get the car out with the wideband on it this weekend hopfully & see what the AFR\'s are doing, hopefully with some decent fuel in (ie- race fuel) it will be pretty safe, then we can start winding up the boost and see what it can do:Giggle
Hopefully it\'ll be hitting various drag strips at pace soon!!:god
Quote from: Kieron;528891GT-Garage said they arent selling the car. Thought they were GTR boys. What do they plan to do with it?
GTR\'s are there speciallty but they\'re into anything Jap, fast & modified mainly!:Giggle
Quote from: Kieron;528863The ugle URAS bumper? Best thing you can do is hit a speed bump and kill it, then replace it with a lovely N1 Facer.
Isnt this car up on eBay?
Yellow Kazama car looks lovely! I know who has it in the UK. Euromillions tonight, buy it tomorrow? haha
I don\'t really know why they decided on the URAS front and the rest GT-AD.. I looked into getting the N1 Facer to match the rest of the car but can\'t justify the £800ish that RHDJapan want for one!
Anyways, get some vids of the beast, would love to see it in motion
Quote from: BenLewisMav;528902I don\'t really know why they decided on the URAS front and the rest GT-AD.. I looked into getting the N1 Facer to match the rest of the car but can\'t justify the £800ish that RHDJapan want for one!
Anyways, get some vids of the beast, would love to see it in motion
nice motor there...i may be able to help with N1 front..:yes
The kazama car looks awsome and cant wait to see it on the strip:burnout
Quote from: Laeeq;528910nice motor there...i may be able to help with N1 front..:yes
The kazama car looks awsome and cant wait to see it on the strip:burnout
You love any yellow ones !! :rollin
hey Ben
you got it in the end then..was that the one Jerry Tsang (sp??) was selling on ebay...?
Jit
Quote from: BenLewisMav;528902I looked into getting the N1 Facer to match the rest of the car but can\'t justify the £800ish that RHDJapan want for one!
I could get you one cheaper than that :driving
so are you still gonna sell the GTR Liam?might be interested mate....
Quote from: Laeeq;528910nice motor there...i may be able to help with N1 front..:yest he kazama car looks awsome and cant wait to see it on the strip:burnout
Good man! that\'s what I like to hear! PM me if you have any news about it.
Yep Jit, went down with a friend and looked over it, very clean and solid underneath, nothing major wrong so bought it. Mt. Akina here I come.
Ahh I have some Kazama competition!
Be good to have a one on one at some point..... :D
Quote from: MINTER;528955so are you still gonna sell the GTR Liam?might be interested mate....
GT Garage are having it off me mate in part ex... they\'re gonna import me a
R34 GTR:Thumbs-up
Not a done deal yet though if you wanna make me an offer for it?
tempted big time to have that GTR back off you..though im keeping the RX7 great wee mad machine..lol.....hmmmmm ill get back to you very soon
I drove past that garage yesterday as Sophs cousin lives in weston village, seen the white FD parked outside and a Orange Supra but didnt see this yellow FD.
Quote from: sweetiewells;529265I drove past that garage yesterday as Sophs cousin lives in weston village, seen the white FD parked outside and a Orange Supra but didnt see this yellow FD.
Next time your down that way mate gimmie a shout! I\'ll show you some of the cars!:Giggle
car is bad ass BUY IT!!!!!
Liam, N1 front bumper, would that be an RE-AM N1 ad facer ?