Tuned Mazda FD3S RX-7 Tested - The Slip Angle

[@remulik3671]

This channel deserves more views

[@lokuratyper]

And subs

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you fellas!

[@miguelneto2695]

Beautiful RX7.... nice interior... really CLEAN!!!

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you!

[@brucewiser9270]

Really enjoyed the video guys! That version of the RX-7 is the best looking Japanese car ever...and looks awesome in black!

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you Bruce!

[@ChutneyInc.]

At 12 minutes... Listen to that warmed up Idle. Its a beautiful feeling. That's what keeps me in love

[@BrandonCardoso12]

Y’all keep making great content. I’m sure this channel will start to grow really quickly once the word gets out. Keep it up guys!!

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you Brandon!

[@josephandreuccetti8043]

I grew up with best motoring in my life and top gear. Some cars you can’t put into words how good they are set up right and built correctly. I’m so glad I found your channel! I love Mazda’s and own a ND Mx5 club sport. I’ve been wanting a FD RX7 for the longest time. I see my ND as a baby FD. I’ve owned a MR2 Turbo, 91 eclipse awd turbo, integra gsr, Camaro Z28 and a transam for fun cars. I plan to focus my life towards track days since I’ve not attended one yet. Hopefully all of life set backs will become better. I enjoy how you tune and mod your cars. A lot of thought is put into it. It’s refreshing to see real content and substance. Please keep up the great work!

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you Joseph!

[@reynaldorivera743]

Still a great looking car ,I hope you keep it for as long as you can.93 my favorite Rx-7 of all time

[@Pyramidbuilder1]

Very nice car, still love your driving impression video on this car, best channel on yt byfar, keep the content coming and ill keep liking brother... hav a good one

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you Jason!

[@jagatardian01]

The cabin look so cozy.. beautiful...

[@cristianma6026]

Nice. Can't wait to see the S2000 out there.

[@bayonetta3469]

Why do we have the same taste in cars? The cars here Quinn are on point 👏🏼👌🏼

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thanks brother

[@killablah2427]

What a beautiful car！ Thank you for loving FD. RX-7 is Japan's prideXD

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you!

[@civikakias]

Finally! i waited this one for some time! Nice driving! RX-7 FD

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you!

[@3v4761]

That flutter is crazy

[@rexseven93]

My '93 has 176,000 miles. It will always be my favorite car. Nothing comes close and new cars are getting farther away.

[@arrivendrive6831]

Yes sir. I truly understand how you feel about your third gen. This video was amazing and I love how you added a lap timer on the video. I knew it would be close to the honda miatas time since i saw in some parts of the track the fd was of boost and the na miata appeared to be on power everywhere. The Fd 68 miles per hoir wow. She has some legs and on a bigger track she would probably smoke the honda miata. As for this track congrats to the honda. I would love to see both of them in a battle just to see where the the honda is faster. Dude thanks for the video

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thanks buddy! Yeah, the FD's gearing is just not a good match for this track. It really favors short geared, lightweight cars like the Miata. On the big track where I can stay in the meat of the power, it would be game over ;)

[@wingchung1975]

Great video, i really, really enjoy it, thanks.

[@wingchung1975]

@_xXep1cGam3r420Xx_ Welcome my friend, and also I will like to add that you are a great driver. I agree with you about everything you said about the rx7. I am owner of a rx8, series 2 and i am literally in love with that car in a point that my beautiful wife feel jealous of the time i devote to that piece of art. So, I completely understand you. Keep going with the good job. In the videos i have watched of you I always give you a thumb up. Have a nice day my friend.

[@TheSlipAngle]

Winchung1975 @_xXep1cGam3r420Xx_ is not affiliated with us and is posing like he is. he is 1 post away from getting banned on here.

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you WingChung, we tested my RX-8 for the show as well and will be airing it soon!

[@TheSlipAngle]

@_xXep1cGam3r420Xx_ that's not funny or cool bruh

[@viper22jc]

damn, this car is almost mirror image of my build. I went from 60-1 to a GTX3582r and I had Apexi coilovers. Street ported engine. Power FC with commander for the brains.

[@TheSlipAngle]

How do you like the GTX over the 60-1?

[@viper22jc]

@@TheSlipAngle it was way better, the boost came on quicker, boost curve was wider and smoother. In my opinion it was like that turbo was made for a rotary engine. I had fun with the 60-1, but once I switched to the GTX it felt more proper.

[@viper22jc]

@@TheSlipAngle get the GTX man, You will love it.

[@ricepony33]

Yes!!

[@Kamal-sj7it]

Dope episode man! That FD is flipping siiiiick! I felt the pain when your tire blew though. Those aren't cheap! Recalling you went cheap on your Rx8 tires maybe you could look into Riken Raptor zr's. Right now I have zr's on my Rx8 and they run pretty good and strong. Whether or not they would stand up to your track madness I'm not sure. Ha!

[@Kamal-sj7it]

I'd like to feature my car but it's bone stock except for some cooling mods. This Wednesday I'll be adding a transmission cooler as a secondary radiator for even more cooling. Then the typical water/oil temp and oil pressure gauges. After that some suspension work then forced induction...

[@TheSlipAngle]

Nice buddy! Shoot us an email with the specs and photos: [e-mail]

[@thepanduuh]

I gotta ask, why do you use Tein Flex on your Miata and the FD? I just feel they’re really cheap and not the same quality as everything else in the build. Especially after riding on Tommy’s Ohlins, I’d think you’d be looking more into something fancier; maybe even Xidas :D

[@TheSlipAngle]

Flex are not bad by any means. I'd like to move the FD to Ohlin's eventually but the difference in actually time gained would maybe be .2 seconds on a course this size. I think the alignment is more important. Tommy's car was fully corner balanced before testing it. The Flex are a great bang for buck dual purpose suspension. For my Miata's they are plenty. The MonoFlex on my S2000 are really good as well. Then Flex Z on my RX-8, not so much and those are going to be replaced with Ohlin's soon.

[@thepanduuh]

The Slip Angle I was looking around for my NA Miata and everyone said to stay away from Tein. Maybe you got the early batches that were made in Japan, now they’re made in Taiwan/China and are nowhere near as good. I’ve decided to build my own Bilstein coilovers with my own spring rates and bump stop lengths of choice.

[@petescarport]

The Slip Angle great answer. Always go with what you know and what makes most sense. Insane amount of options these days and you can really drop a lot of money. Thanks for your videos and all your knowledge

[@TheSlipAngle]

That could be true Joe. I know Tein has taken a lot of measures to cut costs. I have straight up Flex in the Miata's and FD, it was before the Street Flex and Flex Z stuff. I don't like the Flex Zs in the RX-8, the spring rates are too soft and the rears hit the bump stops way too easy.

[@TheBb6prelude]

I have a the tein flex 16 way damper coils on my 94 prelude. For what it is the car runs goood. All it has a energy suspension bushings, 225 15 proxes r1rs and the tein flex. I did pretty good on the track on the stiff to the max. Now add a bigger sway bar,strute bars and other goodies and it'll be way better.

[@jacobmincks1529]

I love your what pistons shirt

[@Savorychicken41]

So nice 👍

[@Domas64]

Very nice comparison with other cars. Even with small video windows for each car! Btw is RX-7 so precious that no one else could have a go? :)

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thanks! Not too precious, the half de-laminated tire sort of put the kibosh on the car for the rest of the day.

[@Gn0m4]

What are those seats? Looks amazing for a Miata. They look like a perfect size for a small car

[@TheSlipAngle]

997 Porsche GT3 buckets. The bases are the same width as Recaro Pole positions and they are going to be pretty snug in a Miata, forcing you to have a higher seating position than you may want.

[@BrandonCardoso12]

I was already thinking, damn what did the other cars run after seeing the RX-7’s time..... Little did I know all the times were posted towards the end lol.

[@TheSlipAngle]

;)

[@dempsey3]

I’ve had 2 SAs but I want a FD , it’s my next car

[@dustinmcgovney7684]

Ready to see some S2000 track times. 😉

[@petescarport]

Hey hear the turbo more than the brap. What kind of exhaust and also is this due to street port and not a full port. Just wondering because I’m looking at options myself

[@TheSlipAngle]

Street port still makes the engine louder than stock. I have a custom midpipe I made with a big Racing Beat resonator and a Racing Beat catback. I like Racing Beat stuff because their mufflers actually do something. Most rotaries you see have no muffler or just an N1 style can with no resonators or anything. This car with a Magnaflow muffler and nothing else as like ass bleeding loud lol. Maybe I'm just getting old but I don't like really loud cars that let the cops know you are hooning from a 1/2 mile away ;)

[@rotoloco]

Nice car! Old school e6k yeah haltech. I just got done reviving my fc w e6k still good after 20 yrs, yeah. can you tell me if you can datalog AF ratio to output? I select it but the same readings are shown on datalog. On v6.34u of software. I want to datalog the Wideband but even though the data page displays and selected to datalog the displayed output only shows the same main readings. Nice video !

[@TheSlipAngle]

I am not aware of any datalogging capabilities on the E6K

[@DStead2239]

Wow... Looks almost Identical to mine. Mines a 2002 S8 fd3s with rear spoiler delete.. I run the same tein's and a haltech elite lol.. Differences are I have Work Meister S13P wheels and studded/doweled bridgeport with gtx3582r, e85 and 320.5kw(430whp) @ 15psi low boost and 406kw(540whp) Australian horsepower (real horsepower not american pony power lol) on higher (22psi) boost.. Love driving mine, obviously you do too. I run more rear tyre than you and it makes no difference, keep yours balanced and responsive as I should have. Although, brap and situtuutuuuu is life😂❤

[@TheSlipAngle]

Hell yeah brother! ✌️👌

[@mattp9932]

Nice car. Where are you in CT? Havent seen u around

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you! Probably because with everything we have going on, I barely have time to drive these gems anymore!

[@TheBlackMUMBUH]

What camera are you using? It looks amazing

[@TheSlipAngle]

Thank you! I'll let Ryan or Matt chime in for this one :)

[@DriveItRyan]

Thanks! For most of the exterior shots and interviews, we use Canon DSLR’s (80D and T6s) with a variety of different lenses. We plan on doing a tech video in the near future covering all of the equipment we use. There’s a lot of it!

[@BigBarryGaming]

is the nr holde on the front bumber all the same version ?

[@jimmydean9470]

Did u shift gears at all or just rock 5th all day

[@RETMTM]

What tyre pressure were you running 'hot' ? It's good to see passionate rotarheads showing people who to dance with their cars 😎✌️{∆}

[@TheSlipAngle]

~32 psi hot

[@verdict1163]

Why would you delete the A/C and power steering?

[@0079supersaiyan]

More fd content please

[@nick-12343]

Curious, why do you not a run a vented hood if you're running v mount set up? Have you not had issues with too much heat in the engine bay?

[@TheSlipAngle]

Honestly, with the v-mount and the dual oil coolers, I have a hard time keeping temp in this car. If it is below 80' F outside I usually have to block off an oil cooler. Below 50' I have to block both of them off. On track the temps are within normal range. I like vented hoods but i also like the sleekness of the stock hood too.

[@NoeCuevas__]

👍

[@rotaryenforcer]

How do you feel about pushing this card hard? I love my FD so much I am always worried about it on track even though it has been "reliable." So much of my car is similar to yours it's scary - it is black, 99 front , keeps the OG oem tails (superior to the round 97+s IMO), efini badged, has silver RPF1s although staggered instead of square, GT35R single, streetported. The only major differences is I have a regular standard mount intercooler setup and black cloth interior (R2 trim). So when you speak about your FD I am just constantly nodding and smiling in agreement.

[@TheSlipAngle]

Hey Steve, with any car that is highly modified I feel like there is always a bit of uneasiness when out on track. Just a lot more variables in the mix and potential for something to fail. My FD has been decently reliable. It does have a bad habbit of killing turbo flange gaskets which is really annoying though, even with remachined mating surfaces.

[@23werex]

You will change brown interior parts, headliner etc?

[@TheSlipAngle]

Eventually I'd like to move to all black interior. It's just not that big of a priority at the moment.

[@TheSlipAngle]

@_xXep1cGam3r420Xx_ we? Do I know you? lol

[@Kevin-vg4hu]

what core did you use for the intercooler?

[@TheSlipAngle]

Isuzu box truck lol

[@PS-ck5kv]

How much did this build cost you in total?

[@CreativeBoy100]

rx7 vs mx5 k24 which one would u pick

[@TheSlipAngle]

RX-7 all day ;)

[@dudeisnotcoolio]

Aren't those replica GT3 seats? How is the quality?

[@TheSlipAngle]

Not bad!

[@chaisan399]

Enkei RPF1

[@TheSlipAngle]

;)

[@abadibi]

Black widow!

[@adamskyllbergpersson1253]

Notice ypu have alot of headroom in the FD, how tall are you?

[@TheSlipAngle]

5' 11" but I have buckets and Nagias Super Low rails. The stock seating position is way too high IMO.

[@federicosanchez2122]

How are you shifting?

[@TheSlipAngle]

This car will do over 70 MPH in 2nd, so I didn't have enough straight away to require a shift to 3rd.

[@gptsiteuser]

damn tommys is still the fastest!

[@chucky29949]

say it with me class Ｄ　Ｏ　Ｕ　Ｂ　Ｌ　Ｅ　Ａ　Ａ　Ｒ　Ｍ　|　腕を 二重 にする 3:27 do you notice any heat soak problems with that intake location? delaminating the tire part reminded me of the top gear segment in the SLS lol, for reference its at 11:30 here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJCpgIh4i6qMl7c

[@aHIGHasian]

You should build a drift car

[@sigggggggggggggg7424]

how much is a car like that realistically worth does anyone know

[@lexdunet5354]

Rotary supercharger is the porn engin !!!

[@jacobmincks1529]

You said you got out of the rx8. Do you drive that daily or were you tracking it.?

[@TheSlipAngle]

I do daily my RX-8 and we did test it on track :)

[@MrRotary]

Dream car i drive an nb because I can't afford a fd

[@TheSlipAngle]

I bought my NA Miata because I wanted an FD but couldn't afford one :)

[@jestonjump5647]

Rotary!!

[@danne941]

S2000 times.

[@sgoldens24]

Bitchen content thanks again !

[@LordEcks]

Super nitpicking but.. let the guy know its pronounced "tea" (like the drink) and "en" (like en-trance). Not Teen.

[@TheSlipAngle]

I actually think the proper pronunciation is like "Tayne". I say it like Teen because it just rolls off the tongue easier. Tayne sounds like some bad country music slang haha

[@LordEcks]

@@TheSlipAngle I stand corrected. Youre right, its Tay-een Comically enough their headquarters is only a few blocks away from me, in Yokohama. My apologies!

[@TheSlipAngle]

No worries buddy. It's a stupid name anyways lol

[@bobbyd642]

Horrible track