[Moppie]

Originally posted by sarujin
haha Power Steering, what the hell is that? My civic doesn't have power steering.

I want your steering rack!!!!! BADLY! I need some feel in the steering to match the rest of the chassis.





anyway cars:

1st Car: 1978 Datsun 100a Cherry. :ylsuper 998cc and 63hp of FWD Nissan grunt! Actualy the last incarnation of the old British Leyland A series engine from the MGB, Mini, etc etc etc etc in a 700kg 4dr japanese tin can body with 4 wheel independant suspension. Thats right a 4dr car from the 70s with 4 wheel independant suspension and it only weighed 700kgs. Got it from my grandmother at the end of 5th form.
Used to blow away FTGT Corollas from the lights, (untill we got up to 50kph that is) and as you can imagine it had absolutly beautifull handling. But top speed was limited by valve bounce to 140kph. (I can do that in 3rd now)
Great little car, its a shame Nissan replaced it with the Pulsar and then the god damn Primera, talk about taking a technological step back in time. Both of them used a fucken log for a back axle.


2nd Car, replaced the Cherry a week before the end of 7th form with a great classic 6 cylinder brit. One Nelson assembled 1973 Triumph 2500TC.
Again 4 doors, and also red, and also with 4 wheel independant suspension. (from a car orginaly designed in the early 1960s, and released in '63 :finger: ->Nissan ).
Not as agile as the old cherry, but then it weighed twice as much, and with a top speed of over 180kph it was a hell of a lot faster.
The car stayed orginal for about 18months, then I decieded that it needed to go a bit faster. 3 weeks after I got it the wheels were replaced with some 15 inch mags, and these now had the crappy Firestones replaced with some nice Yoko's (start of a love affair). The frount suspension recieved struts from an S model, and it was totaly rebushed frount and back. Then out came the engine and g/box. Both were totaly over hauled, and the engine recieved an up in compression, and some nice tuned length headers.
WOW! did it go better, and a long trip round the South Island saw it hit 180kph with more to go, but my balls getting to small.
Then it cracked a piston. To much Compression, and to many ignition faults.
Out came the engine agian, and this time the head was heavily ported and matched to a custom cam, with some large 175 Strombergs from a Lotus Twin Cam engine.
On a Dyno it showed 150+hp up from 105hp stock, and a huge 250+lb/ft of torque. Thats as much as an 80s era 308 chev.
Not bad from an old 50s designed 2.5L inline 6.

Anyway the car managed 57sec laps around Taupo, only 1sec off a Lotus Cortina, and provided me with plenty of fun, and some very fast and very smoth cross country drives. Lets just say it sat very comfterbly on the ton, and I felt young and invinceable.

3rd car: While the Triumph was lots of fun, and fairly fast, but I wanted some really fast, and pure. Like a Lotus 7. Unforunatly I could only afford to own one, or run one. But not both. So I settled on a Lynx Twin Cam kit car. One of the last of 50 made by some local Kiwis, its uses a Triumph Herald chassis with the rails inverted for strength, and is powered by an old 8v twin cam 2tge and 5sp from an old Toyota Celica. Or I should say was. The independant (<- note this) rear end from the Herald was never designed to work with that sort of power (about 110hp) and the diff completely lost all contact with the material world.
Hence the car is now sitting in a lock up awaiting some $$ to fit a 4agze (super charged engine from MK1 MR2 ) and Datsun 180b LSD.
Im thinking 180hp plus 700kgs 6inchs off the ground no roof and no doors should be a bit of fun. :ylsuper
(oh yeah, it was running on some Yokos, which I sold to my Father)


4th car: Sadly the Triumph couldn't live for ever, it died from Cancer about the same time my last Grand Parent did, and she was nice enough to leave me some $. I could have put them into the Lynx, but I needed something reliable to get to Uni and work. (she told me I had to buy a car with the money)
So I baught a 1990 SiR Civic. At the time I thought it was a nice japanese econo box which just happened to have a high redline, and made me smile when it hit the limiter on the test drive.
Oh how stupid I was. After about a month of driving it like the grannys shopping cart I thought it was I began to learn a bit about it. Some resurch on the net showed it to have 160hp. Not bad I thought, especialy for a 1600cc Jappa. Then I learned it only weighed 1040kgs. Hmmm 160hp isnt a hell of a lot, but when combined with 1040kgs it makes for a very nice combination.
So I started to wind it up a little. Began to explore the red line.
HOLLY SHIT! below 5,000rpm its a moderatly quick shopping cart, above 5,000rpm and Hondas extensive F1 history, and long motorsport heritage become apparent. And the best thing is the enginers didnt skimp on the chassis mods either. Up untill last year there wasn't an Aussi V8 made that could catch me in a straight line, and there still isnt one that can keep up through twistys. As for the other Jappas, well I have yet to find anything with 4cyl from the same year that is faster, and its only the much more modern and Turbo'd Mitis EVOs and Subi WRXS that really are a lot faster. Things like GSR Lancers and GSX Famillas in stock form are a joke, and I wont even mention non GTR Skylines.

It turns out the only thing my Civic shares with all the lesser models below it is some interior trim, and the basic body shape. Thats it.
Everything else, Frount and year subframes, brakes, all the suspension, engine, g/box etc are custom made or adapted from other Honda's.
The car is designed to be raced on weekends, and has an almost perfectly neutral suspension set up, and bigger brakes than most 4dr familly cars to show for it.
Oh yeah, it also has 4 wheel independant suspension and curently rides on Yoko's. :sun:




phew.
I guess if you managed to read through that then must love cars as much as I do. :smoker2: