It will stay as a lasting image on the RE-Xtreme II Blog. It captures the image of the car perfectly as it was meant to be seen. In motion.
Russ.
I found some more pics from dino's shoot on my hard drive. So I was doing a little bit of dreaming about my old FD.
Simply perfect.
I really poured a lot of money and effort into RE-Xtreme Ver II. Even with access to discounted parts, they totalled over 3.5Million Yen making it a pretty expensive machine.
MX5 Highland Green. One of the few times it was captured on film in it's reality.
I think the only thing left to do was add a diffuser. Just for balance. The rear valance was removed in preparation.
Pan speed piping dominated the engine bay. Well designed piping but probably not the best place for a super thick intercooler.
Nardi was from a car featured in "the Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift" movies.
New owner, Macer's addition of Bride Stradia! Awesome. Raw alloy and carbon was a nice touch to complement the other compnents on the car.
Defi's mounted simply on an alloy bar to complement the gauge rims. Water temp on the other side of the dash.
Advan RS. 18x10J +22. I'd choose rays if I had to do it again though. For a couple of reasons.
You can see in this shot the car usually looks almost black. I'm glad I chose silver rims rather than gold.
RE-Xtreme II Revisited!Anyway, The new owner has hooked up the fog lamps which look great and look awesome in tandem with the sleek lights.
In Black and White the car reveals its grim reeping image (which is what I invisaged a long time ago.) I wanted kind of the ultimate James Bond - RX7 ... Classy right up to the point where it takes any target's life. Mission accomplished I feel.
So I'm slowly forgetting about the FD and moving on. Then recently I get pics of both my old cars and Dino gives me some new magazines with my old car featured. It's a conspiracy!
Maybe I'll buy this.... R-Magic Special... NOT!
Don't even tempt me...., my roadster seems to be heading the same direction anyway.
Russ.

This will be the Final Entry for RE-Xtreme II. The car is sold to a lucky guy in the UK who fitted new seats. You will notice in these pics the Bride Stradia Carbon backed seats. I also installed some Project Mu Carbon HC+ brake pads in the Rear.
Thanks to Dino Dalle Carbonare for the awesome pics. You can catch the feature in High Performance Imports no.98(HPI). An Australian Tuning Magazine.
The location was Maihama Resort near the Hotel Mira Costa and surrounds.
Russ.
Here is the car in attack mode. I couldn't get number 7 for the side :(
Performed well. Temps just creeping up when attacking very very hard. Need some proper ducting under the bonnet.
Well the Carbing 3 point brace is on. Thanks to Miguel again for tools and gentle fitting technique. :) We recently ordered two. He already fitted his to the black Main Newera Demo car below. We also trimmed the engine damper rod for fitment and clearance.
Miguel from Newera is a great motivator. He gets me to the stuff I have been putting off for a long time. After installing the radio, I gave it a wash and polish.
My new head unit came today. It is a Carrozzeria DEH-P530 or Pioneer in the normal world. It has multi colour changing display so you can match your interior. Red Blue White... I might do a combo to match the defi's
I took the car to have the tyre fitted near my house. I was lucky because the inside of the tyre was munched from driving a small way on the FLAT. So It was definitely a good decision to get a new tyre.
A small interior update with the addition of the atc suede Sprint gear knob. It looks excellent and matches the interior well, But.
One benefit of the new suspension is that I reduced the ride height. It was sitting a bit high. I also removed the rear spacers. Wheels now sit comfortably on the rear, but I may add a small spacer just for looks more than anything.