By errol (64.12.105.151) on Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 07:40 am:

some Moron was in my garage and knocked over my engine stand, Don't ask.....(with "The" turbo motor on it and luckily only bent the water pump pulley Badly!) So i need a pully for a serpentine belt.

By Don (209.181.52.13) on Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 06:07 pm:

I dont think Charles is in business anymore. I have had a few parts I have been trying to get and or inquiring about for months and months now, No reponse, even after several e-mails.
A few other people have met with the same result.

By BOOSTBOY (130.194.13.164) on Monday, October 01, 2001 - 05:35 am:

Yes, i haven't been able to make contact either...

I wanna buy city turbo stuff too! Where else to turn?

By Jacob (128.193.54.84) on Monday, October 01, 2001 - 10:29 am:

What is this? I just e-mailed him the other day... no response yet. This is disasterous, I'm trying to import a City Turbo to Oregon (US). Any other ideas where I can turn to?

By natcho (208.195.243.199) on Monday, October 01, 2001 - 05:07 pm:

Damn! Lets just hope he's been really busy. Have any of you tried to call?

If worse comes to worse, I think I remember mention in one of the threads of some other reputable sources for City Turbo parts. It'll take a keyword search and a lot of reading, but I think it's there. Meantime, I'll try calling Charles to see what's up.

By BOOSTBOY (130.194.13.164) on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 02:58 am:

Great. Let us know how you go. Its not so much the parts but the knowledge that is missed...

By Yoshi Hasshan (210.159.218.134) on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 10:15 am:

I live in Tokyo Japan.
If you let me know genuine part number or part name in City turbo, I try to buy it from Honda parts shop.(I have genuine parts list for City turbo)

But I don't know about sending and handling costs.
And you will surprise my funny English
(I need many hours to write English)

Chales helped me some time. I heard that he is verrry busy and have no time to check e-mail,and web recently.
This is just my gratitude.

There is my message board in below URL
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~nsr250r/

By Charles (152.91.9.43) on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 05:38 pm:

Hi All,

I have a 5 week job in Canberra which is over 3000kms from home. I have not got my emails forwarded, but am endevouring to get an accessable dial up for while I'm down here. Meanwhile, I hope I have replied to some of you (ie I sent you an email recently Jacob). Anyway, I am as always happy to help and as I am especially busy at the moment, if I can't supply i will try to provide details of appropriate suppliers. I have an ER turbo pulley for your waterpump if you want it errol but I will not be home until early novemer if you can wait that long..

I will try to check this page when I can.

Natcho, how are you finding your new brakes?

Charles

By 2low2go (207.107.254.248) on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 05:47 pm:

Errol, i'll check into my spare parts and see if i have one(I've got the convertible with the city turbo II motor) I bought my motor thru a wrecker in N.Z. called "Strong for honda" it's in Auckland, ask for andrew the number is:
011-649-634-2914
and tell him i told ya to call!

Justin

By Ed (24.43.71.141) on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 06:24 pm:

Yoshi:

can you help me?

I would like an RS badge for the grill of my car. I know that my civic 1200 is not a real RS, but I would still like the badge.

Please let me know how much it will cost to purchase and ship.

thanks

Ed

By errol (205.188.195.202) on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 10:11 pm:

Thank you Justin, No rush... I guess i just got all pissed at that idiot that knocked the engine over, and panicked. thank you all for the responses. I've been in Charle's shoes before and know how hard it is to keep in touch. (But don't try and leave us or we'll hunt you down)...But I did find a guy who said he can get some parts from Japan... I'll give him the website name and see if he can help. e

By BOOSTBOY (130.194.13.164) on Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 03:02 am:

errol - I have a spare ER pulley aswell if you need one...

By errol (64.12.103.54) on Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 07:30 am:

Your profile doesn't go, so mail me directly for all the info please. Is paypal ok? e

By Yoshi (210.159.218.29) on Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 08:05 am:

Hi Ed,

Unfortunately, RS badge is already discontinued
Japanese Civic owner also wants to get it. but the badge is very rare part.....

Yoshi

By natcho (208.195.243.199) on Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 09:33 am:

Whew! Glad you're still around, Charles! (I'm also glad you saved me a long distance call to Australia!)

The brakes are absolutely awesome! I had the rotors turned once they were on the car (Honda's recommendation for any rotor or bearing replacement, it turns out) because they were starting to wobble ever so slightly and I wasn't about to let them warp. The first shop I took the car to had to refer me elsewhere because their lathe couldn't handle the job! It got them scratching their heads, as I'm sure you can guess; but they recovered pretty quickly and proceeded to ask if they could drive the car. Spose' it's time to get a brake lathe or get used to having my car driven by every mechanic in SF.

Stopping power is amazing, even when I've got them glowing red-hot. They are far and away superior to the wagon brakes. Best investment I've ever made! (Especially because I can now justify things like sticky tires and fender flares.)

Don't work too hard. Talk to you in November.

By Brian Wilborn (24.4.254.106) on Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - 10:52 am:

Hey Natcho, did you ever get my e-mail? I need your mailing address so I can pay you back for GoodGuys! Let me know, e-mail me at bwilborn2@home.com before the 6th (I'm not going to have e-mail access after that for a few days as I'm moving this weekend).

By Jacob (128.193.45.51) on Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 03:42 pm:

I'm beyond glad to hear that you're still with us, but I never received an e-mail, maybe there was a problem in transit. Thanks for the reply anyway.

By Charles (152.91.9.43) on Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 03:59 pm:

Jacob,
If you want a complete car it can be done. Cars range from $2500 for a bit of a bomber up to $15000 for a top class decent beast. $5000-$7000 should buy you a good standard one. Shipping is pr4ob around the $2000 mark these prices are Australian $$ so halve the cost. Angus' 200hp beast may be on the market very soon with over $40K invested it will be a very good buy for between $10-15K Australian, with 200hp (140hp @ the wheels) it is one very quick car.

This means somewhere between $3500-7000US will have you in a city turbo.

By Mike S (202.12.144.21) on Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 08:05 pm:

Charles,

30% transmission loss (200hp - 140hp @ wheels)looks a bit high. I would have thought 10 -20% max for a transaxle transmission?

By Jacob (128.193.169.10) on Friday, October 05, 2001 - 01:00 pm:

Huh, good to know, but I'm really only interested in a complete motor (though the entire car sounds pretty reasonable). I'd like to drop it into a 1976 1200 that as of now has a full internal rollcage a 5 spd waiting in the wings, and is entirely gutted/stripped and primered. As much time as has already been put into the car, I would like to just expand upon it.... But the more information the better, thanks
Jacob