Total Car Produce Magic

**Total Car Produce Magic** also known as "**TCP Magic**" is a Japanese tuning shop started by Taisuke Kawato that mainly specializes in rotary cars. They're mainly known for their G-Face widebody kits and suspension parts but they make other goodies too

## History

Taisuke Kawato created TCP Magic in 2002 initially working and giving maintenance on any popular high performance piston engine one notable example being the SR20DET.

### TCP-Magic in Super Taikyu

Taisuke Kawato built the Magic kg/mm RX-7 (FD3S) in 2006 for Super Taikyu participating in some events.

2006 Super Taikyu Rd.7 Motegi - Picture taken from impreza\_ver2
### 2007 Tokyo Auto Salon

In 2007, they participated in their first Tokyo Auto Salon event. They brought their Toyota Supra (JZA80) for the exhibition which had a fresh set of squid ring (also known as "Angel eyes" in the west) headlights installed, getting the attention of potential customers and even catching the eye of their regular customers some of which were coming all the way from Kansai.

The A80 Supra wasn't the only car in the event that was running Magic parts though, they also had a Nissan Y35 in Junction Produce's booth running their parts.

Junction Produce's Nissan Y45 in Tokyo Auto Salon 2007. - Picture taken from TCP Magic
### 2007 Osaka Auto Messe

They participated in the 2007 Osaka Auto Messe making this event their fifth exhibition of the year and showcased their Super Taikyu Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) and was exhibited in the Red Line Oil booth next to the RYO Time Attack S15 (that later became a D1 drift car) and was present the February 10th, 11th and 12th.

### 2007 Exciting Car Showdown

With no campaign gir nor music the nly crowd that was present in that event was only people who was into tuning so in that year TCP-Magic brought their Carbon Silvia (S14) and exhibited it for the tuning car festival in the Red Line Oil booth.

### 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon

This is the starting point for TCP Magic to what is mainly recognized for because in the 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon in their own booth they debuted the G-Face "street" kit taking a lot of inspirations coming from JGTC aero and the first car to get the aero kit was nicknamed "G-Face Unit 01" and the FD was built for Mr. Rattan.

### 2009 Osaka Auto Messe

In their own booth they displayed two of their cars being their demo car for the G-Face kit and their D1 car also showcasing their newest original hood design compared to Mr. Rattan's FD that had a Scoot Sports hood and perhaps that was their base inspiration for the design of their original vented hood.

### 2009 Exciting Car Showdown

They presented Mr. Rattan's FD in the Red Line Oil booth in hall 1 next to the Bee\*Racing B324R D1 car and the Kids Heart D1 Street Legal ER34.

- Picture taken from Option
### Early 2010s

He later on in his life realised that rotaries were his speciality so he started to change the image of the shop to become a rotary specialist like how today we know about.

### 2010 Tokyo Auto Salon

Not to be confused with 55Motor's FD build

## List of products

Lexus IS-F (USE20)

Mazda RX-8 (SE3P) /(FE3P)

Mazda Generic Rotary Engine Parts

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 4 (CN9A)

Nissan Skyline / Infiniti G35 (V35)

Nissan SR20DET

Toyota Supra (JZA80)

Forced Induction

## Demo Cars

### Super Taikyu TCP Magic kg-mm Mazda RX-7 FD3S

*Main article: Super Taikyu TCP Magic kg-mm Mazda RX-7 FD3S*

This FD was built for the Super Taikyu racing in 2006. Basically it's just normal parts but for Kawato-san it was the ultimate specification at the time.

## Videogames

This is a list of videogames that the shop appeared:

* CSR2 (2016)
* Drift Spirits (2013)
* Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
* Need for Speed (2015)
* Need for Speed Payback (2017)
* Need for Speed Heat (2019)
* Need for Speed Unbound (2022)
* Torque Drift (2020)

## Fun Facts

* The Japanese branch calls the G-Face type TT widebody with vents in the fenders as "V2" while the American branch calls it "V3".
* TCP Magic is one of the main sponsors of HUMBUL.
* HUMBUL's name was made by Mad Mike as a nod to respect of Kawato-san’s humble nature.
* They worked on the 26B of the Liberty Walk S15.
* For CSR2 and Forza Horizon 5 it seems they took inspiration from Jonny Grunwald's RX7 (FD3S) (in which was also used as a TCP Magic and TRMNL Racing demo car) for the combination of parts it features.
* Playground Games in Forza Horizon 5 put the wrong logo in their aero parts and put the TRMNL Racing logo instead.
* Playground games in Forza Horizon 5 incorrectly labelled the Battle Aero V3 Chassis Mount for the RX-7 (FD3S) under the TCP Magic name.
* When you equip in the RX-7 (FD3S) the type TT V2/3 widebody kit in Forza Horizon 5 and in CSR2 it comes with the R-Magic “Eye's” Fixed Light Kit.

## References

* Website: blog.livedoor.jp/impreza\_ver2 (2007) *January 31, 2007* Available at: http://blog.livedoor.jp/impreza\_ver2/archives/2007-01.html
* Website: www.speedhunters.com (2009) *Event>> Exciting Car Showdown In Nagoya – Grip* Available at: http://www.speedhunters.com/2009/04/event\_gt\_gt\_exciting\_car\_showdown\_in\_nagoya\_grip/
* Website: [1]www.tcpmagicusa.com *TCP-Magic USA* Available at: https://www.tcpmagicusa.com/
* Website: [2][3]www.tcp-magic.com *TCP-Magic* Available at: http://www.tcp-magic.com/
* Website: www.jdm-option.com (2007) *2007 Osaka Auto Messe Event Report* Available at: http://www.jdm-option.com/eng/event/07\_02/osaka.html
* Website: www.speedhunters.com (2015) Another Twin-Turbo Quad-Rotor In The Mad Mike Stables Available at: http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/08/mad-mikes-humbul-twin-turbo-4-rotor-rx7/
* Website: www.speedhunters.com (2010) Car Spotlight >> Yoshioka’s 4-rotor D1 Rx-7 Available at: http://www.speedhunters.com/2010/07/car\_spotlight\_gt\_gt\_yoshioka\_s\_4\_rotor\_d1\_rx\_7/
* Website: www.speedhunters.com (2015) White Or Red? Pick Your Poison Available at: http://www.speedhunters.com/2017/11/white-or-red-pick-your-poison/
* Website: www.speedhunters.com (2017) The Lure Of A TCP Magic FD RX-7 Available at: http://www.speedhunters.com/2017/02/tcp-magic-55motors-fd3s-mazda-rx7/
* Website: www.speedhunters.com (2021) Not All For Show: Liberty Walk Builds A 1,200hp 4-Rotor S15 Available at: http://www.speedhunters.com/2021/05/liberty-walk-builds-a-1200hp-4-rotor-s15/
* Website: https://www.fastcar.co.uk/ (2022) Tuned RX-7 FD With 700bhp | A Kind Of Magic Available at: https://www.fastcar.co.uk/cars/tuned-rx-7-fd/
* Website: https://onthestreetsoftokyo.wordpress.com/ (2009) IN YO FACE!!! [FEATURED: Total Car Produce Magic FACE G Widebody RX7] Available at:https://onthestreetsoftokyo.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/100/
* Website: http://re-xtreme.blogspot.com/ (2012) Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 - TCP Magic Available at: http://re-xtreme.blogspot.com/2012/05/tokyo-auto-salon-2012-tcp-magic.html
* Website: https://www.motortrend.com/superstreetonline/ (2017) 1994 Mazda RX-7- Magic Man Available at: https://www.motortrend.com/features/1708-1994-mazda-rx-7-magic-man/
* Website: https://www.motortrend.com/superstreetonline/ (2017) 1994 Mazda RX-7- Magic Man Available at: https://www.motortrend.com/features/1708-1994-mazda-rx-7-magic-man/
* Website: https://www.facebook.com/ His Facebook literally Available at: https://www.facebook.com/
* Website: http://garage36.blogspot.com/ (2010) Rotary Renaissance at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2010 Available at: http://garage36.blogspot.com/2010/02/rotary-renaissance-at-tokyo-auto-salon.html
* Website: http://www.jdm-option.com/index.php (2009) Exciting Car Showdown 2009 Available at: http://www.jdm-option.com/photo/index.php?action=item&category\_id=100&image\_id=1436