The six rotor FD RX-7 drift car that’ll make your ears bleed

From the brap-brap idle to the high-screaming RPM, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn’t love the sound of a Mazda rotary engine. 

The Six-Rotor FD RX-7 Drift Car

It’s an automotive acoustic unlike any other, and the six rotor in this FD RX-7 drift car might be the best of the lot. I distinctly remember the first time I heard this engine, and it blew my mind. I was waiting in line on Saturday morning for entry into the LZ World Tour at Calder Park, the high-pitched shrieking of the FD doing testing bellowed across the entire facility, carrying all the way from the circuit to the car park some kays away. It was simply fantastic. 

Mukka Motorsport and the RX-7: Behind the Build

The engine in the RX-7 is actually the world’s first billet six rotor, chucking out some 808rwhp. Its run by the kiwi crew Mukka Motorsport, who shipped the car over from New Zealand after a 10 month build for its debut at the LZ World Tour drift event in late October.

The FD was built for driver Benji Sneddon to get back into drifting, with the bulk of the metal work taken care of by William Humphries from HSP Steel & Performance.

Behind that billet six rotor sits a HGT sequential six-speed, with a quick change rear end and a 50mm wider track. With a weight of just 1100kg and that 808rwhp, it makes for one nasty drift weapon. 

The angry RX-7 ran on point all weekend at the LZ World Tour, and was also on sight at the Mad Mike Summer Bash back in NZ earlier this month. Benji has flagged he wants to thrash the RX-7 at as many events as possible, so hopefully it makes it way back to Aussie soil again in the near future to play its glorious six rotor soundtrack. 

Story Kian Heagney

Photos Noah Thorley