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Postby philz » Sat May 16, 2009 11:19 am

bruce wrote:Wow, $20K for headers! Sure you didn't add an extra zero?



WUT?

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Postby @ndrew » Sat May 16, 2009 3:51 pm

I wouldn't mind visiting that workshop. Is it located in Tokyo??

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Postby philz » Sat May 16, 2009 4:09 pm

Still in Tokyo, not in the CBD, probably about 30min train ride.

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Postby orx626 » Sat May 16, 2009 11:57 pm

CoffeeBoss wrote:Did you get to hear/experience the car? Did Nobuhiro-san offer any thoughts?


Due to the language barrier (I don't speak any Japanese :( ) there wasn't too much discussed. It was more just a matter of a bit of show, and not a lot of tell. The installation was very clean and the car was well detailed but quite mild from a modification perspective. 250hp at the hubs is nothing to sneeze at. Unfortunately we didn't get to go for a drive in it as we were too busy translating and ran out of time :cry: . All the RS Aizawa staff we very friendly and took time out to interact with us 8) . It was great to meet and see such a well known MX-5 tuning house.

Here is a piccie of their workshop.

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Postby mx52nv » Sun May 17, 2009 12:09 am

Awesome pics Danny! 8)
I love the colour of that NB8 with the hardtop! :mrgreen:

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Postby orx626 » Sun May 17, 2009 12:39 am

bruce wrote:I hope ORX took pix of his project to show them.


I did Bruce! :mrgreen: They're didn't appear to be real keen on rotary engines and therefore weren't particulary interested. :roll: Oh well!

Actually, I think the scale of my project is too big for them...their project cars tend to focus on bolt on bits and pieces as opposed to wholesale custom design.

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Postby orx626 » Sun May 17, 2009 12:44 am

@ndrew wrote:I wouldn't mind visiting that workshop. Is it located in Tokyo??


They are in Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, which is not far from Yokohama. Allow up to 1.5 hours to get there from central Tokyo. You need to catch a couple of trains and a cab to get there without too much leg work.

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Postby philz » Sun May 17, 2009 9:53 am

I think If you went to Re Amemiya in Chiba they would have liked it. :mrgreen:

RS likes S/C and ITBS's

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Postby bruce » Wed May 20, 2009 12:36 pm

Their workshop looks absolutely tiny.

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Postby philz » Wed May 20, 2009 12:48 pm

They are lucky to even have a workshop close to the city.

This is actually quite the norm, even larger, well known tuning shops are quite small, and hardly ever have their full catalogue of parts in stock.

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Postby Juffa » Wed May 20, 2009 6:45 pm

Hot Rodders wrote:I thought they had only developed these for LHD? Would almost consider getting an NC if these are available for RHD!


I like your thinking, but I thought the Evolution was Mrs Hot Rodders beast?

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Postby zombie » Wed May 20, 2009 10:20 pm

It appears Delta Force / Sniper Tuning are still ironing out the differences between U.S. ECUs and those in the rest of the world :cry:

Supercharged NCs go boom in Europe :shock:

Has anyone actually installed one of these in Australia yet? I wonder if our ECUs are similar to the Yanks, the Europeans or different again...

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Postby Adrianvh » Wed May 20, 2009 11:49 pm

From what I've read we have different maps and ECU configuration than the USA. Not sure about Europe but I would say it would be closer.

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Postby CoffeeBoss » Thu May 21, 2009 9:05 am

zombie wrote:Has anyone actually installed one of these in Australia yet?


Apparently this guy has, although this thread has been deathly quiet:

viewtopic.php?f=43&t=33135

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Postby Charlie Brown » Thu May 21, 2009 9:20 am

CoffeeBoss wrote:
zombie wrote:Has anyone actually installed one of these in Australia yet?


Apparently this guy has, although this thread has been deathly quiet:

viewtopic.php?f=43&t=33135


The reason he's gone quite is because he's stripped off the go fast bits and sold his car.

One little piece making it all the way north to Sydney, into a Winning Blue NC :D
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