toyo kogyo

Hi Yall

Firstly I would like to say I am a certified 'ROTORHEAD' for the last 20 years since purchasing my first Wankel powered stead, SA22 series one RX7 2 decades ago.

I still have that same car although is parked up as a project( you know,flat battery,blowing a load of smoke when it eventually starts,3 different shades of white etc) 12A stock but for a set of extractors,K&N filter .

I also have an up and running road legal FC3S 13BT, tein adjustable coilover suspension,aluminium bonnet,pod filter,simmons FR17 rims,S5 US spec aero mirrors,twin stainless exhaust and just last week a new HD clutch.It is awesome handler on the track with the adjustable suspension...

I also have a load of rotary books/manuals/sales brochures and a steadily growing collection of diecast mazda rotary in all scales and random JDM and other marques.

Thats all for now, will post up pics and such when I get time at a later date.

later...

RW-7

iTrader: (56)

Hi Toyo Kogyo , Welcome to RX7CLUB.
Awesome name BTW. Hard to believe with over 150k members no one has that yet. Great pick!
It sounds like you have a couple fun RX-7's there. Looking forward to seeing some pictures when you get time.
-Robert, Super Moderator.

GASnGO fd

giday,good to hear of another kiwi rota head,where abouts in nz do you live,im in hamilton and drive a s7 batty.

toyo kogyo

Thanks

well i just been reading the awesome mazda cosmo sport 'sticky' resto thread and found another 'toyo kogyo' but for an underscore between the names so i cant claim to be the first .

yes i am not currently at my computer so pics are coming...

toyo kogyo

welly.thanks

toyo kogyo

i see unable to edit my original post ...damn.was going to add my FC has just clicked over 165K on the speedo without a rebuild and running as strong as the day i got it at 126K (was 99% factory stock then)

Polak Graphics

iTrader: (4)

Welcome.

New Zealand and rotaries mix well. Much thanks to New Zealand for the datalogit.

Shunya FC

welcome to the forum

notmanyifany

So are you a member of MREC then? Keen to see your pics, both the road cars and the diecasts!

grindel89

Pics please..

x-con

hello, i just bought my 7 this week
Bought it in Wellington and drove to Auckland

here are my pics

toyo kogyo

X-con I recommend you start your own thread champ ,your intro gonna be lost in here...NICE BATT.I am so hot for a spirit R myself . thats a S8 right?

OK you asked for it,i hope there aint a limit on the number of pics allowed

OK the slideshows are a little out of date but you get the idea . the spinning cabinet was a "show and shine" at a local diecast fair and the other is from ages ago when i started getting into diecast last year after a number of years of kitset collecting...


http://s641.photobucket.com/albums/u...view=slideshow

http://s641.photobucket.com/albums/u...view=slideshow

some of some of most my pre rx7 brochures and my rotor books

http://s641.photobucket.com/albums/u...view=slideshow

these pics are from couple months ago... more 1/43 and 1/18 been added since...







and these are of my FC doing street sprints and just chilln....looks much the same but twin stainless mufflers and entire system.
the pics here show it with the original 1990 factory set up,above 6K couldn't breathe...now it breathes JUST FINE...loads more boooost

NZJacksonNZ

good to hear from another welly member, cant say ive seen your rx7 round tho. how often do you get out in it?

toyo kogyo

yes limit of 12 pics hahaha

my tribute to 20 years since ol #55 cleaned up at le mans







and last of all .I was lucky to visit Japan last april and visited the holy grail of all rotorheads...mazda HQ museum in hiroshima (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

toyo kogyo

Ah yes I WAS a member of MREC. not this financial year though..

toyo kogyo

was out in it today out eastbourne ways...

has been parked up since december 2010 due to my clutch crapping out on manfield trackday,slipping madly at 3K hahaha
only last month got my excedy HD one installed.. god it must have been real bad slipping as its simple as to get the rear kicking out now

NZJacksonNZ

Hahha thats what we like to hear. looks good.

x-con

[QUOTE=toyo kogyo;10894518]X-con I recommend you start your own thread champ ,your intro gonna be lost in here...NICE BATT.I am so hot for a spirit R myself . thats a S8 right?

Sorry...
yes it is a series 8
the rare collectable Spirit-R is the one to get
a nice white series 8 RZ sold recently in Wellington,very tidy

toyo kogyo

[QUOTE=x-con;10894572]I dont mind you bunking in here unless you snore

I knew a guy years back in welly had a tommi makinen evo he sold to get a white spirit R (A spec i think) direct from japan. was as mint as you would find, aint seen him for an age nor the car...never got a ride in it neither...gggrrr

x-con

Nice car collection too

notmanyifany

@ toyo kogyo - Heh heh ... I see you got the 1:43 Legato for your collection. I thought it was sooooo ugly that I couldn't bear to own it!

toyo kogyo

but hey...it completes the mazda rotary line up, some think the cosmo/rx5 too is ugly me included

one day someone will make 1/43 rx4 sedan or coupe and wagon (both shapes) parkway bus and Rx9 and then i can fill the holes

even better hopefully someone will make 1/18 of the early Rx's...

RCCAZ 1

iTrader: (10)

Hey Toyo Kogyo,

Welcome to the club. Didn't you own a Luce Coupe at one time? Someone in NZ has a beautiful white one that I'd die to own.

toyo kogyo

yip blew up the 13A throwing O's so had to drop in a 350 chev as no 13A housings around

NA.I'm joking.I have seen pics of that kiwi owned white luce on I think ausrotary??closest I get is the sales brochure and diecast

I almost coulda owned a mint original 13B S2 Rx4 coupe in gold, 86KM on the clock back in the mid 90's but I had only $6K NZ and he wanted $7.5K

GASnGO fd

man you have a heap of models,very cool stuff...