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i’m just lucky i didn’t hit any metal body panels, let alone bent the frame. but it did make a pretty nasty sound both backing into AND out of the pole, and i do suspect the latch clips for the main bumper itself have snapped. it’ll prolly send me off a good $500USD bux i bet. 😗🎶💸

I backed up onto a signpost pole that i couldn’t see from my blind spot at a not-so-insignificant speed.

it exchanged paint. and now my rear diffuser is cracked with its structural mount snapped.

i finally took my s660 thru its own jet2 holiday😭

YouTube video by tibitekutan a tranquil cruise down Bandai-Azuma Skyline touge toward Lake Inawashiro

full version of that bandai-azuma skyline drive from last weekend:
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bandai-azuma skyline touge is fun as hell. with the volcanic vents off-gassing onto the road, it kinda looks like hell up there too.

a honda s660 and a lincoln town car walk into a concafe…

at least the sporty ones i’ve been in, yeah. (i’ve been in a cappuccino before)
in contrast the suzuki lapin i very recently drove has FLOOOOATY AF suspension; the rear end has hella sway that honestly reminded me of the caprice classic wagon my dad handed down to me before i moved to japan, lol.

otherwise… the front damper swap that the recall addresses seems totally fine. i honestly don’t notice a difference between the old one and the new; it’s still the lovable so-called “crashy” OEM suspension that my bf ever so loathes. 🙂

honda mechanic did mention the pedal feels excessively heavy despite the fluid reservoir being fine… but honestly it always felt that way since i bought the car over 120,000kms ago? master cylinder adjustment i did does make the pedal higher than usual tho’, so maybe that set off his spidey senses.

i still need to get the clutch serviced🥲 though i already do have the relevant part #️⃣s i can order if i choose to do it myself and forego the ~¥60,000 labor fee from honda themselves.

thing is, i honestly don’t notice any slipping? clutch bite point is still around middle of full pedal travel too…

calm after the storm, and already back on my bullshit.

chibi-tech✨🧁☕️ on X: "basically: • fully stomping on clutch pedal was no longer fully disengaging clutch, resulting in extremely notchy downshifts & occasional grinding noises • did a band-aid solution by lengthening clutch master cylinder shaft past normal spec to REALLY force clutch disengagements" / X basically: • fully stomping on clutch pedal was no longer fully disengaging clutch, resulting in extremely notchy downshifts & occasional grinding noises • did a band-aid solution by lengthening clutch master cylinder shaft past normal spec to REALLY force clutch disengagements

also i had bad shifter notchiness starting a year ago, and made an educated guess it was the clutch cylinder no longer traveling far enough to disengage the clutch… so i found out a trick online to extend that clutch travel further than usual (and it actually worked lol)
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i do notice the shifter feels sorta weird if i time my shifter position change w/shorter-than-1/2-second delays after fully pressing the clutch pedal (often from 1st→2nd), like the feeling if i change out of gear w/o pressing the pedal… but otherwise the shifter still feels mostly accurate & easy🤔

mechanic told me i need a clutch overhaul soon btw… i guess i can no longer ignore that input shaft bearing rattle and occasional shifter notchiness🥲

shiny cap on new front damper, vs tarnished af old non-replaced rear one

babby’s first recall

today’s ita

yeah i guess i’m pretty fortunate i was able to see it, especially since that acute turn is setup for the worst visibility on a RHD perspective. i was amped up on monster, so maybe that helped lol

yeah that was definitely a close call, especially with that acute of an apex😮‍💨

almost had myself the most exquisitely expensive cut of venison last night

i think i know why it broke in the first place lol… first owner was an old dude who did tasteless mods on the car, and i bet he researched tips online in Minkara & saw a tip on increasing roof tension in order to shut the wind up.

i was wondering why my roof was always hella hard to lock into place

threading in this speaker wire as a guide for the replacement tethers absolutely sucked. auuuugh

the aftermath of the broken tether assemblies. srsly the wind buffeting was absolutely terrible on the expressway when the front one broke. i had to drive my bf sorta long distance a day before i received the replacement ones. needless to say it was a constant stream of grief the entire way lol 🥲🫠

i accidentally screwed in the tether points the wrong way first as pictured. oops. i corrected it later lol

everything on the roll-top roof assembled and back in place. wind noise is minimal now. well it’s still loud as all hell, but that’s the S660’s inherent fault there lol

pulling out the old cables while keeping a threaded guide for the new ones to slip in was an absolute bitch. the cable channelways are thin & kept snagging partway. i ended up using skinny-enough speaker wire to yank thru, w/replacement tethers being pulled from behind.

but roof is now fixed. yay 🥳

new tethers for both front and back from honda would’ve costed me ~12,000yen each. yeah i could afford that, but all that money just to replace what is essentially bicycle brake wires? i was like bruh eff that…

a quick mercari search later and i score myself used-but-good cables for ~6000 a set. 🫰

broken rear tether point, first one to break

broken front tether point, broke a week later prolly due to all the stretch tension now being solely on the front tether

latest S660 DIY maintenance job: front & rear lateral metal cable tensioner tethers for the roll-top roof snapped off. first the rear one gave way, which at first wasn’t catastrophic on wind buffeting since, you know, i normally drive forwards anyway.

then a week later the front one gave way too…🫨🙉

this one is a pretty serious one as apparently the nurburgring started using an “Al-powered warning system” that didn’t even trigger the track lights well past the initial pileup. its an unfortunate ugly situation that now the S660’s first (i believe) nurburgring debut got inadvertently looped into

お久しぶりです！
了解です！先ほどDM送りました😸

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVv4HsLFdqM

got hella excited seeing for the first time a honda s660 finally take on the nurburgring... next day checking back i find out it got written off in a major pileup 😞🫗🫡

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haha yeah now that i think of it it’s prolly there out of “R&D” company-related purposes. i always assumed that cars on a private temporary import to US have to keep their country-of-origin plates in place and explain all about it everytime they get pulled over by suspecting cops, lol

YouTube video by illiminate INSANE WEKFEST SJ 2025 ROLL OUT!

haha somehow i didn’t catch it in this earlier youtu.be/G9viNNl6m_E?...

oh daaaang stateside S660 with a wide body LBWK kit, i’m guessing that’s over there due to a japanese owner using HS-7, option 5