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

Bwarp · Post by **Bwarp** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:20 pm

Shouldnt you wait until the plate arrives and is rivetted in before you change anything and void the cert?

13r · Post by **13r** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:28 pm

Bwarp wrote:Shouldnt you wait until the plate arrives and is rivetted in before you change anything and void the cert?

This.

Would love to see what happens when you rock up to get the plate fitted with new seat's that are obviously not up to cert spec

chris · Post by **chris** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:05 pm

That is a fair point that I totally neglected -.-

So in theory the car is still illegal. Correct?

13r · Post by **13r** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:30 pm

chris wrote:That is a fair point that I totally neglected -.-

So in theory the car is still illegal. Correct?

Yes, as you still wont have a valid WOF.

chris · Post by **chris** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:36 pm

annnnd he said it could be as long as mid feb.... shit.

authentic · Post by **authentic** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:54 pm

chris, what were your specs for the cert? Were you still running stretched tires and more than 2 degrees of camber?

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:17 pm

So I got some new springs and new tophats. My car is no longer high. Not sure If I should be happy or sad...

My super crazy setup.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:51 pm

How on earth is what you are doing legal?
You've been from 100mm above factory to almost at the legal limit and yet installing coilovers and staying above 100mm is illegal

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:55 pm

siren676 wrote:How on earth is what you are doing legal?
You've been from 100mm above factory to almost at the legal limit and yet installing coilovers and staying above 100mm is illegal

Its not 100% legal but I have never gone below 140mm pinch to ground.

Im about 310mm Hub to fender front, 335mm hub to fender rear now.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:01 pm

Just needs Ducktail.

CordedBowl · Post by **CordedBowl** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:03 pm

Love it Furai! Looks like a sports car again

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:07 pm

CordedBowl wrote:Love it Furai! Looks like a sports car again

Should have stolen my Dads Hella Spotlights while it was high

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:08 pm

Have you had the alignment checked? Looks like you've got positive camber in the rear

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:13 pm

siren676 wrote:Have you had the alignment checked? Looks like you've got positive camber in the rear

Its got roughly -1.2 in the rear now instead of -0.5. Camber goes more negitive as you lower its just the photo that makes it look that way.

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:43 pm

I fell to the dark side... bought an S2000 as some of you have seen on Facebook. Absolutely in love with it, but expect to see my Roadster for sale once it's got a new WoF

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:51 pm

Ah well atleast it isnt a rotary or anything. Got any pics of it that we can drool over?

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:05 pm

siren676 wrote:Ah well atleast it isnt a rotary or anything. Got any pics of it that we can drool over?

OUT GET OUT

Rotarys are beast and you own a Mazda.

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:27 pm

Mr. Shine wrote:I fell to the dark side... bought an S2000 as some of you have seen on Facebook. Absolutely in love with it, but expect to see my Roadster for sale once it's got a new WoF

Take me out for a drive

I've always wanted one but sitting in the passenger seat will be like fulfilling a dream (secretly I always wanted the S2000 but ended up investing heavily in the mx...)

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:33 pm

Furai wrote: OUT GET OUT

Rotarys are beast and you own a Mazda.

Yeah but rotaries have no torque

Would rather chuck in a dirty great v8 or add forced induction before ever touching a rotor

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:26 am

siren676 wrote:
Furai wrote: OUT GET OUT

Rotarys are beast and you own a Mazda.
Yeah but rotaries have no torque
Would rather chuck in a dirty great v8 or add forced induction before ever touching a rotor

What are you planning on doing, towing a boat with your MX5, that you need oodles of torque your only pushing around a little 980kg car. It' s not like you have a big heavy car like a Holden Statesman (they did a run with a 12A in them in the 70's) or 929 Luce. That's where they got an unfair rap over having no torque, because they stuck the engines in big heavy cars in the 70's and 80's that they certainly wouldn' t want have considered putting a little 1.6 into.

Plus you might want to revise that statement, an early 13b rotary has more torque than the 1.6, and much the same as the 1.8 at 186nm

Then you can always turbo them, that will help increase the torque. Or go really silly and put in a turbo 20b triple rota, at 410nm. Plus there is nothing like ringing the shit out of a rotary. I've had a couple of 1st Gen RX7' and never really understood why Mazda didn't stick the rotary into the MX5 (and a tin top fastback) and call it the second gen RX7 instead on that FC that they did.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:21 am

siren676 wrote:
Furai wrote: OUT GET OUT

Rotarys are beast and you own a Mazda.
Yeah but rotaries have no torque
Would rather chuck in a dirty great v8 or add forced induction before ever touching a rotor

Rotarys have huge amounts of torque, just generally peaks at higher RPM, check out this sheet for an NA 13B.

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siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:16 am

I just don't like them full stop. Not sure if its the sound of them or something else.
Also dad said he'd kill me if I ruined any car by putting in a rotary

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:08 am

siren676 wrote:Ah well atleast it isnt a rotary or anything. Got any pics of it that we can drool over?

Only one photo online for now!

chris · Post by **chris** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:10 am

Still RWD

Still Convertible

Still Red.

But because it is Honda YOU LOSE!

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:14 am

chris wrote:But because it is Honda YOU LOSE!

Try telling me that when VTEC's engaged between 6000 and 9000 RPM

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