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

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:42 am

100% pure car porn right there. looks great.

bgnz · Post by **bgnz** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:08 pm

Mmmm sexy wheels indeed!!!

Got my first seat in today, passenger side. I think slightly lower seat height, but higher back. Also it can't go as far back as standard seat due to rubbing against rear quarter trim panel (around the seatbelt tower). Thinking of chopping that out if its annoying.

Took about 1 1/2 hours for the first one just because it wasn't as straight forward as I thought. I sat and had a pint or two of scrumpy and got the grinder out. Fitted sweet after that

So basic mods needed are moving some holes bit of grinding (to make the existing trim fit again and look pretty) and a bit of time to swap the seat pans.

Half way through the drivers side and the rain came

ah well.... time to annoy the neighbours with a bit of guitar anyway.

Pics to follow, before and after.

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:01 pm

Spent far too much time trying to work out why my high beams have stopped working five days before the wof is due. grumble grumble..... looks like my passenger light has damaged the colomn switch.
so i bought some H4 semi sealed units and they dont bloody fit properly. (dont buy dengi lamps).
now im trying to get the steering wheel off so i can strip down the switch. hopefully its saveable.

bgnz · Post by **bgnz** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:08 pm

And the pics, complete with manky old seat

. If anyone wants the old ones ( the passengers isn't bad). Give me a shout

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:53 pm

it'll buff out

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:54 pm

that seat has seen more action than paris hilton

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:30 pm

Chucked a tyre on one of the new wheels and test fit them to the car.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:32 pm

The Equips look sweet, Get it on the ground with some 175s!

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:47 pm

the snow tyres i just chucked on there were 165's, will go through them on the skid pad or something then get some proper tyres for the track

bgnz · Post by **bgnz** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:17 am

SLYDIT wrote:that seat has seen more action than paris hilton

...on crack.

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:52 pm

fixed my headlights and switch...now sporting H4 lamps although i wouldnt recommend these ones to anyone...$70 a pair including lamps and they look every bit as cheap as the cost, i suspect that they will fill with water when driving in the rain..

also shot down to the workshop and got just one rear stay pad cut and mounted for the roll bar... played with our new plasma cutter.

tidied up some wiring under the dash and for some reason the hot start issues i was having have dissappeared. i can now start it anytime by just flicking the key around without even touching the throttle...happy times!

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:41 pm

Gutted 8 kg out of my passenger door, tidied up the dash loom, ordered many bushings.

Now just killing time before I can do anything more >.<

CordedBowl · Post by **CordedBowl** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:51 pm

Took the MX5 for a cheeky drive to work, can't believe I was thinking about selling the car

!

4A-GE · Post by **4A-GE** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:27 pm

... Yours doesn't have the black sealer shit on the sills.

CordedBowl · Post by **CordedBowl** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:34 pm

It's been repainted once upon a time in its life, looks like it's been painted straight over the black stone guard.

There are some cars that come out of the factory with the sills painted though, mine isn't one of 'em!

Skilfil · Post by **Skilfil** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:34 pm

Noooope don't sell it man, to me thats the cleanest MX in NZ. Done nicely. I only hope to get mine to that level soon.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:37 pm

Polished up one of my wheels

Ransom · Post by **Ransom** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:03 am

^^^ Please stop showing pics of the coolest wheels ever kthanks lol
Even the rota copys look good
I so need a set of wheels that cost half what my car did......but i still keep looking at them....

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:09 am

Machined spacorz

To make it less like this =\

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:17 am

CordedBowl wrote:Took the MX5 for a cheeky drive to work, can't believe I was thinking about selling the car !

Shots like this are why ~85mm field of view rules. Don't sell the car!

warrior · Post by **warrior** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:50 pm

Put new oem engine mounts in one of my cars. The car had a shake when it took off and the new mounts stopped it. The old mounts lookd ok but must have been past there best.

Wasnt too hard of a job, but there were a couple of tricks to it

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:24 pm

What kind did you go with? standard or mazdaspeed racing ones?

warrior · Post by **warrior** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:42 pm

These were for my wifes mx5 so just standard ones. When i do mine the supercharger will need to come off so wil do radiator, hoses and mounts at the same time and use mazdaspeed ones.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:52 pm

Im thinking we need to do a group buy on mazdaspeed ones. Myself, born_disturbed, chris and a few others have been meaning to get some

warrior · Post by **warrior** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 7:00 pm

Sounds good

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