Michaels NA6 MX5

[Nick475]

Nice work, keep it up!

[TheDarkside]

Thanks guys, just ironing out the rattles and then they'll be all sweet. Got a bucket seat coming in at the end of the month and hopefully a Torsen diff to replace my whiny piece of junk open.

[TheDarkside]

So, finally and update, I have just done something to my car, it feels like it's been forever.

First things first, spot the difference.




And in case anyone was wondering, my old drivers seat, although it was stuffed, has gone to a mate for his Celica build.

Now I also changed my diff, was lucky, it basically died friday night, which is when we had arranged to pick up my new one. I can literally rattle around my pinion using my shaft and if I do it right, can lock it in place, so it's stuffed. So it went from a NA open, to an NB Type 2 Torsen, same ratio, 4.3:1.

Just realised i'd deleted all my pictures before writing this, fail.

It was all pretty smooth till we had to get the passenger hub off the half shaft... we bashed it so hard with a hammer that it shroomed bigger than the hole it was then supposed to fit though and it still wouldn't budge.

So a good friend came around and picked it up and was going to use a press to get it out Monday. Of course, being as lucky as I am, it didn't fit in the press either. So back to plan A.



He ground off my shroom, because I already had replacement shafts because of the upgrade, and hit it with a bigger hammer. It worked!!!

So in a mad rush Monday afternoon, after work and before college, we had my car back together. Took it for a quick run round the block and it ran, and thats what mattered.

However, as this was my first time in the Sprint V, I ***** it. But over the last few days, i've got the position of the seat right, and my shoulders are healing from laying on the ground and raging at my diff. I'm happy to say, I now love the seat, and i'm only just starting to get used to it, so if you're going to buy a seat and it doesn't seem comfortable at the start, give it some time.

And thats all I've done, undecided about my next mod, I have lots in mind but i'm not sure what comes first haha.

[TheDarkside]

Oh, and while I wasn't doing anything to my car, between everything else, I refurbished a Nardi for a friend. Sorry for the poor quality pictures.



















And I cleaned up my sparco a bit too.

[TheDarkside]

Pictures don't really do it justice, but here it is mounted.

[TheDarkside]

I got a pedal assembly off a mate and changed it over, sorry don't have pics of the install because, well, i was using my phone as a torch.

+10 HP

Why you may ask? If you didn't know, my accelerator was supported by a door stop I put behind it because it was fractured, I was lucky to notice when I did or else I would have had it break at a probably inconvenient time. If you thought your MX5 lacks power, try driving one with a pedal support that moves more than the pedal. Anyways, so here is a pic of the old one before and after I decided to see if it was hard to break off, it wasn't.





Needless to say, it feels fantastic now, and I can actually adjust it properly, which is great. I do however have cuts and bruises everywhere and don't wish this job upon anyone that still has their dash in place.

So after doing this and servicing my car, which has been long overdue, a friend and I embarked on a road trip, over two days, covering 1200kms, in this.

It was one heck of an adventure, from compacted sand roads to my car scraping on the middle of roads in poor condition littered in potholes to awesome roads with no speed limits. The whole first day, everyone was staring at my car like 'How the hell did he make it here?' and even went to a service centre to check I hadn't destroyed anything important under my car and the guy didn't even know what it was. As i was checking out my underbody, besides the scratches, parts of trees and a few broken plastic covers, I found that I had chipped off two of the frills on my sump, but no crack in the sump, win. Anyways, I don't have many pics of the trip, but this is what the car looked like after, oh and I installed a tow strap before we went too.

[basyrfang]

love this car.

[TheDarkside]

Thanks man, means a lot.

[HuH]

Nice work on that Nardi. Different to the usual and the red horn button suits it.

[Swervin24]

The car he coming out amazing! Love how clean the interior looks with those door cards.

[TheDarkside]

Thanks guys, yeah my mate with the nardi sold his MX-5/Miata, so he mounted the nardi on his wall haha. I have big plans to clean up the interior, hopefully something a little different, but I'm swapping the engine over first so it's a while away.

[TheDarkside]

So today I had a fair bit of study to do, being the good student I am, I changed my third brake light over to LED instead.

Basically followed this:

http://www.miata.net/garage/led_cbl/index.html

However I didn't have the clear plastic bit so I had to fabricate my own, unfortunately where it sits isnt flat so they currently point upward slightly, I'll fix it someday, but heres the change.

Before:


After: