SE-R Related Post

[Brent Meints]

Omer Khan's story is exactly why I still have a B13 in the stable!  Thanks
for sharing.

Brent


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:47 PM, <ohmfab at comcast.net> wrote:

> I guess I'm kind of a SE-R old timer too and all of this banter on the
> list and talk of bringing back up SE-R.net is bringing a tear to my eye.
> In fact I only really keep this old email active to receive messages from
> this list.  I thought I'd write a somewhat SE-R related post in celebration.
>
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> I think it is a fact that the numbers of classics/nx are dwindling. I
> rarely see another classic SE-R on the road these days and when I do it's
> kind of cool.  Last month I was driving home and a guy in another car, I
> think it was a Mitsu EVO, rolled down the window gave me a thumbs up and
> took a picture.   First time that's happened to me in at least 10 years.
>
>
>
> My '92 is my daily driver and has been since I bought it in 96.  It is
> definetely showing it's age.  Every time I wash it some paint comes off
> with the dirt and has developed a few spots of surface rust I need to fix.
> I have been planning to paint it for 5 years but who cares.  I just accept
> that it's a 50 foot car which is okay since it was a 10 foot car when I
> bought it.
>
>
>
> Last month I had to do plenty of much neglected maintenance from
> rebuilding the distrubutor, new boots on the axles, and ball joints.  I did
> this prior to driving it about 900 miles round trip for a camping/canoe
> trip in NC.  Although the suspension is a bit harsh (KYB AGX/HyperCoil gen
> 2) it came into it's own on the backroads and I finally remembered why I
> bolted all these 'mods' on so many years ago.  The car is approaching 300k
> miles, the engine has about 190k miles since I rebuilt it and it gets me
> 29/30mpg city and on the trip averaged about 34 hwy.  This is with S3 cams,
> all the bolt ons, and a mild tune on a Calum ECU.  After all these years it
> still drives great.
>
> Here's a shot of my classic at the campsite.  My buddies were running late
> on meeting me there  so I admit to moving the car a couple times to frame
> the shot correctly.  I think it was worth the effort for old time's sake.
>
>
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> http://home.comcast.net/~ohmfab/SE-R_Camping_Zaloos_NC_081622013.jpg
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> If you are one of the lucky few to still have one of these cars in your
> stable do yourself a favor and go wring it out to the rev limiter.
>
>
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
>
>
> Omer Khan
>
> '92 White SE-R
>
> '06 LR3
>
> www.ohmfab.com
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Regards,

Brent Meints

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