What'd you do to your car this week/weekend?

brownie · Post by **brownie** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:10 pm

Here some better shots of the new gear-lever boot and surround as mentioned above,Fitted the short shift kit as well today,Had a new boot on it already,Mine was split,What a excuse,Feels good,In conjunction with the light flywheel and tweaked ECU ,feels very ...perky .
I don't know the brand of shift kit,Came in a gearbox already fitted from Japan,Looked to be very nicely made ,Good and solid,Steel bushes with Brass lower ball cup.

Before and after photos,You can also see the remounted stereo with factory pocket that i did some time ago.
Now just waiting for my new rear boot lip Carbon spoiler to arrive.

chris · Post by **chris** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:33 pm

What's the short shift like?

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:52 pm

Furai wrote:Wobbled my way around the track, Mint fun though.

Unfortunately my video of Siren and Angreal is corrupted, So is half of the other videos. Removed my SD to early and it stuffed them.

http://youtu.be/yup3Xt4uuDY

Phew. The evidence of me hitting every cone has been deleted right?

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:58 pm

Angreal wrote:
Furai wrote:Wobbled my way around the track, Mint fun though.

Unfortunately my video of Siren and Angreal is corrupted, So is half of the other videos. Removed my SD to early and it stuffed them.

http://youtu.be/yup3Xt4uuDY
Phew. The evidence of me hitting every cone has been deleted right?

Unforgivably, well not deleted just unreadable.

Get any vids on the day? Only a few pics and 4 of my vids survived....

brownie · Post by **brownie** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:22 pm

As i said,With the TODA Flywheel ,and tickled ECU allowing it to rev harder,The short shift feels good,Keeps it in the power band nice without hardly any drop in rev's between gears,You do have to be precise with your gearchange,and i did top up the oil in the housing while i was there as well.

I can't say what the one's on Trade Me are like,They don't look anything like the one i fitted,I got lucky with this one already in the gearbox that came in from Japan on the back of a motor that had a bit of gear on it.
Could be a KG works for all i know

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Just buy the best you can afford and do some homework on them,You have got to wonder when you can get one from Trade Me for $100.00 and Japan made ones are like 300-400.

Think i might have another in another box sitting at work,Keep a eye on classifieds over the next week or so,I might get it out and put it up.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:32 pm

Furai wrote: Unforgivably, well not deleted just unreadable.

Get any vids on the day? Only a few pics and 4 of my vids survived....

Ill ask my friend if he got any pics of you guys aside from this group photo

warrior · Post by **warrior** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:47 am

I bought a short shift off trade me.........its rubbish. STAY AWAY!!!!

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:01 pm

Always wondered about them.... Thanks for letting us know!

Btw - Started work on my Nakamae Console!

r3spct · Post by **r3spct** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:43 pm

Picked up a 98 soft top with glass window to replace the tatty roof on my car, took the old one off and found a broken cable on one side, and some pretty crappy rust.

Would anyone have any old soft top parts lying around? I got a good condition skin, but none of the mechanicals.

Took pics with phone, but no idea how to get them off it onto computer.

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:01 pm

r3spct wrote: Took pics with phone, but no idea how to get them off it onto computer.

Air droid app. It's awesome for getting stuff off over wireless network onto the computer.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:55 pm

r3spct wrote:Picked up a 98 soft top with glass window to replace the tatty roof on my car, took the old one off and found a broken cable on one side, and some pretty crappy rust.

Would anyone have any old soft top parts lying around? I got a good condition skin, but none of the mechanicals.

Took pics with phone, but no idea how to get them off it onto computer.

Ive got the old roof and frame off mine, What part of nz are you in?

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:00 pm

brownie wrote:Now just waiting for my new rear boot lip Carbon spoiler to arrive.

That boot lip spoiler has grown on me. Where do I get myself one?

Furai wrote: Unforgivably, well not deleted just unreadable.

Get any vids on the day? Only a few pics and 4 of my vids survived....

I only have a couple of photos of your car at the end of the day. PM your email address and I'll send them your way.

r3spct · Post by **r3spct** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:55 pm

siren676 wrote:
r3spct wrote:Picked up a 98 soft top with glass window to replace the tatty roof on my car, took the old one off and found a broken cable on one side, and some pretty crappy rust.

Would anyone have any old soft top parts lying around? I got a good condition skin, but none of the mechanicals.

Took pics with phone, but no idea how to get them off it onto computer.
Ive got the old roof and frame off mine, What part of nz are you in?

Auckland mate, there is a U shaped piece at the bottom rear of screen that is almost totally rusted out, but any bits you have that are usuable would be good.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:46 pm

Wow thats bad. Unfortunately i dont have that piece, only the roof mechanism.

r3spct · Post by **r3spct** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:59 pm

The roof mech is rugged too, and one of the cables is broken. I might be able to source new cables, maybe a new rain track too.

Be keen to have a look at your spares if thats ok at some stage?

brownie · Post by **brownie** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:05 pm

Boot spoiler...
www.carbonmiata.com
Taking a bit of a punt on this one,Got to wait for them to build it and then send it.
Seems to visit MX5NUTZ and is on Clubroadster ,Got some good bits.
Wait until i get my spoiler and i will let you guys know about service.
Builds and sends direct from China.

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:17 pm

I've stumbled across something I want lots

The rear of this NA looks so clean!!

I definitely want to see how your spoiler comes out though

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:41 pm

r3spct wrote:The roof mech is rugged too, and one of the cables is broken. I might be able to source new cables, maybe a new rain track too.

Be keen to have a look at your spares if thats ok at some stage?

Yeah no probs, pm me if you want to organise a meet up although i am from Drury so it may be a little drive

dylann · Post by **dylann** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:03 pm

Bought some SSR Mk2r's today, weak offset but will be a damn sight lighter than what i have already

so in a weeks time it should look like this, except silver haha. unsure what colour i want them though ..

Bwarp · Post by **Bwarp** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:18 am

My cuscos arrived yesterday. Game on

brownie · Post by **brownie** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:57 am

Thats good to know ,They go to you OK then.

Bwarp · Post by **Bwarp** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:17 pm

Yah man. Will be testing them out this weekend sometime hopefully, when I make it out to the lockup.

Anyone got any idea how hard it is to drop rear subframe out of the car so I can wire wheel everything and paint it with undersealer? Also wAnna have a jam at replacing a few bushings to bring everything together. Big job?

Euen · Post by **Euen** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:49 pm

Dropping the sub-frame is reasonably straight forward but there is quite a bit involved in doing it. You can drop the diff first if you want to, but the method below leaves the diff in place.

If you are looking at doing hub bearings as well, loosen the hub nuts while the car is still on the ground.

I recommend the use of a trolley jack which will need to be kept under the diff to support the assembly while it is disconnected.

The car will need to be on stands, high enough that you will be able to slide the subframe out from underneath once it is off.

You need to disconnect the PPF and drive shaft to start off, along with the exhaust. Leave the drive shaft plugged into the gearbox or you will end up with oil all over the floor.

You can either disconnect the shocks at the top (in the boot) or at the bottom.

The brake line into the splitter box on the subfame needs disconnection along with the hand-brake cables.

The subframe itself is held in place by 2 nuts and a bolt on each side. You will probably need a longish extension to get the socket onto them.

Once they are undone, the subframe should just lower down on the jack and slide out.

Rather than hitting it with a wire wheel, I got mine sandblasted and repainted once it was stripped down.

Bwarp · Post by **Bwarp** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:21 pm

Choice, that's real good info. yeah was thinking about getting subframe coated professionally, was just wanting to wire wheel the underside of the body as there's little dots of surface rust appearing so wanna kill it off before it gets any worse.

sprsta · Post by **sprsta** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:30 pm

when replacing your rubber bushes, make sure you burn them out and dont use a press
it will make things go alot smother

if you are replacing bushes you may as well get the full kit and do the whole car it makes a huge difference

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