2010年12月5日日曜日

Ascertain my intention




Yuko Arimori strong Olympic Malathon runner said in her lecture that the strong will and the effort to keep it all the time are the key to realize own dream in any field and it's not so difficult if the circumstances above could be satisfied.
Servicing on VW 1302 Beetle is relatively behind because of my back pain and cold weather, so re-ascertaining of my will may be necessary on new commer old Beetle.
Do I have strong enough intention to restore this 40 years old car?
Do I really have patience to continue much tasks from now as long as half a year?
My health condition would be kept well considering my age?
In my circumstance is it possible to continue this restoring work?
My intention for these 10 years is very simple that making the automobile go straight without unnecessary steering adjustments, if there are cars having tendencies to go right or left sides. By establishment of fundamental suspension geometries and precise wheel alignments could be realized by self-invented special devices , finding out reliable scaling point and eliminations of uncertainty mainly caused by deformable rubber constructing parts.
Do I apply the same procedures on VW 1302 Beetle?
I would reply in positive answers on the questions above.
Careful considerations on 1302 Beetle's trans-axle led me know the truth that the axle construction is very similar with that of vehicles nowadays, so the designing had been constructed and established as a finished one, so careful and precise scaling and adjusting of axle geometry and wheel alignment would show wonderful performances in future for me.
A had an opportunity to have dinner with my long lasting and intimate friend.
One of them is enthusiast driving Porsche Cayman with mid-mounting and water-cooled flat 6 motor, he had some complaint on the wheel alignment and no way to find out the engineer to adjust firmly in Japan.
There are quite a few person could do that all over the world, so I believe.
I wanna ask the same question, who and where except factory researching labo on earth?

2010年12月4日土曜日

Impression on BS RE-01

I have known about the BS RE-01 tire noise after the replacement on BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model with Impreza GDB suspensions. Relatively noisy below 40km but above that no problem, soft compounded as it is, side wall hardness must be reinforced considerably. Ground contact capability is superior to former Eco tire, uncomparable on earth. Steering reaction is direct and sensitive with sensibility with reliable stability, no way to complaint. I did good decision on tire selection, trying to last these tires at least 30,000km.

Lie & abasement

Thanks to the VW 1302 body illustrations in web site, the precise construction of door hinge revealed so clearly.
Then it was a falsehood that in case of door distortion by hinge parts wear on Beetle, the replacement of the door itself is necessary and costs 300,000 yen. The owner of Takarazuka VW shop told me a while lie, because the illustration shows the possibility to sim adjusting on the door hinges.
Telling a lie for the money or selfish convenience would be shown clearly by the exposure like Wikileaks, leading to destructions of reliabilities and irreversible abasement.

2010年12月3日金曜日

Replaced tires



Replaced soft compound tire Bridgestone RE-01 contributes to far better steering reactions on BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model than 7 years old Eco tire. NVH has great progressed on all requirements. Genuine 15 inch/2 pods frontal disc brake shows a little bit weak power because of the contacting power by new sophisticated tires.
Though the wheel width 5,5j is over sized for 165/80R-15 BS Sneaker tires, so unbalanced conditions were not to be seen both on the wheel and on the car. The lateral force resistance on 80 shaped BS Sneaker would be increased by the wider wheel.
In mixi web site, there are many enthusiasts in Air-cooled VW Beetle.
I'm going to throw some questions on them!

2010年12月2日木曜日

Works today

Tires replacements on BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model and VW 1302 Super Beetle would be performed before noon today, Bridgestone high performance model Potenza RE-01 195/60R-15 for the former and BS Sneaker 165/80R-15 were chosen for the latter promptly. BC7 has obtained ultimate wheel alignment condition, so the RE-01 would exert best performance on my BC7, just I'm looking forward to experiencing new footwears.
The anvil parts on Fuji Air Tool FW-14PH-2 must be replaced into ordinal retainer type, in addition a plastic check valve.
The task afternoon would be on brake system of 1302, replacements of master cylinder, wheel cylinders on the left side, silicon tube connecting with reserver tank is already prepared, 9mm dia..
Reservation of Italian restaurant in Akoh, "Sakuragumi" on next week must not be postponed.
Some virus must be inhabitant in the web site of Wikileaks, a kind of cyberattack?

2010年12月1日水曜日

Looking forward to LIVT

I'm looking forward to coming Legal Inspection Vehicle Test.

Required tasks for VW 1302 Beetle are followings:
Replacements, brake master cylinder with stop lamp switch,
left side wheel cylinders,
ball joints in steering linkage hinge points 6 in total,
steering gear box universal joint boots,
wheels & tires,
muffler tail pipes or muffler itself,
gear box oil,
engine oil,
Exhaust gas check by special device,
Frontal toe-in checking,
Head lamps into H4 type, coupler terminal positions exchanging,
and rear seat must be moved for the convenience of checking chassis No.
Considering the circumstances, next year the better for legal inspection vehicle test.

12 times wheel alignments for over 10 years interval of trials made it possible to satisfy my dreamy desire to accomplish the ideal steering reactions.
For the sake of this happy event, I determined to replace the tires on BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model into Bridgestone POTNZA RE-01, relatively older design, no other model had the tire size 195/60R-15 except RE-01.

As the suspension springs and shock absorbers are changed into Impreza GDB model's ones, this kind of high performance tire must just suit on BC7 Legacy. Engine mounts are also GDB's ones.
About BS Sneaker 165/80R-15 tires for Super Beetle, according to the opinion by some VW shop owner, two ranks up steering reactions would be desirable comparing with old designed Michelin XZX tires.
After acquiring the license plate on VW Beetle, the same adjusting procedures are waiting for me as performed before on BC7 SUBARU Legacy.

EP82 TOYOTA Starlet has some right side tendency, setback and thrust angle must be checked again. The clutch in starter motor sometimes catches and looses smooth returning, the parts is prepared as new rebuild parts.

XH200 Opel B-Vectra '97 model needs more precise scaling on thrust angle, because I feel some error on the straight running like 20seconds error though I'm not sure, value may be plus.

SXE-10 TOYOTA Alteza need also precise scaling on wheel bases and thrust angle checking, just a little bit more adjustments may be necessary.
Tasks on automobile as my hobby never be ruined.

Ants

As a proverb says,"Birds with a feather gathers together.",politicians gathers for money as usual. Unchanging old a story since time immemorial, this kind of simple story is not interesting to see them just gathering like ants for sugar. Mr.Ozawa plays a part of an Ant Queen, or King?