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did a LOT today well it wont seem like much but it was alot of work, fabricated and made mounts for the intercooler and rad, its now in its vmount
didnt get pics of the rad as im a doughnut :(
anyway downpipe is made and is being final welded, will be back at the car on tuesday to final...
ok she is replacing her mrk3 mx5 with a mrk3 mx5... but the facelift... now the paint on her current one is TERRIBLE! it scratches so easy, i mean you brush past a bush and it leaves white scratches all over it (car is a blue metallic with a pearl on it, its weird!) and they wont polish out! i...
1680's for the secondarys, im running the stock 550's on the primarys, i was gonna run 850s for primarys but getting a smooth idle and town driving can be a pain so im told... and the 550's and 1680's will run 680bhp...
my fuel settup:
Fuel Rail
1680cc injectors x2
braided line to run from the hard lines to the fuel pressure reg then to the fuel rails
fuel lab fpr
fpr gauge
fittings to plumb the rails in parallel
that lot is costing 400 quid ish!
the fittings i got today were just to make up an oil feed...
no real update shots... however had to go buy these today... goodrich fittings, just these 2 parts and the price actually made me want to cry... i have all the others for my fuel settup these are just for the turbo oil feed... and got some braided -6 line too... it was like 80 quid for the line...
small update downpipe was made today... getting it welded on wednesday... my alloy rad turned up friday... will have pics tomorrow... however found a guy in america running pretty much the same settup as me... scarily similar tbh... anyway... this is what he said about his car (he is running...
tbh past day, well mainly last night i was having trouble getting facbook or safari to work, kept saying no connection (even on wifi) closing the app propperly solved it
the whole thing hanging off the back of a car is a JDM thing, known as drift charms... started with subway handles (by bosokus) to show that if the ring was scraping on the floor it was to show your low... then the drifters caught on and did subway handles too then went to little cuddly toys etc...
measure the hole... i have a forge blanking plug... well i have 2 different sizes for blocking the bov... if either fit you can have it :) its a machined plug...
when you do the elbow... make sure someone hasn't stuck a 14 downpipe on your 14a or a 14 elbow on 14a down pipe... because otherwise it will all be out of line etc and will hang low :( also where you have cut the battery tray, sand it back and paint it... they rust like hell if you don't...
i had make it mine on an old 3g that was jailbroken (change the carrier text to something you wanted...) when i synced my 4 its changed the carrier logo to what i had on my 3g... is there any way to get rid of it lol?!
mot law states as long as the tread is in the arch line its completely legal, im gonna be spacing my wheels out which means i will need a stretch to make it legal... would rather do that than have the wheels an inch inside the body :P
i got filmed by some shitty tv station where i got mine from... tbh i wasnt that helpful i just wanted to get home and play, the cpwh shop i got mine in had a load of hassle with guys who had lined up but the shop had pre ordered them to people... and had no extra stock... so they all kicked...