From the ashes... What did you do to your roadster today?

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Post by siren676 » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:33 pm

4A-GE wrote:
Jesse Pinkman wrote:Fuel filter = changed. I cut the old one open and it was dirty af.
Catalytic Converter = gone. Sounds so much better and raspier and gruntier without it. :)
Cat a pain in the arse to get rid of?
Step 1 take to exhaust shop
Step 2 ...
Step 3 Pay
Step 4 Profit?
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Post by Jesse Pinkman » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:17 pm

Nope took me about a half hour to remove it, my dad has a hoist in his workshop so I borrowed that and his welder which made it a heck of a lot easier :). I've already got a full stainless exhaust system apart from the cat so I just unbolted it, cut the cat off from the flanges and welded in a straight pipe instead. It was easy as! Cost me nothing at all, and for the filter well i work at repco so very cheap :)
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Post by 4A-GE » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:59 pm

Know where I'll be goin' to have mine uncatified. 8)

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Post by warrior » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:22 am

You just need to know it will make the car smelly without a cat
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Post by Skilfil » Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:04 am

warrior wrote:You just need to know it will make the car smelly without a cat
Really? Catalytic converters will be pretty much useless at this point of life in the car, and I doubt they made that much of a difference on the Mx5's.

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Post by warrior » Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:13 am

Ask me how i know
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Post by Furai » Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:49 pm

Didnt make mine smelly?

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Post by warrior » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:39 pm

Maybe u drive faster than me and cant smell it :D
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Post by Skilfil » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:50 pm

Haha, mines got no cat and a stupid hair dryer to dump money into the fuel tank, can't quite smell anything? On start up sure but my cold start needs a tune.

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Post by 4A-GE » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:15 pm

Last one was decatted - It was fine.

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Post by warrior » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:40 pm

Must be my ass then
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Post by bgg846 » Thu Nov 13, 2014 10:37 pm

Got mine back slightly tweaked [/img]
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Post by bgg846 » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:44 pm

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Post by Ben.Nakagawa » Sat Nov 15, 2014 3:39 pm

Classic style hazed switch

Club Roadster has good write up for how to do this in DIY section of forum.
I've got a second-hand switch. So I bought 2 toggle switch, disassemble, cutup the circuit board, wiring and good to go as plug and play.

Shiny panel is a stainless plate that I cut up from broken HDD.

I know I need to come back for that dub of red paint...

I only spent $35 for this, if the postage for parts was not included it is quite cheap and looks good.
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Post by 4A-GE » Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:59 pm

Good job hacking up that old switch outta my car. 8)

Tonight I had mine towed off a big ditch birm thing, on a gravel road, in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, in the rain. And yes I was in fact doing another u turn.
God I have some great adventures in these things.

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classic switch

Post by 2old4this » Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:06 pm

Nice 1 Ben. Looks heaps better

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From the ashes... What did you do to your roadster today?

Post by biff » Sun Nov 16, 2014 1:40 am

Wow, looks very sharp.
Might have to look at that myself. I want to do the power window switches,
any one done the toggle on those?

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Classic style hazed switch

Club Roadster has good write up for how to do this in DIY section of forum.
I've got a second-hand switch. So I bought 2 toggle switch, disassemble,
cutup the circuit board, wiring and good to go as plug and play.

Shiny panel is a stainless plate that I cut up from broken HDD.

I know I need to come back for that dub of red paint...

I only spent $35 for this, if the postage for parts was not included it is
quite cheap and looks good.

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1989 Red NZ New (100746) - sub grade paint and many small ding




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E-Window swicth conversion

Post by Ben.Nakagawa » Sun Nov 16, 2014 8:33 am

This might help you converting window switch.

http://revlimiter.net/blog/2011/01/cust ... -switches/

And this write-up is the one I used for my conversion.

http://clubroadster.net/vb_forum/402970-post78.html
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Post by mjrstar » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:18 am

Poked some holes in the bonnet because the OEM catch had to go bye bye when the intercooler was inserted..

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Also do we appear to be winning at cold air intake??

Before anyone pipes up yes these are supposed to be mounted fore/aft but that ould only work with the catches backwards and an ugly pin angle to sideways made more sense..

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Post by siren676 » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:59 pm

Let my mate drive it so i could take rolling shots, he took a bit of getting use to the clutch :lol:
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Post by marcellarius » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:31 pm

siren676 wrote: Image
Such stance :D

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Post by siren676 » Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:23 pm

This pic was when he launched it :lol:
I really want to put my coilovers back in
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Post by 4A-GE » Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:00 pm

New shocks and springs.
Fucking finally.

What a job that was!

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Post by siren676 » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:21 pm

1990 NA6C MX5

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Post by Junkwhale » Sun Nov 30, 2014 3:20 pm

^^ Awesome, would love to give that a go.

Did this last weekend rather than today - finally got the sideskirts back on:

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Getting the rails that the front of the main part of the skirts sits on in the right place is most of the battle:
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The panelbeater who originally tried to put them on kindly threw out the clips that offset the back/top of the skirt from the wheel well, so I had to make some out of a piece of aluminium and some clips with threads on the back to put the bolt through:
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