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Make: Mazda Model: FD3S RX-7 Milage: ~68k km Transmission: 5spd manual Colour: Brilliant black Location: Newcastle Complied? Personally imported and complied Currently registered? NSW rego until August Price: $25k non neg. Contact: PM please Late 1993 (Version II update) FD3S RX-7 Type-R 'Series 6'. Yellow-plate personal import. Very low kms (around 68k km - I'll post up a pic of the odometer). These are GENUINE kms. Must be amongst the lowest km series 6 in Australia. I purchased this car in Japan about 5 years ago. It had ~40k km at time of purchase. I have Mazda logs that show the first owner did very few kms in the first seven years of ownership. I drove it in Japan for four years before exporting it to Australia. It has been stored since. I drive it sparingly when I come home (2 or 3 times a year), and it is taken for a short drive every other week (so it doesn't suffer from 'storage rot'). I don't want to sell, but it's wasted on me. It deserves to be driven. As a yellow-plate personal import it is, according to DOTARS, exempt from ADRs - thus, essentially non-defectable for ADR-related issues. To back this up, I can supply a list of modifications from the freight-forwarder (used for insurance purposes during shipping) - that prove the modifications were in place prior to landing in Australia. Basically, a 'get out of jail free' card, should you ever need it. Power: [email protected] (sequential twin turbo) Weight: 1225kg with a full tank (according to the weighbridge) OEM/Factory options: * BBS 17x8/8.5 rims (same as what you would find on an Australian SP) (Bridgestone rubber) * Scuff plates * Drivers' armrest * Driver & Passenger carbon fibre/kevlar recaro seats (VERY light) * Front and rear strut braces Performance modifications: * Apexi PFC ECU + commander. Switchable boost (.7 + .8bar through the commander). - tuning by one of Japan's most renowned rx-7 specialists: STILLWAY (check them out on youtube). It's a 'safe' tune (still had more in it - but limited by fuel pump), holding up well (according to knock levels) on Australian PULP. * Trust intakes * HKS downpipe * SMB metal catalyzer * Kakimoto cat-back (92dB limited - it's got a great tone on idle - not loud at all, screams on WOT). * Stillway pulleys (airpump deleted) * Trust 2-core V-spec FMIC * Koyo Z radiator * RE-Amemiya air sep. tank (AST) * HKS circle earth (earthing system) * Exedy twin plate clutch and lightened flywheel * Upgraded NGK plugs (10, 11) * Upgraded leads (splitfire) * C's short shifter (I have the OEM one too) * R-magic torque (engine) brace * HKS hipermax coilovers Other modifications * OEM Series 8 front bumper (inc. OEM combo lights) * OEM Series upgraded (96-) tailights * GP Sports front lip * Mazdaspeed type-II rear spoiler * RE-Amemiya vented bonnet * Defi boost gauge and commander * Trust profec-b spec II electronic boost controller (using the PFC instead at the moment) * Blitz 'pencil'-type turbo timer * Mazdaspeed oil cap * Momo race steering wheel * Clear side indicators * Blacked-out rear markers * Series 8 rear wiper (!) * Kenwood MP3/CD head unit - will need to swap this out if you listen to the radio * Fujita Engineering (FEED) gear knob * Fujita Engineering emblems * Fujita Engineering 'CF' door handles * I had a full respary done about three years ago (NOT related to an accident - it's just a sad fact of life that original Mazda paint jobs don't stand the test of time, as long-time owners will attest). Car has a few typical chips/nicks and scuffs, but no dents. * Still has AC (often deleted during FMIC installs on these cars), but needs a re-gas

I love malts on tap, but it seems shit out of the can, for some reason. I always come back to super dry. Stay away from happoshu - fake beer (such as asahi in the red cans and blue cans) - comes with a killer hangover.

they tuned my car, with impressive results. They have a good repuation, and rightfully so. However, they run a very simple operation, and that doesn't include a website (their old site was pretty much just a 'under construction' sign for as long as it was up). if you want parts, check yahoo auctions - as they sell a lot of parts on there.

go to uni, get a degree. Japan's not going any where - it will wait for you.

It means 'japan sea' the circuit, and probably the car (and almost certainly the team) are from niigata - and niigata's waters are the japan sea. It would make sense that they would use that as an identifying tag.

a quick google search brought up the following: this is from nagaoka (2nd biggest city in niigata) - orange FD is a nihonkai car http://nagaoka.rgr.jp/ibent/dynamaite/index.html http://www.medianetjapan.com/2/20/sport/ka...gotoibento.html here's a site for the circuit: http://members.aol.com/Mazecircuit/index.html that might be a good starting point for investigation.

yuubin means 'mail' kyoku means 'office' (branch, dept, that sort of thing) taku (takk in takyuubin) = home yuubinn = rapid service together it means 'home delivery service' the company name is kuroneko (black cat) yamato - and if you live in japan, you know what that is. http://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/

late model FD:

if I said 'black cat' would that be less hazy?

thought I'd add a point here.... I got stuck with a spoiler - purchased it for a customer, I'd guestimated that it would fit under the limits... wrong... anyway - rang up takkyubin - and they said no problems. EMS, and exactly the same price as the post office. beats using UPS and paying x3

as above. it's basically a 'no warranty if you break the seal' sticker (and 'sucked in if you do')

the amount of bullshit and misinformation about imports, japanese cars, japanese regulations, and so on... absolutely staggering. It goes around and around and ends up like 'chinese whispers'. * There are lots of issues with japanese cars at auction - odometer tampering is low on the list. It doesn't happen half as often as you think. Cars DO have significantly lower kms here (in japan): the country is geographically 26x smaller than oz, the overwhelming majority of people use (one of the world's best) public transport, in many places it snows heavily (and most people won't be driving a hi-po car in snow)... I could go on. Low kms are the way it is - you can't use typical australian examples in a japanese context. Get over it! My FD has mazda logs showing that the first owner (a tokyo businessman) did 5k in the first 5 years of ownership. Typical kms for a city car that would never be daily driven. He probably cruised to the golf course once every couple of weeks or so. * Registration: engines don't have to be changed at certain kms (if I had a $1 for every time I've heard that one), cars don't have to be scrapped at certain kms, you CAN register cars of any age, blah blah blah. I've shaken-ed a car that is over ten years old - only difference is that it cost an extra $100 or so (fack all when the whole thing costs around $1250 for 2-year rego). You've all seen the prices of cars in Japan. If you lived here, would you really bother owning 10 year old+ car? For most people, the answer is NO - you'd trade it in. The best performance cars still have some demand - they will stay in the domestic market - the average and below-average get dumped at auction.

and as for the tracking numbers - I've come to the conclusion that they are useless on the japanese side (even using japan post's tracker) - and are only good once they pass into the relevant australian mail center. For goods that _should_ only take 3 days to arrive - makes the tracker a waste of time (except if things go wrong).

I always thought he kept stock, at least for some parts - but obviously not. fwiw, I do parts sales from japan every week (I prefer to deal in genuine parts though - makes life easy), and the average shipping time is 3 days (sometimes 4 or 5, but that's usually due to location and the slackness of australia post). I ship the same way as he does - EMS. he's obviously having some issues - either personal, or with his suppliers.

I've come across similar situations on several occasions now and, though I hate to reinforce yet another negative cultural stereotype, it's always been: "japanese men dealing with japanese women in a "mens' business" scenario. The standard conceptions of japanese customer service seem to go right out the window. In fact, I was talking to another expat about my own tuner - and I was warned off because apparently they were very difficult to deal with, the guy's girlfriend was treated badly, and so on - but my own experience couldn't have been more different. anyway, that's my 2c for today.

a bumper won't be within EMS limits. The length actually might just be okay, but the other dimensions are not (cumulatively). if you were looking at an express delivery, you'll have to try someone like UPS: http://www.ups.com/content/jp/en/shipping/index.html - not cheap, try out their online quoting system

rapidly coming up on the four year mark. Spent the first 3 years on sadogashima, off the coast of niigata. Now in kobe (down near the beach at suma). I used to be an ALT, now I'm an LT. I make more money but actually have to work like a dog now. Also, started my dip. ed this week. my wife has a 'real' teaching job (she's a math teacher in an international school) and makes 'real' money - so that's the reason while we are still here. I think we'll be here for at least another 1.5 years.

I've never had an issue sending to oz (lots of gear, some of it very expensive) - but I've been pinged receiving gear from oz. The goods were valued at about 120,000 or so - they taxed me 3500yen. It was obviously a commercial product though.

because not everyone has a financial motive for doing it. because a personal import doesn't need to be stock because 'yellow plate compliance' according to dotars regulations (paraphrasing) "do not have to comply to any ADRs, only safety regulations" because it's marginally cheaper than RAWS (of course, not if you add in ownership costs - but that's a moot point if you actually want or need a car in japan) "If its personal import do u still need compliance , and why do people have to own it for 12 months is this to avoid a tax ?" compliance is far less strict - it seems to vary from state to state, and from car to car, but some people seem to get away with only having to do things such as * fuel filler cap * baby capsule anchor point * compliance plate 12month limit is to ensure that people are only bringing back a personal item - not trying to run a commercial enterprise.

lol, got a shot that's in focus?

nah, I can't go big hp at the moment - restricted to 330-340hp due to factory pump. I'll be shooting for 360+ later in the year (unless the urge for aesthetic add-ons overwhelms me, which it may well...). basically, if you're going to use an expensive amemiya bumper, don't combine it with cheap-arse 'widebody' fenders

+ regassing cost (and the general hassle of having to do both) and the new stuff isn't as good as the old stuff In any case - now that you know, it's one less cost/hassle to deal with

stillway are too busy tuning my car I was disappointed by the lack of a fujita engineering stand. And poor old amemiya were tucked away in a corner (and only had an rx8 and their greddy FD). I walked into hall 1 and was happy to see the two FDs sitting there, but after that, it was distinctly downhill. Halls 6a and 6b made it somewhat worthwhile - I went to those last, and I was starting to get really concerned before that!