Showing posts with label AC037. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AC037. Show all posts

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 - 20B Carbon.


20B Carbon sounds like a 24Carat Gold . Precious. It's once of the most powerful street cars to come out of the RE-Amemiya stable.


Everything on this car has been modified. Everything!


 Especially the engine bay!


 3 rotor Cosmo based engine still retaind the 20B REW configuration...


How can that be?


There's two Trust TD-06-25G turbines blowing air in and out of this machine.


V-mount inter-cooling and water cooling. Titanium strut bar is a highlighted rare piece.


The spec sheet is long and as you'd expect with a twin turbo, many items are listed twice.


As featured in 2008, the car re-appears at TAS for sale. The Carbon glistening like it was new. It still is.
AC 037 front and fenders as featured on the Final 7 accommodate 20 inch rims.


Love or hate the AC 987 rear, you have to admit that the anti-drag capabilities are all there.


Trademark down turned tailpipe nicknamed dolphin tail.

One of a kind and always will be.

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

7's Day 2011 - AC037 FD


Here is one of those love/hate cars. The RE-Amemiya AC 037 wide version.

The original AC '987 was updated and this AC 2003 incarnation was based around the Porsche 993 headlight and incorporates a deep carbon splitter and new canard design. Ama-san had tried a few versions of this combination of porsche components, but the Green Street Beat 7 set the standard. Since then the wierd Super Greddy 20b rear bumper (that adorns this car) was introduced but it doesn't work with the front end.

Personally the front end is a favourite and the only version from RE-Amemiya that successfully blends the two. You may remember the carbon car also wore this front, although with wider fenders. Anyway, this is a timely post as I'm currently interested in this again for my own car.

These are Rays 18x9.5 with a deep offset around +22 with 255 Neova for the street. The car is very well finished and enjoyed regularly in the north of Tokyo.

You can see the full spec here.

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