A morning at RE Amemiya and a Morning at the Mazda Museum
 

I had the pleasure yesterday of spending the morning at RE Amemiya in Tomisato City, Chiba. As most Mazda rotary enthusiests will know, RE Amemiya is one of the most highly respected rotary tuning and performance shops in the world. There is not a lot that they haven't achieved in Japan over the past 30 odd years. Although it was an impromptu visit, the General Director, Hidehiko Hori, welcomed me with open arms and showed a keen interest in my current automotive projects. Even though I don't speak a word of Japanese, we were able to communicate well enough to "chat" for a couple of hours. Anyway, enough of this banter....here's a bit of a picture summary of the visit. If any of you get the chance to travel to Japan, I highly recommend taking the time to visit RE Amemiya as there passion and enthusiasm for the rotary engine is second to none.

Cheers,
Danny


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There display room.....

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20B PP Display

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Hidehiko and myself...he has been with Mr Amemiya for over 30 years! Would you believe he is 50!? :shock:

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Now a quick look at a few cars at the workshop.....

Red FD with 20B turbo on sale for JPY 7,000,000 and has around 700ps :twisted:

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A customers widebody JC Cosmo circuit racer...no idea of hp...20B turbo

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There own D1 Drift Car....FD 13B Turbo with 650ps

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This is the engine in a blue FC3S that was built by Hidehiko some 20 years ago....approx 400ps

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Hidehiko even dropped me back at the train station is their auto RX-8 turbo with 230ps at 0.4 bar....he certainly enjoyed giving it a rev!

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:cool: :cool: :cool:

Colour me GREEN (with envy!!!)

Silly question, what's that:

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Thanks for the pics!!!

Love the JC Cosmo! Thanks for sharing your pics :)

You put a smile on my face. Thanks!

wow, that must have been a fun trip!
thanks for sharing the pics.

:Drooling_:Drooling_:Drooling_:Drooling_:Drooling_

:boink: Good stuff Danny!

Now come back home and get busy! :mchase:

:wiggle:

i plan on going there in a couple of months when i goto japan :)

mmmm....RE-Amemiya :drool:

Thanks for sharing!

thanks for sharing danny. I'd love to do a trip to Japan one day.

I love the cosmo, I have never seen one modified to that extent.

That is a luxury rotary car that Mazda made called a Cosmo and it had the 20B triple rotor engine in it..

man soo many cool cars in one place~!

I just had back2back orgasms :) now..bed time after another fapp

I just bought an oil cap from this company lol cool cars though

Here's a few piccies from our visit to Mazda HQ and the Mazda Museum. I won't post all the photos as I don't want to spoil it for those who are planning/hoping to get there.

Cheers,
Danny

Mazda HQ Building

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In the foyer....

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The tour bus....

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Entry to the Museum....

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The Museum....

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An engine I will be getting very familiar with in the not too distant future... :mrgreen:

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Museum looks amazing!

Did Mazda sell them here in Aus? Can't say l've seen one.. Stock 20B would be nice though!

EDIT: Well, l found out we have some on carsales.com.au, not sure about the price tag though, some are going for +$20 grand.

JDM only mate, however, a few have been imported over the past 20 years.

Cheers,
Danny

Ahh, thanks for that. And l hope you told the guys at Mazda HQ about a Renesis MX-5! Maybe they can make it a production model :naughty:

Sorry for the threadjack, but did you encounter any sort of language barrier while in Japan?

They are pretty rare here but I love them because of that and a big luxury rotary is such an unusual idea. I think it was mazda's version of an M5 BMW.
An old member that still pops up here Dave(DMRH) has an awesome one with 500+Hp..

wow!!! awesome pictures! so very very jealous! That is probably one of the few museums i would actually enjoy lol.

dope pictures sure looked like fun

i hope one day i can visit there as well!
what engine is this btw & and any info:
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Great pics!!

Judging by its placement in the museum, l'd say its the one used in the hydrogen rx8.

Info from wiki:
The Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE is a 2003 bi-fuel version of the RX-8 sports car, in which the twin-rotor Wankel engine is configured to run on either hydrogen or gasoline. This is the fifth Mazda vehicle to be fitted with a hydrogen Wankel engine. The hydrogen tank, with a capacity of 110 liters at 350 bar stores up to 2.4 kilograms of hydrogen and is fitted in addition to the 61 liter gasoline tank. In 2005, Mazda got street approval for this vehicle. The following year, the first vehicles were leased to customers (Idemitsu and Iwatani). In November 2007, Mazda announced the delivery of 30 RX-8 HRE to the Norwegian hydrogen project Hynor[1].

EDIT: I just noticed, is that a turbo on that motor?

Wow that's amazing I can't believe how awesome that trip would be! Thanks for sharing it looked insane over there