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astropika posted:There is nothing that california likes more than to tighten the screws on people with minority interests which are politically unacceptable Couldn't have anything to with having more cars than people in the biggest state or the geography contributing to inversion layers and local pollution concentration? I do agree that there should be something to make cars available, but I don't see pathways in existing legislation being a specific hindrance to JDM tyte ridez, but they are obscured unintentionally by existing law. You can register a 25+ year old import, but there's no way to plate it without the smog test for which data doesn't exist. Given the long lifetime of cars in California, I don't think continuing the rolling exemption would have had a positive effect on air quality in the areas most affected by the air pollution. I want my 323 GT-R and Cuore Avanzato TR-XX R4, damnit.
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DogonCrook posted:So why not register as antique in cali? There isn't a variant of that registration, unfortunately. Given the various states' versions of that, it'd probably work well as a concept. You'd have to make it expensive as a function of value like registration fees, or streamlining it into SB-100 would solve that problem as much as it probably could be solved. That has provisions for emissions and safety exemptions while still having the most basic semblence of emissions testing, and already has been law for years. DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Didn't Toyota built a few AE86s for that live-action Initial D movie like 15 years ago?
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bolind posted:Does the rear canopy come off? Is it actually a pickup? Yes, though it should have a side opening tailgate.
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There's a Facebook group of Rugger/Rocky/Fourtrak/Sportrak/Taft owners that may be helpful, and a sub-group of classifieds. You could also use WARFS but it's mostly US Rocky owners asking about 350/350 solid axle swaps and blown head gaskets. There's a lot of similarity in interior with the US Rocky, so you may be able to make some things work, including that rear right leaf spring. It may just be shackle or spring bushings have failed. Edit: there's daihatsu Rocky parts Northwest which breaks Rockys too. I also have a bunch of bits if you need anything. DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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KakerMix posted:Rugger I better get my USDM Rocky out of his roads too! (Wanna trade?!)
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Not that long ago Daihatsu still had a single US employee named (I think) Robert. He could order anything for the G100 Charade/F310 Rocky/ S83 HiJets. Amazing since they stopped selling cars here in 1992. There's a creepy guy that bought all the remaining parts and hocks them on eBay, uhh that isn't me actually.
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InitialDave posted:The gently caress is with that winch tray anyway? I think its a PTO winch, or at least they were available with them. It makes the placement more difficult. Otherwise, you're right that it totally fucks up the front overhang and approach angle.
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I probably still have an A/C amplifier from a Charade, I bet they're similar. I have all the FSMs, so you could rewire it anyway. I bet I even have the harness connector. You could always build an A/C controller with a few relays The logic usually is run the fan and compressor but turn off with: too-low pressure too-high pressure frozen evaporator at WOT engine RPM too low And I think always run the fan(s) when the A/C button is depressed and send idle-up via a VSV solenoid. I think the Charade ones turned off the little A/C light when there was a trouble condition. Hilariously, one junkyard car I saw used 4 relays and some diodes and basically replicated the setup without RPM sensing.
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Ac systems are all pretty similar, so it's not like you couldn't go to a specialist shop and get at least a diagnosis. Amayama some new parts and you're golden. Hoses can be custom made, and there's far fewer compressor designs than it seems. Hacking out the hardware and without the proper AC-less parts, it'd kinds ruin the quality of your sales philosophy.
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KakerMix, I think your Crown just showed up on V.I.S.I.T!
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KakerMix posted:Neat! This is a closed group though so I can't see it at all. I've seen you on Facebook in the Daihatsu Fourtrak/Sportrak/Rocky group, want me to add you to VISIT? Its pretty cool.
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Since you do drive your cars around, have you thought about getting some vinyl clings with your contact info so people can inquire about buying them? Especially since you have hit VISIT at least once (maybe in the Rugger too?) and you'd probably find buyers easily without more work than a $5 cling you can move from car to car.
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Nothing with one of those Cusco "cages" is a race car.
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Do the UK market versions of these various JDM imports have speedometers demarcated in miles per hour? You could probably get a Toyota Van speedo cluster, I bet they're the same.  Just like Japanese auctions, you could roll a US market speedo back/forward, though its to match the kilometers the car has done and have a mph speedometer rather than outright fraud.
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If anything needed the Ultra4 offroad treatment, its that.
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Thanks for the input guys... gonna see how this year shakes out financially but will be squirreling my 'fun' money away for something in the meantime. So its the equivalent of wacky local radio shows? That might be even more cool.
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angryrobots posted:It's not super special... It's super common and you can get parts at NAPA. For the money to land one, you might as well get a US one from a rust-free state. There's plenty of ~$5000 good condition stick 4Runners in this podunk county, I imagine you could find something better in a more populous part of California. Japan also never, ever, ever wanted to get rid of carburetors, I've seen carbureted JDM cars that the US got EFI only years before.
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Stock yellow Si? Someone's a loving time traveller, theiving cars from 1996.
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Let's nip that racism right in the cherry blossom bud, and have some California legal JDM parts! I imported a sweet JDM grille for my 323 GTX, by way of Thailand. I haven't seen the super late BF grille for sale for years, it was usually a BG thing but there are some straggler BF models like the wagon that got the new grille on the old face.   and yes thats the C4 Vette/F40 Little Tikes car bed, anyone want it?
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Whoa a Lancer GS-R done up all WRC, I think it is the same as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRUc1j9fklM
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Man I want of those Mt. Fuji? TRD decals
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I finally obtained the most JDM of goodies from a junkyard car: an original APEXi S-AFC! Came out of an Aristo-ified GS400. Got the fancy K&N intake, the SAFC, gigantic transmission cooler, and a real Fluidyne radiator. It was completely 2003 tricked out! Anyone want an Aristo badge?
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track day bro! posted:Yep, def a Revision 2 car, dunno what those red lines are going from the turbo to the intake mani tho. Shame because the rev3 cars have a revised motor with better engine management, different turbo, head, metal hg and bigger injectors. My guess is a boost controller of some variant.
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I've used a light mixture of 2butoxyethanol (aka LA's Totally Awesome) and an ultrasonic cleaner to do things like that light fixture. Simple Green sometimes deglosses certain plastics.
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I assume there's two ignition fusible links, and one of them is blown.
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Here's the rundown on the BG Familia: That a GTX not a GT-R, those had a slightly different engine spec (GTR is sodium filled valves and ball-bearing turbo), and yes even the GTAe which is the Group A/N holologation Familia was made in LHD. There was one LHD GTR at Dr. Terry Bennett's auction but it went to Canada as a track car as I recall and no Mazda forum that I'm on knows what happened since. I assume the JDM BG cars rust like crazy, my California-only GTXs all tended to have some rust in weird places, mostly sunroof related. The BG cars are more solid than the BF ones we got here and are probably performance bargains closer to what an early WRX imported is now. They don't take well to launches on sealed surfaces over the long term, but all the imports I pored over look really nice. Greece, Germany, and Poland got LHD ones for sure, I assume Scandinavian countries got them as well.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Oh that's kind of a bummer, I wouldn't mind a FWD turbo BG, just to avoid the AWD issues. There was a 323 GT sold in the US for MY88 only that was basically a 323 sedan with the FWD turbo setup. They're even more rare than GTXs, only 500 sold. They do exist, though. I made my 323 Wagon basically into a GT, using a Capri XR2 drivetrain. I'm only missing the rear discs, though those don't really matter at all on such a light car.
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Hey Applebees Appetizer/leica: Your chariot has arrived: https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/cto/6702333491.html It'd be difficult to get the JDM one here, and this one already was imported 31 years ago.
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KakerMix posted:Yeah I gotta dig into the unit to see. The issue with the tape though is there is no button to put it "in" to tape mode, presumably it goes to that when a tape has been inserted though it doesn't trigger atm. I'd love to lend a hand if you need, I reverse engineered a combo of 1988 626 factory stereo, 323 tape deck, and RX7 EQ module to make something that automatically switches to the aux input when I plug something into the port. I was going to do Bluetooth but the hardware development kits are kinda expensive for a one off using a 30 year old amp design and make a 90dB SNR even worse.
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Does buying USDM Hijets count for sweet JDM points? I'm looking at a pair of them tomorrow for close to what it would take to buy one in Japan.
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KakerMix posted:also no idea what that weirdo-back shelf thing that all that poo poo is on in the back Its a cargo drawer system probably, they're really useful for offroading since you can load them up and hold stuff. They're really popular in Australia, I've actually been looking at them for ideas on custom building some for my Rocky.
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KakerMix posted:
An interesting thing is that the US got the 2L-T for a few years in the Toyota Pickup, so there are somer service parts available, maybe even at a dealership. Otherwise, I assume its parts off eBay or Amayama?
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I wonder if anyone would want what amounts of a LHD conversion for a S80 Hijet, since the one I'm probably going to scrap is LHD and complete. The only weIded on part is the throttle pedal bracket, and its just spot welded. I also was able to find a speedometer cluster in miles per hour, which is super rare for only UK market 1.0L powered Hijets.
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:I am lucky I only have to wait til vintage status, as there is a guy in Cali that brought a 1fz cruiser fire truck over and literally cannot register it. He can only drive it with exhibition single day permits. There's the correct way to import and be able to smog a car in California, and he didn't do any of it. It would have to be run through an ARB testing lab to actually measure the emissions output so they have something to check against when they smog test. I asked a lab and they said its $4-10K depending on what sort of emissions equipment it actually has from the factory.
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Wow that thing is beautiful. Glad you have the original keys, is that key style shared with the US models? edit: I'd totally buy that rear drawer set if you pull it out DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 04:54 on May 13, 2019 |
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I didn't know there was a Rugger with a fold-down windshield, I thought that stopped with the F50. That would be an F73, right?
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KakerMix posted:
If you need anything, I have a few interior parts that should interchange, and maybe even a right side seat, though shipping would suck all the way across the country. The inclinometer probably broke a tab which causes the ball to rotate away like that. You might be able to fix it, and the silicone oil that it is filled with is available. Snugtop made a replacement soft top for the Rocky here, and its the same as far as I can tell, being the same body. A sailmaker or convertible shop may just be able to remake that by the pattern.
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dubzee posted:Go big or go home Christ, I forgot how awful offroading forums really are, a bunch of 5th grade ad hominem attacks and jerky OPs. edit: Now I know where a lot of those unused holes come from on my Rocky, which unfortunately has none of that transformable top shenanigans.
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astropika posted:CARB absolutely exists for a reason, and I doubt there are all that many people in CA who would want a world without it, but it does rather rub people up the wrong way when you can register an incredibly polluting 70s domestic truck without any problems but if you try to import a 90s 600cc kei-truck from Japan you're going to be out thousands for testing and modifications. Known quantities versus unknowable. The latter can be fixed by doing the testing certification, which is expensive and time consuming but still can be done.
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