whatever happened to Adam Saruwatari car?

 

He "retired" it. I'm sure that he still has it. Honda is throwing money at him now. He's got ... what, an NSX, a tube NSX, and a new Civic Si HB to drag now? I really don't keep up with the **** that goes on ... especially drag strips.

 

He has been busy with his NSX and using it as his drag racer, but I think he still has his RX-7.

 

Yeah DK, you got it right... the FD is just there for looks now, he wasnt fast enuugh to compete well anyways. No offense or anything, but it didnt cut it. He's racing his Tube NSX with WHOLE CF body. Last season was its debut, he was runnin 8's when he ran his first events... i lost track since that... but he has a Civic si HB now, you can catch glimpes of it at car shows, big shows. Sigh.... what a traitor.... hehe
Huy

 

believe it or not, but he CRASHED the NSX on a maxspeed test. thats why you had all this hype about it... and then zip... you dont hear about it anymore!! i think this happened a while ago. maybe half a year or so...

anyway... the guy lives like 15 min from me on a ranch in arroyo grande. talked 2 him a couple times. nice guy, but doesnt really know what hes talkin about.

 

Denguyen: you live near him huh? My girls family lives up there also....the big farms that are near him....yep that's there's. There related somewhere down the line.

His NSX just got sponsored by Jackson Racing near the end of the season and it didn't get crashed. Maybe a wreck or something but it's still whole and it ran a best of 7.75 or close. He's got his own personal drag strip on his farm from what we hear. He's gonna be sporting the full pro drag Civic this season...but he should still have the NSX out there mixing it up.

How can you say that his Rx7 couldn't cut it? It held all the records for the longest time.....it's just lately that people have been able to skate by the rules and run faster. You can't tell me that Ari's car is in the same exact trim as Adam's was a few years ago and still as fast. Don't think so! I bet alot of us would be really suprised at what certain people have done to their car that noone knows about or don't fall within the rules

 

If I remember correctly, Adams car was considered Pro class or comething because the "driveline" wasn't stock.

 

He had a Gforce tranny in it which made it not legal for most of the classes at the time. Well, the rules have since been revised to allow "certain" trans. variations. His tranny was his only "driveline" mod that wasn't per class rules. If I remember correctly......he ran a 8.8 right?? Ari just ran a 9.1 with the same "driveline" mods. His tranny uses dogcut gears which is the same as a Gforce just keeps the H-pattern I'm pretty sure. His was on slicks as well....so I don't get the quote that says that Adam's 7 couldn't cut it???? 8's aren't that bad in a stock bodied car with ALL it's original glass and interior!!!!!!

 

I think people need to give respect to Adam for one thing above all else. He is one of the pioneers of the import racing world!!! He has been around since the beginning and has really taught the sport alot on professionalism and what it means to have a clean image and nice personality. I really think at the very least he deserves some credit for that. He single handedly brought big sponsorship to the import ranks....I've been around from day 1.....do your research and find out.

 

I love that Enkei wheel ad with his RX-7 and a NSX in the background at the track.. But has he won any events in the NSX yet?? The articles I have read a while ago always say that he has been knocked out in like the first or second rounds of competition.

 

car a whole bunch then it just disapeared and next thing you know he had a new NSX same paint style and all i thought he crashed his rx7 or sumthin? he has a civic now???? how come

 

Check this out!

http://www.i-m-racing.com/ntnsracing/adsarknigspo.html

 

Ha Ha, they probably just painted a knight sports kit to look like his, and said "We can probably sell this to someone for 5k or so"...

 

Man thats alot for his kit...

 

Anyone know what he up to these days? The Civic ever run?

 

Old thread I know, but I came across this today: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZE...Vx01gw7glGf9MA

Go show the RX7 video some love

 

Read something a few days ago that hes bringing the rx7 out of retirement.

 

I remember back in the day he was going through engines like candy. Back in the 90's there was just bandaids and well wishes for keeping an engine together, there was no decent ECU's and what was out there was very poorly documented. He was probably running the PFS purple computer.

Boy have we come a long way since then!

Dale

 

He lives near me. I remember being very disappointed when he told me he would not be able to work on my car. I guess he was kinda busy

 

There were ECUs out there such as using back to back M4s or an M2R. People just didn't give proper electronics packages the respect they deserve. And didn't like the price tag associated.

 

there is a story about that, i do not remember the details, but if you do some digging you'd probably find it.

there was something about one of his sponsors being an ECU company, but he was using something else. and that something else was like an abacus, it was something people would say is impossible for the e.t.'s he was running.

 

Back in the day people made crazy fast cars with rising rate fuel pressure regulators, additional injector controllers, etc. Not to mention disabling trailing spark or going to a spinning distributor so you had timing control.

Dale

 

Yup. We had Honda's that ran almost triple digit fuel pressure. Lol