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Bitter
#181
We'll all chip in at the next Midwest meet and like get some truck nuts he can hang off the back.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
CDUB
#182
My st205s always had a less than great pedal feel. I,ve got braided stainless lines, EBC pads and rotors. Bled the system twice now hoping it would solid up. No abs on my car. I mean it stops okay but for the overkill brake system the st205s have I expect a little more.

I had to change the brake master on my st185 and it was an absolute pain because of the rhd. Hope the st205 is more forgiving.

I wouldn't mind replacing my gauge cluster lights for some LEDs that more closely match the greddy gauges in the car. Do you know offhand how many and what type of bulb is called for. I hope my roll cage doesn't get in the way of removing panels to pull the cluster.
Box
#183
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QUOTE (Bitter @ Apr 22, 2019 - 10:04 PM) *
>We'll all chip in at the next Midwest meet and like get some truck nuts he can hang off the back.

Are those seriously still a thing? Why they were a thing to begin with I'll never know, nor why they were made to look as disgusting as possible. Then again I don't understand guys and half the **** they do or think. At least drift charms could be cute and generally weren't crass...
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
bloodMoney
#184
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QUOTE (Box @ Apr 23, 2019 - 1:34 AM) *
>Are those seriously still a thing? Why they were a thing to begin with I'll never know, nor why they were made to look as disgusting as possible. Then again I don't understand guys and half the **** they do or think. At least drift charms could be cute and generally weren't crass...


About the paint, as this car is going to see track time, I need a paint that is going to be an easy match. Metallics suck for that. Especially color shifting metallics.

Jordan: There are no brackets on the 205 the calipers are mounted direct to the knuckles. Apparently, pedal feel is an issue according to the other 205 owners that I've talked to about it, so I'll just need to look it over and make a call. This is an ABS equipped car, but I doubt that has anything to do with anything.

Speaking of drift charms....



This post has been edited by bloodMoney: Apr 29, 2019 - 8:20 AM
~bloodMoney
Bitter
#185
Rears too?
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Bitter
#187
Nice, fixed calipers and floating pads. There's still a chance it's something binding causing a long pedal travel, a literal ton of force will make all kinds of things flex and move when you're burying the pedal. Hopefully a good inspection will reveal a simple cause and you don't have to go swapping out hydraulic parts, that gets old fast and getting good rebuilt parts is hit or miss. A larger bore master would indeed move more fluid per distance of pedal travel and all other things being the same would create more pressure, but I recall there being some other trade off. Pedal height adjustment should be a couple of 17 or 14mm jam nuts up under there, send Theo with a helmet cam in for an exploratory.

Woah the forum clock is off a bit. It's actually 7:38 AM
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#188
Fair enough on paint, metallic you have to do all at once in the hopes it matches and sorta the same with pearl to an extent.

Yes Jordan, the forum clock has been off for quite awhile now and it's only getting worse.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
narly_charley
#191
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QUOTE (bloodMoney @ Apr 29, 2019 - 9:24 AM) *
>I forgot to post these up....
.....And right now it's on jack stands in the garage waiting for the new tires to be mounted.


What tires did you go with?
2000 GT-S 6 SPD...SOLD!
Bitter
#193
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QUOTE (bloodMoney @ Apr 29, 2019 - 3:37 PM) *
>Zestino Tires

Sounds like a brand of pizza rolls.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#194
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QUOTE (Bitter @ Apr 29, 2019 - 3:38 PM) *
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QUOTE (bloodMoney @ Apr 29, 2019 - 3:37 PM) *
>Zestino Tires

Sounds like a brand of pizza rolls.

laugh.gif It does. laugh.gif

>>>>Zestino >>>>Pizza >>>>Rolls!>>>>
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Bitter
#195
I'm so getting bamnef from the next meet!
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
navseal345
#197
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QUOTE (Bitter @ Apr 29, 2019 - 3:38 PM) *
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QUOTE (bloodMoney @ Apr 29, 2019 - 3:37 PM) *
>Zestino Tires

Sounds like a brand of pizza rolls.


Probably going to last as long as pizza rolls. One bite & gone.
Bitter
#198
Ok but seriously, they look like a knock off of the Dunlop Z2/Z3 tread pattern with a little lower tread wear. What's the deal? Just cheap and sticky?
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#199
From what I can gather with a few minutes of Googling, they're a Japanese company that outsources and has their tires made in China. Personally I'd stick with Federal for low price range tires, brother just put on 595RS-R on the BMW and they have no problem with 500 horsepower and work surprisingly well in the rain though nothing too torrential has happened yet. The 595RPM on the Genesis were also quite good so far. Yes the Federals are made in Taiwan, but by a Taiwanese company and so far they've surpassed expectations. Will find out long term use on the BMW now that the Genesis is being sold, but being they're the second most extreme street tire behind the 595RS-RR I'll be surprised if he gets 20K with rotating them and yes I finally managed to talk him into a square setup.

Hopefully the Zestino tires are ok, the Chinese are more than capable it's just a matter of what they're being told to make that's always the issue...
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
bloodMoney
#200
Zestinos come highly recommended from from the local tuning shop. They use them on both their grip cars and their drift cars.

As this car is not going to see more than 3000mi/yr, I'm not really concerned about it. I know for a fact that they will be better than the 10 year old Riken Raptors that are on the wheels now.

Plus we need to consider that despite the fact that they outsource to China, they are still a Japanese company with Japanese quality standards.... I don't mind being the guinea pig for this group, knowing the customers that have run these in past years and been happy with them.

This post has been edited by bloodMoney: Apr 30, 2019 - 8:08 AM
~bloodMoney
narly_charley
#201
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QUOTE (bloodMoney @ Apr 30, 2019 - 8:08 AM) *
>they are still a Japanese company with Japanese quality standards....


Japanese products suck, and that includes automobiles.






You know I kid... smile.gif ha!
2000 GT-S 6 SPD...SOLD!
Bitter
#202
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QUOTE (bloodMoney @ Apr 30, 2019 - 8:08 AM) *
>Zestinos come highly recommended from from the local tuning shop. They use them on both their grip cars and their drift cars.

As this car is not going to see more than 3000mi/yr, I'm not really concerned about it. I know for a fact that they will be better than the 10 year old Riken Raptors that are on the wheels now.

Plus we need to consider that despite the fact that they outsource to China, they are still a Japanese company with Japanese quality standards.... I don't mind being the guinea pig for this group, knowing the customers that have run these in past years and been happy with them.

It'll be a worthy experiment.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#203
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QUOTE (bloodMoney @ Apr 30, 2019 - 8:08 AM) *
>Plus we need to consider that despite the fact that they outsource to China, they are still a Japanese company with Japanese quality standards.... I don't mind being the guinea pig for this group, knowing the customers that have run these in past years and been happy with them.

That doesn't mean anything, Japanese electronics made in China or elsewhere don't hold a candle to Japanese electronics made in Japan. Of course you also have the price discrepancy so they should withhold higher quality for the higher priced equipment, but a company that's making everything in China may not have that but that's up to them. Like I said hopefully they turn out well.

This post has been edited by Box: Apr 30, 2019 - 2:56 PM
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Bitter
#204
A lot of it comes down to QC, there's plenty of things made in China with strict QC that are great products. These tires could be one, Chris will find out and let us know. In the mean time I'll be bringing some marinara dipping sauce for his Zestino tires.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#205
Indeed, hopefully this is an instance of the outsourcing company specifying a high quality product. It'd be nice to have more inexpensive tires, note not cheap, out there.

Mmmm zesty Zestinos.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Box
#206
Like the difference in quality between Federals that're Taiwanese made by a Taiwanese company are night and day over the Ohtsu which are a subsidiary of Japanese company Falken and are made in Indonesia or China. Yet the FP8000 are supposed to be an exact copy of an older Falken design.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
bloodMoney
#207
No pics for this update, but the wheels are back on the car.

I've also replaced the cluster bulbs with LEDs since one of the three were out.

Auxito LED

There are hot spots, but at least I can see all my gauges at night.

Finally, I pulled the fuel sender to try and see why my gauge wasn't working. Turns out the entire sender had come off of the bracket and was sitting the in bottom of the tank. After wrestling the sender up with a magnet, I soldered the connections back together and I seem to have a working gauge again.

Although, It appears that the drive to and from Starved Rock for the midwest meet used 3/4 tank of fuel. I certainly hope that's not the case, as it was only a 200 mi. round trip.... Maybe it had something to do with my foot magically getting heavier everytime Luke gets next to me....

This post has been edited by bloodMoney: May 8, 2019 - 11:11 AM
~bloodMoney
Bitter
#208
Starved Rock is minimum 1/2 tank for me, it was only 1/4 tank when I went in other cars.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
richee3
#209
That’s similar fuel economy to what we’re getting.
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bloodMoney
#210
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QUOTE (richee3 @ May 8, 2019 - 1:23 PM) *
>That’s similar fuel economy to what we’re getting.


Really? Damn... I thought I was tweaking, that's why I kept asking you about how long it took to come up.
~bloodMoney
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