From the ashes... What did you do to your roadster today?

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:36 pm

195/45 would have a decen sidewall?

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:41 pm

They dont have 195/45/14s

185/60
195/60

ask kieren?

What ever you get.
They're 14s,
so they'll looks gay.

unless your car is joels.
then it'll be sick.
Buts its not

Joel.

post a picture of your car pls.

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:45 pm

Oh - ffs.

Okay. Well I suppose I will have some wheels for sale shortly.

SMH

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:20 pm

I've had pretty good results with random 195/60's although my car isn't exactly used for fast track driving/maintaining grip.
What size wheels? 14x6.5?

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:33 pm

From memory 14 x 6.5

I think I'll be going on a tire hunt this weekend.

Definitely after something stickier for the front pre track day

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:58 pm

/ all round not just the front.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:23 pm

As BRM said, run the same tyres all round, it will make the car more predictable.
I mistakenly ran different quality tyres front to back on my starlet when i use to race it and it resulted in snap oversteer on a few occasions

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:26 pm

Hmmm that's not too bad then, the rear tyres are pretty good.. Just need to find em!

warrior · Post by **warrior** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:36 pm

Fitted my bbs wheels today with 5mm spacers making them a +10. I have some 15mm spacers coming so i will see how they fit with them. Now to start fitting the mini flares from rev9

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:35 am

Found the source of my rad leak.
Didn't actually need a new radiator, just a hose.

Oh well, got a civic race radiator anyway, 53mm thick.

Going in tonight.

Did spark plugs last night, should be good to go to the auto sparky on friday at this stage, then weigh it on saturday, then look at it and drink beer on sunday, then in for caging!

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:58 pm

Found the source of the thing getting two radio stations at once on various frequencies.

This little cunt was hiding in behind everything it could under my aerial.
Promptly ripped it out. Clear stations and racecar weight savings ftw.

Also anyone need a band expander? I have two, one unused.

chris · Post by **chris** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:00 pm

Gutted the passenger door last night, just need to finish off my door cards in time for Sunday, hoping to get the drivers door mostly gutted tomorrow.

Removing bumper support, chopping bumper up tomorrow, annd I think I should be about good to go!

bgnz · Post by **bgnz** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:37 pm

Got the first flat tyre in at least 10 years, obviously 2 days after taking the spare out to fit something big in the trunk.

jtsoldier · Post by **jtsoldier** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:56 pm

bgnz wrote:Got the first flat tyre in at least 10 years, obviously 2 days after taking the spare out to fit something big in the trunk.

I look here.. and you're on positive karma...

and yet...

...God truely does not respect the karma system...

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:51 pm

So I decided to crack into it today, realised I'd forgotten hose clamps so used my eyecrometer to gauge the size and went down to Repco and grabbed some, thinking I was optimistic in size like usual but we shall see...

Attacked the header with the grinder first, the factory tabs needed to go no matter what so I could wrap them. I haven't used a grinder before so I figured I'd start far back and not go too deep. I've got a spare set so it didn't matter if I wrecked these.

Everyone likes pictures.

Factory unit

IMAG0479 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0480 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

Weapon of choice

IMAG0481 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

With the grinding started

IMAG0482 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0483 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0486 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0487 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0488 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0489 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

This is the point I realised polishing them was a very real possibility...

IMAG0490 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0491 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

Here's a sneak peak

IMAG0493 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0494 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:11 pm

Decided today that i need to get my mx5 road legal so i can get to work as i kinda did this to my daily today...

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:24 pm

Ouch!!! That gotta hurt in many ways. Sorry to hear the bad news Siren. Sing out if you need a hand with anything. Xcept
paying for things that is.

evel · Post by **evel** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:38 pm

Snapfrozen wrote:I haven't used a grinder before

Really?

Jesus Siren, hope your alright mate.

Got my flares on. Coilovers will be this week/weekend.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:17 pm

Yeah myself and my passenger are fine which matters most, car can be repaired.
Needs a lot of left panels and lights, amazingly the chassis isnt touched and it drives fine(just a few new noises from the engine bay to track down).

In the mean time im going to try source some stock suspension for my mx5 and get a wof for it so i can drive it while the starlets off the road.

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:18 pm

I can lend you factory shocks, however the springs were cut to get them out.

And yeh, never used a grinder before

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:27 pm

Thanks for the offer man but i'd prefer to buy complete struts, i hate borrowing car parts as i tend to forget about them and never return them

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:45 pm

I have a set of lowering springs which have not been fitted yet. Would get you mobile with the shocks from Snapfrozen... I will remind you if you forget.

you welcome to use them. Im too busy to fit them and GRUVBB is still mobile. Cant seem to stop riding my bike long enough to work on cars. Plus I dont have a shed to work in at present.

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:02 pm

Well that's pretty impressive. Do we get to know how you did it?

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:07 pm

Siren, I have the complete front and rear shocks with factory springs that you would be welcome to have. pm me if interested

2low2c · Post by **2low2c** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:08 pm

siren ihave a couple of sets of standard shocks and springs if you want just give me a call at work 4414579

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