Remembering Japanese cars from the past
I found this video earlier this week on Sideways.cz:
The main attractions are of course the red S15, but you can see some other cars like an AA63, two hachis and some RPS13s in this video.
This video is shot on the Meihan kart track which is apparently a very popular track for Carina GT-Rs!
I still can’t let go the Honda City so I was browsing some blogs and videos about the Honda City and came across this nice video:
You can see some early 80s action on the track in the wet!
During the take off you can see a yellow pace car at 22 seconds and 34 which looks very much like a Carina Coupe. Its front lights are square, rear lights are long and wide and its boot has a tiny flat spot. So I think this pace car must be a Carina A6 Coupe.
To keep up with these small Honda City turbos it most probably must have been the TA63 with the 3T-GTE engine. The 4AGE would not be quick enough to follow them: a City turbo racing spec did the 1/4 mile in 13.5 seconds!
As a bonus, another start of a Honda City race and this time it is really spectacular:
I found this Carina AA63 on Goo-net:
Carina AA63 20v Sedan
I know what you probably thought first: that must be a scale model!
Well, it is not! Have a look at this:
Carina AA63 20v Sedan
That looks a lot better, doesn’t it? ;)
I have no clue what the photographer did wrong in that first picture, but is surely looks weird. Maybe it is the combination of the garage floor and the rollcage creating an illusion of a reflection in the windscreen…
4AGE 20v blacktop with a set of ITBs
This Carina GT-R got its heart swapped for a nice revving 4A-GE 20 valve Blacktop. As you can see the radiator has been upgraded as well. Also the owner did not bother to swap the cooling fan in the process.
Funny thing: I just realized that relocating the waterpump and distriubutor are not necessary for the Carina AA63: it sits more in front of the firewall than in the AE86! So all you have to do is reroute all piping of the radiator to the back of the engine! I verified this by looking at Revolverdrift’s AA63 20v setup.
Unfortunately his Carina got stolen last week. So, if anyone has seen his car, in or outside Malaysia, please let him know! I hope it will return soon!
Talking about theft:
Anti fuel theft?
Looks weird… Only logical explanation I can come up with is that this car either has a fuelcell (not visible), a weird D1SL or MSC rule I’m not aware of or an anti fuel theft method. I suspect the most probable is the last explanation.
Rollcage, bucketseats and new tach
The rollcage is of the removable type so the cage itself is placed a bit annoying nearer to the center of the car. The rear bench has been stripped and a set of bucketseats have replaced the original front seats.
The car is sitting on a set of deep dished SSR Mk. IIs. The rims can’t be much wider than 7J because they don’t stick out of the fenders.
You would think: what’s so special about this car then?
Well, the car itself isn’t that special. It is more that the surprise picture caught my eye, then the anti fuel theft and then I also realized the 20v problem didn’t apply to the AA63 Carina. So that’s worth a Carina Sightings posting I guess. ;)
Remember the video of the diesel powered Carina A6 coupe I posted several months ago?
It just got posted again 16 hours ago on Youtube:
Apparently now it has been posted by the user called toyotawiki who is reposting a lot of old videos with spam in the description (pointing to some wiki page on toyota-wiki.com). He even reposts videos from Riceboy.tv! Oh well, I expected this kind of behavior to happen on Youtube sooner or later anyway…
You must probably think “WTF? Jäärata?”. Well as I understand it Jäärata is almost the national sports in Finland. Jäärata can probably best be translated to “Ice road racing”, but might as well be translated to “Ice-lake racing”.
This nicely beaten up Carina TA60 is being used to practice the jäärata on:
IMO these drivers are very very brave. With drifting you try to find the limit to lose the grip on the surface. With ice road racing you have about no grip at all, so it requires a lot of skill to find grip hidden in the snow…
Here you can see the Carina fighting off a Mercedes W123 200D:
These videos really makes me jealous on those Fins: they are having all the fun in the world! Oh well, maybe just wait for that once in a 100 years the IJsselmeer is frozen and have that same fun here in Holland as well. ;)
Remember this Carina?
Sorry looking Carina TA60
I blogged about it more than half a year ago: Sorry looking TA60 Carina
Well, I found some more pictures of that Carina:
Dented Carina TA60 all around!
Would that guy on the background also be the owner?
Interior still looks pretty decent
In my previous post I thought most of it was gone, but apparently not much more than the centrecap of the steeringwheel and some minor details are missing.
Carina TA60 with RUST!!
I see a lot of rust! Even the airbox is rusted!
At least we get some more info on the car. What I understand (my Norwegian isn’t that good!) is that the car has a 2T with a 5 speed. It drove more than 330000km and the chairs are pretty much gone, hence the seatcovers…
The front bumper is a modified 1994 Carina E bumper. Of course the Carina E bumper is a few centimeters too wide and to fit it properly they widened the front fenders a bit! :o
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