1965 Honda S600 Fastback coupe, first restoration project

kev84 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:20 am

As my Volvo's XC90 T6 twin turbo inline 6 turbines are dying, they are taken out and to be replaced with reconditioned ones. I wonder if I could take out the old ones, the one which is not broken and put them in my S600, low boosted S600, quad throttle and high revving, sounds crazy! LOL

And here's the dashboard, being reconditioned, retrimmed and polished! All thanks to GLS upholstery in USJ, Selangor, Malaysia.

Call Willie @ 012-366 8436 if you need help in your upholstery and dashboard

kev84 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:17 am

interior powdercoated

colink · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:20 pm

coming good this now

Norcal510 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:03 pm

Dash looks really nice.

Kuroneko · **Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:45 am

Inspiring work.

kev84 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:19 am

thankss for the good words, guys

while awaiting crankshaft from canada,other parts are chromed and wheels painted and put on used tyres before the engine comes, then only fit new tyres when running!

kev84 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:34 am

Dash Insert came from Japan Yahoo Auctions

Subsituting bits here and there from both the dash insert to complete the interior. Note that the original one from the car was cut out to make switches, where the other one has some chipped damage.

colink · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:30 am

I like this thread that much i just went from start to finish again :wink:

kev84 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:33 am

thanks colink, your support has been pretty great from the beginning to the end , mate!

wheels are in, however, when he attached the wheels, the body rolled back and slammed against the wall, so he says he is gonna repaint it . my heart was about to sink knowing there had been an accident, but lucky it wasnt anythign major, just some bent paint

and yes, bought some tomicas today

colink · **Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:13 pm

looking amazing and no worries with my support this has been a great thread to watch and comment on

confusis · **Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 2:28 pm

kev84 wrote:

Don't you dare put those achilles tyres on this beautiful car - they're absolutely terrible tyres (i'm speaking from experience)

Great build so far!

kev84 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 4:04 am

haha i think i snapped a picture of the tyres way back, i ordered yokohama, haha, least it goes back with a japanese car, neato!

As I await the arrival of my Crank bearing shaft from Canada, here is a book I bought from Kinokuniya Book store in Petronas Twin Towers, KLCC. Cost RM110, about 2000 yen as according to the magazine cover. Pretty hard and rare to find S car related books and literature in the country, especially by known car magazine, Nostalgic Hero, in this Extra Edition. Lots of pages about the S600, S800, L700, P800 and N360, interesting!

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kev84 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:15 am

anyways, my crankshaft as arrived from canada. look at the amount of stamps, used to beat the customs from taxing me! lol

also some pictures of the metal based number plate, giving it a retro feel to the car! notice how i cramp all 5 characters in 1 line!

Team_Dandism · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:15 am

Looking good, can't wait for the build up of this car.

Those Number plates, are they 330mm standard JDM plate size, if so can you get them done on 2 lines or are the characters too big.

We can run silver on black plates on pre 73 cars here in the UK and I've been after some pressed metal silver on black plates for my N and Z600's. I can get black on white / yellow here in the UK done using an alloy JDM plate size but can't find anywhere that will do them, Silver on black like yours.

I need 2 lines though as our numbers are generally too long 3 then 4.

If you can get them I'd be interested to know where you got them.

kev84 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:57 am

hi team dandism, well, theres a metal presser here. well, they'd do for two rows, no problems, i insisted on one, as D would be like an orphan while the numbers become in a group, looks kinda awkward so i made them have everything together, since 1 is kinda slim, they cost like 30 pounds made for the whole set. give me a set of text, maybe i could make them for u

the size seems to be of japanese style templates. ive measured against a toyota caldina zt JDM which carries the same plate size.

kevin

honda s600 crankshaft taken out from the box and sent to JC racing for piston bore and fit

Blackbullet · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:19 am

Wow look heavy that crank looks. Cool pic.

kev84 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:31 am

yeah i think about 10kg's

lucky for this car, everythings mailable by box, like the crankshaft, rims, everything! guess thats the lucky part about this car haha, no need for special shipping!

kev84 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:36 am

window latch came back from the chrome shop

colink · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:42 pm

Really coming on now with this :tu:

eduardo i. · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:46 pm

Nice as always :mrgreen:

Are you planing another retro restoration after the s600?

1965 Honda S600 Fastback coupe, first restoration project

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