Saru
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Here's my Mazda 1500 on a truck, working its way up the East Coast of Australia on its way to my house.     The previous owner is a saint. He sourced the "number plate" and the Mazda sticker on the rear window. It's got a 1.8L VC engine in place of the standard 1.5L VB (?), 3-speed column-shift auto (you can see the BW badge on the last pic). It's wearing 1800 hubcaps instead of the 1500 ones. It needs to go through a rego inspection (which is much less stringent that your MoT) and then it will be driveable on the roads. Job 1 is to get the horn working - required for rego. Job 2 is to get a matched set of whitewalls. |
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1974 Saab 99 EMSI bought a new car. It's 35 years old. My friends said I was mad. We'll see.
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Next job...13B + Turbo. ;D ;D
Seriously, that's a stunner of a car.
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Saru
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Next job...13B + Turbo. ;D ;D  Noooo! Unlike Capella/RX-2s, 808/818/RX-3s and 929/RX-4s, it's really hard to rotorise a 1500. Transmission tunnel needs widening in the manual cars, 4 wheel drum brakes on non-SS 1500s, etc. The few ones I've seen done have the rotor way out from the firewall which just looks weird. In the later cars it's (mostly) just a cross-member swap and making sure you have an engine that's mounts in a compatible way with the type of RX you want to make. Here's one someone else prepared earlier: mazdarotary.net/buzzzn.htmAll the PO's work. |
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1974 Saab 99 EMSI bought a new car. It's 35 years old. My friends said I was mad. We'll see.
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Lovely car!,.. very lovely in fact ... and it looks like you have the weather to enjoy it  On an unrealted note... how cool are those wheels on the truck! Super deep 5spokes! |
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That is really, really nice, thanks for showing it! Very elegant lines.
Know of a chap in Norway with one (hit a moose with it, ouch), but I've only seen them in scrapyards here in UK.
Would the MX5 1.8 engine be a good swap into these?
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Apr 19, 2006 12:23:03 GMT
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Really cool ,love the colour!
Whitewalls will finish it off nicely.
Are those dents in the doors on the 2nd pic, or just the lighting playing my eyes up?
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Apr 19, 2006 12:36:51 GMT
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Nice looking car. I like that.
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Apr 19, 2006 12:59:55 GMT
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That looks absolutely fantastic, I wouldn't change a thing! |
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Apr 19, 2006 15:22:28 GMT
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Any pics of the truck???
Loving the wheels on it.
Nice car 2
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1990 Autozam Revue 1.5 Auto Canvas Top (Project)
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Saru
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Apr 20, 2006 23:39:20 GMT
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The deep-dish wheels on the truck are only on the trailer. The rest of the truck is just a generic, fairly modern, medium truck. I don't really have any pics that show it in any detail. There are dents in the passenger door. Also, the paint has good coverage but it looks like it was done with a roller! Digital pics hide a multitude of sins. "Good from far; far from good" as a mate says. In Australia, these Mazdas don't rust anywhere near as badly as post 73-ish cars like the RX-2/3/4 family. If you see one in a scrapyard that's complete and there's no rust in the wheel-wells and/or near the firewall it's likely that there's little to no rust in the rest of the car. Of course, we don't have salted roads. YMMV.  The MX-5 engine will fit as people have stuck them into 808/818s which have a similar size engine bay. I'm not sure how easily it will go in to a 1500 though. The "best" conversion in terms of bang for buck is the 2.0L MA-series engine from the RWD 626s and some of the wedgy HB-series 929s. Apparently it just drops onto the 1500 engine mounts. The MAs came carbed and FI and most had 5-speed gearboxes. Of course, that's here where there's heaps of 1980s Mazdas still getting about. |
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1974 Saab 99 EMSI bought a new car. It's 35 years old. My friends said I was mad. We'll see.
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that its totally gorgeous so are the rims on the transporter  and they look simular to the ones on the car in a way |
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 once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears! |
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1974 Saab 99 EMSI bought a new car. It's 35 years old. My friends said I was mad. We'll see.
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It's passed rego and I drive it most days to the local train station.  I pulled the hubbies off it so they don't get nicked and/or fall off so now it's "rollin' on steelies" (no pics of that yet) |
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1974 Saab 99 EMSI bought a new car. It's 35 years old. My friends said I was mad. We'll see.
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May 11, 2006 10:38:51 GMT
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Loving your work good sir!  |
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May 11, 2006 11:42:51 GMT
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That is an undoutably gorgeous car. I really, really do like that.
What's it like to drive?
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May 11, 2006 23:30:16 GMT
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I love the slightly bulbous flanks with the slim pillars, that's a good look. Damn our modern safety conscious designers... Really sweet motor. But you knew that anyway... |
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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Saru
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May 11, 2006 23:59:32 GMT
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It's really old fashioned. 3-speed auto (which was slipping/flaring but apparently just needed some regular use and a top-up of oil) and unassised 4-wheel drums. And a front bench seat, natch. Oh and worm-and-nut steering for that great "mystery steer" feeling (it's not that bad and is fairly easy to tighten). It's less modern feeling than my 1969 MGB that I sold about 5 years ago and certainly less zippy, though a manual gearbox would probably fix that. Front discs are the first mod, I think and then it needs to be hit with the stick. I love cruising around in it. Keeping up with suburban traffic is fun (in the best sense), it ro-ooolls around corners and it doesn't so much accelerate as make stately progress. It's got better visibility than just about anything modern -- but I wouldn't want to roll it. I'm 75% serious about taking it to a Peugeot Club grass motorkhana (my other car is a 94 Mi16) to see how it goes against the 404s which should thouroughly trounce it as they, you know, have real suspension and brakes better than what was current in 1946. ;D Today at the station:  |
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Last Edit: May 12, 2006 0:36:17 GMT by Saru
1974 Saab 99 EMSI bought a new car. It's 35 years old. My friends said I was mad. We'll see.
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Its certainly true that these old Mazdas, in standard form, make much better ornaments than driving machines. For driving enjoyment, a Morris Marina 1.3 whups the @ss of my 929 koop. Slack steering, hard springs, curse word shockers, dull-@ss engine and a super low-tech suspension set-up add up to a pretty mediocre backroad weapon. It’s a good job it just looks so FREAKIN COOL! These old 1500/1800 saloons must fall into a similar category, certinaly they look super-stylish.
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May 12, 2006 10:58:56 GMT
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Sweet car that Saru, glad your'e thinking of some suitable upgrades to keep it useable, it'd be a shame to have it in the garage most of the year because you didn't enjoy driving it are you listening MrB? Mods are good ;D |
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May 12, 2006 11:20:36 GMT
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Hey! I do drive mine, went to the supermarket in it yesterday!!! I just have to stop every so often and get out to look at it, to remind me why I am driving it. |
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Last Edit: May 12, 2006 11:20:52 GMT by Mr_Bo11ox
1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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Noooo! Unlike Capella/RX-2s, 808/818/RX-3s and 929/RX-4s, it's really hard to rotorise a 1500. Transmission tunnel needs widening in the manual cars, 4 wheel drum brakes on non-SS 1500s, etc. The few ones I've seen done have the rotor way out from the firewall which just looks weird. In the later cars it's (mostly) just a cross-member swap and making sure you have an engine that's mounts in a compatible way with the type of RX you want to make.
and they look simular to the ones on the car in a way
