'85 2door from Belgium

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: '85 2door from Belgium

Hi all,

As I now own my Hachi for almost a month, I thought it would be time to start a project topic here.

I bought the car like this:

Btw the wheels are for sale, check the sales section Wink

Over the following month I changed wheels 3 times but now I've found something that'll probably stay on for a little longer.

It already came with full custom made exhaust, lowering springs and sparco steering wheel.

I've added 2 buckets seats with harnesses (had to custom make the entire rails system what a pain in the ass Puh

), kn open filter, 7x13 ATS classic wheels painted black with 175/50-13 tires, a little audio system including pioneer woofer,sony front speakers and boschmann rear speakers and i changed the plugs to ngk iridium ones.

Plans for the future are:
-Some engine mods (no 20v or 3sgte conversions for me as it's impossible with our lovely rules in Belgium Mad

)
-Suspension if the old shocks are busted I'll put some trd's or something in there, but nothing major.
-There might be a paint job coming soon, but I won't tell colors yet (no it won't be panda Wave

)

I recently had the car up to change the wheels and I had time to check the bottom, and i'm very pleased to say it rock solid underneath, it's been fully handeled. The car does have a few marks but that's to be expected from a 22year old car.

On to the pics of the car now

Now for a few questions
-the rolla has electric roof thingy, but there is supposed to be something covering the part that opens, mine is gone anyone who got one laying around?
-I heard that the stock rev limiter is 7500rpm, but mine goes up to 7900rpm any ideas, chip maybe??

All this was done a pretty small budget as i'm still only 19years old and this is my first car. Most people declared I was crazy that I bought this car, but I had the chance to buy my dreamcar as my first car so I just went for it. I love this car to death and hope I'll get to drive it as long as possible. Worship

R.

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

Lovely car once more but may I ask you why do you change the wheels from ronal turbo (lookalike?) to ATS 13"????? and it is not too small with 175/50 size tyres?

BTW thats your choice and I would say I like it with Ronal Turbo (lookalike?)

And the seats are nice. I like it!!!! Can you tell me how much did you paid for them?

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject:

I know the tire size is too small, but i can't get hold of any decent tire size, but I don't mind it being too small, good acceleration Puh

and i only do short trips with it.

The (REAL) Ronals just weren't my taste, they were on the car as i bought it, i bought the ats of ebay for 25€ with tires and i liked it more then the ronals.

I paid 250€ for the pair of seats.

R.

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject:

Very nice speciment, looks mint. Thumbsup

But whoa 175/50/13 ??! That is way too small man. It even looks odd. Just so you know, that when your speedo shows 100 km/h, you are actually going only 87 km/h. when 200, you will actually be at 174 km/h... it maybe feels fast, but i dont think the acceralation is improoved. Other than that its a very nice car with all the right mods. Enjoy! Cheerleader

PS: note the compliment sandwich Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

175?

My TA60 currently has 165/70/R13 and I was planning to go for 185. 175 would also be sufficient for the carina, however for a hachi? Neutral

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:37 am Post subject:

What other sizes would u recommend for a 13" wheels?

R.

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:58 am Post subject:

stock limiter kouk itype is 7800 rpm and from a zenki 8200

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject:

Here is a good graphic tyre size calculator; 185/60/14 is the the stock size - compare it to your new dimensions. If you enter 175/50/13 you will see the wheel diameter is considerably smaller than what stock wheel looks like. Also you will see the speedo error & % down below.

http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

i would go with 185/65/13 or at least 185/60/13. 50 on a 175 is very little.

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject:

They Miata guys always do it better... Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject:

aaaa i just knew it! Stupid

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

Well I thought it was time for a little update.

The steering wheel was changed in favor for a sparco monza. And changed some bits in the interior. The monza is a little larger (350mm in stead of 330mm), and the difference is noticeable, steering feels lighter and i know see the entire dashboard, old steer blocked biggest part of speedo.

But the biggest change by far are the bi-xenon headlights. For me this is the biggest improvement to my rolla yet. I was able to pick a set from a friend cheap, so i thought what the hell, lets try. Well the change is well noticable. The whole street lights up when i put on the lights Puh

. They are a little on the blue side, but i'm putting in some bluevision park lights, so it's the same color. To everyone who is thinking about this, I would definately recommend this. I was already using stronger bulbs, but the difference was very little.

Pics now in the garage section.

And there are some new wheels on the way, anybody wanted too see widend steels on a rolla?? Puh

R.

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject:

looking good mate! Looking forward to see those fat wheels Thumbsup

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

Ok the wide steels are now out of the picture as I have found a set of polished jdm goodness in some shack not far from my house.

Went to pick up the wheels, when i enterend the room all kind of jdm style rims everywhere, bought me a set of 7 & 7.5x14 ssr xr4's Drool

, he was working on some hayashi streets for his own car, and many more wheels I've never even seen in pictures before. I think he had at least 10 different setsof wheels in 13-15 all wide ones with low offsets, I wanted to take them all home, but didn't bring enough money. The guy explained he has a friend in japan and he's into oldskool toyota's himself, so he just imports them himself. JACKPOT!!!

As for my xr4's i think the have major low offsets, i tried one of the 7.5's on the back and they stick out almost 4cm on standard fenders Shocked

and as a bonus they came with the centercaps and also received a japanese AE86 tuning guide he had laying around.

I'll get some pics up soon, when the tires are on Thumbsup

R.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:20 am Post subject:

Nice!!! Hope to see some pics soon! Thumbsup

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject:

Sounds like you went to see toyoke then..Cant wait to see the XR4's on your coupe.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

Yeah indeed it was toyoke who i bought the rims from, they look sooo good by themselves. Can't wait to see them on the car myself.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject:

Only pic for now getting some tires soon Wink

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

you are lucky because he almost sell this wheels to me Puh

But suddenly I lost contact with the email. Till now I dont hear anything from him.

I cant wait to see the rims under your car, and finally you find good JDM wheels for you hachi. Thumbsup

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject:

n1 rims!

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject:

Ooooh!

Damn beautiful! Worship

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

i'm still having doubts about the size to put on there, will a 185/60 fit? i was personally thinking about 195/60 as it would give the same size as stock 13" tires, any other ideas on sizes?

Will be fun to get them to fit under the stock arches Puh

, will have to bring the big hammer out Embarassed

as on the front i now have 5.5x13 et12 and they touch the inside arch on full lock Puh

Can't wait to fit some tires on em.

edit: on second thought 185/60 would be a little more streched and would be a little easier to make them fit

edit2: never mind, 185/60 are on already Wink

couldn't wait Puh

, now i just need to fit the new stainless bolts and then they'll go on the car Cool

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

They are on the car Cheerleader

and look really good.
Will get some pics 2morrow as i put them on in the dark. Puh

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject:

lucky bastard Wink

I wanted to do some things too this evening but it was allready raining!

tomorrow pics ok? Wink

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject:

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject:

they look lovely under your car! Do you know what is the offset for rims?