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Originally Posted by CHIP
You can still come on the forum if you don't own a Saxo you know  I'm sure a lot of people would like to see a progress thread for the mx5. Me being one of them.
More pic's and a spec please  |
Oh, well, word to that!
This was my old car which was sold to my brother, after the best part of a year working on the bodywork its nice to have a quick sale and keep it in my family so I can oversee further mods lol.
I hope to bring my current projects bodywork up to the same standard!
My mobile hair salon! Funded partly from the saxbrown, something of a restoration with 210-ish BHP, J-Euro ftw.
Putting a new Exedy stage 1 clutch in to handle the turbo, this was approx. 20 hours after owning the car!
Tiny Momo in!
Air con out and a bit of wiring tidied up, this was a pretty epic job tbh, worse than the clutch! :scratch:
Some venting was required around the Turbo/Manifold.
Bonnet off.
After some random hole drawing this was the rough plan.
Measured up.
Chopped.
Filed.
Coupled this with a stainless heat shield, boxing off the hot side of the turbo.
EBC Turbo discs grooved and dimpled with greenstuff pads and HEL braided lines went on shortly after.
Front, upgraded to 1.8 diameter discs and 1.8 calipers.
The old rear discs!? Binned.
The good stuff! New hoops! Schmidt Modernline 3 piece splits 16" x 8.5J and 16" x 9.5J.
6 point weld-in rollcage.
Air fuel and Boost gauge shot.
Trimmed my sil steps down because the lower door bar is welded to the chassis.
Fitting a new wing! D:
Started to fit the new arch flares to house the new wheels. Oh and theres a hardtop in there too aswell as some oldschool retro mirrors!
3 piece modernlines on the front! Car looks high but I've just lowered it off stands and want some thicker profile (still stretched) tires, then I'll address more lows after all that!
Rear quarter was doubled skinned, and thus required welding together!
photos of the rear arch trial fit!
The arches are 'Tuckin99 N2 Fender Flares' for referance if anyone is interested check out
Rev9 Autosport << Link.
Lateral fitment is fucking awsome, just needs more lows now.
I went to my local motorsport garage to measure up a 3" inside diameter exhaust with as little bends as possible and the 'x' is roughly where its going to finish!
This coupled with the epic idea of a diffuser should look something like this, with a gap above for the exhaust.
A little bit of artistic drawing.. (I used a card template cutout to make sure each side was the same)
We are now up to date this photo was taken on Sunday the 6th.
Ready for the exhaust and diffuser and then flat bottom the car with an undertray! I know its a bit messy, but finished product is going to be good imo!
Plans are;
Diffuser. (obviously) ^^
Slightly higher profile tires. (with a tad of stretch!)
Coilovers if the wheels don't fill the arches with the new tires.
New rear lights.
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Respray.
Then attack the engine with forged goodies and another bar of pressure accompanied by some 550cc injectors to sap all of the life out of my wallet.
I hope to see some track days on 240bhp at the rear wheels by summer, but we'll see.
Comments welcome, thanks for reading a non - saxo, non - 56k friendly post!
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