VERY!!! cool! Good work Phil!!!

Keep it up!!!

 

Thanks Aaron!!

 

More Update...

No dip


I run an all rotary car event called, 'Deals Gap Rotary Rally' (www.DealsGapRotaryRally.com). Because this is almost 1000 mile journey at the end, I decided to dip portion of my front bumper to protect.



Event T-shirts


Video from my event
https://vimeo.com/126193813

After the event, I had a photoshoot with my friend Kenny Glover aka Super Model
These are photos I took of him taking photos.






Here are his photos

 

^That last shot is pimp. I like the car a lot in the MB paint.

Phil, what power did you make on the BNRs?

You're pretty much Ballin' Outta Control at this point my friend...... new nickname? B.O.C.

 

I made 380 sequential

LOL! Thanks Rich!

 

Update..

So, I drove to Atlanta for Import Alliance to be booth car for Grip Royal.





After the event, I went to Downtown ATL to do a shoot with Mike Kuhn and his girl Sami




Here are Mike's photos

 

The newest look is pretty aggressive, me likey

 

Thanks Rich!!!

 

More Update..

Just before my event, Deals Gap Rotary Rally (DGRR) (www.DealsGapRotaryRally.com), I got my seats back.



recovered Recaro RZ seats in grey suede


Installed in the car.


DGRR takes place in North Carolina/Tennessee and is one of the largest rotary car event in USA.



Its supported by the following sponsors


On my way it rained and when parked, I saw this




More photos from the event..

 

after the event, I got this box

 

More update..

Just before DGRR, I was asked by Speed Academy (Speed Academy) to do a write up about Plasti Dipping my FD. So, I've documented the process and they published it!









Go here to read the entire article.. Plasti Dip your car: Tips and tricks from a Pro | Speed Academy


Another photo.. from my event DGRR



Now that DGRR is over, I had approximately 3 weeks to get my car ready for the Exedy Booth at Formula Drift.. Also, I had a feature shoot with SpeedHunters.com
Its been my dream to be featured on SpeedHunters and one of my favorite photographer was going to shoot it, Larry Chen.

In 3 weeks, I'm going to install Turblown EWP kit, my new bumper, new color, new interior, etc.

To start, Turblown EWP kit (aka Davies Craig Electric Water pump)








I'm going to say this is one of the best mod I've done. Why?? Unlike other EWP kit I've seen, the controller will hold the pump from kicking in and pulse circulate during warm up, and once its fully warmed up, it will pump, when temp is too high, it will kick on the fans, and maintained the temp amazingly!! Another awesome feature is to continue to circulate the coolant and turn on the fan after engine is shut off.
Also, getting rid of air after filling the system with coolant was an ease. Just power the pump and fill!

More info about Turblown kit: FD3S EWP System - Turblown Engineering

Here is a video I did of the pump set up..

 

I love your thread. Your motor is setup similar to mine with the RE setup and twins. Your attention to detail is great.

Thanks for the info on plastic dipping, I've been looking into it. Now if I can find a way to get it in California.

 

More Update..

After my event DGRR 2015, I had a photoshoot with my friend and a photographer before I started to break down the car. I had at this point about 3 weeks til my photoshoot with SH.











Clean up my garage and hung my Exedy and Rays Engineering flags.



I than started working on the interior of the car. Replacing my old interior (CF) with all OE plastics with zero broken tabs.. and got them refinished.







With Spirit R cluster

 

Changed the Steering wheel to match the recovered RZ seats.





Changed out the Catback.. replaced the RE-Amemiya Dual Dolphine tips to Ganador full Titanium catback



Got my Defi BF gauges I had for severals years, got new sensors, wires, and tested them out.


New AutoEXE hood struts.


Full Function Engineering goodies


Some Carbon goodies...

Feed interior covers and Feed Ganador mirror cover in CF.


I been a fan of Samco Sport product since knowing Samco were first to produce OE upgrade rad and IC couplers and hoses. Mazdaspeed kit, Samco were the supplier for MS IS kit. So, i wanted to run their goods.



Ended up getting box full of Samco goodies..



And finally the bumper...



And Engine bay

 

Hi Phil,

Amazing job on your car!

I am interrested in your new bumper ( re with feed lights) how much will you charge to make a copy of it ?

very best
J.

 

Thanks! We are still working on the bumper to make sure fitment is good (not sure perfect ) and fixing little stuff. But when it comes out, it will be somewhere in $750-850 range. I also don't want tons of people running this..

 

More Update..

I put all the new stuff on mainly to make it to my feature shoot with SpeedHunters. Unfortunately, I had about 3 weeks to pull it off but been working on it on the side for months.
I literally pulled it off the morning of the shoot.

Here are preview shots taken at the house, just before leaving to Road ATL.







My journey wasn't a pleasant one... My shoot with Larry Chen from Speedhunters was set at 4:30. I wanted to make sure I had plenty of time to get to ATL, avoid ATL traffic, goto my favorite restaurant for lunch, and have plenty of time to clean the car... as I drive this car to all the events.

So, Me and a local V8 FD owner who have never been to Formula Drift left my house around 8AM (9AM EST). As soon as we hit the main road, my car started to accelerate without my pushing the throttle, Since I changed up the several parts, I thought I might of not set the idle and such correctly.. After adjusting and stopping every exit on the interstate, I plugged in my laptop to the ECU to see what the possible issue was.. one of the great thing about Adaptronics ECU was you can reset/recalibrate the TPS. We reset and car seemed fine. Until 5-10 mins later it started to accelerate by itself again. At this point, me and my passenger had no idea what it was doing. Finally we got the car idling fine again and hit the road. Again it started to accelerate. Me and my passenger finally figured out, with the laptop, you can reset and recal the TPS on the fly. Everytime we reset, the car will stop accelerating. We ended up resetting the TPS over 100 times from Bham, AL to Road Atlanta. Our favorite was when we hit 3PM ATL traffic. One of the nerve wrecking drive I had was this drive. I would just shut the car off on the interstate as reset didn't help much. I had literally started the 20-30 times during the over an hour traffic I was stuck in.

At the end, I was amazed about two things I put in to this car,
1. Adaptronics ECU... the abilities to reset on the fly helped. Also, my laptop just plugging in and read the ECU without starting helped.
2. Turblown/Davies Craig Electric Water Pump (EWP). This thing truly worked. It was my first time running this kit and it truly did its job. During my ATL traffic off and on engine, I could hear the fans kicking in and waterpump circulating when engine was off. It kept my engine cool during this stressful time. Which one thing I didn't have to worry.

Oh, I forgot, I was also stranded on the interstate because my Aftermarket Industries (AI) surgetank went out. I was going 80MPH and all the sudden, car just dies. I was about to move from fast lane to right shoulder safely.
What I think it happened was, the fuel line I used inside the tank got undone. Luckily, when I was going from Radium single Bosch 044 to AI triple Walbro 440s, I had to extend some of the lines using brass barb fittings. Luckily, I was able to re route the lines so that I could use the stock pump instead of the AI tank. If I didn't use those barb fitting, we would of had to walk to the next exit, buy some fuel lines, and do all kind of fun stuff. Instead re routing took 15-20 mins and we were on the road.. still with acceleration issues.

We finally made it to Road ATL right around 4:15. I called Larry Chen asking where I needed to meet him and he said to just come down to the paddock. Going through the paddock, I felt little embarrassed. Mainly because car sounded horrible and I kept stalling out because it idled like ***.
When I met Larry, one of the thing he asked me was, "are you going to clean your car?". I guess he thought I was going to trailer the car and not drive what it was suppose to be 3 hour trip, now took 6+ hours. I told him to give me 10 mins.

I cleaned up the car as best as I could with my friend Michael, aka TPS resetter. and we went on the Road ATL for the shoot.

Here are some photos I took with my phone..











I'm now out of time.. I will update more later..

 

So Phil, what was the cause again of your "sudden acceleration" issue? Bad TPS?

 

Well, my new update would answer this but I'll go ahead..

After re adjusting the Rotary Works TB, replacing the TPS (3 times), I was still having the acceleration issue. Normally, after about 2-5 mins after driving out of my driveway (making it on to the main road).

Finally, I said F*ck it and took the Rotary Works TB off and put the Stock TB with same TPS that was on the Rotary Works. And guess what.. car now idles at 850-900 RPM. No acceleration issues as of yet.

So, it was the damn TB!!

 

Those RW throttle bodies are known to be complete ****, it's not even a good design. Friends don't let friends use them.
Get one bored out by RC engineering if you want a real high flow TB.

 

Update..

My car was shown under Exedy Clutch USA booth at the Formula Drift ATL..





with one of the Exedy Model


Right before leaving..



Engine bay shot



And finally link to the SpeedHunters feature link..

Meet The Rotary Maniac - Speedhunters

Here are few of my favorite shots from Photographer Larry

 

Where did you get the Mazdaspeed hood from? I think I read somewhere it was the real deal

 

Those SpeedHunters shots are pretty nice!

 

what front bumper is this?
Your FD is just amazing and inspiring.....keep up the great work.

 

I have one replica from like 10+ years ago when Athilla made, 1 that I put on the SSM FD, and 1 that is BRAND F*cking new one (probably only new in the world).

Thank you!! The bumper you see is Scoot Sport bumper. Got that from the man himself!