What did you do to your FB today?
#6102
Rotary Onigiri
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Only looked at her in the garage as I started cleaning it and re-arranging stuff. It's been chilly the past couple of days, so having trouble getting motivated to get out there.
Ordered some new 15x9 and 15x8 SSRs for her and sold my 13x8s.
SS18 coverage by Japanese Nostalgic Car is up!
I'm at the bottom of the page...w00t!
fm
Ordered some new 15x9 and 15x8 SSRs for her and sold my 13x8s.
SS18 coverage by Japanese Nostalgic Car is up!
I'm at the bottom of the page...w00t!
fm
#6103
Village Idiot
iTrader: (8)
Only looked at her in the garage as I started cleaning it and re-arranging stuff. It's been chilly the past couple of days, so having trouble getting motivated to get out there.
Ordered some new 15x9 and 15x8 SSRs for her and sold my 13x8s.
SS18 coverage by Japanese Nostalgic Car is up!
I'm at the bottom of the page...w00t!
fm
Ordered some new 15x9 and 15x8 SSRs for her and sold my 13x8s.
SS18 coverage by Japanese Nostalgic Car is up!
I'm at the bottom of the page...w00t!
fm
I can't believe those Angel Motorsports guys drove that REPU all the way out there. That couldn't have been a comfortable ride...
#6106
Rotary Onigiri
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Today, j9d3s came over tuned the Weber. With the jets we used, I was running pig rich. Ended up going from a 235 main jet to a 195 main jet. The idle jet isn't quite right either, but we weren't able to deal with that. I'll pick up a couple of new idle jets and swap those in myself.
The car is really close. Not running rich anymore. No more coughing, sputtering between 2000-4500 rpms at part throttle. Feels really good.
The next time he comes out, we are planning on taking it to the dyno, working with the AFR just a little more as well as with the timing.
Also, thanks to j9, I have an LCA to replace the one I have w/a worn out ball joint. It's astonishing that it's worn out as it's essentially a new LCA I picked up from Atkins when I first bought the car 3 years ago. I noticed the ball joint was bad right before SS18. At that time, I had no more than 200 miles on the car.
Anyway, I'll be replacing that sometime this week.
fm
The car is really close. Not running rich anymore. No more coughing, sputtering between 2000-4500 rpms at part throttle. Feels really good.
The next time he comes out, we are planning on taking it to the dyno, working with the AFR just a little more as well as with the timing.
Also, thanks to j9, I have an LCA to replace the one I have w/a worn out ball joint. It's astonishing that it's worn out as it's essentially a new LCA I picked up from Atkins when I first bought the car 3 years ago. I noticed the ball joint was bad right before SS18. At that time, I had no more than 200 miles on the car.
Anyway, I'll be replacing that sometime this week.
fm
#6112
I had a new stereo receiver installed, along with an amp, subwoofer, and antenna. Also had it re-tinted (3rd tint job in 30 years). I had installed the previous stereo and antenna myself roughly 10 years ago, and it was nice to have someone else do it, although damn expensive.
They managed to flood the car so bad I had to have the spark plugs replaced (thanks Rotary Performance for quick fix)... Again I could have done myself as I had previously, but was in no mind to do a complex unflood in a car stereo installers shop...
Now for paint. It was last painted nearly 20 years ago, and apparently prices have doubled since then... I am going to have put enough $ in this car within just a few weeks that I won't want to drive it.
This all started last Monday when some jackass rear-ended me on the tollway and drove off. So I got serious about fixing up what was looking its age...
They managed to flood the car so bad I had to have the spark plugs replaced (thanks Rotary Performance for quick fix)... Again I could have done myself as I had previously, but was in no mind to do a complex unflood in a car stereo installers shop...
Now for paint. It was last painted nearly 20 years ago, and apparently prices have doubled since then... I am going to have put enough $ in this car within just a few weeks that I won't want to drive it.
This all started last Monday when some jackass rear-ended me on the tollway and drove off. So I got serious about fixing up what was looking its age...
#6113
Rotary Onigiri
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Last night, I wired together my custom Speedhut gauges. It was pretty straight-forward as they gave me a couple of harnesses that allowed me to daisy-chain them together. It got to be too late for me to do any more with the gauges/dash today, so I test fit my modified airbox. The hood closes with about a cat's whisker's clearance. I can remove the phenolic spacers and I'll have plenty of room. I'll bring the airbox back to Josh for the final glassing and paint on Monday. I'll hopefully get the gauges installed by Monday.
fm
fm
#6114
carb whisperer
#6120
carb whisperer
They are pretty well made, and very flexible.
Fitment doesnt need much work at all to make fit, lol.
#6121
HeyHeyHey..Its the Goose
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Sometimes the threat of power is effective enough. Nuclear weapons???
Originally Posted by KansasCityREPU;
Put in a hidden fuel pump kill switch.
*turns out my neighbor wanted to fight. I told him, "you know he's bigger than you"; and he still wanted to fight so I tipped my hat and walked back inside. and watched him get pulverized.
#6123
'85 12a
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I don't know the offset. When I got them I saw that the dish was close to an inch deeper than the 14x6's, which makes sense. I kinda feared some rubbing, which kept me at the 195 width. The springs are fresh stock springs (5 years, 35,000 miles) cut 1/2 coil front 3/4 coil rear. I don't know the offset. When turning quickly into a driveway incline I have some rubbing on the fender. I haven't noticed any in somewhat spirited cornering on normal pavement.
My next move is to install a set of BG springs I've had in the shed. That should reduce somewhat the incidence of rubbing.
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#6124
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we have found that, if you're racing, its faster with a little stretch, so 205 on an 8" wheel is good, but 205 on a 9" wheel was even better. the hoosiers do run wide, so a 205 hoosier is like a 225 in any other tire.
so i'd go 195's, although 205 would be ok too.
#6125
Waffles - hmmm good
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it depends a little. Mazda would put a 205 on a 7" wheel, and then a 225 on an 8" and so on, its actually one thing they have been really consistent about for a really long time (starts with the FC in fact).
we have found that, if you're racing, its faster with a little stretch, so 205 on an 8" wheel is good, but 205 on a 9" wheel was even better. the hoosiers do run wide, so a 205 hoosier is like a 225 in any other tire.
so i'd go 195's, although 205 would be ok too.
we have found that, if you're racing, its faster with a little stretch, so 205 on an 8" wheel is good, but 205 on a 9" wheel was even better. the hoosiers do run wide, so a 205 hoosier is like a 225 in any other tire.
so i'd go 195's, although 205 would be ok too.
Why is the slight stretch faster?
Also would going with a 60 sidewall versus 55 help/hurt/no difference? Clearance
issues?