Fast Facts
Mazda Rx-8
Owner Falken Tire Corp.
Hometown Fontana, CA
Daily Grind Burning Falken
RT 615's
Under The Hood 13B-RE Cosmo engine, Speed Machine streetport; NRS 2mm Ceramic Seals; Ianetti apex seal springs, Balanced assembly, High flow e-shaft oil jets, tear dropped oil ports; FD3S RX-7 Rotors; Mazdaspeed Race windowed bearings and Oil Pressure Regulator, Speed Machine twin turbo tubular manifold, 2 Garrett GT28rs turbochargers, 2 Turbosmart 48mm Pro Gates, twin BDL throttle body intake manifold, swirl pot relocated alternator, surge tank, 4-inch stainless exhaust w/burns stainless 4-inch race muffler; Blitz GT-R Intercooler with Speed Machine end tanks v-mounted with Ron Davis modified dual core radiator; 2 Turbosmart RacePort blow-off valves, NGK 11.5 heat range plugs; Wiggins clamps (every connection), 1/2-inch aluminum hard fuel lines from trunk to engine bay, 1/2-inch aluminum hard lines in trunk, XRP HS79 fuel hoses on the motor; Aeromotive dual A1000 main pumps, Tsunami feed pump, Aeromotive dual a1000 -10an regulators; Safecraft three-nozzle halon fire suppression, fuel safe 12-gallon fuel cell, all aluminum is polished in the engine area; RC Engineering 550cc and 1000cc injectors, heatshield products turbo blankets, downpipe wrap, hose wrap, firewall
Brains Haltech E11v2 ECU, Haltech Wideband O2 kit, AIM Sports digital dash, Turbosmart E-Boost2, Tein Dual EDFC
Drivetrain FD RX-7 tranny with OS Giken gear set, twin disk clutch, 2-way diff
Stiff Stuff Tein MonoFlex coilovers, Fully adjustable rear arm setup, steering rack modified and spaced; Modified Mazdaspeed Power Plant Frame
Stoppers Project 4-pot 4-pad front brake setup, Dual handbrakes (right side is for slow speed or while shifting, and left, side is for high speed since the driver is used to RHD cars); Wilwood dual master cylinder pedal assembly
Rollers SSR MS1 18X10 (+6 fronts) and 18X10.5 (+5 rears); 235/40R18 (front) Falken Azenis RT615, 265/35R18 (rear)
Outside Mazdaspeed body kit; GT300 wing with extension; Percy's Speedglass side and rear windows; IPF 4300K HID kit (low beam and high beam); Sparco latches; Fiberglass doors and hood, vinyl wrap at modern image; vinyl graphics done at Graphics by Jarvis
Inside Speed Machine six-point rollcage tig welded
Ice um, how about the sound of a twin turbo 13B
Props Matt Moreland, John Russakoff (Whiteboy John), Josh Stockinger at Speed Machine Performance, National Tire and Battery, Mazda North America, Matt Wright at Haltech, Nic Cooper and David Marriott at Turbosmart, Steve Heye and Bruce Heye at Heatshield Products, Tein, SSR, Sparco, Nick at BDL Industries, NRS, SpeedGlass, Edo Ichikawa (awwa, awwa, awwa) Mickey Andrade, Nick Fousekis at Falken Tire Corp.; graphics by Jarvis
WWW falkentire.com; mackinindustries.com (Project ); mazdaspeed.com; morejapan.com (SSR); sparco.com; speedmachineperformance.com; tein.com; turbosmart.com; wilwood.com
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