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The strongest, later model boxes go for only $500 Looks awesome man... it shares its garage with some more mazda awesomness too I noticed

Thanks mate, supremely jealous of your car collection tho! My ultimate garage would include your FJ skyline coupe, a s12 silvia notchback, starion and my 12at cossie coupe I wouldn't even think HBSN2 coupes would still be available from japan? I only ever seem to see 4dr's and they are all the facelift models. Even then, I seem to come across them only once in a blue moon...

Welcome to the world of 12a turbos and an odd rotary offset/stud pattern... haha Looks awesome mate, but where are the engine bay pics Love the pic in your sig, hope ya dont mind if I steal it

FE for the win!! 8-valve? Swap it for a wikidness 16-valve FE3 - almost a bolt in mod - den boost it up later!

http://www.ausrotary.com someone there will know

Love it mate!!! Love how easy it is to make older cars go fast with newer spec running gear!!! Not sure on the modgies tho (but just my opinion). Keep us updated!

what ya upto on friday? probably babysitting the joys of fatherhood lol Will be at the nationals tho!! Can put some faces to names there

May have something sorted, thanks all for your guys help!!! First rounds on me if I ever meet any of ya!!!

Hey mate, I am in Masterton and the car is in central Wellington to be picked up and brought back to Masterton. Any help would be great, thanks for all the replies

Hey, I know this is a long shot - but anyone wanna rent their car trailer out for a morning??? Rental places want big $$$! Only need it for 4 or 5 hours!! Responsible driver! You can get me on 027 469 5867 Thanks!!!

This will definitely be at meets when I get it running!! Oh, and some more updates

Engine trouble: Currently the car has a 12a turbo block in it. This was all good, except I found out when trying to install it is actually out of a series-3 RX-7, which means it has the incorrect mounts! So... engine is now coming out and being replaced with a rebuilt and street ported 12at Cosmo item. The plans for the motor are to have enough power to scare the shit out of me. So enough for trackdays, losing traction in the higher gears and burnout comps (of course!). It has an extremely tight LSD in it, and that combined with coilovers has proven to be a very effective combination in my daily 2.0l Cosmo. Its 85hp of pure muscle is extremely capable and I have video footage to prove it!!! (To be uploaded soon ) A full electronic line-locker setup I have already purchased should help achieve this also Rather than going the typical route of adapting a late model 13bt intake manifold, front mount intercooler, ball bearing turbo, yada yada. I am going to try keep the engine bay as similar to standard as possible. This means keeping the current setup of no intercooler to keep the standard Cosmo's selling point of zero lag. This is very possible and I will have more details of this setup closer to it being installed I am looking at a realistic 300hp@9,000rpm at the flywheel from this "small block" motor!! Here are some pics of the motor in the car and the other parts I have for it. Engine in, but wrong mounts! Just dummy fitting stuff and making sure I have everything... Intake and exhaust ports. Note the ghetto mount and the distinct lack of space for a turbo due to the rack&pinion steering. You will see in the picture at the bottom of this post how close the turbo must sit to the block to fit. The intake manifold runners actually go around the compressor housing! Standard rad and oil cooler New motor before being pulled down. Note the extremely short distance pressurised air has to travel from turbo to block. Goes straight up from turbo (a 200mm journey at the most), does a u-turn back down, through a throttle body and straight into the intake ports. Extra injectors will be added to remedy design flaws in the standard system, and the intake passages will all be ported and flowed. Turbo will be rebuilt with a combination of standard, RX-7, and T04 parts.

Photo shoot!!! This is the ride height I am going for, was easy with the coilovers to get it to this height, however I am worried about the front tyres rubbing on the guards. Also, going wider at the rear - I know 235's will fit, but gonna try some 255s Note the Mazda6 "MAZDA" badge on the bootlid. Am going to add an RX-5 "Cosmo" badge on the passenger side of the bootlid as the standard HB Cosmo badge looks horrible (and is also located on the quarter). Also note the NOS front grill "MAZDA" badge, NOS front grill, NOS rear tail lights and NOS rear chrome. The only alterations from this to the exterior that are planned: - Respray in a more "icy" white rather than the creme it is now - Repaint the rubber and plastic trims in a charcoal black - Re-tint (most likely in a navy blue tint rather than black) - Mag center caps back on - Twin exhausts (one on either side) - GUARD MIRRORS - Add some later model chrome and better condition plastics - Replace rear # plate with a message plate minus the messages (to be closer to the original Japanese plate size) - Chrome door handles from the sedan model - Paint the white metal behind the front grill black

Thanks dudes!! More up to date pics coming and the latest mods!

Thanks for the warm welcome

Next the car went into storage, and I spent some money... The following was purchased/acquired: - Second hand FC3S HA Tein adjustables (camber adj at front, height and damper adjustable all around) - 17" TWS Kylamis - Bridgestone Potenzas 235/35/R17s - 5mm spacers The Tein's bolt straight in, but are the wrong offset and height for the Cosmo. The fronts being far too low (barely driveable even at max height adjustment), and the fronts also fouled on the wider front wheels. The spacers remidied this, however the front struts were damaged and I am looking for a lower km set. The rears went in my daily 929 and were amazing. Even on the softest setting they were very stiff, and made a huge difference on the open road. However the downside to them is that if you hit any small lump/hole in the road the rear of the car skipped around and was midly dangerous if you were giving it death. Also purchased were NOS trims - chrome trim, tail lights, interior, suspension rubbers, grills, too many to list. You will also be pleased to know the monster tacho was removed... UPDATE: After moving around a bit and having no garage to store the car in - it stayed in storage in my hometown, so not much happened to the car for a couple of years. My parts collection however continued to grow!

The car came with a huge amount of spares, and was getting a bit rough. My first object was to tidy up the rust in the car and try get my hands on as much near perfect exterior parts as possible... I priced up replacing the front veneer and fixing the rust in the boot, and went ahead with only the front as at the time the rear was out of my price range ($1000 was what I was quoted for the boot). (yes, the tacho is LONG GONE ) It came out looking a million times better considering the tiny price I outlaid. The paint wasn't the greatest but the parasitic rust was gone and replaced by a NOS veneer straight from Mazda's japanese warehouses I also found out why the car looked so familiar. For 5 years of my college life I walked past the car every morning on the way to school! Since being imported the car has spent its entire life in Taupo until brought by the previous owner - in fact my father had even worked on it in his workshop previously, and it had been offered to a friend for $2000 only a few years before!

Comments: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8844 I am going to use this thread to keep track of progress with my car, and also record its history to date. I could easily write a novel about this car, but I'll try keep it simple lol. My name is Aaron, and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I brought this car on the 4th of July 2004 for $1,950 from a mate in Tauranga. At the time I lived in Taupo, and thought the car looked familiar. The car came without an engine and exhaust but was otherwise complete. It came with the awesome tri-spokes you see above and had 196,997km on the clock. It is a 1983 Cosmo Limited coupe, the series-1 shape - originally a carby 12a automatic, it had been removed and replaced with a cosmo 12at and 5-speed before I brought it (although I got it minus the engine).

Scary, i was in his class in Form 1 & 2 Is he still just as shocking in person?

Thanks mate! Yeah was a hard decision to justify the money at the time but I'm so glad I did now!!! Theres a SPAZTK getting around somewhere too...

early '80s coupes FTW!!! P.S. Is this Adam?

Moved to welly from Taupo, don't move if you hate the idea of cramped roads and near misses all day long in the traffic lol Finding a decent garage that isn't against the roadside can be a little difficult I found. Also found it really is like a concrete jungle. If you need sun and grass to be happy, don't move lol. Not unfriendly, but I recon most of the time most of the population keeps to them selves, my Ms who is home looking after our 1 year old found it really hard. Great place otherwise!! P.s. I may be a dad but I'm only 20 so don't take it too much as a "fathers" opinion

Hey peeps! New member, love the site and the randomness and the sexy 80's japanese muscle Name: Aaron Location: Wairarapa Cars you own: 1983 Mazda Cosmo coupe 12at 1982 Mazda Cosmo coupe 2ltr (to be FE DOHC) 1986 Ford Telstar fully sick daily Mods: '83 Cosmo is my baby, plates SPASTK, 17" Kylamis, lots of NOS bits. Had Tein HA coilovers but sold as looking to find some lower k ones. Engine out being rebuilt. '82 Cosmo, looking at doing a FE DOHC conversion How you found out about oldschool: Found it ages ago but just decided to sign up