Gallery>>rotary Meeting At Fuji Speedway

Before I move on to the rest of my D1GP Fuji coverage, I wanted to take a quick break and post up a few photos from the all-rotary meeting that was held at Fuji Speedway alongside the D1 event. I was pretty occupied with shooting D1 itself, so I didn't have time to look at all the sexy FD's and RX8's very closely, but I was able to go for a quick walk around the meet and snap a few pictures along the way. Japan's big rotary tuners like RE Amemiya and R Magic had a big presence there and their parts could be seen on a number of the cars packed into one of Fuji Speedway's many parking lots.

It's no secret that Ama-san likes to use Enkei wheels on all of his demo cars. These particular wheels are called the GTC01 and although I didn't really care for them at first, they have really started to grow on me lately. Actually, the majority of the RX7's at the meeting seemed to be wearing Enkeis of some sort.

You can't go wrong with a red FD3S, especially one loaded it up with Amemiya parts and a set of RPF1's. Six years after leaving production, the FD is still one of the most popular tuning platforms in Japan by far.

I also dig the old style Amemiya logo on the GT wing of the red car.

Another FD3S done up in R-Magic's signature purple and white livery.

This green car is rocking the same RE Amemiya Porsche-inspired front end conversion as Masao Suenaga's D1GP car.

I think the old school RE Amemiya wheels look cool to this day.

Amemiya's signature color. I'd say this is pretty close to what I'd end up with and FD chassis and unlimited budget.

If you look at this photo REALLY closely you can see Star Dust Factory's camo'd FD parked in front of the hill. Ready for combat I guess?

Just some more FD goodness here.

I wish I had more time to look at these cars closer, but there was so much going on at D1 over the weekend. I did, however, spot one more pretty unique machine at the rotary meeting and I'll be posting a little more about that one soon.

-Mike Garrett

ADVERTISEMENT

Comments



Comments are closed.

20 comments

by Oldest
by Best by Newest by Oldest
1

But you have more pics??...



I love Rotary cars and the FD maybe will be the next car...

Are so cool... Re amemiya is the best company for FD...

2

too much awesome! thanks mike!

3

No cool FC chassis pics?

4

I love how FD guys here in USA will live and die by the stock exterior.

hahahaha.





dumb.

5

Hey nice pictures but do you have any pictures of the car behind the green rx-7 with Porsche conversion front? The car which i am asking for is the silver rx-7, that looks to be one of those unique conversion that Re amemiya created, i believe it got the cosmos 20b 3 rotor engine conversion....

6

Dan, you mean the car directly behind it?

It's the Scoot 4 rotor RX-7. Dino has some pics and an article http://blog.gtroc.com/dino/2005/06/scoot_rx-7.html

7

I love the Star dust factory's FD.... thanks for the pics!

8

The silver Re Amemiya Rex7 was feartued in Redline and will be their new Time Attack car

9

Yes, i meant the Scoot 4 rotor RX-7. Yup i'm no rx-7 expert but i've seen some clips on youtube and that thing is a monster. Anyhow, nice pictures, always been a fan of rx-7 but don't have the balls to own a rotory car =)

10

No SA's or FB's there?

11

ohh yea,,, where's the old skewl Rotors.... but who cares gr8 pics...... gawddamit I should Be there!!!! =(

12

Not ALL FD guys :) Can't wait to put a kit on mine. I think the reason most have the stock exterior is that, since FDs are still so expensive in the US, many of the owners are older and don't care for the aggressive look of aftermarket body kits.




Interesting white FD with the four headlight conversion in that first picture, looks like an Integra. (It's parked between a red FD and a black FC) Strangely, there are no 1st gens? Or maybe this isn't so strange for Japan...I've heard lots of stories about how hard it is to register a car that old in Japan. But there are a lot of them at rotary meets here in the US.

13

sweet coverage! well done man! :-)



The original RE amemiya wheels dont go out of style. And im very interested on the white FD beside the green one there. its like its sporting an Abflug kit of some sort. :-)

14

Scoot 4 rotor for the win :)

15

CAR OVERLOAD!! fliajsdhflj

.

.

amazing.

Mike your pictures never cease to astound me, the stuff you get to see must make you feel even more warm and fuzzy inside than it makes me to see these pictures.

.

seriously though, i <3 rotaries, especially FD's, so this is basically just pure winningness. my favourite of what's been shown here (please MORE! :D) has got to be the grey one with the Enkei rims and bolt-on fenders, so old school! i love it. words cannot express.

16

oh and just to add up the white car isnt an FD but an RX8. found this floating on the internet.



http://www.rx8sources.com/products_pictures/rx8sources185_t.jpg



:-)

17

Please, more pictures, please!!! And thank you, great job as always Mike!

18

that red fd u pointed out mike is so sik!

19

MOAR ROTARY!!!!

20

TRUTH IZ ALL DE CARS LOOK NICE, THE R8 LOOKS KINDA A BABY TO DE RX7 BUT WTF COOL RIDES.

OFFICIAL SPEEDHUNTERS SUPPLIERS