My car in Japan!

[gsb876]

Can you post a pic of your car natural please Ben my mate wants to have a look as cant find any pics on MRC

Cheers
Gurj

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Here\'s a pic for you Gurj.

Heres a spec of mods done to the car since I got it as standard in 2003:

1992 Mazda Rx7 FD3S
Japanese Spec Type R
No Sunroof
2 Seat
ABS / AC / PS / PW / PM

Body:
Kazama GT wide body kit consiting of:
- Front bumper
- Rear bumper
- Side skirts
- Front fenders (30mm wider)
- Rear fenders (35mm wider)
C-West carbon fiber GT Rear Wing
Scoot Bonnet with rain trays (Original) with Alloy bonnet pins
RE Amemiya Pro diffuser (To be fitted)
Mazda OEM 1999 + front indicator and sidelight clusters
Mazda OEM 1996 + rear light clusters
Clear side repeaters
Custom Vinyls (drawn and cut by myself)

Footwork and Chassis:
18" Volk Racing Gram Lights 57-FPRO
Uniroyal Rain Sport tyres (245F - 275R)
ZEAL Function coilovers with unknown spring rates
SWIFT spings F-16kg and R-18kg (Being sourced)
Standard Mazda F-4pot and R-2pot calipers
Standard disc rotors
Endless Carbon ceramic pads

Engine:
Garret (HKS) TA45 with .9 rear housing
HKS 50mm Wastegate
HKS SQV dump valve
HKS twin plate clutch with counter weight (to be fitted)
New 5-speed OEM gearbox (to be fitted)
Mazda 13B with v.large street port
NGK 10.5 Racing plugs
Polished plenneum and alternator
Bosch 044 fuel pump and regulator
Uprated 1300cc secondary injectors
APEXi GT Spec FMIC with hard pipes
WGT Auto Dev (UK) Alloy Air Seperator Tank
Removed Air pump and replaced with blanking plate
Underdrive pully set
Twin oil coolers
Custom front pipe
Custom Mid Pipe
Blitz Nur Spec R exhaust with catalyst removed

Interior:
APEXi Power FC ECU with handheld commander
APEXi AVC-R boost controller
Blitz AC Boost & Water Temp gauges mounted in centre pod
GReddy turbo timer  
Recaro carbon kevlar bucket seats
Bride racing seat pads
Sparco 3-point harnesses
Mazdaspeed Carbon rear view mirror cover and Mazda OEM 1996 mirror
Mazdaspeed Carbon Dash Panels
Carbon fiber door strips, dials dash cover
Rainbow flake sprayed interior panels
Razo adjustable pedal set and foot plate
Momo Jet steering wheel
Momo handbrake lever and leather gaiters
Momo chrome shifter
Addzest In-Dash audio system / CD / MD / Radio double DIN
Pioneer uprated speakers front, rear and additional tweeters.

To be featured on the cover on J-tuner, along with features in Max Power, Fast car and others. I\'m currently looking for any tuners that would be interested in offering me parts for the car e.g. brakes, diff, rollcage etc for a mention in the features. (Well worth a shot eh)!

[FDDreamer]

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You have been busy mate!! Car looks fantastic as ever, particularly like the tunnel pic...can almost hear the noise...

Since i\'ve lost all the pics i\'d spent hours doctoring after my hard drive decided to go meet it\'s maker i\'ve had nothing to look at for a few weeks...great timing that i should manage to hook up the internet on my bro\'s PC and you should make a post like this!

Only shame is i never got to show you the edited pics of your car i took, some came out really well. Doh!

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Good to see your still on the forum, glad I could furnish your desktop with some pics too!

Sorry about the PC losing the pics, I would\'ve liked to see them too - I take it you couldn\'t recover any of the old data?

[gsb876]

Cheers Ben,

A mate was asking for a nice pic of a rx7 for his nephew who loves rx7\'s, needless to say you made a 7 yr old happy    and i dont mean Si  

[chrisBoid]

Hey wide boy

I can\'t remember seeing any power figures for your setup?  Do you know the figures?

[Tim Oldland]

Ben, any chance of you posting up that first pic in 1280x1024 size, as its just itching to go on my desktop.....

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Lol thanks Gurj!

Chris at present I have no power figures what-so-ever! According to my Max Power bhp chart I have at least 1100bhp at the wheels!! But then agian I never added their sticker to my windscreen so it\'s probably around 380 or so. I\'m just a shade quicker than Ferrari 360 CS from a rolling start and there quoted at just under 400 I believe.

Tim, I posted the biggest the forum allows me too at 1100px wide, if you can PM me your email I\'ll send you a bigger version when I get back from the office.

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Gotta add to my power answer that I\'m running only .7 boost so I\'m not even spooling the tubby up properly yet. Once the new clutch and box is in I can see what the turbo can do (well when the weathers a bit better)!

[Kieron]

:god   :god  :god  :god

Amazing! I was looking at the one Ross brough on yahoo japan. DROOL

If mine doesn\'t break down in the next 3 months I can afford to start modifying it, RMagic style  :cool BUT you mentioned that you can do graphics?

I\'ll be in touch

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Cheers Kieron! R-Magics wide-body is pretty mental, you thinking of going for that? It\'s quite speacial and no people I know of have it in the UK.
You in need of graphics? Surely not after your recent purchase from Japan!

[Ada7]

Loving your car even more now Ben!! :god
Wish i could join the Kazama club as i think the kit is amazing! Have also been looking at the one Ross got, so you never know

Adam (Still dreaming!!)

[FDDreamer]

Bah. Unfortunately i\'ve had no luck yet. Apparently it\'s an error with the MBR, read a fair bit about it on a tech forum somewhere and the only solution that my pedestrian brain can make any sense of is to get a new hard drive! I did hear it is possible to \'ghost\' the data from my drive to another empty one but haven\'t a clue how!!

Bet you\'re itching to discover what kind of power she\'s running! The Stradale is rated at 425bhp, and i believe it weighs roughly the same as a stock FD. However it\'s gearbox is reputed to be ridiculously effective. Think the changes take 150 milliseconds or thereabouts. Rather faster than moving the gearstick around i guess! However the CS, like the base 360, is relatively torque-less. Generates about 280lb/ft at around 4800rpm i think...not a lot really. But then it\'s designed specifically for peak power, as the 118bhp per litre specific output figure suggests!

Any car that can keep a CS honest must be seriously rapid! Think they cover 0-60 in 4.1 to 4.2 seconds and on to 100 in well under 10. Quarter mile is very low 12\'s apparently. Not a spectacular time if you\'re used to reading about the adventures of 800+bhp Skylines but pretty nippy for a factory-produced road car!!

Err sorry about that. Bit carried away, especially over a ferrari... although to be honest i was fortunate enough to hear one at a dealership near me...  

[jay]

You showing off again Ben.
Jay

[Kieron]

Cheers Kieron! R-Magics wide-body is pretty mental, you thinking of going for that? It\'s quite speacial and no people I know of have it in the UK.
You in need of graphics? Surely not after your recent purchase from Japan!

Yeah man, RMagic all the way  :chat

I couldn\'t afford the decals int he end as I had to have another engine, who budgets for 2 engines in 6 months?  :mad:
Oh well it\'s back again with a decent street ported motor, now I got to save up for the decals and kit. There is an RMagic wideboy for sale at the moment but too much $$