Bought this car in July of 2017 to replace another BRG NA6CE V-Special I owned for 5 years before. Chap I got it from bought it off a chap who was a member of this forum for a while, and did a fair bit of work to the car. I bought it with exactly 180,000kms, and it now stands at ~258,000.
(Excuse the missing headlight adjuster cap, that’s been replaced, and the blue Stoney Racing hoses - would rather they were black but that’s how it came, and if it ain’t broke…)
MeisterR Zeta-S, Black Racing 14x6 ‘Watanabe’, 4-2-1 manifold, ToyoSports cat back, Carbing 3 point front brace, Carbing boot brace, front and rear lower braces, Carbing front subframe brace, 1800 front brakes, braided brake lines, various polybushing, Raydyot mirrors, amongst a few other little bits.
Thanks! my aim with the car was to have an (even more) competent B-road toy, whilst keeping it looking relatively standard, with a little 60s roadster feel.
The mileage is mostly unnecessary, I just can’t resist driving it when I don’t need to. After 7.5 years driving these cars they just seem to get more fun.
No thread, havent got a needle big enough, retired engineer here so all maint and repairs done by myself, re dyed seats, wheels restored, whishbones restored,all sorts of mech and elec work done,lots of pics for these processes,now if the I can talk instead of typing it would be a winner
Lovely stuff ^. I had Panasports on my previous car.
Few little bits done in the last few days;
replaced both shift boots & turret oil.
obtained a refurbished PAS rack as mine has been leaking for a little while.
new tie rod ends to be fitted with replacement rack - nothing wrong with existing, but whilst I’m under there…
new WIPAC headlamps & Nightbreaker bulbs.
- replaced bulbs in dash cluster, fuel one had died so changed the whole lot.
fixed faulty OS pop-up; for the last 6 months I’ve had my lights up permanently due to not going all the way up, and eventually failing to move at all, so it’s nice to have that rectified. Wasn’t as so now have a spare.
heater intake vent cleared from a shartload of debris.
cleared many a leaf from inside front wings.
Waiting to have the rack replaced and will have brakes bled, & try and get to bottom of idle droop / misfire type hesitation low down under load, and then onto WIM for alignment.
Misplaced a screw for one of my rear damper adjustment cables, so a couple of those and some anti rust coat for the suspension on the way.
