Felixs' - Ae92 Seca For The Missus

[Felix]

Picked up a neat 1990 AE92 5 speed Seca CS Spirit for the missus this evening. It is red, stock as with a 4AFC with 230,000 kays on it. It is very nice to drive.

 

She's stoked and already has fallen in love with it.

 

Needs a little few minor touch ups and a good detail. Will get some pics up soon.

Edited June 5, 2010 by Felix

[Bamboo]

Picked up a neat 1990 AE92 5 speed Seca CS Spirit for the missus this evening. It is red, stock as with a 4AFC with 230,000 kays on it. It is very nice to drive.

 

She's stoked and already has fallen in love with it.

 

Needs a little few minor touch ups and a good detail. Will get some pics up soon.

 

Needless to say Mr Felix..........No pics?

 

You know more than I do....if your gunna thread....put those (words that may be deleted) ideas up

 

give us PICS

[Felix]

Went out in the seca today to Ipswich to get some stuff for it. Geez the thing drives really nice.

 

Got some tune up stuff, oil, filters, new thermostat etc. Also got some seatcovers for the front, a blanket for the back seat, steering wheel cover, dashmat, new hubcaps (old ones stuffed) and some other gear for it. LOL, the car is just going to be a stock practical everyday driver for the missus. ie. Bec spec.

 

One thing I want to do is buff the bonnet as it is really the only thing letting down the cars overall appearance. Also need to have a look at the hatch as the inside plastic trim vibrates at idle.

 

Here's a couple of pics, not great because it was getting dark by the time I remembered the camera. Will get more after it has had a wash and a bit of a polish.

[Felix]

This thing gets awesome fuel economy. Over 16km per litre.

[towe001]

Nice buy.

Should tint the windows, apart from looking sexy it'll help give the a/c a break.

 

Folded the back seat down yet ? If your taller then about 5'4" its not something you'd want to do on a regular basis.

[Felix]

Yep, we plan on getting the windows tinted. It doesn't have aircon, which I really don't mind, would be nice in summer but less to go wrong with the car.

 

Heaps of room with the back seat folded down, missus did it. Not much headroom in the back seat for me (I'm 6 foot), but should be ok for the kids for another 2-3 years.

 

We attempted to polish up the bonnet which is the only part of the car that has been resprayed at some point in its' life. Came up reasonably good, but then I hit it with a wet rag to get rid of the polish residue... Stupid thing went back to looking chalky again for some reason. Will maybe see if I can find another decent bonnet still in the original red paint.

 

Also got rid of the rattle from the plastic panel on the inside of the hatch. I cut up small lengths of fuel tube and put slits in them, then I slipped them over the edge of the plastic trim in selected areas. No more rattles. :)

Edited June 6, 2010 by Felix

[towe001]

No air con thought the Spirit had standard :)

Mate had the cs-x version and to fold the back seat down it was a case of take the rear headrests off (normal) and move the front seats forwards. Where as my old '82 seca it was just take the rear headrests off and it was all sweet.

 

Think it was standard factory equipment with the red paint going chalky, same thing happened with mine. When you did the polish did you do a cut first then the polish ? Could have even just cut through the re-spray.

[Felix]

Nup, no aircon, doesn't have rear seat headrests either (nor the holes for them in the top of the seat).

 

I just used some polish (Kitten shit). It came up looking a lot better, but a bit of water just took it back to pretty much what it looked like before we even started. Was quite annoyed. I will get some decent cutting compound.

 

Following is a pic after we did one half. The smeary marks (especially around the washer nozzle) was from some dried polish residue, which is what I attempted to remove with a damp cloth.

[7shades]

I like AE92s. Simple, reliable, easy to drive. Very little goes wrong with them... And even when it does, parts are crazy cheap.

 

I have a couple stashed out the back should I ever require something I can chuck on the road at short notice for a daily.

[Felix]

Had to go to Samford for a work meeting today, meant I had to go for a run up over Mt Glorious. The seca did really well, quite surprised with how it handles for a stock FWD. She's not super quick, but still good fun.

 

One thing I need to do is something about the gearchange. It is notchy into second and sometimes third. It doesn't grind/crunch, just hard to get in gear at times. I found a blip of the throttle on downchanges helps. Been doing a little research and it seems VMX80 gear oil is supposed to improve the gearchanges. Will have to get some.

 

Only got 11.5 km per Litre :) with all the mountain work. $25 (PULP) for the 210 kay round trip, the E32 chews through $40 for the same drive.

Edited June 7, 2010 by Felix