Banpei's two door panda Trueno from Japan

[banpei]

(04-17-2026 10:11 AM)ondafly Wrote:  happy belated birthday !

I'd get some rust killer on that at the weekend and some touch up paint, and see can you live with it

What is the EU battery conversion you mention ? My 86's battery was pretty much dead when it arrived here, so I used a spare one I had for my Evo 5. It is phyiscally larger than the battery tray, however it fits. I bought it here in Ireland and it had the smaller style battery posts.

Its a Yuasa HSB053 and considering it sat idle for 2 years until I brought it back into use; its been flawless for me and the car starts on the key.

https://www.halfords.ie/motoring/batteri...48588.html

Thanks!

Here in the Netherlands, those batteries are much more difficult to get by and they have to be ordered. I think that's due to the fact that we have way fewer car imports from Japan. Someone said I should look for a motorcycle battery, but those generally have different terminals and ratings. The conversion itself isn't hard: just change the terminal connectors (have those) to EU ones. But I do need to fabricate a different battery hold-down clamp as the EU battery is taller and wider.

And what sucks is that I currently have no spare time to fix all these small things. I don't have power where my car is stored, so I need to use cordless tools and bring them back and forth whenever I want to fix something on the car. It would be much simpler if my car were on my drive (which I don't have) and I could work on it whenever I'd like to. That's why I keep spending time on things that don't matter that much like the fog lights.