Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:42 pm
The complete barrel throttle setup with the carbon fiber trumpets is about 3k if you bought it new.
Sort of...the chassis was....though this particular one never actually got used is my understanding. Mazda had three of these built by our friends at AWR and this was number three. We do enough projects with Tony at AWR that I got to see the cars being built piece by piece a few years back. The first two got used heavily in drift performances. I understand that number three had the unlucky fate of blowing the motor on day one on the dyno at Motec or soon thereafter. I don't know all the details but it was offered back as a shell with nothing in it...no suspension, axles, engine, trans, PPF, without the wheels, etc. It did have brake rotors that had never been bedded and I replaced them because I wanted different brakes. Like the brakes that were on it, the underside is clean so it appears it was either never used, or used very little and neither Tony nor I knew the details of how the car he had finished so nicely had become stripped out. As best I can understand, it was used as a static show car after the initial motor troubles, shown at SEMA, etc., and then the drift team used it as a spare parts source until not much was left...at which point they sold back to us what was left. Anyway, though I didn't know all the details, I did know that my good friend Tony had built a gorgeous cage into a shell that was imported with no underbody coating, it had been carefully stitch welded from end to end, and then painted as a unit. That's a LOT of labor and a heck of a nice start on a race car so we picked up the chassis to start this project.mykrrrr wrote:is this an old Formula Drift car?
nice.Brian wrote:Sort of...the chassis was....though this particular one never actually got used is my understanding. Mazda had three of these built by our friends at AWR and this was number three. We do enough projects with Tony at AWR that I got to see the cars being built piece by piece a few years back. The first two got used heavily in drift performances. I understand that number three had the unlucky fate of blowing the motor on day one on the dyno at Motec or soon thereafter. I don't know all the details but it was offered back as a shell with nothing in it...no suspension, axles, engine, trans, PPF, without the wheels, etc. It did have brake rotors that had never been bedded and I replaced them because I wanted different brakes. Like the brakes that were on it, the underside is clean so it appears it was either never used, or used very little and neither Tony nor I knew the details of how the car he had finished so nicely had become a stripped out shell. As best I can understand, it was used as a static show car after the initial motor troubles, shown at SEMA, etc., and then the drift team used it as a spare parts source until not much was left...at which point they sold back the shell. Anyway, though I didn't know all the details, I did know that my good friend Tony had built a gorgeous cage into a shell that was imported with no underbody coating, it had been carefully stitch welded from end to end, and then painted as a unit. That's a LOT of labor and a heck of a nice start on a race car so we picked up the chassis to start this project.mykrrrr wrote:is this an old Formula Drift car?
cool but first send out the Progress springs i ordered this afternoon.Brian wrote:As soon as we get the paint done...will post pics.
Laguna has been the plan since this project started though starting to get short on time to finish the car. The BMW club runs a continuous lap format on the second day of their weekend event and that gave me the first chance to do a few continuous laps in the car yesterday. The motor is great, it really screams....but I am not yet happy with suspension and brakes. Hope to resolve the remaining issues this week.whptgud wrote:Cool, sounds like the car is coming around nicely. Will you be bringing it to the Laguna Seca weekend?