Scissor Scraper

[PassionGarage]

also this will be nice to see at WTAC and 100mm

[PassionGarage]

is that a bottle of NOS ?

[high.classhole]

Update!

Nothing like a perfect Sunday to get to work on your new exhaust tips and finalise your turbo fan mould drawings!



I'm going for a sort of drift pipe/shot gun look with slightly angled up, staggered tips, I'm still new to welding but thankfully I have my brother in law guiding me through the whole thing. Sadly I haven't bought a TIG yet so it's all being done in MIG.. Exhaust will be 2" stainless from the headers back. I'm going to put a flagged section in there so I can take the cat out and put it back in should I ever get defected and need a Vehicle inspection. Still unsure about putting a small muffler in there or something to tone it down a tad as I'm not 100% in love with the sound of straight piped 1.6's ahaha.

My Engineering friend - Alex Ostojic came down to help me out with drawing my turbo fan mould design up in CAD. I originally started drawing the plans in Illustrator with the idea to have them laser cut and welded together in Aluminium but having had a lot of interest in them on Facebook I decided the best way to go about it would be to make a mould and build fans entirely out of carbon fibre. Lighter, stronger, easier to fix, and a hell of a lot sexier in my opinion!
The mould I designed basically allows me to make the fans for any wheels from 15-18" wheels and with lips up to 6" deep. So instead of buying a set online and hoping they fit, we can literally make them to fit your wheels EXACTLY how you want them too.
It sucks that they aren't genuine BBS fans, I know, but finding a set in Australia is verging on impossible and the last set I saw online for sale were $2300USD and before I had even checked my account, they were sold. So this for now is my best and only option!
Don't get mad though, they will not bear any BBS stickers, 100% our own, no reps here



Also here's a small look at my growing pile of parts!



I don't think I mentioned earlier, but in case you are wondering like so many of my friends, why I've got all the parts and they aren't on the car yet? Well I really wanted to make a cool video of my build and try to put the entire thing together in 1 weekend with a bit of a time lapse and so on. It seemed like a really cool idea in my head, whether it works or not is another story!

Plus it's now verging on Winter here and show season is a while away. I'm hoping to have the car together by early October in time for WTAC and 100mm which I've wanted to go to for A LONNNGG time but for whatever reason, have missed out on every year so far. This time I will be ready!

[high.classhole]

WELCOME!! Happy to see another miata on StanceWorks! Wheels look fantastic!!

Thanks man I'm really happy with how they came out!
Not sure if I'm 100% happy with the black barrels but they should help keep them looking clean as brake dust and so on would just be far too obvious on white or silver

[Pedro'z]

WELCOME!! Happy to see another miata on StanceWorks! Wheels look fantastic!!

[PassionGarage]

loving this so far man !! nice to see a good MX5 build in Aus dude !!

[high.classhole]

Coilovers!

Well it's time for the big reveal!
My beautiful candy red Scale Innovative Series Coilovers!





Also that is one of my new rear camber arms that I unfortunately had to order off eBay because at the time, I couldn't find any Megan Racing ones in stock, or if they were, they wouldn't ship to Australia..
Thankfully, they are mostly just going to be a way for me to make up a jig so I can make my own in the future as these are incredibly heavy and I'm not sure how much I trust them ahaha.

[high.classhole]

Oh my lord, I just looked up what they look like and theyre so sexy. It's that satin blue and black right?

No, it's not, I had them custom painted

[nishy]

Oh my lord, I just looked up what they look like and theyre so sexy. It's that satin blue and black right?

[high.classhole]

Something exciting came



SCALE bringing the goods, and trust me, they are absolutely next level gorgeous.
I opened the box and nearly had to order another set just so I could put these on the wall.
They agreed to come on board with my build and I am so glad they did, the level of quality on these coilovers is second to none. And the colour? Phhwooaah.

More photos to come

[high.classhole]

Unfortunate Discoveries

So I decided to finally have a look under the car and see what it was like and if anything had been broken, bent or stripped over the past 26 years..
Unfortunately, a lot of all of the above had occurred..

The top left A arm looked odd compared to the right, so I decided to pull it out and see what was going on.. A solid 4 and a half hours later, it was out, and yes, it was VERY bent. So I threw a quick post up on the local MX5 owners group on Facebook and the next day I was on my way to pick up a whole new front subframe with all the new arms. I figured spares couldn't hurt, if this arm was bent, maybe the rest were too?

A quick comparison of the new straight arm next to the bent one



Yes, that bolt is meant to be straight.. It was far from it and that was after a few hours of me trying to straighten it out with a bender and some heat. THAT is why it took me over 4 hours to get the stupid thing out.

With the arm back in, the assembly went back together and I continued to check over the rest of the front end!



All was pretty good everywhere else, so it looks like it's been in a very small front accident just in that corner and just wasn't repaired very well. Maybe the previous owner mounted a curb or round-about?
I marked out everything I wanted to revisit for the future and threw the car back together, redoing the repairs was a job for another weekend.

[high.classhole]

this is beautiful, good work on the rebuild of the RS' looking so good

Thanks man, appreciate it!

[PassionGarage]

this is beautiful, good work on the rebuild of the RS' looking so good

[high.classhole]

RS Rebuild pt.4

I guess I've kept you all waiting long enough!

Here they are!



And a quick before & after crop!



Also I may have left out the fact that before I started work on the RS's I actually started designing and building a mock up for a little something, something
I looked for a while for a set of turbo fans but couldn't find any, so I decided to make some myself, perfectly suited to my lips! This eventually evolved into making a full adjustable mould to reproduce turbo fans for ANY size RS or depth lip. But more on that will come later.. here's a quick sneak peek for now!

[high.classhole]

RS Rebuild pt.3

Thought I'd give you guys a quick sneak peek at the wheels so far!
As they sit, all lips are drilled, and the wheels are painted. Kate suggested we wait a few days for all the solvents to come out of the paint before we give them a few coats of clear, but I am absolutely loving them!





(sorry for the shakey photo, it was dark and I was excited ahaha)