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240Z: Competition Mikuni Triple carbs Heatshield
Recently i found that a seller in Japan was selling three of the Sports option / Competition / NISMO heat shields for the Mikuni triple carbs. which is there to prevent heat from the exhaust manifold going to the carbs / intake. The price was super fair and they seemed to be without corrosion, so i bought two of them just to be on the safe side: The thing with blind online-buy’s is you never really know what you get. In this case they looked good. the silver one had been welded previously, but nothing that can’t be cleaned. The strange thing was however as soon as i touched it,…
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EVENT: Honda Switzerland 50 year anniversary “Fan event”
Maybe it was the terrible weather, or maybe it was the name of the event (Fan event) that made me have some wrong expectations. While the Honda 50 year anniversary event yesterday was genernally some welcoming new and nice event, i have the feeling that the whole event had a bit of an identity crisis, while they were overwhelmed by the amount of people who wanted to participate and at the same time they missed the opportunity to connect to their fan base. In general i had the feeling that Honda Switzerland managed to miss a lot of great opportunities for their once-in-a-lifetime Celebration. But let’s start from the beginning.…
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EVENT: 50Years Honda Switzerland Fan Event
Honda Swizerland has been promoting a “Fan Event” for their 50 years anniversary a lot recently. When i heard about it a few weeks ago i was happy to register for it, to display my EK9. However, once you find the way to the registration form it says that applications had to be stopped because of the huge interest. Luckily i managed to get a spot thanks to some nice people. YAY! I was especially keen to show my car as Honda switzerland actually used an EK9 and the latest civic typeR to promote the event on their Instagram, despite the fact that the EK9 was never sold here. So…
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240Z: Fender works completed
Found another hour to work on my car. and one thing on the to-do list was the rubber mud flaps that are installed inside the fender in below the metal mud guards. Another little detail that is missing on many cars, as they have been simply removed and not replaced on many cars over the year: Here we go: On the LH fender (Similar to the RH one). some previous owner “cleaned” the Fender emblem holes. which was a common practice back then. On the RH side i tried to drill the holes based on some measures i had previously made, but it proved to be not 100% perfect. so…
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EVENT: Rendez-vous am “kleinen Klausen”
This year’s “Rendez-vous am kleinen Klausen” was again a great day for specactors. I heard from several drivers that the organization had some issues with getting all the cars at the right time to the startline and some missed one of their spots which they paid for, but otherwise it seemed to be a very nice wevent. It got some kind of “goodwood” feeling around it. It’s very laidback, non-competitive and generally just a celebration about anything with a motor and wheels. The focus is definitily on older cars and exclusive stuff. but genererally if it got wheels, is special or cool, you can find it there. Go-karts, Kids on…
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240Z: Books, books, books
Yeah. i got a bunch of books again, from vairous sources. The top left (lower one in the next photo) is a french book generally about “heroic” japanese cars from 1960 to 1975 and has it’s own chapter about the Z-variants. Nothing new, but nicely written with plenty of photos. My french is quite limited so i don’t understand everything, but anyway. i found it for two bucks online, so i had to have it. Same for the upper one in the following picture. A german book about japanese cars from 1912 to 1992, it is less a book about certain cars, but more about Automotive Companies, and the industrial…
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240Z: Fender Details & Fender Mirror installation
So over the recent days i found some minutes here and there to get some work done. First i had to remove the Fenders To install the Splash guards: (Rubber pieces still need to be installed: At that point i also realized that the bodyshop was nice enough to remove the factory brackets / Spacers between the air channel and fender. They thought since they were missing on the “original” (= not so original) chassis, it needs to be removed. At least they were nice enough to give it to me, so it’s easy to weld them back. Next up was the hood locking mechanism: And upper one: Then it…
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EK9: Type-Rx special features & Pedal cleanup
So you might remember that recently i found out about my EK9 being a Type-Rx special edition? When i found out, i also realized that my Rx edition Pedals and the footrest were a bit dirty. So i thought it wace about time to give them a bit of a cleanup with some interieur cleaner: After soaking it a bit, i brushed it all off with a brush And, while not perfect, the pedals look much cleaner. While at it anyway, i decided to take photos of all the Rx special features to update my Rx-spec post. Rx Pedals: Electric folding morrors: “Keyless entry” Remote transmitter: Uprated Pioneer audio system…
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RACE: Rendezvous am kleinen Klausen (08.09.2024)
After 2021, it is time for another issue of the “Rendezvous am kleinen Klausen” memorial hillclimb race in Schaffhausen. The race is named after the famous “Klausenrennen” at the Klausenpass in the swiss alps. The memorial race takes place every three years in the rural villages of Bibern, Opfertshofen and Altdorf In History, the “kleiner klausen” was named the “Small brother” of the Klausenrennen due to it’s scenic and difficult roads to drive and made it a quite legendary race on the Calendar. UPDATE: I just got confirmed that Jerome (in his 510) and Claude (in his hillclimb 240Z) from zcarracingteam will attend the event too with their cars: While…
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OTHER: Mazda MX-30 electric car test drive II
After my recent pleasure of test driving the new Mazda 3, i had the opportunity to test the fully electric Mazda MX-30 for a few days, after my daily Mazda 6 got a minimal rear-end damage caused by a 3rd party. You might remember that me and my wife tested the MX-30 a while ago already, but there we only had a two-hour test-ride. while i had it two full days this time, so think about this post as a kind of add-on. 1. Exterieur: I’m generally not an SUV guy, and while this is definitely a small SUV comapred to others, it has some great design elements. I really…
