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doug maybe so about rust!
but my 20 yr old Mitsu, has never been in a garage , no paint left, close to 200K, NO RUST any where! looks like a POS!
under the car some places no paint, looks like bare metal, ( fact is we were at the Bonneville SALT races , and drove up and down the Salt after week it looked like i came from a wet snow packed up in the fender wells and other places,, it was salt packed up 6 inches thick)!
brought car to a Utah truck wash and under car pressure rinse it all came off,(I hope), but been 15 odd yrs, not sign of rust!
just maybe Japan knows something about metal others dont!
ron
someday do they salt the roads after a snow storm??
another thing some from UK say is they mix pool acid in the salt for ice roads, it melts ice faster, and good for rapid recycle of vehicles!
so sell new ones,,? NAH English would never do such a thing?
here is a pix of MY 1978 XJS when i got it from Kent UK!
no bottom of the car left at all! BL steel BL steel ,, how do you like me at car shows the guys& girls love it, V12 open exhaust! by the way , i never owned a complete factory stock automobile, everything ivd owned would be modified, different strokes for different folks! you can BUY a nice stock auto, all you need is money,, and no skills other than making money! now
i happen to use many Chevy /Ford engine management parts on my V12 , mainly because i never could get my head around what early Lucas was trying to do!
like i use a mid 80s Ford Starter motor(forget the model) went into my local rebuilder with the HEAVY lucas , showed the guy it came back one said try this ,all he did was change the drive gear , and it still on the V12. and it is around 50% lighter weight! (pic)!
i think i'll make a list with some pix of GM parts , i even use a CHEVY CORVETTE 4 speed automatic!
The original XJS transmission is the same as the older Corvette 3 speed transmission!
doug maybe so about rust!
but my 20 yr old Mitsu, has never been in a garage , no paint left, close to 200K, NO RUST any where! looks like a POS!
under the car some places no paint, looks like bare metal, ( fact is we were at the Bonneville SALT races , and drove up and down the Salt after week it looked like i came from a wet snow packed up in the fender wells and other places,, it was salt packed up 6 inches thick)!
brought car to a Utah truck wash and under car pressure rinse it all came off,(I hope), but been 15 odd yrs, not sign of rust!
just maybe Japan knows something about metal others dont!
ron
I believe the difference is, by the year 2000, all of the car manufacturers were a lot more concerned about rust than they were in the 70-80's. I was working on Japanese cars in Michigan, USA, in the late 70's. The Japanese cars were, like the European and American cars, horrid rustbuckets. Because of their light weight, they would get structural rust that would put them in the scrapyard, far quicker than the American cars of the same era. Everybody's cars are far more rust resistant now than they were then.
maybe why cars sold in USA rust quicker , we used pool acid in the salt for ice/snow roads?
i think around late 90s/2000 yr,, when bare bodies are dipped in a rust resistance bath , they really slow /stop rust/corrosian!
