MX5 High HP Build Thread

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Wed May 22, 2013 6:30 pm

REDBEN wrote:ERRRR... Can I opt for a Haircut instead????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON1b6zY_vOg&t=0m50s

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Wed May 22, 2013 9:54 pm

Hahaha oh dear MR Grey you have made my day!

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:15 pm

Most of the Interior ripped out today a couple of stuborn rusty bolts but nothing a drill cant talk care of.

Test fitted the turbo and manifold I borrowed of 2LOW2C to check the bonnet height last week going to do the trick 10/10 have 20mm Clearance and still have power steering.

This turbo is only a Dummy until I receive my new one. The new one is slightly bigger.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:18 pm

so very, very pretty

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:52 pm

Past couple of weeks I have stripped out the interior of my NA in preparation for the new 6 point Rollcage.

I will be building the cage myself along with a good friend, I will try to post more photo's as the cage progress's in the coming weeks.

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:39 am

Couple more goodies turned up on Friday including my Techno Toy Tuning manifold, the last of the Honda Coil for the Coil on plug conversion. Here a couple of photo of the ITB's I am still to Fabricate a Intake plenum.

NOTE: The Techno Toy Tunning manifold is pretty rough and will need alot of fine tuning and port matching to optimize performance.

Enjoy

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:59 pm

As the Heated Debate continues over Rollbars etc... I thought I would ad my two cents on a little bit of work I have been doing over the last month. I have started work on a 6 point MSNZ Rollcage to go into my MX5 as an absolute safety factor. So here's a few photo's of progress so far.

Seat Belt towers Have been removed to make way for the Main hoop. ( I used the TIG welder to stitch the three plates together underneath before puting the reinforcement plate in.)

Main Hoop reinforcement plates welded in

Front footing box

Main Hoop welded in

Backstays

Diagonal Bar prior to Harness bar being welded in, Only just enough room to remove the OEM Fuel pump in and out

Harness Bar

Forward Lateral Bars

Many Thanks again to Paul (2LOW2C) for all his on going effort's and support! Much Appreciated!

Also Thanks to my continuing sponsor Pit Stop Westgate!

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:08 pm

Looking good man. Keep it up.

Keen to see how you do the rest of the roof and the door bars.

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:13 pm

SkilletKid wrote:Looking good man. Keep it up.

Keen to see how you do the rest of the roof and the door bars.

Cheers Dude! The Roof ones pretty simple (Straight Bar with two 12 Degrees bends in the right places). As for Door bars yet to be decided if we actually put any in as most people know MX5's are rather hard to get into if your tall. But I may still find away to fit some in

built4speed · Post by **built4speed** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:22 pm

Looks good, is there enough angle on those backstays? Can't recall the msnz minimum off hand

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:30 pm

REDBEN wrote: Cheers Dude! The Roof ones pretty simple (Straight Bar with two 12 Degrees bends in the right places). As for Door bars yet to be decided if we actually put any in as most people know MX5's are rather hard to get into if your tall. But I may still find away to fit some in

Ah so it follows the MX5 Cup style cage? Nice

Shame MSNZ doesn't allow gutted doors with no door cards to let you run the NASCAR style door bars (they fan out a bit to make it easier to get in).

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:37 pm

Looking awesome ! ITBs look good its a shame about the manifold :/

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:09 pm

built4speed wrote:Looks good, is there enough angle on those backstays? Can't recall the msnz minimum off hand

30 Degree's Yeah just the Photo angle's don't do them any justice

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:12 pm

SkilletKid wrote:
REDBEN wrote: Cheers Dude! The Roof ones pretty simple (Straight Bar with two 12 Degrees bends in the right places). As for Door bars yet to be decided if we actually put any in as most people know MX5's are rather hard to get into if your tall. But I may still find away to fit some in
Ah so it follows the MX5 Cup style cage? Nice

Shame MSNZ doesn't allow gutted doors with no door cards to let you run the NASCAR style door bars (they fan out a bit to make it easier to get in).

Not Sure about the MX5 Cup Style cage (Haven't seen one) But I tried to get the cage to work best with the Hardtop and give as much room as possible. I too quite like the Flying Miata Door bar style they look wicked!!!

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:14 pm

Furai wrote:Looking awesome ! ITBs look good its a shame about the manifold :/

Cheers Furai! I know manifold got me a bit gutted for what I paid for it! However I have a few Idea's on how to make it work!

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:16 pm

Big Ops!!!! I forgot to thank Mark (MADKIWI) for letting me spend a numbers of Days crawling over his wicked MX5 and His cage which mine is Based off! Cheers Mark!

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:19 pm

REDBEN wrote: Not Sure about the MX5 Cup Style cage (Haven't seen one) But I tried to get the cage to work best with the Hardtop and give as much room as possible. I too quite like the Flying Miata Door bar style they look wicked!!!

Just your description reminded me of them (although I don't think they fit regular hard tops very well - they gut them I think) is all =]

Haha yea FM and BlackBirdFabworx have both done that style cage and I'm damn jealous we can't do the same here in NZ.

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:38 pm

What's the reason why you cant run NASCAR style door bars?

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:56 pm

During one of my "nothing to do for a few hours let's read through LVVTA and MSNZ stuff" sessions at uni (so it's either not MSNZ legal or not legal for certing) - it is mentioned that doors must have their door cards/trim remaining. This stops any door bars (in particular the NASCAR style door bars that flare out and into where the guts of the door would be) from being installed.

I should probably try find the exact line now that I think about it. It also has something to do with no exposed sharp edges near potential passengers and the driver (again possibly giving another point towards not allowing fully gutted doors without frames to put trim on)

2low2c · Post by **2low2c** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:33 am

SkilletKid you can run nascar style door bars all sharp edges must be covered this can be done with rubber edgeing or you can make door cards out of fibreglass or ali that clear the bar .
Ben looking good keep it up

Born_disturbed · Post by **Born_disturbed** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:18 am

Ben I can chuck my door Bars in to mine if you want to see what it is like, trust me it is a pain in the ass and it makes hitting the gas real difficult

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:28 am

I love your work Ben, it gives me a tingly feeling in my groin

thanks for the pics

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:59 am

2low2c wrote:SkilletKid you can run nascar style door bars all sharp edges must be covered this can be done with rubber edgeing or you can make door cards out of fibreglass or ali that clear the bar .
Ben looking good keep it up

Ah ok, I guess not seeing a car that has done it here in NZ yet also made me think it couldn't be done. The SuperTourers have a flat hard plastic sheet for door trim that follows the contour of the original trim before being gutted, which is what I was basing my assumption off. Cheers for clearing that up.

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:12 am

Wow - this is looking really good!

Look forward to seeing it all in person.

That turbo....

2low2c · Post by **2low2c** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:15 am

some of the mini (bmw) race cars have nascar bars also some porshes

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