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Skilfil · Post by **Skilfil** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:54 pm

Donovan wrote:Did a gravel gymkhana in mine on the weekend, got it a tad dirty

Looks like good fun, how would one get into doing gravel gymkhana?

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:40 pm

Skilfil wrote:
Donovan wrote:Did a gravel gymkhana in mine on the weekend, got it a tad dirty
Looks like good fun, how would one get into doing gravel gymkhana?

Easiest way, join a MSNZ car club, they usually run a few ghykhana's on grass/gravel usually for the rally boys.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 4:53 pm

Had another drift day! This one had some more challenging setups and was a bit higher speed all day with 3rd gear being the main one of use.

Had some awesome tandems, chases and entries! Still quite a bit left in the current setup before I need to upgrade.

Heres the first video!
http://youtu.be/HqS0ngEZEjI

Few photos too

MKIs look pretty big in this photo

Chasing

A video with a little bit of me in it
http://youtu.be/qh-2ZP707yk

Was an awesome day got more coming this weekend

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 4:58 pm

love the pic furai, especially the first one ..... strewth, you would barely get a ciggie paper between your car and the rail!.

did you end up giving the rail a tickle? or did you just miss it?

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:05 pm

MrGrey wrote:love the pic furai, especially the first one ..... strewth, you would barely get a ciggie paper between your car and the rail!.

did you end up giving the rail a tickle? or did you just miss it?

Cheers man!

Theres a bit of white paint on it, second time Ive shared paint with the barrier intentionally

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:34 pm

first time claimed a wheel though

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:09 pm

Made some of these..

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:21 pm

siren676 wrote:first time claimed a wheel though

That wasnt intentional

BRM Tophats?

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:28 am

Sadly my pictures aren't as cool/good/high quality as any others in here.

But look - progress

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:08 pm

Furai wrote:

BRM Tophats?

yup

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:55 pm

Furai wrote:
siren676 wrote:first time claimed a wheel though
That wasnt intentional

Bull you were aiming at me

Simonmx5 · Post by **Simonmx5** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:40 pm

Box of cambelt parts from Broomfish, now I'm just waiting on my redline gearbox and diff oils

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:03 pm

With redline oils,
Because it's so sticky
Fill it up, run it, check it and possibly re-fill it.

We've had a Juno car gearbox make bad noises because of redline oil.

plus it fucking stinks.

STIG · Post by **STIG** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:19 pm

You just only hear negative things about Redline lol. The Supra and GT-R guys swear against it like the black plague. Only bad things have resulted on those cars, not sure if MX-5s are different (I think that MAY have just been relating to their 6-speed GETRAG gearboxes though, but I still wouldn't trust the stuff)

Simonmx5 · Post by **Simonmx5** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:29 am

Interesting. I've only ever heard praise for redline gear oils. On top of that there are multiple sites across the internet that recommend the redline gear oils for a mx5. Surely such a well established brand wouldn't be producing a sub standard product?

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:23 am

If you read what I said properly,
Nothing negative, just a little factual FYI.

Sure, I said it stinks, How many fwd rally boxes have you pulled apart?

All I said, was that its sticky, and you'll need to check fluids again after a run up.

What I said isn't rocket science.

chris · Post by **chris** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:27 am

hahahaha what an awesome response.

Simonmx5 · Post by **Simonmx5** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:29 pm

BRM wrote:If you read what I said properly,
Nothing negative, just a little factual FYI.

Sure, I said it stinks, How many fwd rally boxes have you pulled apart?

All I said, was that its sticky, and you'll need to check fluids again after a run up.

What I said isn't rocket science.

If you read the other replies properly...

STIG wrote:You just only hear negative things about Redline lol. The Supra and GT-R guys swear against it like the black plague. Only bad things have resulted on those cars, not sure if MX-5s are different (I think that MAY have just been relating to their 6-speed GETRAG gearboxes though, but I still wouldn't trust the stuff)

you may have noticed that I was replying to STIG, who claims to have heard only negative things about redline.
It's not rocket science but it is something I don't usually do as I'm not a mechanic by trade, so I do appreciate any advice or helpful tips. I will certainly be checking the fluid level after doing a run up.

PLSEME · Post by **PLSEME** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:37 pm

So the chassis rails will be fine

Simonmx5 · Post by **Simonmx5** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:39 pm

Chassis rails are just fine, there appears to be plenty of rust in there to hold them together.

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 8:43 am

Redline murdered my old Honda box, however you are pretty much mad running anything but Honda MTF in them. Currently running some valvoline crap, does the job

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:18 pm

redline is not the preferred oil anymore. "all" the guys in the states are changing to Ford/MotorCraft Full Synthetic Manual Transmission Fluid. Many many cases where shifting was considerably improved. i'm not sure if you can get the ford stuff in nz, may have to ebay it.

built4speed · Post by **built4speed** » Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:23 am

Shockproof oil is bad news for syncros. I use mt90 in my evo and it gives a nice shift.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sun Sep 29, 2013 3:32 pm

sigh .. spent a few hours mucking around with a friend trying to get the front springs out and the buggers did not want to budge (I had the shock loose but couldn't get the wishbone thingy free). After an hour and a half of swearing and cursing I put things on the back burner as I didn't want to break anything and we were running out of available time. In the meantime I got busy and put the front canards and sideskirts on and they look awesome!

so at least some things turned out good. I am especially happy with how they have changed the profile to give it a slightly squarer shape, less jellybean'ish. Here are some pics, but bear in mind I need to give her a good clean and the bright afternoon sun meant I could only get close up shots (sun glare fubars my cheap android phone)

-=edit=- updated with better pics

authentic · Post by **authentic** » Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:39 pm

How do the skirts attach?

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