My ‘95 Eunos Roadster

[Aidenk77]

I have felt the need for a project or fun car for a couple of years now. I had a brief time in the drifting world with a 1996 BMW 328i, but family commitments meant I eventually had to sell the car.

A month ago, after some research, I found my car, a late 1995 Eunos Roadster on auto trader. I contacted the seller, travelled down from Scotland and made the sale and I couldn’t be happier.

She was made in December 1995 and imported in 2005, I’m the third owner. The car is on 91k, having been converted in 2005 from km to miles, but was very lightly used, most years only covering 100-200 miles. It’s a 1.8 and while it’s not a fast car, it’s nippy and I love it.

The seller said that is was a Special S model, but I don’t believe that it is, being Silver Stone colour. The car is in exceptional condition, with no rust anywhere, immaculate service history.

I have done a lot of research on trying to find out what specific model the car is, without much success. It does have an LSD and front and rear strut braces, electric mirrors and windows, no airbag or abs and cool chequered floor mats.

This is the sticker on the door shut, if anyone knows more about what this car is, I would greatly appreciate any information.

I have made a couple of modifications so far, I have relocated the front number plate to a bracket on the tow eye, replaced the old jvc head unit and speakers.

I am 6’3” and of a larger build, so I found interior space quite tight, so I have replaced the factory non airbag Momo steering wheel with a smaller diameter wheel and removed the door arm rests and replaced them with pull straps.

I’m so happy with the car - the intention is to double check the rust prevention applied and generally enjoy driving it. Eventually it’ll go to my daughter when she’s 17. Or I might love it so much that I’ll keep it and get her another one!

Thank you for taking the time to read this, I will update as little mods and work take place!

[ast]

It was made in September 1995, so was one of the very first Phase 2 cars to be made, with the 15-bit ECU, slightly raised compression, and a Torsen T2 4.300 LSD, rather than the Torsen T1 4.100 LSD on earlier cars. Besides different gearing, its a stronger diff, although cheaper to make. Your car is a S-Package, not S-Special. Broadly, its a similar spec, LSD aside, to the UK 1.8iS.

Because it is a later car, the Momo you took off had an eccentric boss; these cars weree built with the same steering column spacer as air bagged cars. You can remove this safely to raise the steering column a little and gain a bit more knee room.

Mine is a 1996 imported in 2000, and needed sills in 2017; 15-18 years is about the time these cars go in the UK before the rust starts coming through. Generally if there are any paint blebs on the sills, the damage has already started. It doesn’t seem to make much difference if someone has applied cavity protection earlier, because I suspect its near impossible to get anything into the pocket where the rust starts (this is based on having a Eunos Roadster that was dinitroled upon import and one that never had additional treatment).

[Aidenk77]

Thank you so much for the reply, the information is really helpful. I saw a post somewhere about removing the spacer on the steering column, I think I’ll do that!

[ast]

When you do that, it will push the cowel into the gauge surround a bit. But it doesn’t bother me.