1986 Honda Other

City Turbo II Bulldog Hatchback

1.2 ER

5 Speed Manual

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Clear

Gasoline

This description is very media intensive: Please Allow All Images To Load If Your On Your Mobile Device. Thx. Rare opportunity to own one of Honda's Coolest little cars on the planet. I would like to introduce to you Honda's first factory Turbo'ed vehicle and platform for Mugen to cross from tuning Motorcycles to Cars. The Honda City Turbo II "Bulldog" Yes, this vehicle is 100% fully legal, as it was imported in 1987 and is now currently titled and registered in Arizona. I do have a clean and clear title for this vehicle. It has an assigned vin number from the state of New Hampshire of NH009044. It also passed Arizona emissions / smog with flying colors. There will be no issue registering this vehicle in your state. Prepare yourself for loads of information as this vehicle is not very well known here, but is considered to be an iconic legend among Honda enthusiasts. I have personally owned this vehicle for almost a year, and since then I have restored the vehicle back to it's former glory. The car has all new fluids, new timing belt and water pump, a fuel system cleaning, and has for the better part of it's life the past 11 years has been stored indoors. You might notice that in some of the pictures, the vehicle is paired with a red scooter, that is known as the Honda Motocompo and was an optional vehicle that could be purchased with the Honda City, also equally rare. If full asking price is met or within a reasonable offer close to asking price, I will include the Motocompo with the sale of the City Turbo II, otherwise I have several people interested in the bike seperatly. The opportunity to own a City Turbo II as clean as this one are far and few between. If you have any questions or need to contact me directly, I can be reached at jdmreverend@aol.com or (623) 986-2599 - Sean Michael I bought this vehicle from Joe at Locash Racing in Phoenix Arizona earlier this year, and he had the vehicle stored inside his shop for the last 11 years and maintained it. The car has been back and forth between his shop and his home over the last 11 years. So when I finally got it, it was time to clean it up and make it my own car. So while searching online for some ideas of how the car looks, I discovered a guy who makes model cars and he did a City Turbo II which inspired me to make a similar pinstripe and get similar wheels. Got my decals made for the car The Honda City was the first car to offer another vehicle as an option, the Motocompo is a 49cc two-stroke fold-up motorcycle. It's not super fast, but it's still cool nonetheless. I spent awhile looking for one and found one on craigslist in Washington state. Daniel at NWClassicHonda drove over to get it for me and shipped it to me 3 day express to me in California, and I picked it up on Saturday, literally the day before Eibach. Not to mention that in that same day, but earlier I picked up my 15 inch Racing Hart D-Spec Superlative rims. So I picked up the car on a Tuesday, and on Saturday I got the motocompo, and Sunday was the first time the car was out in the public in over 11 years. Here's how it looked the first time. My lower fogs were CIBIE's and made of glass, the housing's were rusted out and it was just a matter of time until one of them shattered on me on the way back from Eibach. So without the fogs, I removed the front OEM optional lip kit and the fogs and took it back to California for another meet without that stuff... Eventually I got the OEM plastic stanley fogs, and was ready to paint the front and rear bumpers because the OEM paint didn't hold up well on the plastic as much as they did the rest of the car. Then disaster struck... Someone in the middle of the night backed up into the City and damaged the front end. I was so mad! But I had a friend who's 70 year old grandfather from Brasil was a master paint and body man and had me fixed up in no time. So here's the rest of the pictures of the car in it's current state, enjoy a piece of rare Honda History. The Honda City Turbo II is a sport compact / hot hatch produced by the Japanese automaker Honda between 1983 and early 1986, based on the subcompact car Honda City which was released in 1981. In September of 1982 a Turbo ( I ) edition was released but the upgraded Turbo II was introduced a year later November of 1983 and benefited from several changes over the Turbo I. On the Exterior, the body was refreshed with flared fenders over both the front and rear wheels for a much more pugnacious appearance, making its "Bulldog" nickname very fitting. The flared fenders weren't just cosmetic, but were necessary to accommodate a 30 mm (20 mm in the rear) wider track and bigger 185/60 R13 tires. Factory graphics labeling it as an "Intercooled Turbo II". The hump was enlarged on the hood to make room for the intercooler which sits on top of the transmission, and is fed direct air from between the grill and hood. A removable glass moon roof that can be tilted up for ventillation, or removed entirely and stored in the back with it's own protective case. When the glass is fully removed, the car has a built in windjammer that pops up, and when the glass is in, I also have the cover that clips inside to block out the sunlight. This particular car also has a rare optional OEM/JDM front and rear lip kit and super eagle rear spoiler. The Interior appointments to the car focused both on driver involvement and comfort. A digital speedometer, surrounded by a tachometer and a boost gauge. The Engine featured an intercooler, a revised intake plenum, a slightly larger throttle body, a modified inlet manifold, a higher AR turbo compressor, exhaust housings, and a slightly raised (7.6:1) compression ratio. The City Turbo is part of a rare breed of turbocharged Honda road engines. Other turbo Hondas include the V6 for the late eighties Honda Legend and the new turbocharged i-VTEC 2.3 L in the 2007 Acura RDX. It was Honda's very first vehicle that came from the factory turbo'ed, but this all resulted from Hirotoshi Honda, son of Honda founder Soichiro Honda as well as founder and owner of Mugen. In the early 1980s Mugen was a small tuning company that was beginning to make its mark producing performance parts for motorcycles and automobiles, but was yet to gain recognition outside of racing circles. When he created the City Turbo, Hirotoshi took one of Honda's most unassuming vehicles and turned it into an aggressive street rocket, considered to be well ahead of its time. Impressed, Honda took Hirotoshi's idea and made a production version, introduced in September 1982. A few months earlier, Honda staffers took two City Turbos on a gruelling 10,000 km round trip of Europe, all the way from Sicily to Karasjok in the arctic north. The City Turbo II have a 1237 cc (1.2 L) CVCC engine that upon the addition of a turbocharger which is dialed in at 12psi, fairly high for a factory turbo car, produces around 110 PS (81 kW; 108 hp) at 5,500 rpm and 16.3 kg·m (159.8 N·m; 117.9 lb·ft) at 3,000 rpm. Further changes to the engine included an aluminum or titanium alloy head and a magnesium valve cover to keep the weight down. The IHI RHB51 turbocharger, developed as a joint venture between Ishikawajima Heavy Industry and Honda, was lighter and smaller than most other turbos and allowed for higher engine speeds. When combined with Honda's PGM-F1 fuel injection and an 8-bit digital computer control unit, the end result was a very efficient engine with minimal turbo lag. The City Turbo's suspension was refined above that of the ordinary City. The four-wheel independent system used progressive rate coil springs, with stabilizers at both the front and the rear. The braking system is very capable for such a small car. Honda raided the parts bin and the front brakes are the vented disc brakes and callipers straight from the Prelude from the same era and semi-metallic shoes at the rear. The long-stroke ER four-cylinder engine, sold as a 12-valve CVCC-II in Japan and as a simple eight-valve unit in Europe and Asia, was only used in the AA/VF/FA series City/Jazz from 1981 until 1986. It was available as a normally aspirated carburated version or with Honda's own PGM-FI fuel injection as one of a very few turbocharged engines built by Honda. The Japanese market CVCC engine was also known as COMBAX, an acronym of COMpact Blazing-combustion AXiom. The E-series were tuned for economy, with higher gearing and later on with computer controlled variable lean burn. As of March 1985, the naturally aspirated ER engines gained composite conrods (a world first in a production car), lighter and stronger these helped further reduce fuel consumption. The lower powered engines in the commercial "Pro" series had a lower compression, a mechanically timed ignition rather than the breakerless setup found in the passenger cars, and a manual choke. The ER had five crankshaft bearings and the overhead camshaft was driven by a cogged belt. CVCC is a system used by honda to reduce emissions by stratifying the combustion charge. In the City Turbo the throttle body appears much like a 3 barrel downdraught carby. One barrel has a very small port size and actually houses a single injector. This port leads to a separate set of intake runners which provide fuel to each of the CVCC valves located within a combustion prechamber. The combustion prechamber is actually seperated from the main combustion chamber by a perforated collar. A rich mixture of fuel and air are added to the combustion prechamber which also houses the spark plug. This is ignited and creates a single flame front out of the prechamber. While this goes on the main combustion chamber is fed fuel via sequential multipoint injectors in the same manner as most modern EFI cars. The only difference is that in City turbo motor this is a relatively lean mixture, not easily ignited by a spark plug alone. The flame front from the prechamber is used to ignite this lean mixture. Apart from decreased emissions and increased fuel economy this stratified charge helps to ward off the killer of many turbo engines, DETONATION. Detonation occurs when two flame fronts (or shockwaves) collide in a standard combustion chamber. One is caused by the spark plug, the other is caused by the high pressures, friction and shockwaves on the other side of the cylinder igniting an easily combustible mixture. Detonation can also be caused by superheated carbon particles or sharp edges in the combustion chamber that can operate like a glow plug in a diesel engine. Stratified combustion such as the CVCC system makes this second front less likely to occur as the lean mixtures in the main combustion chambers are hard to ignite. These vehicle's also have a racing history as Mugen and Honda ran a single make racing series using the city turbos. The cars were based on the production vehicles as were the motors. The motors had larger exhaust, injectors, production type turbo (with 22psi), production type intercooler, and a modified camshaft. These cars did the standing 1/4 mile in 13.5 seconds (which isn’t bad for a frontwheel drive car set up for circuit racing). They ran very fat tyres (9” front and 7” rear). The official mugen figure for power output is 138+hp @ 5500rpm but the torque is around 22kgm @ 3500rpm (standard twin cam VTEC 1600 has 16kgm, NSX V6 has about 28kgm). It takes little work to produce these power figure in a street motor. The cars from the one make racing series were bought by an Australian entrepreneur with the view to continuing the series in Australia. Unfortunately all the vehicles were in a wharehouse in Osaka waiting to be shipped when an earthquake struck and buried the lot. Now More Information on The Motocompo! taken from: http://hondaroots.com/2012/09/05/honda-motocompo-bike-in-a-box-or-robot-in-disguise/ You think Transformer, we think foldable fun! You say what the hell, we say “You jealous bro?” For most people who have no idea what this is, we introduce to you the amazing Honda AB12 50 or for short, MotoCompo! The little “Trunk Bike” was introduced in 1981 alongside it’s Honda City counterpart as a needed accessory for anyone looking to have the complete package of ultimate fun. Only $360 in fun for 1981. Insert *Jaw Drop* Here. Roughly about 47 inches in length and 36 inches in height (in ride mode), this little scooter was extremely small and nimble. The MotoCompo was designed to fit in the rear trunk of a 1st generation Honda City and it worked rather well! Here’s another pic of the Transformer in the trunk of a Honda City, this time showing how compact it fits in between the hatch and the rear seats! The trunk of the City was actually designed around the MotoCompo giving it that insuperable Hero-Sidekick look ! Any owner of the MotoCompo can tell you that the 49cc “AB12? air cooled engine is extremely peppy and has just the right amount of get up and go for your big butt to be hauled around town. Sure the bike only weighs about 100lbs but it’s quirky box shape and steering is what makes it the head turner out in town. The single speed clutch transmission allowed it the 49cc beast to achieve 2.5hp @ 5,000rpm. The little scooter endured a crazy advertising campaign alongside the Honda City during the early 80's, having everything from being featured in music videos to food advertisements, to cartoons. In the past few decades it’s garnished it’s own cult following with being featured in Japanese Manga to even more cartoon shows. Be very lucky to see one of these rolling in the states here as very few were imported since the early 80's. The internet has opened doors and if your very interested on breaking the wallet, one can be had for about $1500-3000 depending on it’s condition. There are believed to be over a 100 MotoCompos currently in the US and more are still being imported by enthusiasts. The scooters were sold for only 3 years (’81-83) after sales didn’t equate to Honda’s forecast, the City however sold quite well and continued on for further generations! At the end of it’s run, the MotoCompo only sold 53,369 units by the end of 1983 and was discontinued. We say blasphemy but hey……it’s Honda, they’re always keeping the awesome stuff from us! The Motocompo that if requirements are met, and I receive a reasonable offer, will be included in this auction. It has some issues, as in the back the rear part of the casing was cracked, as seen in some pictures of the bike from behind, however the casing is easily removable and is made of plastic and can be repaired and repainted. Replacement decals are availble online at yahoo.co.jp, and the seat needs a new bracket, also available online. The bike does operate and rides just fine.