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Sam.
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So I had a few offcuts of led strip from a few odd jobs i've done and I've come up with this... hella euro:
Question is is it too much and super wanky? Basically I want it to light the handles up when the car unlocks and the interior light comes on, but I need access to a wiring diagram so I don't have to run the wiring all the way to the roof. Any ideas where I can access those on the net?
Question is is it too much and super wanky? Basically I want it to light the handles up when the car unlocks and the interior light comes on, but I need access to a wiring diagram so I don't have to run the wiring all the way to the roof. Any ideas where I can access those on the net?
Ziggy
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Loving it...but binner, i don't see that going very far with only two cylinders
madridingengineer
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lol...... Gotta love the sound of the horizontally opposed four! Great work Binner. Looks tops!
binner
Hath shat hymself
massive pumping
ahhh who needs water when you can get this out of an east west donk
this is kinda the sound we will hear in my street in the next few weeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL5mqMYesw8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOxIZ8mg7mo&feature=related
ahhh who needs water when you can get this out of an east west donk
this is kinda the sound we will hear in my street in the next few weeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL5mqMYesw8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOxIZ8mg7mo&feature=related
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tld_06
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Unfortunately I bought the ugly duckling when I had my CRX. It was apparently an ex-show car with a horrid bodykit and more electrical problems than my old man's Alfa GTV. I got a bunch of fines while driving it, so it was sold around 12 months ago to consolidate finances.
As far as performance goes, it was very very quick through the twisties. Mine had the D16ZC (the pick of the non-vtec DOHC Honda engines) and apparently an afternarket 5 speed close ratio box with LSD, although I never checked that.
If you're keen on one, try to get a JDM import one (4 seater instead of 2, 2+2) and the ZC engine, not the horrible D15B twin carb SOHC POS.
I'm working on it buddy, the bike is at the back of the storage lot and there's probably 15-20 bikes in front of it!
So yeah, purchased a 1984 Nissan S12 Gazelle yesterday, in two-tone blue over blue, with a blue interior! The car has over $3000 in receipts for work that was done on it over the last 3 years. The car was marketed as a IRS model, but unfortunately on arrival it was a live axle model. No big deal, but annoying at the same time. And on the way home, oil pressure gauge dropped to zero and the "ticking" from the blown manifold gasket became pretty much unbearable. Saying that, it made the 300km journey home, although it has 150km to go!
The engine is that slow, that we're probably going to bite the bullet and just throw a CA18DE in it for funsies (which is legal and easy to do, apparently). It's not going to be a daily car, just one for the weekend. Will throw up photos soon.
moto_guy
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That stretch is perfect! What tyre size and wheel width you running?
Yuk! I had an 88 Exa with one of those CA18DE's in it. I spent buckets on it, damn over complicated engine with the CAS and power transistor, coil packs, timing belt etc.
I rebuilt 2 of them before I ended up swapping it out for a CA18DET which wasn't much better, finally swapped it out for an SR20DET and that was perfect!
To this day, I dont see anything funny about the CA engines!
tld_06
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Yuk! I had an 88 Exa with one of those CA18DE's in it...
Yep, with CA18DE's bringing $250 and SR20's bringing $1500 and a whole lot of fucking around (wiring, gearbox, tailshaft, engine mounts, turbo manifold, ECU, the list goes on), there isn't much sense going down that path. I'm not going to blow $3000 putting an engine, which I don't rate very highly in the first place, in a 30 year old car. After putting that much of a power increase, everything else will need upgrading. CA18 will be cheap, a bit of a power increase and a whole lot easier than throwing ridiculous amounts of time effort and money into an SR20.
The only changes when going from CA20 to CA18 is starter motor and a tiny part of the loom. And worst case scenario, when it blows, just throw another CA18 in it from one of the 20million P-plater S13's again.
Dirt Devil
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175 on 9.5 looks like a lot of stretch and poke. Is this for skids Floody? How do the tyres stay on?
AndySTi
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Google your cars model and locate the appropriate workshop manual (they contain the wiring diagrams). That looks like a Liberty door to me, if so, hop on liberty.asn, it should be listed there.
Edit: Yes, wank factor is strong.
stp0 rider
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on the topic of Libertys,
found an 03 2.5 wagon with 200k for 6grand
service records say clutch was done last year, but timing belt has not been done yet.
What's the service interval for timing belt and roughly how much?
cheers
found an 03 2.5 wagon with 200k for 6grand
service records say clutch was done last year, but timing belt has not been done yet.
What's the service interval for timing belt and roughly how much?
cheers
udi
swiss cheese
I thought you might have had a rare clean one, seems like the one I saw was almost one of a kind. It's a shame they all ended up molested like that. I probably wouldn't bother with one for that reason.
I can imagine they'd handle awesome though like you said, ~890kg and wishbones all round... throw an lsd in the mix and it'd be a recipe for good times! A guy I know put a K20A in one... crazy.
Sam.
Eats Squid
I just tapped into the wire running up my A pillar. It works pretty well and makes the door handles easy to see in the pitch black. I can't see myself keeping it there for long, although leds are fun, the wank factor is too much.