The Tuning Car World Showdown might only be a small show in comparison to the craziness that is the Tokyo Auto Salon, but what it lacks in sheer numbers of cars in attendance it more than makes up for in quality. Plus, it’s always a great event to get a taste for what tuners based in the south of Japan are getting up to, which perfectly introduces the car that I want to kick off the spotlight features from this show with.
It’s probably been five years since I last headed out to Pit Road M deep in the Hyogo-ken countryside – but it’s one shop I haven’t forgotten as they seem to continuously be building seriously bad-ass cars. Pit Road M originally made a name for itself as one of the few tuners in Japan specialising in the Mitsubishi GTO – and not only making them go fast, but actually handle and put down some decent times at time attack events like the Meister Cup. But after doing all sorts of great things with the GT-R and even Kei cars, they’ve gone rotary for their latest project.
Like all the cars Pit Road M build, the main theme here is function. This FD3S is all about achieving fast times at the track and every single one of its details points to this. The aero package is pretty impressive – the full body conversion using parts form RE Amemiya, Total Car Produce Magic and Rusty to name a few. It all starts off up front with a massive carbon fiber lip spoiler which extends underneath the car to smooth out air flow.
As cool as the aero parts are though, it’s hard to ignore what’s going on in the engine bay!
The package is based around a 13B engine which has been bridge-ported and fitted with an HKS T04Z turbocharger to ram compressed air into its combustion chambers.
The turbo is positioned so that the intercooler could be mounted horizontally and in a V-configuration, with the radiator beneath to make the most out of the air entering through the big front air dam.
The TCP Magic front fenders look like they have come from a modern day Super GT car – squared off and laden with strategically-placed carbon air intakes and louvered outlets. The wheels of choice for this project are lightweight satin black Enkei RPF1s which provide an understated yet super-aggressive look. Many years after it was originally penned, the FD3S continues to lend itself well to extensive aesthetic transformations, don’t you think?
The rear end gets much the same treatment – bolt-on overfenders allowing massive 295-section rear tyres to fit within their dimensions.
If you hadn’t figure out what discipline this car has been built for, the Voltex rear wing will soon set you straight on that.
It all makes for a brutally-hot interpretation of a massively popular chassis, and the choice to paint it a similar metallic blue as the BNR34 GT-R sitting next to it quickly made it one of the best cars present at the show. But then again, I’m biased!
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Dining Table for a splitter
Beast.
Id like to take off the wing, shrink the splitter and drive it on the street.
derektmead yes, buy it. you have my permission.
Just depends on the discipline. The 13B has proven to be more than up to the task for time attack with porting and turbo upgrades. Just look at the Car Shop Glow FD, the one running a bridge with a T88(?).
StreetStatik Not sure my dining table is that expansive!
I think there is a typo. From not form right?
Very cool. I like the ducting through the headlights, ambient air engine cooling and turbo induction it seems.
Don't you mean RASTY, Dino? Love this FD!
If you haven't been to "Pit Road M" in 5 years, maybe you should pay them a visit and take some more detailed aero/suspension pics of these bad boys... *Nudge nudge...*
I wonder how effective that ram-air "hose" is, being placed perpendicular to the turbo inlet... Lol.
Awesomeness !
Sweet
Dino, still waiting update from your sanyon.
ridvantrika1 So am I lol
@B Would love to, but damn they are far! lol
ra64freddy! haha yes
Smiggins Revolution and PanSpeed did ok with the 13B
I very like Pit Road M’s latest rotary project, and not forget to mention the Japanese "Art Work" on this Car.
I have Nissan skyline it has carbon spoiler and etc
Long live the 7's! Awesome coverage. Keep it up Dino!
Does anyone know what the orange/black intake tubing is called or where to buy it?
http://m.summitracing.com/search/part-type/brake-cooling-duct-hose
ThatRX7Guy http://www.summitracing.com/parts/aaf-all42152/overview/
Super cool rx-7 and really nice attention to detail, but really disappointed to see they visited pit road M again and still didn't put up an article on the gto. Theres a million rx-7 articles out there and these guys specialize in the gto, had a bunch of friends looking forward to that article when they teased it but it never got delivered.
Please post an article on the gto!
Fed_x There's not really much to report on their shop GTO's. I was there this time last year and they were just hanging out in storage. Here's some of the pics I took: https://www.facebook.com/wlahara/media_set?set=a.767796040003046.1073741875.100003179726531&type=3 . Moroshita-san was nice enough to start it and rev it for us since my buddy is a die hard GTO owner / fan: https://instagram.com/p/t9khAIuY80/
any idea on the wheel specs? offsets and such?
Dino is there any way you could do an article on their GTO? I saw one of theirs at TAS 2016 and I have become a huge fan of their work.
the car was very good
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