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

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:56 pm

Finally attacked this bad boy.

IMAG0618 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

Drilled out the hole where this whatsamajigga broke off.

IMAG0616 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

Workshop manual says to silicon it back in. Not happy with it but have no option for now so going to get a 10mm brass fitting instead. Got anal with bolts... I can't stand the sight of rust now...

IMAG0620 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

Throttle body siliconed and permanently on now

IMAG0621 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

Also have the front part of the coolant reroute permanently done

IMAG0623 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

This is the rear piece, custom bracket and kia waterneck... Unfortunately don't have the right size allen key to put in the blanks.

IMAG0626 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

New hose kits installed, colour not the best in the photo

IMAG0628 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0629 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

The list is now pretty small..

IMAG0631 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

SKREEE · Post by **SKREEE** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:27 pm

Coils arrived and will throw them on on Friday/Saturday.

From CXracing have read mixed reviews but you get that with everything and they feel sturdier than the Tiens that were on my car a while back.

And a glimpse of the future and the future is ugly but functional

the filter is junk but no play in the turbo and a workable manifold and down pipe but hey got it dirt cheap and have seen the setup running so yeah the future is a t3t4 hybrid... Well I guess they were right Hybrids are the future.

and must resist urge to just run a screamer pipe

. Oh and new bumper should be on its way soonish too.

Junkwhale · Post by **Junkwhale** » Fri May 01, 2015 9:40 am

Ordered a passengers side seat to match and foamectomied the cushions that came with driver's side one - the back cushions and seat pan cushion are now approx 1cm thick and the thigh cushion is about half the original height:

Will use it with the cushions for DD and without the bottom/seat pan cushion for events/when wearing a helmet.

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Fri May 01, 2015 6:25 pm

SKREEE wrote:
Joel wrote:Did you get the ZOOM lid new from ZOOM?
well heres the link http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/auc- ... wsehist_en

I found the English link after buying it.

Awesome to support ZOOM, i actually found Takashi Koga-san through facebook and bought one from him through that and paypal. It's a great piece but hard to keep polished!

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Fri May 01, 2015 6:56 pm

Got my hardtop tinted, refitted the spoiler and loaded her up with wheels for drifting tomorrow

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sat May 02, 2015 8:34 pm

she didnt look pretty for long

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sat May 02, 2015 9:13 pm

awww jeez siren .... really gutted for you mate

are you ok?

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sat May 02, 2015 9:25 pm

-=oops double post=-

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sat May 02, 2015 9:50 pm

Im fine, didnt hurt anything in the crash, just hurt my hand while i was taking the front end apart afterwards.

Fairly certain that the chassis would be too expensive to get it back on the road so may end up reshelling it

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Sat May 02, 2015 10:06 pm

Sorry to hear and see Siren..... im with Mr Grey on the other sorrow factor for you.....

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Sun May 03, 2015 9:30 am

biff · Post by **biff** » Sun May 03, 2015 10:43 am

ouch

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she didnt look pretty for long

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evel · Post by **evel** » Sun May 03, 2015 3:49 pm

Shit Siren, atleast your ok mate... Full time drift car now?

Eri hung out with some Ferrari's today

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sun May 03, 2015 4:00 pm

The thought has crossed my mind but this chassis is pretty much toast, would need to go on a straightener then probably tube frame.

Will likely get another shell and swap as much as i can over.

Had the go-pro running when it happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xqN7hGeKU

mjrstar · Post by **mjrstar** » Sun May 03, 2015 4:26 pm

Decided a Driveshaft loop was needed before i cracked on with painting the floor.. probably weighs more than the carbon fibre driveshaft tube..

for reference spec is 50x5 mild steel, 4x m10 fasteners and minimum 30cm2 for each mounting plate. Has to be within 250mm of the centre of the front universal. The 250mm is an amendment as the old dimension was 150mm..

then floor paint time..

Then cage paint time..

only doing the primer with the old suction gun until the new devilbiss gravity guns turn up.

evel · Post by **evel** » Sun May 03, 2015 4:38 pm

siren676 wrote: Had the go-pro running when it happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xqN7hGeKU

Fuck it, all for a slipped hand.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sun May 03, 2015 5:35 pm

Well, last week I gave these pedals and parts a clean up to remove some very minor surface rust and gave them a lick of paint

And today I removed my passenger seat and played parts tetris fitting everything in snuggly in preparation for my tikitour tomorrow down to Auckland where I will drop my baby in to be changed from auto to manual.
The pic is very crappy, but you get the idea

mjrstar · Post by **mjrstar** » Tue May 05, 2015 5:55 pm

New devilbiss paint gun is awesome, a word of warning though rollcage painting should only be tackled by contortionist midget gymnast ninjas..

Shit photo yeah I know..

clear on tomorrow night hopefully..

Peace out.

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Sun May 10, 2015 8:50 pm

Final few pieces coming together now and 1 set back. James came over and let me compare his with mine so I could see whose was bigger, and where the hoses went that I was stuck with.

This hard line was rusted to fuck, it attaches to the body and joins the motor radiator hose to the lower rad hose. One solution, wire wheel, rust kill and some paint.

IMAG0643 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0647 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0648 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

Also managed to get pretty much all of the ancillary hoses back on and done up. There's 1 tiny vacuum hose under the throttle body that I don't have, and I'm replacing the fuel hose too.

Pics of motor in it's current state.

IMAG0652 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0651 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0650 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

IMAG0649 by Jarred McLachlan, on Flickr

The current problem I have - unsure whether it's a concern or not is re: waterpump. The waterpump pulley (Above the crank pulley) Is EXTREMELY hard to turn by hand on this motor, but not on the wrecked one. Will await responses from people in the know and replace the waterpump if that's the case.

Some good news is that I've sorted out the situation with the coolant overflow. Got one of these coming.

http://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/s ... /overview/

Also looking at the waterpump from 949 racing - This is more so when I forget where I was looking I can remember. Has a cast impeller rather than a spot welded one. - http://949racing.com/water-pump-miata.aspx

Junkwhale · Post by **Junkwhale** » Mon May 11, 2015 9:55 am

Snapfrozen wrote:James came over and let me compare his with mine so I could see whose was bigger...

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Mon May 11, 2015 5:15 pm

Junkwhale wrote:
Snapfrozen wrote:James came over and let me compare his with mine so I could see whose was bigger...

Wondered if anyone read it :p

Junkwhale · Post by **Junkwhale** » Tue May 12, 2015 10:49 am

Got both seats in:

And looking shiny before getting covered in dust/mud at an autocross:

biff · Post by **biff** » Tue May 12, 2015 1:08 pm

Nice job, compared to the stock seats; how difficult are those seats to get
in and out of?

B
1989
Red
ZOOM1N

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Got both seats in:
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And looking shiny before getting covered in dust/mud at an autocross:

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mjrstar · Post by **mjrstar** » Tue May 12, 2015 4:14 pm

Well the interior is slowly going back in, dash was a bit of a mission with only one person, but so far no damage to the cage paintwork..

Also shoved the cars outside to do a pre-winter shed clean up..

Next up will be some door cards... and whatever else comes to mind

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Tue May 19, 2015 5:12 pm

I went for an awesome drive today

At the end of last week I picked up my car after 2low2c had converted it from auto to manual and today I changed my front springs over to some dobi sport and put my car through some nice tarsealed back roads to bed the springs and had a lot of fun

It honestly feels like I have a new car