RdS' adub! ..yeah..!

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (T0YMR2)

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:17:31 GMT

I especially joined this forum to let you know what a stunning AW11 you have.

My son and I have brought an 87 AW11 5 Speed Supercharger to restore to factory original, poor ole gal is all there but pretty tired and a little rust, but not too bad. Has 175,000km on the clock and the Targa roof leaks like they all do. Anyway, thanks for such great inspiration for us with ours.

Here she is before we started stripping her...

Hope you still have her, you are the reason we joined!

Looks like a great place here and I hope I can help others out with parts etc even though I am in NZ

Kind regards
Anthony and Cameron

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (5SGTE)

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:27:42 GMT

It's a disorder but..... do it! 😁

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (Lumix)

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:27:25 GMT

Thank you for posting the additional photos! The clean aesthetic is superb. You're making me consider getting my spare set of stock 15" wheels finished in gloss white. However the maintenance to keep my car looking fresh would most likely drive me mad.

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (RdS)

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:48:19 GMT

ShazStill looking great. No longer the TEQ plates?

427,000?? really? wow & I thought mine was high at just under 300,000.

Are you bringing it to Canberra in October?

Just under 300,000km? *throws hands up* TONS of life left!
I P-Platered mine to 350,000km on the original unopened motor - only tearing it down as it was due for a major service that would have been a little illogical on a motor so long in the tooth. It's a 4A-G not 3S-G, sure, but both are known to be very stout! You're fffine... :)

MR2 Nationals I presume? I reckon I should! I live on the NSW South Coast these days, so might well have to drag the MR2 up for a holiday. I'll definitely keep it in mind.

..and the TEQ plates? They're actually on a Supra I daily these days. The UBQ plates were only put in place for authenticity's sake; the AW11 has been on club plates for a couple years now...

LumixGood to see you are still lurking. Do you still have the ever growing collection of rims? Rays Engineering Super Volk are one of my fav that you have put on the adub.

The Type-C's were only put on for Classic Japan to save it from essentially going to a party in the same dress three years in a row; rest assured the AW11's go-to shoe are still those Super Volks! A little silly when yep, I still have more wheels than I can poke a bloody stick at waiting their turn on the AW11's hubs. I just can't justify the tyres rotting away when I now use the car so little. Even the RE001s on the Type-C's were riskily coming up ten years old..

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (Lumix)

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:39:17 GMT

Good to see you are still lurking. Do you still have the ever growing collection of rims? Rays Engineering Super Volk are one of my fav that you have put on the adub.

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (Shaz)

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:20:11 GMT

Still looking great. No longer the TEQ plates?

427,000?? really? wow & I thought mine was high at just under 300,000.

Are you bringing it to Canberra in October?

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (RdS)

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:00:18 GMT

...aaaand now nudging 13 years and 427,000km, poking my head back in to say "yep, I *still* have this thing!"
Not much to report otherwise. It really doesn't get used much these days, with a good chunk of that last 7,000km being a return trip interstate in 2017. Time just flies...

I DID blow the dust off the AW11's old SSR Type-C's (which haven't been on the car since 2011!) to recreate an old look for the TCCAV "Classic Japan" show last December:

Temporarily de-mudflapped and the 2006-issue UBQ plates to complete the look; something different for those who see the car unchanged every show, and a blast from the past for those who remember it ~2010/2011!

It's a pleasant surprise to see the forum still bumbling along anyway...

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (RdS)

Mon, 02 May 2016 02:02:29 GMT

6months later, but again.. cheers!
Reading back through this makes it seem like I ignore the nice words/comments, but I notice! Maybe it's because I leave so long between replying.. between fresh updates.. whatever. Yep, I'll go with that...

Well.
Anyway.
Here it is.
Sometime right-about-now-ish is 10 years. Ten bloody years of AW11. A full decade with a car I've had since I was 18.
A nothing-number for many.. but for a young (..and that term is becoming less-suitable fast..) car-enthusiast, that's a serious damn commitment. SO many cars I'd have ab-so-bloody-lutely LOVED to own, but struggled to make room for in my life. I always had that 'rotational third spot' luckily, but Little Red has been locked into the number one position. I just love it too much.. so damn attached to it.. the nostalgia.. and STILL (as mentioned SO many times in the past) have no intention to ever move it on..
That ridiculous attachment to this car means I spent an absolute fortune keeping a worn-out car on the road, but so what eh? It was no accident. Unemotional/un-attached car-owners would've WISELY moved it on for a better/younger example long before this point.. but no.. I couldn't.. so the decision (while foolish!) was very clearly made. Stupid, but I've got the same AW11 I've always had, right here. My red, sunroof, Aussie '87.
So ten years, ~120,000 limiter-bashing km, and a current odo of ~420,000km. Daily on-and-off, and always kept despite combined years of license-loss, injury, and defect-related cancelled reg. It always bounced back.
Hopefully in the coming years it can relax a little more again.. ease into even more occasional use.. and I'll be able to stretch it out as-long-as-I-bloody-can before the damn doors fall off...

Leeeeeel Reehhhhhhhh...

Yep?
Done.

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (kameleon)

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:14:42 GMT

Love it as always Ross.

Your attention to detail and period correctness in each of your cars is inspiring, Keep the posts flowing.

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (Fast Eddie)

Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:02:19 GMT

Nice to see a good eye for detail and keeping it real.

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (RdS)

Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:25:48 GMT

Got the car some new shoes recently. well, other than the ones its absolutely surrounded by - these ones were specifically to use on the car!
Rays engineering, Super Volk. 14". 1984 Production.
I'd picked up a NOS 15" set not long back, and had pretty much fallen in love with these things. High-end and period perfect, proper left/right directional, and technically interesting - including cast hollow spokes allowing the valve to be mounted behind the centrecap.
Got a complete and unrestored set off Yahoo. 31years of use had left them in a pretty sad state...

with a NOS cap for comparison..

with one of the NOS 15's..

I had ordered a set of Eibachs to use in it WAY back in the year, but havent bothered to do anything with them.. never organized shocks, andsoon..
SO. BC's down off the shelf again, and in they went!

..still set to how they were years ago..! hah

Old NeoChro Project Kics nuts came back out too. Hidden behind the cap though.. but keeping that valve company...

and toghether..:

Absolutely stoked with how it looks. Period perfect, nice and bright, and all just a bit of fun!

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (RdS)

Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:12:55 GMT

No, not quite yet.. but well past 9, and as usual.. time just goes so damn fast..!

More of the same..

Popped the Ski racks on - had almost missed winter without them mounted..!

Yep.

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (MK1corse)

Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:54:27 GMT

Gah! I feel your frustration with the J plates! Oi 10 years of solid dedication and attention to detail. Looking good as ever man.

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (RdS)

Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:00:04 GMT

More of the same, again. Crossed the half-way point of 2015.. and charging on towards 10years of AW11...

...and then, despite being more than a bit naff...

Hello.

They're bloody huge. The front one needs to sit back against the grille, whether you want it to or not. As if holding a newpaper in the breeze by the corners; the first trip to 100km/h will have this thing pressed right back.
Vicroads also cleverly got the holes too high on the plates, so will need to be elongated down (<10mm) to fit front and rear.
..then theres the choice of slimline text..! :S

Re: RdS' adub! ..yeah..! (MonsieurDeux)

Sun, 10 May 2015 14:07:59 GMT

Still love this car :')

My EFIhardware airbox is coming soon to get through rego, but wont be staying very long!

Looking so clean though!