kiwi subbie Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 my latest car ive just got... its an 1973 Subaru 1400 GSR coupe. still has its 1400cc twin carb motor. nice revvy wee motor. had no probs driving it back from auckland apart from getting real crap gas from 2 servos. it wouldnt idle and rev probly. couldnt pull 4th gear. and pinked so bad after an wee while after getting fresh gas in driving it would run smoothy as again. its pretty tidy i just needs an respray. and an few wee other bits and pieces Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDead Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Nice find man! Paint it black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy D Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Nice find man! Paint it black. i second that. good find. -Dalton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuclearBacon Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 wow!!! look at those seats!!! look at that steering wheel!!! thats RAD!!!! i'm jelous! NICE FIND!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subaru4tw Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Man that thing is sweet. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audio_file Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 what a beautiful car . . . great find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kostamojen Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Awesome! Thats a great motor too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi subbie Posted July 3, 2008 Author Share Posted July 3, 2008 sweet thanxs. its goin yellow or red i think lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waimaks Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Looking good, I hope its as solid as it sounds etc and has no hidden nastys Wanna race?:-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi subbie Posted July 3, 2008 Author Share Posted July 3, 2008 well its pretty good. could do with some new window rubbers front and back.theres an wee bit of rust i gots 2 fix. it really could do with an 5spd. its handels pretty good for its age. haha yeas sure lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosens Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 well its pretty good. could do with some new window rubbers front and back.theres an wee bit of rust i gots 2 fix. it really could do with an 5spd. its handels pretty good for its age.haha yeas sure lol I have the front windshield gaskets,but we both need a solution for the rear glass. Car is sweet! Same color as my GL1400 Coupe. Hate to ask now but I need one or two of those air filters! A man in England had some listed on eBay recently but the shipping was completely insane for two filters. I may end up spending a lot on shipping anyways,but if you locate any,please let me know and I'm pretty sure I'll let the postal folks take my money. If there are any parts cars around,please let me know. There's only a handful of these coupes here in the USA that are worth running. Mine is one of them. Thanks for the push! I've had countless thoughts of blowing through my '73 this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subaru360 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Wow, that is really a nice one! It's interesting for me to see, I just finished doing a lot of work on a 72 GL here. It had been race car since 72 and had hardly anything stock or original anymore. It's neat to see how everything was originally. Does your car have the 4 wheel discs brakes? If you ever have a wheel off I'd like to see a pic of the brakes. I think we have mostly confirmed the one I worked on had 4 wheel discs from a GSR, that got to the US from some sort of factory race connection back then. We never got the GSR model in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi subbie Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 um parts here are so hard to come by here anyway. im looking for an rear GSR badge. im never seen an twin carb gsr motor or parts yet. in fact this is the only gsr motor ive ever seen. i cant go buy any rubber etc at the moment coz im jobless at the moment. what are we going to do about rubber door seals etc? i was driving along in the heavy rain and had water getting past the side window and was spraying me in the face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi subbie Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 Does your car have the 4 wheel discs brakes? If you ever have a wheel off I'd like to see a pic of the brakes. I think we have mostly confirmed the one I worked on had 4 wheel discs from a GSR, that got to the US from some sort of factory race connection back then. We never got the GSR model in the US. i will look and get back to you on that. my 1973 GL coupe has disks on front and drums on rear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeroy Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Does your car have the 4 wheel discs brakes? If you ever have a wheel off I'd like to see a pic of the brakes. I think we have mostly confirmed the one I worked on had 4 wheel discs from a GSR, that got to the US from some sort of factory race connection back then. We never got the GSR model in the US. From what I can find out the 4 wheel disc brakes only came on the RX coupe not the GSR. I do not think Subaru exported the original RX (1972) only the GSR which had rear drums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosens Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 um parts here are so hard to come by here anyway. im looking for an rear GSR badge. im never seen an twin carb gsr motor or parts yet. in fact this is the only gsr motor ive ever seen.i cant go buy any rubber etc at the moment coz im jobless at the moment. what are we going to do about rubber door seals etc? i was driving along in the heavy rain and had water getting past the side window and was spraying me in the face We were working on getting some made up or find a suitable match but kind of dropped the ball. So,what about those filters? I can understand about parts cars being nonexistant...same story here. I've not searched very hard but when I did I can't come up with anything for those airboxes...so when you get around to checking for yourself,please let me know. I/we have several used examples of door weatherstrips from coupes and two doors,etc. from 1973 and up. Just very unorganized right now and not all in my possession. But we'll help you out if we can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waimaks Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 If it helps, I used door rubbers off one of my worse off 1st gen brumbys on my GSR. Not a perfect fit, the wind still howls a bit sometimes, but the old ones were WAY shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUBARU3 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Nice car!!!! That thing will clean up nice! I am told that certain years of the Datsun Z car's rear hatch glass will work on the back of coupes and sedans. I've never researched it, but I know we have to come up with an option, as there are a fair amount of these still out there that need them! Todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 sweeet i would keep it yellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosens Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 sweeet i would keep it yellow. Holy CRAP you passed me !!!! 11,263 for you here....but of course,by now you've posted eighteen more times Congrats,Nipper,you are now officially the number one board loser. :-p Thanks for taking the title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waimaks Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 From where I'm standin at the mo, Its a tie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi subbie Posted July 5, 2008 Author Share Posted July 5, 2008 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatBlackS00b111 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 SOO jealous!! Great Car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi subbie Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 heres vid i took of me drivin it down the road:grin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Nice!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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