Whats arrived for your Roadster today

evel · Post by **evel** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:53 pm

Junkwhale wrote:What are the wheels?

15x9 Grid V's

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:18 am

CordedBowl wrote:

I want to get a picture of your car and mine together

CordedBowl · Post by **CordedBowl** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:29 am

BRM wrote:
CordedBowl wrote:

I want to get a picture of your car and mine together

Let's do this, you'll make mine look monstertruck height though!

Quoteception.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sat May 03, 2014 8:09 pm

after one hell of a brilliant day cruising with the boys, I stopped off and picked this up.... piece by piece my kit is coming together...

Thank you very much NicF!

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Sun May 04, 2014 8:49 am

Heated fleecie blankie thing.

NicF · Post by **NicF** » Sun May 04, 2014 12:35 pm

MrGrey wrote:after one hell of a brilliant day cruising with the boys, I stopped off and picked this up.... piece by piece my kit is coming together...

Thank you very much NicF!

Sweet, glad it all arrived safely.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Mon May 05, 2014 5:59 pm

I had this arrive via courier today, its an intercooler from an Isuzu .... it not hideously massive so it should be quite good for the job.... the core is 290x230x50 (that's just the core and not including the shroud)

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:47 pm

Matte black it so it's more hidden.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Mon May 05, 2014 11:27 pm

good idea

I have just spent the past hour straightening out the bent over fins, removed the wastegate and vane (I assume it was a top mount intercooler) and then gave it a good clean and degrease...

there was a reasonable amount of oil residue inside so most of that is now gone thanks to running hot water through it in the bath

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Tue May 06, 2014 6:41 am

Ha! Reminds me of a story. Some bloke on NZH had his mrs come home and open the dishwasher to fill it up, only to find a very clean H22A block sitting in the plates thingy.

Ken.McNoe · Post by **Ken.McNoe** » Tue May 06, 2014 1:01 pm

Can't wait to get back home and get this all fitted onto the car! then it's off to the upholsterers

I'm not totally 100% on the style bar but will see what it looks like on the car.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:37 pm

my cheap $30 JVC car speakers developed a slight crackle/distortion on one speaker (the speaker itself, not a bad connection) so I had these arrive today to replace them. They are still cheap speakers but not as shit as the JVC's (these were a whopping $40 but I selected them based on frequency response, wattage and other stats compared to similar priced alternatives).

One day I would like to splash out on some nice deluxe speakers and so forth from Mattapo but in the meantime these will do as my engine performance upgrades are more important for my budget at this current time.

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Thu May 08, 2014 5:19 pm

MATTBRG picked me up a set of Iridium plugs while on his travels.... Fooesboy passed them on during The Cruise. Thanks Matt and Fooes!

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Thu May 08, 2014 10:24 pm

MrGrey wrote:good idea
I have just spent the past hour straightening out the bent over fins, removed the wastegate and vane (I assume it was a top mount intercooler) and then gave it a good clean and degrease...

there was a reasonable amount of oil residue inside so most of that is now gone thanks to running hot water through it in the bath

i'm running an isuzu bighorn intercooler. it works well. i had to cut 1 bracket off it. i just made a 20mm square tube bracket so it mounts to the old air con heat exchanger bracket mounts and a couple of drop down brackets from the rad panel.

marcellarius · Post by **marcellarius** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:52 am

GRUVBB wrote:MATTBRG picked me up a set of Iridium plugs while on his travels.... Fooesboy passed them on during The Cruise. Thanks Matt and Fooes!

Unfortunately in the MX5 you probably won't see the expected improvement in plug life from a iridium centre plug like the Iridium IX.

In a waste spark ignition a single coil fires two plugs simultaneously, one with positive polarity, the other with negative polarity (the spark jumps from the engine back to the coil to complete the circuit). On the negative polarity side, the ground electrode will see more wear, which is why "dual" platinum plugs are available with precious metal centre and ground electrodes.

http://www.ngksparkplugs.com/pdf/DYK_Wa ... itions.pdf

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Mon May 26, 2014 9:50 pm

Just picked up a replacement sealed beam light from Broomfish. He even allowed me to come over at 9.00 pm. Thats what I call good service. Cheers Peter. Only $20 also and one suburb from my house.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:28 pm

I had some 25mm hub centric spacers arrive today and was given a navman mivue 338 drive recorder (my mum had flybys and didn't want to waste them so she got it and then decided she couldn't be bothered using it, lol)

Now I need to pull finger and get my rear arches rolled so I can fit my flares (I plan on just cutting my front ones to save time but the rears are better rolled due to the composition of them (two skins of sheet metal coming together that I can't be bothered cutting and mig welding))
*happy dance*

warrior · Post by **warrior** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:39 pm

You know where to go to get your rear guards rolled mate

warrior · Post by **warrior** » Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:40 pm

P.s you will need to trim your wheel studs to get these to fit........I did and was easy.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:22 pm

I picked this up today from a mate, basically its a gauge you mount with a hose connected to it that comes out the dashboard that you blow into that shows you how hard you are blowing into the hose.

very useful

mattapo · Post by **mattapo** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:34 am

what good is it then? it just showed how much of a blow hard you are!!!!

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:48 pm

boom! have some karma because I can't think of a witty comeback at this time

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:28 am

Shifter rebuild kit.

... Closely followed by moar paint, because the grey isn't as dark as I'd like.

marcellarius · Post by **marcellarius** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:58 pm

What did the shifter rebuild kit cost and what does it include? Both boots as well as bush kit?

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:46 pm

1990-93 Miata Bushing Kit + Both Boots (9pc.)

http://www.mazparts.com/en/miata-shifte ... ebuild-kit

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