Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Daihatsu is a Toyota subsidiary, can’t find much online hence asking here.

Yes I know, hence the comment if the floor pan and mechanicals are shared with a Toyota may be more popular here but looks like some aren't shared.

my colleague is making a wind tunnel.

it's just for model cars, but has required 3d printing everything, solving how to get laminar flow smoke trails, and everything... but look at the outcome so far, and it's not yet finished.

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Hate to admit how cool that is

Oh, it's even cooler... it's for his brother's birthday, and his brother is an F1 car designer and the 3 model cars this wind tunnel is being built to accommodate are all cars that he has had a hand in some part of the design of. It has a lot of deep personal meaning to the recipient of it, in addition to being very unique.

It's also super cool my colleague is doing this, considering his brother wrote off his McLaren. But as my colleague said, there's no point having these cars if you're not taking them to tracks and pushing them to the extreme, so the risk of bending them is part of the deal. That car is getting a full rebuild, the cost is eye-watering.

When will he build one suitable for testing well-nourished Moderators on bicycles?

I don't think I need a wind tunnel, but I might get a 3d printer to make the little containers I need for lens and adaptors for my telescope.

I was thinking more of our Antipodean friend, most of the cost would surely be in converting the Zeppelin hangar?

Finally someone would be able to measure the effect of pies on the aerodynamics of a human powered vehicle.

Negligible where @hippy is concerned. 🚂

So my new JDM compatible scanner couldn't detect any fault codes on the Subaru, but it did ask me if I wanted to delete any codes, even tho' there weren't any. Hmmmm.

Day off today so was running errands in the STi most of the day and didn't get one check engine light. Fingers crossed it stays that way. Also popped into a specialist independent Subaru garage to talk about coilovers, etc. Not cheap, about A$2k fitted, will do it if I can sell a guitar to pay for it.

Aaaand popped into the muffler shop, very cheap, I think I'll get that sorted next week. Vroom-vrooms here I come. Then blow-off valve.

And I found these wheels on MarketPlace, very much like. Exactly what I'm looking for but too scared to buy. A$900.

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AWS conf had a little wind tunnel thingie. It was mostly about showing how wing changes would impact lap times (sensors plugged into various AWS services to do calcs and display race track lap times). I was more interested in the little wind tunnel.

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For my subaru I use freessm software with an obd to usb reader.

As my Forester is JDM OBD2 scanners won't work, it needs a JOBD reader. My Bluetooth OBD2 dongle and Scanner Android app was useless. It's all very boring, confusing and fucking infuriating unfortunately. 🤣

But still the software should work? Just need a diff cable. Anyways just saying there's good software for free online.

I tried half a dozen of the most popular Bluetooth scanner apps and even bought a dedicated OBD2 scanner tool but none of them worked.

Japanese domestic market cars use a different system called JOBD. According to my research there isn't an app available that'll talk to my car.

My new JOBD scanner tool only has very rudimentary functions compared to all the other scanning tools I've seen, I have no idea if it's doing anything. 🤷‍♂️

Oh wow, that is excellent.

In other news, we binned the Terios.

The steering was juddering at 70mph (balance/rack);
It hated going 1st-2nd/3rd-2nd and jumped out of reverse when shifting from 1st or neutral (gearbox/linkage);
The rust on the chassis;

Spoke to my van mechanic after and he said he would have given us a second opinion, it could have been the ball joints on the end of the linkage. I wasn't convinced because in 5th at >60mph I was leaning on the gear stick and could feel it vibrate like the dog/fork was rattling.

Shame too. Otherwise it was a totally ideal fake jimny.

Talking to the mechanic one of his workers has a '99 Renault Clio with 80k on the clock for £800, pop a new cam belt (where it's sat a while) and good for a thrashing. Very tempted. (Edit: tempted if I can beat the price down)

Seems a lot for a 25 year old car

Thought so too, but prices are all over the place. Difficult to find the right deal.

Are they "Hussla" rims? They normally sell those in wheel and tyre packages for around the $2k mark. Might be worth investigating that if you need tyres anyway?

Something like
https://www.ozzytyres.com.au/wheel-and-tyre-packages/hussla-030-gold-17x7

Yeah, they are. What would the OG wheels have been, BBS, Enkei, Rays? I'm also checking wreckers, etc. I'm gonna have to be very careful I don't buy the wrong fucking wheels. 😬

Life's too short for boring cars eh

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My insurance just paid out £1k for a 2002 punto… low ish miles but still!

This is it. Prices are a bit of an enigma. Some great deals, but also easy to justify a writeoff value higher than scrap.

Bolt pattern, pcd, offset etc etc. Yeah, it's easy to fuck it up! Luckily the Subaru market is well catered for. You should be fine.

Try getting wheels for a Peugeot in aus 😵‍💫