So I was browsing through some Japanese websites for stuff on FDs and ran across some pretty interesting things:

First, a body kit from Garage Rise-Up:


Found at:
http://www.garage-riseup.co.jp/index.html

I don't think that this front end isn't so bad. Although from some angles it does look goofy.


Next, I ran across a site while I was searching on info on the mysterious bigfoot-like dreaded RX7 wagon hatch. Check out his DIY section and take a look at how he converts his headlights to use Nissan Cima (Infiniti Q45) seven-lense projectors. There's also a DIY guide to converting your rear tails to LED.

http://www014.upp.so-net.ne.jp/rotar...n/welcome.html



http://www014.upp.so-net.ne.jp/rotar...Y/LED/led.html



Anyways, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

Those LED tail lights look pretty good. Too bad I don't speak japanese...

 

i belive FDnewbie has those LEDs

 

Ramy has a different LED conversion. This guy did his own conversion if you actually open the page and see his DIY pictures.

 

Yeah too bad I can't read Japanese. Nice to see something refreshing

 

Translation for the rest of us

http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools

Wonder how those headlights would look inside the Knightsport kit.

 

OMFG, i am going to DIY type of thing and make my center brake lite the old school batman symbol!!!

 

omg, this guy has a rigged license plate rotator that flips the plate horizontal to hide it from the cops!!!

hell yeah!

 

You know what... thats a pretty friggin good idea!

 

If a cop is close enough to read your plates, you might as well pull it over. Didn't KnightRider have one of those? KITT, anyone?

 

did anyone else see the wing in the last picture?

 

Importfan sells a plate holder that flips up or, they used to..

 

I need translation for the translation! That's some messed up english!

 

In Japan I've seen quite a number of guys with the flip-up plate holders...not really uncommon. I imagine it would be the same here (I haven't encountered it so I don't know), but if a cop in Japan sees your car with a flip holder like that, even if the plate is down, they can ticket you for it.

Wish I could see more pics of that wagon-hatch! This guy has some interesting ideas!

 

Did anybody notice he literaly did a rotary wagon conversion hatch like a Nissan Pulsar?
Props on the find though. I search for japanese sites every day at work but never found this one.

 

The wagon hatch is actually an old thing going back to at least '96. I remember some guy named Non Fujita use to enter his purple FD into car shows around that time and was the first time I ever saw a wagon hatch.

While it sure does bring out the disgust like no other, it's actually an easily reversible thing since its just a hatch replacement. The other thing is the extreme rarity of the hatch, as it is mostly seen in Japan and I still haven't ever heard of who manufactures it.

 

nice LED conversions on the front and back. niiiiiiiiiiiiice fd ... (-)wagonback

 

That bumper isn't half bad from Garage Rise-Up, and the wagon is really strange. Never heard of something like that before.

 

Some of you guys are really behind the times.

The hatch/wagon thing is old. A good few years now.
And yes, Non Fujita w/ his first project car (the FD) built it w/ a hatch at one point (the first RX-7 hatch/wagon in the US).
Then moved on the his 240sx w/ Tomei engine.
His shop is gone now BTW.
Here is his old FD, now in Arizona. http://www.i-m-racing.com/noname6.html

 

Get a load of his wing supports.

 

Last time I saw pics of a wagon hatch FD, the car was red and it was probably something like 4 years ago.

 

Damm.....I love those tail lights..!! Tempted to try and make a set, but without the cheesy carbon fiber sticker sh*t.

 

Man, I've been trying to dig up old pics of his car from anywhere. It was the first fixed up FD I had seen waaaay back in 1997, and was one of the first in a long list of FDs that inspired me to get one. Pics of his 240SX is everywhere but its almost impossible to find stuff on the RX. I do know that it was featured in Super Street back in Nov 97. I even remember watching an old old Option Video from around that time where they sent a Japan video crew to tape the street races in Glendale and he was featured with his car.

 

nah dude, that was a thingy for the front plate that would be pushed back according to the wind that would allow sufficient air to the radiator that other wise would be blocked from it.

 

same