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DOTS: Rusty 1980 Honda Civic Mk. 2

October 4, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Time for another Down On The Street edition!

It is funny how you keep finding more and more old Japanese cars when you start looking for them and get an eye for them. I found this 1980 Honda Civic Mk. 2 during one of the cycling tours I’m doing with my two year old son.
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
From far away I already spotted the big dent in the left rear door.

Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
When I got closer I spotted some rust on the hatch…

Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
And when I passed it I spotted even more rust on the whole front section of the car!

So I turned around, grabbed my camera and took some photos of this Japanese rustoseum!
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
This is how bad the hatch actually is!

Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
And at the other corner of the rear window you can almost force your hand inside if you want to!

Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
And the headlight doesn’t look much better than the hatch! Weird enough the chrome surrounding outlived the hood! I really don’t want to know the amount of electrical problems with this car, you can just imagine the amount of water gushing in the headlight when driven through rain!

Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Funny enough the interior looked really good compared to the outside of the car!

The car itself has still got MOT till the end of November. I don’t think it will pass the tests anymore unless someone really does a lot of work to it. For MOT it will definitely need a replacement rear door and if you want to keep the car in decent state it needs a new hatch, hood and some welding to the sills.

Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
Rusty Honda Civic Mk. 2
And as you can see this is the Hondamatic version of the Mk. 2 Civic. Since this car is the early 1980 model it is certainly powered by the only choice of engine: a 1.3 liter EJ engine (68hp), coupled with a two speed automatic. Back then a powerful engine: my ageing 2T is only capable of doing 75hp with its 1.6 liter displacement!

All in all I consider this an unique find! Never seen that much rust on a MOT-ed car!

My Carina: Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup

October 3, 2009 / / 0 Comments

After last weeks posting about the Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 cluster I could not leave it on the shelve anymore…So I opened it up:
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: opened up
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: opened up

First thing I spotted under the tachometer was this:
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: check engine light
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: check engine light
The check engine light! I already thought it was missing! ( ? ??)

And when continued to unbolt plate from the backside I saw this:
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: identification
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: identification
Some sort of identification for the cluster. The 4cyl must be useful information for the tacho (pulses devided by four) and the RH must mean it is a RHD cluster. The other two numbers don’t ring a bell. ?(‘?`?)?

So with everything unbolted I was able to access this:
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: odometer internals
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: odometer internals
The odometer internals!
When pushing the black gears between the numbers to the left you can just change the odometer number on the left of it to its right position. Be careful and use something soft like a toothpick: I damaged one of the (not really important) numbers this way because I used a screwdriver! ?(???;)

I also saw this on the backside of the backplate:
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: speedometer calibration
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: speedometer calibration
It is used for calibration of the speedo- and odometer! 637 revolutions of the speedocable is equal to 1km. If the cluster has the same number of revolutions as my current cluster it will be an easy swap! Otherwise I probably need to have the speedo recalibrated to the value on my current cluster…

On the other side you could see the fruits of my work:
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: odometer adjusted
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: odometer adjusted
I adjusted the odometer from 171178 to 081178, which is quite near what the current cluster is at.

Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: closed up again
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: closed up again
So, all that was left was a good cleanup of the backplate and perspex and put everything back together. ?(´??)?

Hilarious: Inazuman

October 2, 2009 / / 1 Comment

I found a part of really old episode of Inazuman on Youtube and tried to find out more about that series.
Inazuman
Somehow I think it was not the Grand Championship cars which inspired the bosozoku, but rather this series with this weird flying car called Raijingo!

On Youtube I found the hilarious opening of the series:

WTF? He is able to rebuild collapsed buildings and shoot ropes, like spiderman, and pulls the building erect again?

According to the reviews of the series I found out that the flying car called Raijingo actually has a psychic link with Inazuman. Raijingo is capable of shooting missiles from its mouth. The car looks like it was originally a Nissan Fairlady 1500 SP310. Raiji means thundergod in Japanese, so it would have been more logical if the car was based upon a TE27 Trueno!

This was the part of the video I found and be prepared for a thrilling car chase between Raijingo and a Nissan Gloria A30:

WTF: Masato Kawabata’s cornering

October 1, 2009 / / 3 Comments

When I saw this video the first time I thought the video was about Masato Kawabata’s 180SX RPS13 spinning while initiating the drift. But then all of a sudden the WTF!? moment was there!

Amazing cornering abilities! ?(´?`)/
Masato Kawabata ddi this in the fourth round of the D1GP in Okayama where he received the full 100 points from all judges!

Found at: Sideways.cz

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