Uncle Hungry

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Thanks Brian, Merry Christmas

SLOASFK

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Merry Christmas to you too, Chris. I hope my post was informative, and I hope someone corrects any of the misinformation I have. I know someone's going to bitch about the "60whp" comment, but whatever.

GoodfellaFD3S

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Brian, I'm preeeety sure they're Recaros, not Sparcos. Not positive though

Here's a link w/a bit of info:

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/1...-Spirit-R.html

SLOASFK

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Yeah you're completely right. That's what happens when I just start typing on 2 hours of sleep

777

congrads on the new car.. looks sweet.. wish we could import one of those baby here..

keep it stock . don't know if spirit R still have pre-cat problem like what we have got here..

but anywho.. good luck with your new toy

Julian

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the same except all the better bits....... plus 4.3 rear end and usable 5th gear ratio of 0.762 i.e. 5% quicker gearing 1-4 and 7% in 5th and 9 yeard newer and last of an edition and one of a kind Great color

Raffmeister

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Man was it sweet, first propper run since getting the insurance completed.Now I can relax. I really noticed the amount of heat that transfers through the firewall/tranny tunnel.The A/C worked well though.Even got my first "kill", some old geezer and his wife in a Lexus 4WD trying to go me off the lights on New Line Road at Dural. As you can imagine, no competition!. One thing I have noticed is that the engine pops and backfires occasionally between gear shifts, is that normal?

cheers,

Raff.

BigWillieStyles

Mate, all normal and what makes the FD such a fun car to drive. You could probably give it a tune but its pretty normal for the popping. Get it hot enough and you will have fire ***** coming out

It does get hot in the cabin through the firewall, i noticed that too.

Raffmeister

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So BigWillieStyles, how does an Aussie end up living in Japan and owning an FD.Spares must be easy to come by, not to mention all the aftermarket stuff?

NZ_Rota

Hey mate, i'm from new zealand. Here's a link to a spirit r currently for sale over here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-131299285.htm
Is $59,500ono (NZD) so probably just over half that american dollar and heres another link to a 20b fd for sale: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...htm?key=580919
The guy wants $30,000NZD so once again just over half that (i think) american dollar.
Picked up my '92 fd for $12,000NZD minor mods : re amemiya redom chip, exhaust, 17" rims, lowered etc

OneRotor

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let's see a picture of the number plate, so we know how much of a lucky SOB you are. CONGRATS.

Raffmeister

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Er, did you mean me?

Raff.

Raffmeister

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Check 'em out,

http://www.autotrader.com.au/iteminf...ubs_Used+Cars_

and....

http://www.autotrader.com.au/iteminf...ubs_Used+Cars_

enjoy!....

Raff.

REPUZENTN

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Thanks for sharing. Now you got me really wanting one.

GoodfellaFD3S

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I think I might have to move to Australia

Slimbo

Another new Aussie FD3S owner- just like me

Very nice car... I tried, and tried, and tried, and gave up on finding a Spirit R for myself.

A few of the Ausrotary folks told me to get a PFC in it and have it tuned by someone good, which I did- 2 days after purchasing the car; It took a bit of time, but the tuner did an aweseome job of getting rid of the dip at the turbo crossover point.

K-Tune

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ohhh nooo the wheels :[ track down a set of BBS for it!

OneRotor

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yes, yes i do. I'm referring to the plate on the firewall (i think) to signify what number of the last 1500 you got.

once again, CONGRATS!

Raffmeister

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OK here ya go, 549/1500

Raffmeister

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And where did you get the work done on your FD, I'm looking for a place to service mine who knows what he's doing but I can't bring up the Aus rotory page for some reason let alone register on it!

Raffmeister

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As i mentioned in an earlier post, neither of these cars have the original Spirit wheels, which I think is a shame as that's a big part of the mystique surrounding the car!

Raffmeister

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I want to replace the manual tranny fluid and add new fluid as well as a Newlon additive, my question is what's the fluid capacity of the manual tranny,should I warm the tranny first and do you have any oil recommendations?, the Newlon treatment says I need half a tube per 2 litres of tranny fluid.

RotorDream

that is a beautiful thing

Slimbo

I got Dave from Bel Garage to tune it. The workshop isn't known for rotaries at all, but Dave is- he's behind a couple of the IPRA cars.

Raffmeister

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I had left the rear hatch up after I closed the garage door (tilt-a-door), so when I went to open it again it kept getting stuck about a 3rd of the way up then coming back down again, I totally forgot the hatch was open so when the garage door was trying to raise, it got caught on the trailing edge of the spoiler and took a nice little chunk out of it and left a couple of scratches too all down to the fibreglass (i think thats what it's made of).Man I was swearing so much I think I invented my own language!. Now it's off to get the spoiler resprayed