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  1. Don't think so. The differences are in the tiny upper trim piece from what I've seen as far re the door portion goes. For the a pillar trim I'll make it work and cover the piece in vinyl so it doesn't stick out. Still need these bits. Bump.
  2. My pump leaked badly, bought a second one (used), it leaked too. I finally just broke down and rebuilt the thing. I should have done that first. Like others said it is easy.
  3. Welcome to the sport, I don't have a ton of time driving Starquests in autocrosses, but autocrossed for years. I got my Starquest out for the first time last fall, and they are a lot of fun out there. The best way to combat the oversteer is to simply slow down a bit more. Just slowing down a bit more will help a ton; Fast in the fast parts, slow in the slow parts. If the oversteer is at an unbelievable level I'd suggest giving the chassis a good going through. You may have a worn bushing or something causing an issue. These cars should be a bit happy, but check that everything is right before you go thinking the dynamic is off. I had a buddy with a car that seemed fine on the road but would snap oversteer on course, after a bushing replacement the car settled down a lot. The bushings didn't even look that bad, but the had rubber just gone floppy. Also, since you are just starting don't make changes to the car itself unless they are repairs. Just drive it, maybe get some tires. But get a few races under you belt before making any real changes to the car. It will help you develop you skills faster as you'll be driving the same car all the time. Many unknowingly mask bad habits with equipment or settings changes; They attempt to "fix" and issue rather than looking at their driving. Check out your local SCCA club. Judging by the course layout I assume this wasn't an SCCA event; Which tend to be looser and more open. Fewer cones make things more fun as the time won't be given to the car that sticks best. There tends to be a lot more room for learning and skills development with SCCA style courses. Glad to see you like it. More people need to try it. It is such a great way to enjoy a car with minimal risk. Have fun.
  4. I need an upper door card passenger side. I don't care about the color, I'm recovering it. I need a good one, The plastic need to be solid not cracked up. It needs to be well packaged. Must be shipped in a box. It does no good to me if it is broken. I also need the a-piller internal trim for the passenger side. 86 preferred, but I'll take 86 to 89. Again, need it properly packaged.
  5. Got mine Friday. Looks good. Now to get that engine movement settled down. Any info on the best way to install it? I hadn't seen much else where. Install it as one piece? Or should I take it apart, install each piece and then try to align the hole?
  6. No FWD love here? I love sporty FWDs. FWDs start to get crappy when you add power, but a low power, high fun FWD is a wonderful thing. I even like MS3, Focus STs and GTIs, they are all great cars and if I was spending 25K on a car today. I'd probably be buying one. But that is all because I need what those cars offer; Performance and space. If I was in the market for a 2 door car with a warranty I'd either buy a BRZ, Series 2 Genesis coupe 2.0T R-spec or I'd find a bit more change and get a 370z. More likely I'd buy a 370z as there are more used ones on the market and the new ones can be wrangled out of dealers hands a bit easier and they are a bit more car than either of the others. It is funny how the FRS/BRZ are over hyped when none are calling foul on the MX-5 which now is really backwards for it performance. Sure I'd love to see the FRS list $20K. I think it would be awesome to see it go head to head with the Fiesta ST. It may happen, once a better version (Forced induction) of the car comes out.
  7. Performance and handling are 2 different things. Turning performance can be turned into stats; Handling is feel. I will admit to limited time in the FRS/BRZ, but they handle well. Sure a V6 Camaro will probably beat it on a road course. It has a large power advantage. If the tires are the problem, then change them. Yeah they are the same ones used on the Prius, but they can be replaced. It is a small car, you can't go much bigger, but it is also a lite car and you don't have to go much bigger, you aren't dealing with 3700 pounds here. a V6 Camaro may pound out laps faster, but I'm not paid to race, consumables are a big deal when tracking a car. The twins should be decent on consumables, certainly cheaper to run than the Camaro. The ride quality is stiff. But not unlike a Mustang GT with the track package. Actually the ride is very similar to my Starquest with Eibach springs, MK1 bars and poly bushings. It think the interior is Ok. Compared to the Camaro I perfer the FR/BRZ. The view is better. The ergonomics are better. The twins aren't great inside. But they are passable for that price of car. Piping noise in from the engine is lame, but many are doing it. You can get rid of the pipe if you don't like it. I think it is very much a sports car. People get all kinds of weird ideas what sports cars are. Remember the British really defined the idea. When you look at British sports cars you don't see powerful engines, you see little, fun cars. The FRS/BRZ is a little, fun car. 0-60 on both cars is respectable and basically the same, not that it matters much. Quarter mile time matters nothing to me. The FRS/BRZ isn't the best car for the price. My money would buy a Focus ST or a Mazdaspeed 3 if I had to buy new (new MS3s are the last years carry overs) . So I'd choose a car that follows in the footsteps of the GTI. If looking used, you can buy boat loads more car and if you spent the same amount of money as a FRS/BRZ you could make a supercar beating Metro. But the the twins are good cars. Expect their price to come down as more companies get into the game and used ones turn up in the market. But right now the prices are what people are willing to pay for them. If I didn't need to be able to transport children I'd seriously look at buying one as a daily. No knocking on your GTI either. They are great cars and VW interiors are really nice for that strata of car. I think it is a "better" all around car, but the FRS/BRZ have their strengths and should be given a fair shake. I think it is the most serious sports car at $25K new.
  8. I think that is pretty far off the mark. Yeah they run crap tires. But the car's balance translates to higher end tires too. With such tires though you have to go fast to get the same thrills. The stock tires are low grip enought to let the car slide around a bit at lower speeds. Think of it as a new Elise or M30 M3 with a warranty for $25K and fewer older/rare car headaches. I'd take one way before a V6 Camaro. It is more fun. The car did a great job taking a ripe market. People who wanted an inexpensive, Incredible handling sports car bought old Miatas and S2000s, good ones are drying up or are getting expensive. Kia, Mazda, Nissan are all seeing the FRS success and either making new products or redesigning to meet the challenge. Many people say the FRS/BRZ is underpowered, but I don't agree. The power is Ok. It isn't explosive but it does alright. Like any well designed car it can handle more power.
  9. I sold my first "car" this spring. It was a '78 Dodge 3/4 D200 Custom Camper Edition that belonged to my Grandpa. It had a 318 with a 4 speed and HD axle with overload springs He had special ordered it and it was made about 3 months before I was born. I held onto it since I got it in 1995 or so. When I was little I had been across the country a few times in it and had ton countless fishing and camping trips in that truck. Over the years I had done a lot to that truck, and learned a bit about maintenance and mechanical work. I thought it would be harder to let it go honestly, I had kept it for so long. But really it wasn't to hard at all. Once we had our second child it no longer made sense to have the old truck around. The family couldn't fit in it. It wasn't run enough, so every time you used it you had to piddle with it as well. So if you needed the truck you had to make sure you had time to mess with it to get it to run. After selling it I bought a 2000 Silverado 2500, extended cab, 4 door, long bed, 4X4. It holds the family and starts every time. While the old truck had lots of fond memories with it. When it no longer was usable I let it go pretty easily.
  10. I ran 850s TT injectors for a while, my car ran a super lean idle. Swapped for some OEM 86 injectors and my car ran like a top. It seems that some folks have good luck with the TT injectors and some don't. I didn't, but many people report good performance. I as well have a set of 850 TT injectors not being used. If you want to try them I'll sell them cheap as they do me no use in a bag.
  11. I want one with soft bushings. Thanks
  12. I didn't comment to hate, just saying that I had offered in a similar situation do to a similar decision. My professional specialty is insuring high uptime on large scale computer systems. Removal of the human from the equation is the best way to insure uptime. Anytime a human has to interfere to handle a standard running process, you have the possibility that they won't or will do so improperly. Their required input could slip their mind. They could just not realize they needed to. Getting rid of such situations mitigates failure. Should the tech put a running car on the lift? No. he shouldn't have. That is dumb. But feeling that you had no part in the failure is a bit disingenuous. You handed keys to a car that while completely operational was not like 99.999 percent of other cars on the road. Because of modification it requires a bit more attention. Certainly, you didn't expect him to run the car, but your car's divergence from standard operation ended with his incompetence killing a head gasket. If you had a temperature based fan system the head gasket would have been fine, despite the tech's stupidity. I think in good faith the shop should fix your HG. The damage occurred because of their techs incompetence. But I still never saw your side of the discussion move towards the setup of automatically triggered fans; which you should really think about moving to. Now you've seen the weakness of your current setup and yet you wanted to keep the discussion away from that weakness. That seems odd. My post was to help you realize that failing to switch the fans on could happen again. We are all here to help each other build better cars.
  13. I had a friend with an RX7 that was rigged with switches on the fans. I told him that idea makes me worried. Something similar happened to him. While it can be a quick fix, unplanned things can make it a mistake. That sucks man.
  14. 86 is the round plug. So far I haven't heard of that many in year changes in Starquests, other than possibly some 86 having coding allowing them to run on MAP only and of course the 85.5 widebody cars. When I call to source parts for the Lotus the parts suppliers want to take the car down to the day it came out of the factory because things changed constantly. Even then I'm sometimes told that they "think" a certain part goes on my car and they ask me to report back. As said in other threads 86's can be retrofitted to the newer MAS. Probably a good idea if you don't care about being all original, as the 86 MAS is harder to source. But it sounds like both parties need to turn it down a notch and just find a solution. Stuff gets messed up time to time. People get confused or mistaken. Give people the benefit of the doubt that they aren't trying to screw you and work it out with them. Fact is most people are honest; Such a huge percentage that I've only ever felt screwed once in 15 years of buying stuff online. On a small purchase like this work it out, without losing you ability to treat each other like humans. It seems this went to fangs really fast. The fact is neither of you have skipped out, You both just went to blows without much discussion. A report got filed, a thread got opened and fists started flying. Yeah it sucks to be out money, but the is the car game. I say work it out so it is the best even solution between the 2 of you. If you can't stand possibly losing something on a deal than you probably need to move to a new Toyota Corrola; An old car that relies on used parts and these kids of set backs could not be the right fit. On the sellers side, you should probably avoid public threads as well if the issue hasn't been made public by the buyer. I haven't heard anything in this dispute that is worth the fight either. It sounds like a simple mistake happened somewhere. Perhaps a change made by a PO of either "86", or someone could be unsure of their car's year. It happens. Recognize mistakes happen and figure out where that mistake was made. And even if it was on the buyers end the seller could have asked for a picture. If I were the buyer I'd send the part back and just ask for a refund of my purchase; I'd eat the return shipping. Commonly I give the buy a few more $s then asking price simply so the seller can understand my good will and perhaps have a beer on me. If things don't turn out well I expect they'll remember that sign of good will. Always remember, no one here is big-pimping on 'Quest parts. We all want to keep these old cars on the road. Sorry to go so off topic, but I just got into a flow.
  15. Snowquest on 265 Kumho XS rears. I did have to have a bit of momentum to get into the parking lot. The cruise was with the local AWD car club. I know folks in it and decided to come along. Not noubt though the AWDs plowed through the ice and snow better than my lowered 'Quest. Certainly not the best snow car out there that day, but I made it and overall didn't have much excitement. A few AWD folks got in trouble, all because of a lack of caution and overconfidence in their machines.
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