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Showing posts with label fd3s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fd3s. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Friday, July 27, 2018
Rotary Reliability Be Damned, The RX-7 Was One Bad Ass Car
1993 Mazda RX-7 Retro Review | A '90s hero turns 25
There was nothing else like it on the road – and there still isn't
Seen today, the FD walks a fine line between being a beautiful modern classic that can hold its own against much more recent challengers out on the road, and semi-garage queen that demands some time spent under the hood to ensure continued good mechanical behavior. Then again, if you're not the kind of "engaged owner" Mazda was looking for when the RX-7 was new, perhaps you'd do better parking something more pedestrian in your driveway 25 years later. Or at least something with pistons.
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There was nothing else like it on the road – and there still isn't
Seen today, the FD walks a fine line between being a beautiful modern classic that can hold its own against much more recent challengers out on the road, and semi-garage queen that demands some time spent under the hood to ensure continued good mechanical behavior. Then again, if you're not the kind of "engaged owner" Mazda was looking for when the RX-7 was new, perhaps you'd do better parking something more pedestrian in your driveway 25 years later. Or at least something with pistons.
(AutoBlog.com)
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Monday, May 28, 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Monday, March 19, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Monday, November 7, 2016
The FD3S Of Your Dreams Is Now A Reality
Everything You Need To Know About The World's First All-Wheel Drive 4-Rotor Mazda RX-7
But even as far as RX-7 mods go, Dahm’s is on another level. He set out to complete this project with a company known as FR Performance, led by NHRA legend and RX-7 guru Abel Ibarra, who would provide the manpower, craftsmanship, and years of rotary knowledge. Dahm would head the design and foot the project’s eye-watering $250,000 budget.
The body of the car, while maintaining much of the RX-7's trademark sex appeal, has been widened by nine inches and lengthened by an additional eight with the help of a completely custom tube frame that was hand-bent and welded into the existing body of the car.
The powerplant, however, isn’t a sculpted and kneaded mass like the exterior - it’s a goddamn sledgehammer. Project Ahura sports a 2.6 liter, 4-rotor that had to be custom ordered, as no factory 4-rotor currently exists on Earth. It’s mated to a Hollinger RD-6 sequential manual gearbox with straight cut gears, meaning that driving it will both be incredibly cool and deafening. You’ll need a clutch pedal to engage 1st gear, but everything after that is between you and the shifter. Eat it, Ferrari.
The all wheel drive part is taken care of with an E36 M3 front differential with Wavetech helical LSD guts, and a M5 rear differential, with another LSD, though Dahm didn’t specify its make or particular hooning capacity.
The most interesting part of the entire project, and one that Dahm himself touts as the pinnacle of this build, is the suspension. If you’re looking at pictures of Project Ahura’s front subframe and say to yourself, “Gee, this looks a lot like what’s on Ken Block’s Hoonicorn,” then congratulations, person that doesn’t exist, you’re absolutely correct. The entire suspension was made from the dimensions of the infamous 1,400 hp Hoonicorn used in that Gymkhana video that you’ve probably shared with your stoner buddies.
While the project is far from finished, Dahm maintains that the over-budget and ahead-of-schedule project should see its first rev on March 1st of 2017. Shortly thereafter, we’ll get a drive in it and hopefully not have to quickly apologize about breaking a quarter million dollar Mazda.
(Jalopnik.com)
But even as far as RX-7 mods go, Dahm’s is on another level. He set out to complete this project with a company known as FR Performance, led by NHRA legend and RX-7 guru Abel Ibarra, who would provide the manpower, craftsmanship, and years of rotary knowledge. Dahm would head the design and foot the project’s eye-watering $250,000 budget.
The body of the car, while maintaining much of the RX-7's trademark sex appeal, has been widened by nine inches and lengthened by an additional eight with the help of a completely custom tube frame that was hand-bent and welded into the existing body of the car.
The powerplant, however, isn’t a sculpted and kneaded mass like the exterior - it’s a goddamn sledgehammer. Project Ahura sports a 2.6 liter, 4-rotor that had to be custom ordered, as no factory 4-rotor currently exists on Earth. It’s mated to a Hollinger RD-6 sequential manual gearbox with straight cut gears, meaning that driving it will both be incredibly cool and deafening. You’ll need a clutch pedal to engage 1st gear, but everything after that is between you and the shifter. Eat it, Ferrari.
The all wheel drive part is taken care of with an E36 M3 front differential with Wavetech helical LSD guts, and a M5 rear differential, with another LSD, though Dahm didn’t specify its make or particular hooning capacity.
The most interesting part of the entire project, and one that Dahm himself touts as the pinnacle of this build, is the suspension. If you’re looking at pictures of Project Ahura’s front subframe and say to yourself, “Gee, this looks a lot like what’s on Ken Block’s Hoonicorn,” then congratulations, person that doesn’t exist, you’re absolutely correct. The entire suspension was made from the dimensions of the infamous 1,400 hp Hoonicorn used in that Gymkhana video that you’ve probably shared with your stoner buddies.
While the project is far from finished, Dahm maintains that the over-budget and ahead-of-schedule project should see its first rev on March 1st of 2017. Shortly thereafter, we’ll get a drive in it and hopefully not have to quickly apologize about breaking a quarter million dollar Mazda.
(Jalopnik.com)
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