Pics Of My 20b Cosmo

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Aug 5, 2003 | 02:14 PM

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j9fd3s

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Originally Posted by Jeff20B' date='Aug 5 2003, 09:24 AM

Wow, that's interesting. Must have been all those extra emissions devices allowing too much heat to accumulate.

I wish Mazda would stop renaming their cars for different markets. The Eunos Roadster/MX-5/Miata for example. What's up with that? I won't even get into all the different names out there for all their rotary powered vehicles.

nissan is the worst, ps13, s13, 180sx, 240sx, silvia, theres even more i cant think of for the same heap

mike

Aug 5, 2003 | 10:32 PM

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DMRH

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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='Aug 6 2003, 01:37 AM

i had heard a rumour that the us spec cosmo set the carpets on fire, i had no idea they were that close

mike

Never heard of the carpet catching on fire. I have had a Cosmo in the shop running at 1000rpm - 6000rpm for 50 minutes as we diagnosed a problem. The exhaust was glowing red from top to bottom.

Carpet got hot, thats about it.

They had a "pre-convertor" on the dump pipe like the (92-95) series-6 RX-7 did & that got hot but was double shielded. Main (twin) CATS where under the car in the air flow. There is a reflective aluminium exhaust shield that bolts onto the underside to reflect all heat.

An exhaust temp sensor in the "Pre-CAT" detected the temps rising & at a preset level would switch the ECU into "overheat" mode, dumping crazy amounts of fuel into the exhaust to try & cool it. Works well actually, until you modify the exhaust & change the flow characteristics.

Driving around in summer, you can feel extra heat at your feet (rhd) from those twin turbos.

Aug 6, 2003 | 10:23 AM

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j9fd3s

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i bet, i can open the hood on my fc and see where the turbos have baked the fresh paint, and my intake.

mike

Aug 7, 2003 | 01:44 AM

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Srce

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God that's hot, I love that car!!!

Aug 10, 2003 | 10:37 AM

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4RotorRocket

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That is a nice looking car.

Aug 13, 2003 | 03:02 PM

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Cheers!

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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='Aug 6 2003, 07:23 AM

i bet, i can open the hood on my fc and see where the turbos have baked the fresh paint, and my intake.

mike

yup i can too... but its 14 year old paint plus my ABS leaks a bit...

needless to say there is no paint lef.t

Aug 19, 2003 | 12:57 PM

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Clarks7

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Somebody needs to import the Cosmo and work with CARB (or whatever state your in) set the precedence, than others could follow (like the Skyline), who is volunteering to spend their time and money to do that?