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Old 03-24-2006, 05:04 PM
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American Touge 2 DVD Released Featuring the Pepsi RX8

Vivid Racing competed in December 2005 in the Amercian Touge 2
DVD shoot with the Pepsi RX8. Showing up to have some fun and mess
around with their show/race car, they never would have expected the turn out. Check out the full JDM DVD featuring Vivid Racing and the Pepsi RX8.

CLICK HERE TO BUY THE DVD

After the success of the first American Touge DVD, Zigzag Asia
conducted an open casting call for US tuner cars to appear in the sequel AT2 to be tested and driven to the limits touge style by Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya and his protégé Yasuyuki Kazama. 33 cars divided into 4 different classes were chosen to battle it out to challenge last year's "Touge Monster", Comptech NSX. Hotties Kazumi Kondo and Verena Mei co-host the show.

Cars were divided into NA RWD, Turbo RWD, FR and AWD classes.
Promising contenders from the first American Touge such as Hasport, Top Setup, Techno Toy Tuning, Vishnu and XS Engineering were there to avenge the Touge Monster title. Cars from grade A tuners such as the Mullerized EVO and AEM Civic Si were newly chosen along with several privateers with hopes they may have some surprises.

The Hot Version International AT2 is 90 minutes long with more
detailed footage of American Touge 2 compared to the JDM version which was released earlier in Japan.

Cast: Keiichi Tsuchiya, Yasuyuki Kazama, Kazumi Kondo and Verena Mei

Cars Appearing: Comptech NSX, Techno Toy Tuning AE86, Full Function AE86, Toyota MR-S, Toyota Corolla GT-S, Mazda Miata, Nissan 350Z, BMW M3, Danstoy AE86, AE86 with turbo 35GE, Vivid Racing Pepsi RX-8, Miata Turbo, MR-S 2ZZ, MR-2, High End Performance MR-S, Honda S2000, Factor X NSX, Spugen S2000, Surge 240sx, RX-7, Mini Cooper S, Import Racer RSX, Raceline USA Integra Type R, Top Setup EG6, Hasport CRX, AEM Civic Si, Endless EG6, APR Evil R, Gravel Crew WRX2.5RS, World One Performance STi, XS Engineering R34 GT-R, Speedlab STi, Crawford Performance 2.5RS, Vishnu Evo, Bozz Performance Evo, Extreme Performance Evo, Muellerized Evo, Aspec Evo and American Trackday Monster Evo.

Bonus Feature: XDL Promo Video Premier

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man. i would like to buy that dvd. but, anyway, i will wait for download.
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$17.99 isn't too bad I guess. Anyways, did you guys ever release your dyno info for your Pepsi 8? Also, are you still using the e-manage and what boost levels?

I looked through your gallery pics and noticed everybody is wearing flip-flops and board shorts. too funny.
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^Its hot out there in AZ.
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Yea I'm in Vegas home of the 120's lol
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Oh yea did you guys ever see that add in Modifiedmag.com with the White Pepsi / Viv RX-8? It was for the street motion tour on page 23 of December 2005. I'll scan it later.
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Yeah, I honestly wasn't that impressed.
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so do we at least get to find out how well it did?
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did the top setup EGG woop on you guys? cause in the last american touge it wooped on all og comptechs cars, including their Supercharged nsx.. and it also wooped on xs engineering's wrx...
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you think they would really tell you what happen? if they did they wouldnt sell any dvds! Come on we all know vivid is smart business people
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I doubt it placed very high at all. I thought that car was more for show?
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it is a show car...i remember when robert shaws car was in mph magazine, it did very poorly. Robert shaw if you guys don't remember had on of the first greddy turbo'd 8's in the U.S. The car got his *** handed to him against those other cars it went up against.. i forgot what it went up against..
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Originally Posted by XDEEDUBBX
it is a show car...i remember when robert shaws car was in mph magazine, it did very poorly. Robert shaw if you guys don't remember had on of the first greddy turbo'd 8's in the U.S. The car got his *** handed to him against those other cars it went up against.. i forgot what it went up against..
no, actually contrary to trollish forum opinion - it was not an all show no go car like Shaw's... it was actually a well prepared and thought out piece that looks like it finished in the top 4
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^Yeah, just look at all the stickers, it has to be fast.
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haha
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Originally Posted by Moostafa29
^Yeah, just look at all the stickers, it has to be fast.
it finished in the top 4 and along the way was used to develop a bunch of new products and may start even more aftermarket support... what more do you want???
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Originally Posted by r0tor
it finished in the top 4 and along the way was used to develop a bunch of new products and may start even more aftermarket support... what more do you want???
Calm down son, I'm only messing around. Do you work for them or something?
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Originally Posted by Moostafa29
Calm down son, I'm only messing around. Do you work for them or something?
No, I don't work for them

...and countless others on here have mocked that car for months now here because of it being "all show, no go", "rice", ect... and then go on to bitch about the lack of aftermerket support
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^They have done that because of all the horrible experiences they have had dealing with Vivid. I haven't had any myself, just because of all the things I've heard. But at the same time, its not like they created the any of the performance parts, they are only selling them. I will be happy to pick up the DVD (from another source), and cheer them on since they are at least representing the 8, and if they did finish 4th, that is something to be proud of given all the competition.
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so if they came in 4th the top setup EGG still kick its *** right? haha
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I have never had any dealings with Vivd, so I'll not give them a thumbs-up or down for how they've dealt with RX-8 owners on this site or otherwise. But I'll definitely applaud them for choosing the RX-8 as their car for entry; there are lots of others they could have picked instead. Strong showings/finishes in events like these does help public image of the RX-8 which is something this car needs.
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Originally Posted by XDEEDUBBX
so if they came in 4th the top setup EGG still kick its *** right? haha
no...
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Originally Posted by Moostafa29
But at the same time, its not like they created the any of the performance parts, they are only selling them.
Agency power is their own brand - one of many things that came from this car were adjustable sway bay endlinks...
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so who came in first?
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Originally Posted by r0tor
Agency power is their own brand - one of many things that came from this car were adjustable sway bay endlinks...
I guess that would explain the wait for the Agency Power exhaust.


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