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EK9: Electrical gremlins, part 1: The Battery
Lately my car is having some electrical issues. The bad thing: Electrical issues on a car are most probably the most complicated ones to find. The good thing is I’m electronic engineer in a service department, so looking for broken down circuits is kind of my thing since many years 😀 I had three major problems: – The car would not start anymore after leaving the car off the battery charger for only a few days. – The brake-lights don’t work anymore (sometimes they do after a long drive work, tho) – The left low-beam headlight doesn’t work (even after exchanging the bulb) The first issue was solved during the…
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OTHER: I’ve got world’s first turbo Kit (HKS C100 Skyline L20 Street Turbo)
If you’re familiar with japanese cars and Turbocharging, HKS is THE brand to know. What many people don’t know ist that Mr. Hasegawa (The “H” in HKS) was the very first one in the world to develop and sell an Aftermarket Turbo kit in July 1974 for the JDM-market Single-careburated C100 “Kenmeri” Skyline. And this is what i just got in my mail today 🙂 Appereantly it’s the second version with the HKS brand, since the first version came non-branded as seen in the picture from the HKS website history part below. You can clearly see the later design of the better known L20 Surge-tank kit in the lower left…
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EVENT: 50 Years Toyota Switzerland exhibition at Emil Frey Classic cars
This year “Emil Frey”, the holding which also owns toyota switzerland is celebrating 50 Years of toyota Switzerland. They have a special “classic Car” center in a beautifully restored old industrial building. Normally they have changing exhibitions from the various brands they import, but this time around one floor was dedicated to Toyotas of all ages. A reason to go, me and my buddy Daniel thought, and hopped into his awesome RHD Prodrive P1 Impreza Coupe: After entrance there is a small shop with clothes and various goodies celebrating all their brands: There is a “used car” shop too (with some nice classics) but i’ll focus on that in a…
