Speedhunters Feature.

Dino the champ has stuck up an abbreviated feature just to make me jealous and regret the decision I made to release the car to a new owner. A few pics I haven't seen before from the lens.

This picture was amazing! Really Really impressed. Check out the feature on Speedhunters.com with some of the images I have shown previously.

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.

Dino's full Photo Shoot

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.

That said, It still made it about 3x cheaper than building a similar car in Australia.

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.

This was a purpose built Street car and therefore had a real pressence!

Most pedestrians saw the below view. As it flashed by and they wondered what car was that?

The front RE-Amemiya Facer 9 was kind of a stolen design from the last evolution of the Mitsubishi GTO with the addition of the splitter built in. I still think it's the best but I know others hate it.

I'm still yet to see another with the same combo. It truely is a one off.

Russ.

RE-Xtreme II Revisited

RE-Xtreme II Revisited!

40000klms away in another continent, insertion of a freshly sculptured key unlocks the cage. A deep muffled growl emits from the finely tuned beast. A few raspy depressions of throttle stir the industrial dogs into a frenzy. As it exits it's cold sterile lair, it's new owner's heart pounds in his chest. It's slow exit ensures the hunter's teeth are not damaged on the cage door. Onto the street lurks this sinister machine, stalking the night streets looking for another FEED.

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.

Magazine Features

Finally got some magazines from the magicial man "Dino". Thanks for the nice write up too!

Looks great on the pages. Ahhhhhh the memories.

Check out HPI Australia 100th Issue. or ADDX France 86th Issue

Russ.

Photo Shoot with Dino

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.

Final Drive

Here is the final drive for the RE-Xtreme Project II FD3s RX7 with Newera.


The car is now sold to a lucky owner.


One last drive for me.


Russ.

RE-Xtreme Ver.II with Newera.

A Newera of car ownership awaits for me. So you can now own this awesome vehicle.

Sadly, I've never really had the chance to use the car as I would like and with the 1 year build, it really doesn't suit my requirements any more. It's time unfortunately let her go.

Unless someone want so buy it for me as a gift. Oh to be rich.

Some very lucky person will have the opportunity to have one the best RX-7's around at just a fraction of what it owes me.

Visit the http://www.neweraimports.com/ website for full information soon.

Russ.

FD3s Matsuri.

Festival ( Matsuri ) time in Uraysu city saw the streets lit with Japanese style lanterns.


It was a very nice atmosphere for some final shots of the now sold FD.

The car looks great at night but shooting the colour on a camera is very difficult indeed.

Russ.

Fuji Speedway

Here is the car in attack mode. I couldn't get number 7 for the side :(
But the car really looked good.

Performed well. Temps just creeping up when attacking very very hard. Need some proper ducting under the bonnet.

Other than that, it was a lot of fun. Hours of playing GT5 paid off as the line was embedded in my brain. Fuji is an awesome circuit. Feels very safe and it was a good shakedown for my car.

Stay tuned for some video and more pics.

Russ.

Preparation - II

Brake Fluid - New

Brake Pads - Purchased as a spare set

Preparation - I

Tidy up of some things that were irritating me or forgotten.

Light Covers - Secure

Master Cylinder Brace - Secure

Front Under Tray - Secure

Almost ready.

Canon IXY

Testing the new Canon IXY IS25

It's 10.0 Mega Pixels.

I tried them all but this one is the fastest to focus and take a picture.

And it was only 300 dollars.

Takes a pretty good pic too!

Russ.

Carbing Bling

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.

Other than that, I still need to adjust the brake master cylinder brace... Forgot about that... hehe.

Drives much nicer now the strut towers aren't trying to meet in the middle and feels stiff again.
It also clears my RE-Amemiya AD hood 9 with water trays installed, which was the main reason for purchase.

Now I need to get polishing because everything else is very very ugly under there.

Russ.

Daikoku Futo

Went down to Daikoku to meet the fellows in Japan. A small turnout but still fun. Did some Rajidori.

This shot of my car shows how absolutly huge the GTR 35 is. I parked far enough away as not to scratch anything.

Russ.

Under Construction

Here are some shots from a construction site.

Kind of fitting for the point in time.

The car was almost but not quite finished.

Looking good. It's all in the detail.

Russ.

Clean and Polish

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.

It has been almost 6 months since the car has seen polish so this was a bit of hard work.
Some more frequent cleaning is on the cards.

I then took the car for a small photoshoot of which I will post pictures soon. Check out the camera starbursts in this shot...

Russ.

Stereo Install

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

It also has Ipod and USB reading and control facilities. And it looks cool. Very simple design. Easy to clean etc.

I was lucky here also becuase the previous stereo was the same brand so it plugged straight in, so I finished in 20 mins.

Russ.

Neova Fitting

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.

The guys were friendly at the Bridgestone place. I got a couple of pics of the rear Aragosta and Cusco Bars that are now on the car.

Russ

Inside

A small interior update with the addition of the atc suede Sprint gear knob. It looks excellent and matches the interior well, But.

This one is very light and I'm not sure if I prefer the older heavy Veilside one. May have to think about some options here.

New stereo ordered (MD currently doesn't play anything) so I may have some CD tunes pumping soon.

Russ.

Less is more.

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.

Feed's recommendation of 18x10+25 and a 25mm spacer is no where near suitable. maybe 10mm is ok.

Russ.