Hello from the Land Down Under! I hope you are all coping well with this horrid pandemic that's sweeping the world!
Moving on ... I just bought a companion for my Cappo - a Honda Beat PP1. So now, I have two Kei cars in my stable! The Honda's mechanical setup is that its engine (all 656cc of it) is rear-mounted and transverse; but unlike the Cappo, it's normally-aspirated. It was only fitted with a 5-speed manual gearbox for its entire production run; and as you can imagine, the pedals are very close together, not too unlike the one fitted to the EA11R (and some EA21R) Cappos.
It has about the same top end as the production Cappo; but acceleration figures are slightly slower because it's fitted to a non-turbo'd engine.
I'm trying to get some information about the steering rack. For a light car, the steering is quite heavy - in fact, slightly heavier than my EA21R. Does anyone out there have any information in this area, please? All I need to know is whether there is a Honda steering rack which is powered and which can be a direct replacement for the existing [non-powered] rack.
The second info is that as the engine is mounted behind the driver, it's also quite noisy whilst driving! Is there a noise insulation kit available for this car?