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kev84

hahah, thank god im starting this young, i cannot imagine the pain and stress one would have to deal with an S car. its no easy feat, at all! LOL, its way different than a conventional car. even my dad is amazed how frankenstein it is when i explained the chain driven suspension. totally out of this world! but after much looking around, I realised there are more S cars around, haha

sosalan

hi, best of luck with rebuild, i could help you, you could sell me your 65 roadster, you then would have 50% less to do,more time to spend with wife and children, are you in the uk, i have been looking for an early car. alan

BlueS6Coupe

Hi, I am not in the UK, I am in Australia.
The Roadster is in about 8000 pieces, it would be monumental to ship it up the road let alone half way around the world.
Plenty of S8's come up for sale in the UK either on ebay or through the S800 owners club. S6 come up a lot on ebay, in the US.
The US cars can be more interesting than Aussie ones due to more of them having rare extras not commonly found on Aussie cars.
US cars generally were imported into the US from Japan & will have reverse lamps, heaters & both sun visors, they can also tend to be lower mileage and be in more original condition

BlueS6Coupe

1st image/ The Red Coupe last saw the road back in 1989. Long since sold and restored by a new owner in Victoria.
2nd image/ The Roadster (in undercoat) has not seen the road since who knows when, it has an original body with no damage except for a bit of rust. It is the best S6 body I have ever come across. The happy snap also shows an aftermarket hard top
3rd image/ The Blue Coupe is my current project and more easily completed, (maybe)

NW Classic Honda

I so love these, very nice!

BlueS6Coupe

Blue S600 Coupe showing signs of life, the chief mechanic got bored and had a good lie down
Restored wiring harness, 25 hours, various restored (cleaned up) other bits, many more hours.
A long haul ahead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd9SiggL260

BlueS6Coupe

I am sure many will not appreciate this image.
Be assured I am as puritanical about Honda S cars as you can get, however.
We recently hosted my daughters 17th. VERY scary.
It was cold, wet & miserable, we needed a fire place
So, searching for options I remembered an S rim which is bent & rusty
The result as you can see is pretty good.

kev84

RIP! another rim up in heaven and I needed one rim as I lost one! Gah

BlueS6Coupe

Hi Kev

If you need a rim I have others, PM me if you want

BMS250FORD

No chance of you ever being canonized into the Honda church. You risk being excommunicated and burned on the rim. We need to see some miracles now to redeem yourself.

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cheers,

John

BlueS6Coupe

OK, I took two weeks off, but being self employed means still going to work a few times. Had a BIG list of stuff to do including working on the chassis. The chassis had been previously restored but was part of a car which crashed. The body was irredeemable, but luckily I had the Blue Coupe Body waiting to see the road again. We started cleaning up and discovered minor damage, but worse, all front end seals & boots etc need to be replaced again. So I await some repair parts from Mr Ortmann in Germany.Attachment 171280

BlueS6Coupe

The Steering joint needs to be re-built using a new rubber section from Mr Ortmann
Also, I pulled apart a Denso distributor for re-build and it only needs an oil seal and one govenor spring & a grommet to get it right. Have the seal, have the spring & have new points.

BlueS6Coupe

Now, this is totally unrelated to anything HONDA & I apologise in advance.
However, we bought our daughter her first car. It is a Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe with 1.5 Fuel injection and manual gearbox. What a great and fun car, I have not let her drive it as yet, I am having too much fun.
As the Ad says, "Love That Car"

BlueS6Coupe

The steering joint re-build using Mr Ortmanns repair part requires a bit of work, however, in an afternoon with basic tools it is achievable. I started out being nice to my old steering joint, until I thought it is buggered and being nice is pointless. Part of the re-build involves cutting out and cleaning up the steel sleeves through which pass the rivets & the mounting bolts. Attached pics up to date, I will post a final when done.
Also, I thought (hoped) my distributor bearings were good. With oil in them, they are great, however, cleaned out they are not too happy. Now I chase the two bearings. One is Nachi & the other is NSK. A bit strange to have two brands in one item, or it has been partially re-built before ?

BlueS6Coupe

Today I installed Mr Ortmanns Re-production master cylinder & steering column rubbers. Looking good

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I also had a look at the engine for the Coupe. Even though it is not a matching number to the ID tag, it is a late model engine which has been previously re-built, I will have to open it up & have a look to make sure there are no nasty surprises. Though I suspect the cam chain is streched. Wait & see

BlueS6Coupe

Unfortunately the engine has been re-built with silicon, I hate silicon in engines. Silicon REALLY has no place in an 'S' engine as the distance between water & oil passages is so fine. A small amount of silicon can drop into a water or oil gallery and then the engine is history.
However, lucky me, the top guide roller is brand new as also appears the lower guide roller. I still think the cam chain is original, and therefore, stretched. I will flush some lubricant down the cylinders and then turn by hand to determine TDC and the resultant camshaft placement.

BMS250FORD

Your Top guide roller looks like an Ortmann reproduction. The mounting rubbers appear to have been altered. I have included pictures of my original guide roller to highlight the mounting. The top hat sleeves prevent the rubbers being crushed when the bolts are tight. The second picture shows that my mounting was incorrectly re-assembled at some time with the rear lower plate fitted above the lower rubber rather than below it. The third picture shows the correct position. The last picture shows the screw I used to refit the shaft when the damaged sprocket was replaced.

BlueS6Coupe

It is so slow pulling down the engine, too many non metric / original type bolts. YUCK, non original bolts,,, WTF
This is going to make re-assembly difficult. Some of the cam cover bolts were silcon glued into place. Its going to be fun.
Pictured is the damaged Coupe. In a sense it did not look too bad, but the body had had more hits than Elvis & was actually bent like a banana.
It has moved along with repair panels to a young fellow learning welding & body repair, so there is hope for it yet.

kev84

hey i used to have a 1998 mitsubishi lancer glxi sedan (6 years old back then), much like your coupe back in melbourne, haha

then i sold it and gotten myself a dc2 integra, haha, it was like a direct swap for an older car. but the tegs are fast cars. i bet your daughter be smiling if she had a teg!

anyways, do you have spare rims, coupe boot locking mechanism and a glove lid cover to spare, thanks!

Bobs600

Enjoying this thread.

BlueS6Coupe

Thanks Bob
If yours was the reply about oil to bms250 ford, I found that all very interesting

BlueS6Coupe

I found this image on Yahoo Japan auction site (similar to ebay) An original service station / dealer sign. From my understanding not many of these exist. I am not sure the pipe stand is original, I have seen one other sign like this in Canada which does not have the stand.

BlueS6Coupe

Pictured is an original equipment TEN (brand) radio and an unusual Coupe styled hard top for convertible, on an S6 shell.
These are from my collection of images I have found on the internet over the years