MX5 Owners in here....bring your curling tongs
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Does anyone know any good places to look for used parts? Mx5 nutz has switched to some classified thing so there is barely anything on there now so im just trawling ebay at the moment.
Im almost considering buying a whole car for the parts i need
New hood, Driver door, ignition and locks, and possibly PAS
Im almost considering buying a whole car for the parts i need
New hood, Driver door, ignition and locks, and possibly PAS
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Getting alignment done Tuesday and trying to get an idea of settings. I want the car to be fairly balanced and neutral and to only give oversteer when really trying to provoke it. After reading forum threads here there and everywhere I think these settings will give what I'm after
Front
Toe Out 0'00
Camber 1'00°
Castor , maximum achievable without compromising toe/camber.
Rear
Toe In 0'05°
Camber 1'30°
Front
Toe Out 0'00
Camber 1'00°
Castor , maximum achievable without compromising toe/camber.
Rear
Toe In 0'05°
Camber 1'30°
Always ran more negative camber on the back than the front on my 5, everywhere has recommended setting them up that way (blink motorsport, A-line and roddison motorsport). They all had a bit more camber than that though, never more than 0.3 difference from front to rear though. I currently have -2 front, - 2.25 rrear for camber, 0.05 toe in front and rear, castor around 6.8. I'd start with - 1.5 front and - 1.8 rear camber myself and see how you get on. Other settings they've given you are okay.
This is on a mk3 mind, rear suspension is quite different.
This is on a mk3 mind, rear suspension is quite different.
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Sadly someone tried to end my MX5 tonight 
Was waiting to turn right off a main road into a side road, he as waiting to turn right from the side road to the main, so my car was infront of his at the junction, driver side on, waited on traffic flow, someone stopped on the opposite side (Actually stopped and waved me through, not just slowed down and I dived in), as soon as I started to turn in I looked into the corner and this guy had decided to come out too (!!) even though he would have had to go through me to get to his destination, he only bumped me at 5-10mph but straight into my driverside door/wing, I had the window open and hit my head on window trim of the hard top, fun!
Few potato pics of the damage, the door wouldn't open properly, had to be forcibly pulled to even open at all, its gone off on a tow truck to storage tonight as I wanted it out of any possible rain due to lack of seal around the window.
Pics in spoiler tags due to size:
Was waiting to turn right off a main road into a side road, he as waiting to turn right from the side road to the main, so my car was infront of his at the junction, driver side on, waited on traffic flow, someone stopped on the opposite side (Actually stopped and waved me through, not just slowed down and I dived in), as soon as I started to turn in I looked into the corner and this guy had decided to come out too (!!) even though he would have had to go through me to get to his destination, he only bumped me at 5-10mph but straight into my driverside door/wing, I had the window open and hit my head on window trim of the hard top, fun!
Few potato pics of the damage, the door wouldn't open properly, had to be forcibly pulled to even open at all, its gone off on a tow truck to storage tonight as I wanted it out of any possible rain due to lack of seal around the window.
Pics in spoiler tags due to size:
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Sorry someone ran into you TimBrad. You won't want to touch it until the insurance is sorted but it looks like the wing will be stopping the door from opening. If you pull the wing out a bit the door won't catch and will hopefully open. Mine did the same when someone hit me.
Well, I don't have the car right now, horrible to see it out on the drive like that, thankfully it drove fine still, just a lot of air whistle with the "new vents" in the door!
Hoping they say it is worth repairing, but with it being 10 years old, quite rusty underneath and all of this damage, I'm really worried I might not have it again
Thankfully insurance have acted quickly, MX5 in storage until Monday to prevent weather damage, within 15 hours of the accident there was a 150mile 64 plate Cooper S on the driveway, but I do want it back, had some mods planned and I want to do it!
Hoping they say it is worth repairing, but with it being 10 years old, quite rusty underneath and all of this damage, I'm really worried I might not have it again
Thankfully insurance have acted quickly, MX5 in storage until Monday to prevent weather damage, within 15 hours of the accident there was a 150mile 64 plate Cooper S on the driveway, but I do want it back, had some mods planned and I want to do it!
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That's good to hear hopefully they don't write it off. If they do it would be worth seeing if you can keep the car it had no impact on the payout for mine and you get a whole car's worth of spares.
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It was admiral who paid out as it was the other drivers fault. I had to fight to get it though they originally offered £350 but I got some help from people on here and ended up getting £1150 iirc.
I would have got less if they took my old car so was a win win especially as I had a few mods on the car.
Found the thread might be worth a read hopefully you won't have as much trouble. Most of it was down to my stupid handling of it but got there in the end.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18638848
I would have got less if they took my old car so was a win win especially as I had a few mods on the car.
Found the thread might be worth a read hopefully you won't have as much trouble. Most of it was down to my stupid handling of it but got there in the end.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18638848
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Very possible with you saying yours is quite rusty underneath. Keep us updated with how you get on.
I've started buying stuff for the Eunos Roadster I bought around a year ago, the past few months being the most expensive new bits of all.
Back in August, I bought an Alloy rad, just because when I was on track in June I noticed that it was overheating after around 6-7 laps of Abingdon, which was annoying, and it shouldn't really happen when the engine is standard.
Was pretty straight forward to fit, as luckily there is quite a bit of room in the engine bay! The old radiator had quite a few bent fins on it, and was also quite a bit narrower than the new one, which means I should see lower temps on track now which is good, means I can stay out longer!
So not much happened after that, as for a few months. December came around, and I saw something that I always fancied on the Red MX5 I had before, but never purchased (like quite a few other mods I wanted to do). So a week later, these turned up
Wilwood Dynlite 4 piston calipers. Light than the standard single piston calipers on the car at the minute, however that weight difference is cancelled out by the fact I will be running bigger discs, quite a bit bigger than standard too...
So I test fitted these a few days after getting them, and unfortunately they don't fit behind the wheels. So they have gone back into the box for now, until I purchase some lower offset wheels that they can sit behind.
Last weekend, I spotted some coilovers come up on MX5 Nutz for a decent price, and had wanted to replace the suspension that was on the car anyway (Standard shocks with lowering springs), so went and picked these up;
They are Performance5 Puredrives, and from my initial driving about, they seem much better than the combination that was on there before, doesn't seem to crash as much, and the car is actually higher than it was on the standard shocks with lowering springs!
So after fitting them, I knew that the car would need alignment, as it had changed height, and it also seemed like a good idea, as it hadn't been aligned since I bought it. Took it to Wheels In Motion today, found out that the drivers side rear was perfect, and wouldn't need touching and the passenger rear was slightly out on both camber and toe. The fronts however were totally mismatched, as one side had a degree more camber than the other, and the caster was different on both sides. This however meant that the car still drove straight, as they were counteracting each other, just wouldn't drive and feel as it should. 20 minutes later, and everything was pointing in the right direction again. The car now feels much better to drive, and reminded me again what I liked about the Red MX5 I had before (even is lacking in horsepower)
Back in August, I bought an Alloy rad, just because when I was on track in June I noticed that it was overheating after around 6-7 laps of Abingdon, which was annoying, and it shouldn't really happen when the engine is standard.
Was pretty straight forward to fit, as luckily there is quite a bit of room in the engine bay! The old radiator had quite a few bent fins on it, and was also quite a bit narrower than the new one, which means I should see lower temps on track now which is good, means I can stay out longer!
So not much happened after that, as for a few months. December came around, and I saw something that I always fancied on the Red MX5 I had before, but never purchased (like quite a few other mods I wanted to do). So a week later, these turned up
Wilwood Dynlite 4 piston calipers. Light than the standard single piston calipers on the car at the minute, however that weight difference is cancelled out by the fact I will be running bigger discs, quite a bit bigger than standard too...
So I test fitted these a few days after getting them, and unfortunately they don't fit behind the wheels. So they have gone back into the box for now, until I purchase some lower offset wheels that they can sit behind.
Last weekend, I spotted some coilovers come up on MX5 Nutz for a decent price, and had wanted to replace the suspension that was on the car anyway (Standard shocks with lowering springs), so went and picked these up;
They are Performance5 Puredrives, and from my initial driving about, they seem much better than the combination that was on there before, doesn't seem to crash as much, and the car is actually higher than it was on the standard shocks with lowering springs!
So after fitting them, I knew that the car would need alignment, as it had changed height, and it also seemed like a good idea, as it hadn't been aligned since I bought it. Took it to Wheels In Motion today, found out that the drivers side rear was perfect, and wouldn't need touching and the passenger rear was slightly out on both camber and toe. The fronts however were totally mismatched, as one side had a degree more camber than the other, and the caster was different on both sides. This however meant that the car still drove straight, as they were counteracting each other, just wouldn't drive and feel as it should. 20 minutes later, and everything was pointing in the right direction again. The car now feels much better to drive, and reminded me again what I liked about the Red MX5 I had before (even is lacking in horsepower
)
I've heard back that the insurance will be repairing the car, good news, although the 3rd party still hasn't contacted his insurance so no liability admitted, looks like I'll have to go through the hassle of paying the excess then and then claiming it back when they get it all sorted!