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Looks good, but needs spacers or better offset in the rear...just my 2 cents.
Post a pic of your real car
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Yes I agree with you. Spacers aren't worth it as I would have to buy them and then pay heaps to get the car certified. Ideally I would buy wider wheels with correct offset but that won't be cheap either. It has bigger wider tyres on it now so looks better but still not right.
Factory wheels were 14x7"+45 rear and 14x6"+45 front. These are 15x6.5+45 all round but I have 205/55R15 fronts and 225/50R15 rear tyres.
Ideally I would get 9"+35 rear and 8"+35 fronts as I have seen a car with them and it filled the guards perfectly.
Oh and I would like to get some TRD lowering springs but then it would make driving impractical. Too low doesn't help with driveways around where I live.
Factory wheels were 14x7"+45 rear and 14x6"+45 front. These are 15x6.5+45 all round but I have 205/55R15 fronts and 225/50R15 rear tyres.
Ideally I would get 9"+35 rear and 8"+35 fronts as I have seen a car with them and it filled the guards perfectly.
Oh and I would like to get some TRD lowering springs but then it would make driving impractical. Too low doesn't help with driveways around where I live.
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Numbers werent impressive at all
I had just got the car running after buying it with turbo problems (one of the twins was blown), so I had stripped it all off and replaced it with a Garrett GT35R.. the rest was a stock 2.5L 6cyl with stock auto trans & stally and stock driveline.
This was the first time I had run the car to get a benchmark before all the tuning, fuel system and driveline upgrades got done.
Got a 14.7
Havent been back again since, only thing really left to do now is upgrade the stally and find someone who knows what they are doing with tuning, as the shop I went to did a **** job on the tune it has now.
Might even buy a wideband sensor and tune it myself yet.
I had just got the car running after buying it with turbo problems (one of the twins was blown), so I had stripped it all off and replaced it with a Garrett GT35R.. the rest was a stock 2.5L 6cyl with stock auto trans & stally and stock driveline.
This was the first time I had run the car to get a benchmark before all the tuning, fuel system and driveline upgrades got done.
Got a 14.7
Havent been back again since, only thing really left to do now is upgrade the stally and find someone who knows what they are doing with tuning, as the shop I went to did a **** job on the tune it has now.
Might even buy a wideband sensor and tune it myself yet.
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JacoJa
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You don't need to quote an entire picture to comment^
Anyhow, this is my new riiide... a Toyota Sera. I picked it up only yesterday, and gave it a nice gloss and polish last night. The interior desperately needs a shampoo, and the exterior needs a complete repaint, but otherwise it's in pretty good condition. I'm really stoked about it! 
I was lucky to get it, too. I came in just at the right time, only a few minutes before someone else wanted to buy it.
I never thought I would enjoy driving an Automatic. But this, with its low ride, glass roof and nimble-ness... feels a bit like driving a Go-Kart. It feels very special. Though I can always convert it to a Manual later on, as manual Starlet parts are not too difficult to come across.
http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/jacoja06/P1050705-.jpg
http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/jacoja06/P1050704-.jpg
http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/jacoja06/P1050701-.jpg
Anyhow, this is my new riiide... a Toyota Sera.
I picked it up only yesterday, and gave it a nice gloss and polish last night. The interior desperately needs a shampoo, and the exterior needs a complete repaint, but otherwise it's in pretty good condition. I'm really stoked about it! I was lucky to get it, too. I came in just at the right time, only a few minutes before someone else wanted to buy it.I never thought I would enjoy driving an Automatic. But this, with its low ride, glass roof and nimble-ness... feels a bit like driving a Go-Kart. It feels very special. Though I can always convert it to a Manual later on, as manual Starlet parts are not too difficult to come across.
http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/jacoja06/P1050705-.jpg
http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/jacoja06/P1050704-.jpg
http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j345/jacoja06/P1050701-.jpg
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@GDII:
Yeah, they're pretty hard to find. I'm the second owner of this Sera in Australia... and apparently it was only the 2nd Sera to be imported into this country. The engine is a 5E-FHE (A starlet GT 4E-FTE can also fit), and most of the mechanical components are from the starlet.
@Joey;
Yes! The original mats do look awful. They're very Vanilla Ice / Kylie Minogue.
The doors are very cool, but not so good in wet weather conditions like today. The doors open from the centre of the roof, so the interior gets very wet.
I'm not looking forward to driving it in the middle of summer, too. The glass bubble roof apparently acts like a giant hot air pocket, and the side windows are only small. I'll use plenty of sunscreen.
Yeah, they're pretty hard to find. I'm the second owner of this Sera in Australia... and apparently it was only the 2nd Sera to be imported into this country. The engine is a 5E-FHE (A starlet GT 4E-FTE can also fit), and most of the mechanical components are from the starlet.
@Joey;
Yes! The original mats do look awful. They're very Vanilla Ice / Kylie Minogue.
The doors are very cool, but not so good in wet weather conditions like today. The doors open from the centre of the roof, so the interior gets very wet.
I'm not looking forward to driving it in the middle of summer, too. The glass bubble roof apparently acts like a giant hot air pocket, and the side windows are only small. I'll use plenty of sunscreen.
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Why did Honda decide to give the us the crappy looking Civic?
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Because America loves coupés and sadans and not hatchbacks.
I love my FK2, I am going to add a Sports grill as my first planned mod.
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FIFY
Sometimes I really believe that the corporate think tanks have become lazy and don't do any research beyond seeing what's selling currently. With a few exceptions, I believe that the think tanks don't want to take the time to determine what the consumers want.
And if you really believe that Americans want sedans and coupes, look at the Honda Fit - America only gets the hatchback, not the sedan; look at the Fiesta - the hatchback Fiesta is outpacing the sedan by leaps and bounds in sales; the Nissan Versa hatchback sells better than the hatchback.
Even three of America's beloved pony cars were sold as hatchbacks at one time, pretty recently for two of them in fact: the Mustang, the Camaro, and the Firebird.
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Nice Civic. I've always loved the look of the original pre-facelift grill, where the headlights blended-in with the rest of the nose. Looks neato!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2006_Honda_Civic_5-door.jpg
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ozyran
Recently? The '80s and early '90s? Or am i missing something here?
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I think he's talking about the Camaro/Firebird right up to the 2000's.
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'70s, '80s, '90s for the Mustang. The Camaro and Firebird were produced up until 2002. I realize that's nearly 10 years ago, I still consider it somewhat recent though.
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ozyran
Oh ok, when i think recent I usually think max. 10 years and late 90s to early 2000s weren't exactly hatchbacks but late 70s thru early 90s i agree
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Seriously? The 90's/00's Camaro/Firebird had some of the biggest hatches I had ever seen. If you don't consider them hatchbacks, what do you consider them then?!
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Got me. I always thought they were hatchbacks myself. There must be some new design terminology for a large section of the car's back end that lifts up, exposing the cargo area and the passenger compartment
The first hatchback F-bodies weren't produced until 1982 - from 1967 until 1981 the F-body had a trunklid. After the hatchback became an integral part of the design, the F-body remained that way until 2002
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I may be confused but I always thought a hatchback's trunk opened with the rear window attached and it had an arc to it like the modern fiesta/ focus, it isn't quite fastback like the early 70s mustangs but close but the trunk makes it a coupe, but if you went to chevy or ford and asked for a '97 hatchback camaro or mustang, they would clarify coupe or convertible because that's what they market it as. Take the 37 ford/chevy coupe for instance, the trunk has an arc but the window isn't attached (meaning it doesn't move with the trunk door) and they still call it a coupe, but a true sedan (use the 30s models as an example) and a hatchback are very similar, I would just say a hatch is a lot smaller
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The back windows on the Camaro and Firebird both go up with the trunk, just like they did back in the 80's, although I don't think they had the automatic hatch lock anymore...correct me if I'm wrong.
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Pretty sure you're right. The one in the '89 Firebird I used to own had that feature, albeit broken, while my buddy's '94 Camaro did not.
After 1993 the Mustang ceased to exist as a hatchback. In 1994, the SN95 Mustang was introduced and had a normal trunklid.
In 1997, although the salesperson might say it's a coupe, the Camaro most certainly was a hatchback.
And if you do a search on Edmunds for used hatchbacks, the Camaro and Firebird both come up under the category hatchback.
It wasn't some special edition, it wasn't some custom modification; if it had a hardtop or t-top, it was a hatchback and came that way from the factory.
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I have seen a Camaro with a modified hatch to make it look like a 2 door coupe, it didn't look right, but they are around...just not from the factory, no matter what the sales person tells you.
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I'd have to disagree with you on the AE92 Hatch Sedan. It is, after all, a hatchback
I can see what you mean though.
Ugly indeed.
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