I was going to an appointment in a surburban Philadelphia industrial park last week. It's no place special - basically a place with a lot of small to mid-sized businesses and a couple of auto shops. Winding my way back through the park - I see what looks to be the Apex drift car parked amongst some other tuned cars (Civics and WRX's).

I go to the appointment and the whole time I am thinking how I want to get out of there and go back to check out that shop and figure out how that awesome car ended up all the way out here. I've only seen it on TV...

Well I did get there as they were closing up but they were really nice and we talked for a while. The shop is owned by an old Itallian husband and wife. The wife knew more about cars than most of my friends. Apparantely they are friends with the Apex team and are storing the car before it goes to a show in VA in a week or two. The name of the shop is called Impo Performance.

Some cell phone pics:








Oh - did I forget to mention they have a 7 second Mazda 6 there too?



That's a Garret turbo and she told me there is a Motec ECU running this thing. It's a total beast.

 

badass bro. crazy find huh

 

That is quite a sight to see randomly. I had to pay to see it at D1 in Long Beach! Most amazing IC setup ever!! I wish I had it on my car.

 

wait thats that white apexi 7 thats always in the drifting compitition? omg they made it look so ugly with that color... looked so much better white and red.. with the black hood

 

Nice find; but i have to agree with FD3S2005, it looked much better in white and red.

 

i agree that the white/red scheme looked way better. but at least they picked a nice blue. i'm jealous, man... i wish i could just happen across such a beautiful car.

 

Thats why i decided to go vmount.. it looks so unique

 

The boys @ Bergenholtz racing now own the car. Or at least...seem to be, as Apexi retired that FD.
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ht=bergenholtz

The colors/scheme, is the signature of Bergenholtz racing.

 

Ah yes - moved to the audio / visual section where threads go to wither and die...

 

^^ lol!

 

i thought you were talking about jspec version of that car, iwas going to say that i got to ride in the jspec car here in vegas at sema a few years back, got to taake a few laps with immamura himself!! good times!!!

 

what do you mean jspec version?

 

They dont own the car...its a joint venture with Apex / Bergenholtz / Mazda

 

I like the old apexi with the white front end. But its there car.

 

i think its a nice change up.

 

get off the chronic

 

Holy **** this place is right near my house! I'm going to try and check it out after work today.

 

Everytime I've been to a drift show when Immamura was in the Apexi FD, it was a RHD car. I remember an article in Super Street and Apexi had 2 of these. One was for competition and I guess this one, was a twin for show. I think Calvin Wan was drifting this one for a short while.

I saw it at Apexi a few times when it was red/white and it was damn cool! It had a fiberglass enclosure in the trunk with a sub, amps, and a tv, that could be pulled out in 5 minutes for competition. All Alpine.

 

like this.... .. i dont really know what the last picture is

 

Damn - it definetly didn't look like that when I saw it. The inside was bare. It was also left hand drive (not RHD).

 

Yeah - it's right off Jacksonville Road in Ivyland. See it for free
They were really nice people and the one thing that was great is the Grandma owner of the shop that definetly knew more about tuning than me.

 

i want to switch my ebrake like they did from the left to the right.. anyone know how they did that?

 

i live right down the street from there to. thats IMPO

 

Yea that be cool but what the hell is this?

 

someone tell ed to change the brake fluid...