Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 - RE-Amemiya

RE-Amemiya. 20B NA europa. You think he could have used Exige lights at least. A bit lazy in his old age.

Mazda Tuning Festa 2012 - MAD-FACE

 The Drift Samurai... "Imamura" is currently running this D1SL spec FD3s. It's called MADFACE.

Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 - SGC D1 7

RE-Amemiya and SGC have had a strong relationship for a few years. It came from Super GT but extended to Drift.

This is the second D1 car transformed into the M7 Replica (note blue interior) that now wears Singapore Changi Motorsports complex livery. D1 & Imamura actually run these colors since the black FD was retired.

Since my rendering of a possible Rauh-Welt FD3s with Porsche frontal styling I've been a bit fascinated with this beast.

The reason being these front fenders would be required to accommodate any massive wheel combo.

The drift machine uses the AC037 body kit + these fender extensions as the relatively low offset wheels are fitted with crazy drift knuckles and lower arms that really widen the track a lot. Steering is also effected for quick response at maximum angle.

At the rear, the curves continue to form something ....

Sexier?

Yes, definitely!

The SGC girls are quite the distraction.

Sometimes that's a good thing, because the rear of the D1 cars really aren't good.

at least the horrendous rear centre exhaust housing has been cut away for tyre smoke to exit.

 These cars produced by RE-Amemiya are polarizing designs that express the wild image that is D1.

Details are everywhere on this car as you would expect. Built to Drift.

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Forza MotorSport 4 Skinz

Video games are great and Forza is one that offers a lot. Sokai is a guy who loves the FD and he set about re-creating his favouites in the Forza paint system.



He has certainly spent some time on these. Replicating most details down exactly.

However, all games have restrictions. and Forzas restrictions include just a few authentic body kits, like Ings+ and C-West. So a lot of shading work has to be done to get these looking right.

Making a non-wide body look wide requires skill.

And mostly the lights get a lot of work.

But the results are pretty special. To the untrained eye "It looks real" is often heard.

So Sokai's garage includes

Street Legal RE-Amemiya D1 machine.
SGC D1 Car.


RYO D1 machine.

RE-Amemiya D1 machine from 2004/5

D1 Garage 3 Rotor

and again in NKB wheels livery.

The community is strong so sometimes Sokai gets involved to help others like "davbat" with finishing details  like the rear fenders on this R-magic livery

 RE-Amemiya TA 2000 SPL.

and the Apexi D1 car.

And the complex Strikers livery.

I'm not sure how these work in applying to a car in Forza but the community is strong and Forza users probably already know how to do that.

Another aspect for FD crazy fans like us.

Russ.

Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 - Magic Mad Mike

Total Car Produce Magic have joined the armed forces of Mad Mike's Metal Mulisha to Attack D1 in 2012.

The car itself is the same 4 rotor that has been in the build for a while at TCP Magic. I shot the car at 7's day          in July when it was wearing the more visible white red line livery. Check here.

It sounds awesome! I've been watching the blog from magic and there were always vague references to an un-named NZ driver this year. I mean there aren't many that have worked with magic before.

So it was obviously going to be Mike that got a run in the car. The engine spec is very similar to the NZ builds using many of the same components anyway.

Inside is a little more original fd-like than Mikes Mad Bull, but it's still stripped and caged in full D1 style.
Yoshioka was penciled in to drive this car two years ago. The "toshiking" steering wheel is refelection on that decision that never eventuated.

Anyway, the car was at the Rays stand. Magic have long had an association with Rays and Gram lights were fitted to this car for a long time. 4 new wheels have debuted on it.

The latest Gram Lights 57 EXTREME are pretty fitting for this site and the D1 FD.

They are a very cool matte graphite and angular pattern of these SP version with machined spokes matches the slashes in the livery well. and add dimension to the car.

the overall effect is very marine GRUNT like with a bit of military stealth.

Get your helmet on!

There were a few camouflaged people in the arena and they blended in nicely.

This photographer is hardly noticeable. In any case the car is amazing! I can't wait for Mike to come over and thrash this thing.

This has always been my favorite angle of the G-face kit. The strakes behind the front wheels and those fenders are cool!

I'd love to see this car with popup light covers doing a sleepy eye effect replacing these crap looking c-west lights.

Their bulbous nature and poor fitment do not match this beast. Small details, but just because something is carbon, doesn't mean it has good styling.

I'm sure you can sell them on Yahoo auction.

A cutout in the indicator combination lamp is for air ducting. No indicators I guess.

 The rear of the car features the stock bumper, surrounded but RE-Amemiya diffuser, G-Face rear fenders with canard extensions, and the high mount, thick sectioned C-west GT wing.

I'm not sure if this is intentional, but the pixelated cammo is a bit cheap looking. Looks like it was made 20 years ago on an atari pc. ol' school is still cool though.

C-West end plates sit almost outside the body limit.

Just a few mm in it. Here you can see the line of the fenders. Quite curvaceous.

Pilot: Mad Mike.

Here's some detail of the 57 Extremes.

 Awesome looking wheels and the new rays nuts and centre caps aint bad either.

 Displayed in blue on the front end of the car, red nuts on the rear. Advan Neova all round in 19" but I doubt Mike will be using these regularly. some smaller sizes will adorn the car in D1.

It's a shame because these are fantastic. 19x10.5+12 on here but 18x9.5+12 are the biggest in 18" available.

The 4 rotor is in there and running strong. Fuel rail and injectors will see plenty of 100 octane splashed through them.

 Ahh those fenders. If you aren't going to use a BN kit, then this is a pretty good alternative.

 This might be the last good look at the car in one piece. D1 will force Mike to the top. Mistakes at this level are common though because everyone is giving 150% so this body will be damaged. Either by schredded tyres or the odd drift tap or wall clip.

Enjoy the Jap Bull.

You can see a video of the car (white) in action on TCP Magic's site.

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