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

chris · Post by **chris** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 12:50 pm

Finally took the car out, it is driveable! Only problem... I need ramps to get up a 20 mm step in my garage ><

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:20 pm

chris wrote:Finally took the car out, it is driveable! Only problem... I need ramps to get up a 20 mm step in my garage ><

Raise it Raise it! Initial D style brah.

Thought about wheels yet?

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 5:11 pm

Left it at home today as the clutch is on its last legs and I don't trust it. Tried to launch it the other day with a mate in the car and it slipped a heap in 1st gear.

Means i can finally get the paddle clutch installed that I got made up 2 months ago

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:10 pm

siren676 wrote:Left it at home today as the clutch is on its last legs and I don't trust it. Tried to launch it the other day with a mate in the car and it slipped a heap in 1st gear.

Means i can finally get the paddle clutch installed that I got made up 2 months ago

What kind of clutch did you get made up(Who, What, Brand, etc) I just got a Carbon Kevlar made up to replace mine.

Brainflex · Post by **Brainflex** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:13 pm

Why remove the charcoal canister?
What did you do with the vent from the tank?

authentic · Post by **authentic** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:18 pm

Haven't done it all this week, but I've fitted the strut bar, Raybrig lights with some 4000K bulbs and Garage Vary lip.

Still deciding what I want to do with the bumper lights, either tint them yellow, get some crystal clear ones or replace them with intakes.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:23 pm

Furai wrote: What kind of clutch did you get made up(Who, What, Brand, etc) I just got a Carbon Kevlar made up to replace mine.

Got it custom made by autoclutch, sprung center paddle disk with 2000 pound pressure plate.
Just asked what he'd recommend if i was taking it drifting and using it as a daily. After he made it up he told me its rated for 300kw

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:34 pm

siren676 wrote:
Furai wrote: What kind of clutch did you get made up(Who, What, Brand, etc) I just got a Carbon Kevlar made up to replace mine.
Got it custom made by autoclutch, sprung center paddle disk with 2000 pound pressure plate.

What materials the plate made of and how much did you pay if you dont mind me asking?

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:40 pm

umm pixie dust???

Havent got a clue what its made of

cost me $610ish

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 7:15 pm

Brainflex wrote:Why remove the charcoal canister?
What did you do with the vent from the tank?

Space and cleanliness mainly. Looped the 2 lines that it eventually joins to each other and blocked off the intake one.

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 7:28 pm

siren676 wrote:
Furai wrote: What kind of clutch did you get made up(Who, What, Brand, etc) I just got a Carbon Kevlar made up to replace mine.
Got it custom made by autoclutch, sprung center paddle disk with 2000 pound pressure plate.
Just asked what he'd recommend if i was taking it drifting and using it as a daily. After he made it up he told me its rated for 300kw

i run a similar clutch on my turbo...except a full face disc. if it starts to slip i'll get one like yours

WideOpenThrottle · Post by **WideOpenThrottle** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:07 pm

Made & fitted my driveshaft safety-loop

Plus wading through the Megasquirt info for downloads & tuning [doing my head-in big time

..please send panadol! ..or beer? Na! just send both!

halberd · Post by **halberd** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:28 pm

I met a guy the other day who knows his shit about Mazda wiring, he tried talking me into getting a Megasquirt and said he could show me how to wire it in and everything. If you want I can try to find his number and get some info?

WideOpenThrottle · Post by **WideOpenThrottle** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:52 pm

halberd wrote:I met a guy the other day who knows his shit about Mazda wiring, he tried talking me into getting a Megasquirt and said he could show me how to wire it in and everything. If you want I can try to find his number and get some info?

Cheers..i have made up a plug in connector so the wiring hopefully is all done as well as all the mods to fuel circuit/TPS/AIT sensor wiring etc.

Just cant bring myself to plug it all in and going thru the install/download/tune route! till the fuzzies in my head go on holiday!

Euen · Post by **Euen** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:37 pm

Slowly getting my NB rear subframe back together.

New wheel bearings, CVs, Energy bushes, stainless lines, new discs. Will be getting a 4.3 torsen in it.

To go in my 91 when I eventually get it back.

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:01 pm

Euen wrote:Slowly getting my NB rear subframe back together.

New wheel bearings, CVs, Energy bushes, stainless lines, new discs. Will be getting a 4.3 torsen in it.

To go in my 91 when I eventually get it back.

By any chance is the 91 you speak of the car you had in your garage that didn't look so original anymore?

Euen · Post by **Euen** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:57 pm

No. It is a standard Silverstone 91, 1.6 that got shunted in the back by some little prick in a Trueno/Levin. It is still at the panel beaters but I can't complain too much because it is not costing me much.

brownie · Post by **brownie** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:13 pm

Got the sparky across the road to fit a kill switch to the car,and got the WOF done,Straight thru,as it should have been with 150km between warrants.
I thinks i not using it enough ?

na6*dori · Post by **na6*dori** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:32 pm

brownie wrote:Got the sparky across the road to fit a kill switch to the car,and got the WOF done,Straight thru,as it should have been with 150km between warrants.
I thinks i not using it enough ?

still take it to a1 now that me and stu dont work there anymore?

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:40 am

Rebuilt my 6 pot calipers, as well as the BMC and put them back on, along with a set of NB2.5 rear calipers, so the old girl should be back on the road soon.

dynofiend · Post by **dynofiend** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:34 am

Snapfrozen wrote:
Brainflex wrote:Why remove the charcoal canister?
What did you do with the vent from the tank?
Space and cleanliness mainly. Looped the 2 lines that it eventually joins to each other and blocked off the intake one.

Careful with that approach. With no vent, the tank can pressurise in warm/hot weather. Ive heard of it affecting fuel mixtures too. There should still be an opportunity for the tank to vent. It is worth noting that a significant proportion of HCs are produced by unsealed fuel systems venting.

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:54 am

If you loop the lines it vents into the fuel tank with the charcoal canister there that still vents to the fuel tank also doesn't it?

Also the tank will pressurise in warm/hot weather regardless of the charcoal canister being there or not

Ive had no problems with my NB didnt even throw a CEL like Ive heard some peoples do.

Euen · Post by **Euen** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:18 pm

The charcoal cannister vents into the intake via a solenoid valve controlled by the ecu. However there is also a vent off the top that ends up in the inside of the front cross menber.

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:34 pm

Theres a guy on Miata turbo that used his evap hardlines to turn the returnless NB fuel system into a return style system

That would mean the hardline has to go to the tank maybe its just the NBs that do

Euen · Post by **Euen** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:58 pm

I may be wrong but I think that the the non US (or at least JDM) NBs have a run a fuel return. Certainly the fuel rails on the 2 99 heads that I have, have a return line from the FPR on the fuel rail. Kieran, I would suspect that your 98 would be the same spec.

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