Chocolate Drifter
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Chocolate Drifter
Hey everyone.
Been a long time since I posted anything on here about my car, has been going under some serious changes lately so I thought I would put up a build.
Also after reading all the controversy in the pic thread about everyones attitudes towards drifting, thought I would have this here to get everyone going
Anyway, a bit of history on the car,
Originally an NA6 which I brought in near standard condition, lowered on BC coilovers and installed a Greddy turbo kit
(original turbo build seen in this thread-http://www.mx5forum.co.nz/viewtopic.php?t=8876)
car has had a lot of changes since that original build.
The 1.6 was getting a little tired, starting to push a little blue smoke so i thought I would put it out of its misery by entering a burnout competition.
http://youtu.be/AnuQKyhW3gw
After this the car still ran the same, so I wound up the boost and melted the side off a piston.
So the car went back in the garage, and I picked up a 1.8 motor and box from a 1996, put this in the car and re-did the turbo setup with a larger turbo, new manifold, exhaust system etc, kept my intercooler and radiator setup the same.
Then gave the car a big tidy up, so I could enter it in the 2011 4&rotary nationals show and shine.
at the show I won a judges choice award, which i was pretty happy about,
after this I felt I needed to use the car a bit, along the way I had been upgrading everything else on the car, 1.8brakes, 1.8 torsen rear end, 6 speed gearbox from a 1999, along with new custom made diff/engine mounts etc.
went along to a few skidpan days at hampton downs, had heaps of fun, and got the buzz for keeping my car sideways.
Decided this was the direction the car was now going to go,
purchased some Iconcept rack ends from japan for more lock,
Got a racetech 1000 seat to hold me in place
And also installed a hydraulic handbrake.
from here I went out and gave the car a hard time at hampton downs and taupo, using plenty of tyres in the process
http://youtu.be/Q0nnjbXgugY
Decided I really want to get into this drifting thing, Built myself a Car trailer to get the car around, and also purchased a tow wagon.
Only thing holding me back at the drift days was my cooling setup, I could only go out for short bursts at a time, and had to have cool down laps between drifts.
So I pulled all the stuff off the front to decide my new plan of attack.(sorry about the phone pics from here on in)
Theres still not a lot of room in there to do much, and I really like the idea of V-mount setups.
Therefore - make more room!
Ah thats better
to save on cost, I re-used my current intercooler, just the other way up, and i purchased an FD RX7 aftermarket radiator to fit in there with it.
Did all sorts of measurements to check it would all work, and decided it was close enough so started figuring out the mounting.
Decided to use tube to make up the front lower section, and will have to weld brackets to it to carry the radiator.
The tube section is now welded to plates, which bolt to the bottom of the chassis rail.
For the top half I used 16x16mm box section, as I already had a few lengths of it kicking around.
this top half is nearly done, the intercooler is sitting where i wanted it so im happy.
You can see the little triangular corner wedges in the front corners, these are for me to mount the bonnet pins to as there is no longer a bonnet catch.
As the car is now no longer going to see the street,I thought I would gut the interior out.
and sold the roll bar off to a friend of mine, as I was after something a little more serious.
So this is where I am up to, only got the car back from Sinco Customs who did the roll cage yesterday,
The cage is nice, fits perfectly under my fibreglass hardtop skin
the cage builder also put tabs on the front corners of the cage for my to make mountings for the hard top.
So this is where I am up to. next up on the list is:
-Painting interior
-Try to fit dash back in
-Tidy up wiring
-Cut rear window and install lexan
And after this there is finish the radiator/intercooler piping and away i go
Been a long time since I posted anything on here about my car, has been going under some serious changes lately so I thought I would put up a build.
Also after reading all the controversy in the pic thread about everyones attitudes towards drifting, thought I would have this here to get everyone going
Anyway, a bit of history on the car,
Originally an NA6 which I brought in near standard condition, lowered on BC coilovers and installed a Greddy turbo kit
(original turbo build seen in this thread-http://www.mx5forum.co.nz/viewtopic.php?t=8876)
car has had a lot of changes since that original build.
The 1.6 was getting a little tired, starting to push a little blue smoke so i thought I would put it out of its misery by entering a burnout competition.
http://youtu.be/AnuQKyhW3gw
After this the car still ran the same, so I wound up the boost and melted the side off a piston.
So the car went back in the garage, and I picked up a 1.8 motor and box from a 1996, put this in the car and re-did the turbo setup with a larger turbo, new manifold, exhaust system etc, kept my intercooler and radiator setup the same.
Then gave the car a big tidy up, so I could enter it in the 2011 4&rotary nationals show and shine.
at the show I won a judges choice award, which i was pretty happy about,
after this I felt I needed to use the car a bit, along the way I had been upgrading everything else on the car, 1.8brakes, 1.8 torsen rear end, 6 speed gearbox from a 1999, along with new custom made diff/engine mounts etc.
went along to a few skidpan days at hampton downs, had heaps of fun, and got the buzz for keeping my car sideways.
Decided this was the direction the car was now going to go,
purchased some Iconcept rack ends from japan for more lock,
Got a racetech 1000 seat to hold me in place
And also installed a hydraulic handbrake.
from here I went out and gave the car a hard time at hampton downs and taupo, using plenty of tyres in the process
http://youtu.be/Q0nnjbXgugY
Decided I really want to get into this drifting thing, Built myself a Car trailer to get the car around, and also purchased a tow wagon.
Only thing holding me back at the drift days was my cooling setup, I could only go out for short bursts at a time, and had to have cool down laps between drifts.
So I pulled all the stuff off the front to decide my new plan of attack.(sorry about the phone pics from here on in)
Theres still not a lot of room in there to do much, and I really like the idea of V-mount setups.
Therefore - make more room!
Ah thats better
to save on cost, I re-used my current intercooler, just the other way up, and i purchased an FD RX7 aftermarket radiator to fit in there with it.
Did all sorts of measurements to check it would all work, and decided it was close enough so started figuring out the mounting.
Decided to use tube to make up the front lower section, and will have to weld brackets to it to carry the radiator.
The tube section is now welded to plates, which bolt to the bottom of the chassis rail.
For the top half I used 16x16mm box section, as I already had a few lengths of it kicking around.
this top half is nearly done, the intercooler is sitting where i wanted it so im happy.
You can see the little triangular corner wedges in the front corners, these are for me to mount the bonnet pins to as there is no longer a bonnet catch.
As the car is now no longer going to see the street,I thought I would gut the interior out.
and sold the roll bar off to a friend of mine, as I was after something a little more serious.
So this is where I am up to, only got the car back from Sinco Customs who did the roll cage yesterday,
The cage is nice, fits perfectly under my fibreglass hardtop skin
the cage builder also put tabs on the front corners of the cage for my to make mountings for the hard top.
So this is where I am up to. next up on the list is:
-Painting interior
-Try to fit dash back in
-Tidy up wiring
-Cut rear window and install lexan
And after this there is finish the radiator/intercooler piping and away i go
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Looks cool, I only have a thing against knuckledragging 'drifters' who won't take their car out on the track but have cut springs etc. Which is fairly common in the Cefiro/Laurel/Skyline lot.
I'd love to give it a try on the track though, I find it fun enough at the roundabout up the road (rural so no one around).
Good to see an MX5 out there sticking it to the usual, they're easy cars to control as far as my limited experience with RWD goes.
I'd love to give it a try on the track though, I find it fun enough at the roundabout up the road (rural so no one around).
Good to see an MX5 out there sticking it to the usual, they're easy cars to control as far as my limited experience with RWD goes.
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Have been slack on updates of late.
Sold house and brought a new one, so all of my time has been taken up with running around sorting finances and lawyers and then the nightmare of moving my house and garage.
Anyways, have managaed to get a few little bits and pieces done on the car.
Firstly I had a look at mounting the dashboard back into the car around the roll cage bars.
I cut the factory dashboard in every place I needed to and finally got it in there, But once in there I found that the factory guage cluster would not fit as it would be exactly where my rollcage bar is . and also the cut up dashboard would only have one mounting point and would shake like crazy.
So I made up a plan to make a custom dashboard. Firstly got a large piece of cardboard and did a few measurements to make a mock up.
This was fitting pretty well and would have room for my guages etc so I traced the outline onto a piece of 1mm sheet aluminium, and cut holes out for my guages and switches to sit
Got this sitting in place and went down to Collins profiling, where I have been for a few things in the past, and he bent it up for free
once bent up I sat this back in the car, and test fitted a few guages etc, it looks like it will do the trick.
crappy pic this one
My tacho has a curved bracket which sits on my steering column, so it will be mounted there.
More updates when I finally unpack everything and find some time to do some work
Sold house and brought a new one, so all of my time has been taken up with running around sorting finances and lawyers and then the nightmare of moving my house and garage.
Anyways, have managaed to get a few little bits and pieces done on the car.
Firstly I had a look at mounting the dashboard back into the car around the roll cage bars.
I cut the factory dashboard in every place I needed to and finally got it in there, But once in there I found that the factory guage cluster would not fit as it would be exactly where my rollcage bar is . and also the cut up dashboard would only have one mounting point and would shake like crazy.
So I made up a plan to make a custom dashboard. Firstly got a large piece of cardboard and did a few measurements to make a mock up.
This was fitting pretty well and would have room for my guages etc so I traced the outline onto a piece of 1mm sheet aluminium, and cut holes out for my guages and switches to sit
Got this sitting in place and went down to Collins profiling, where I have been for a few things in the past, and he bent it up for free
once bent up I sat this back in the car, and test fitted a few guages etc, it looks like it will do the trick.
crappy pic this one
My tacho has a curved bracket which sits on my steering column, so it will be mounted there.
More updates when I finally unpack everything and find some time to do some work
Holey shit, that dash is excellent. Very very jelly.
May i ask about your wheel fitment?
I've got a mate with 15x7.5 0 offset wheels, but they are 4x114.3, so I wanna run an adaptor to try them on the MX5 (have been on his AE85 racecar), which will probably make them -20 offset approx. Considering you ran 15x10's, does a 15x7.5 -20 sound feasible to get in the guards without running silly amounts of camber and a rubber band tyre? keen to run atleast a 195 on them...
May i ask about your wheel fitment?
I've got a mate with 15x7.5 0 offset wheels, but they are 4x114.3, so I wanna run an adaptor to try them on the MX5 (have been on his AE85 racecar), which will probably make them -20 offset approx. Considering you ran 15x10's, does a 15x7.5 -20 sound feasible to get in the guards without running silly amounts of camber and a rubber band tyre? keen to run atleast a 195 on them...
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my steelies were 15x10 +10, and my alloys are all 15x8 +0.
7.5s at -20 would fit but would require some serious guard rolling and pulling if you were to run a 195.
My steelies only fit at +10p because they were running a 195/45, and my 15x8 0p wheels just clear with a 195/45. my guards are rolled but not really pulled at all.
7.5s at -20 would fit but would require some serious guard rolling and pulling if you were to run a 195.
My steelies only fit at +10p because they were running a 195/45, and my 15x8 0p wheels just clear with a 195/45. my guards are rolled but not really pulled at all.
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Just saw on Club Roadster that your car made the lowest miata list from this pic
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Finally got another chance to work on the car,
Have done heaps of wiring for my dashboard, all of my guages and switches etc, not very exciting to look at so no pictures of that.
Finally got around to priming my roll cage, Took quite a while to get it ready as I had to lightly sand quite a few sections as it had surface rust coming up where I had touched the cage with my hands
needs more primer put on it tomorrow, and then I will finish masking up all of the inside to prep the entire interior for paint.
Have done heaps of wiring for my dashboard, all of my guages and switches etc, not very exciting to look at so no pictures of that.
Finally got around to priming my roll cage, Took quite a while to get it ready as I had to lightly sand quite a few sections as it had surface rust coming up where I had touched the cage with my hands
needs more primer put on it tomorrow, and then I will finish masking up all of the inside to prep the entire interior for paint.
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Got a few more things sorted today.
finished priming the cage, steering column and any other bare steel in the interior. Once that was done I started to mask everything I dont want to paint when I do the interior.
Unfortunately I ran out of masking tape
I am most probably painting the interior black, and I have masked so that the door jambs and other bits and pieces so that they will be black, as the exterior of the car will hopefully not be red too much longer, and as its only a race car I dont want to paint door jambs and that sort of fiddly stuff.
Also sanded, primed and painted my dashboard.
Came out pretty good.
And re-assembled. Check out my awesome fuel guage, haha, pulled straight from the factory dash.
Will get some more masking tape tomorrow and will finish masking the car off. hoping to get the interior painted over the weekend.
finished priming the cage, steering column and any other bare steel in the interior. Once that was done I started to mask everything I dont want to paint when I do the interior.
Unfortunately I ran out of masking tape
I am most probably painting the interior black, and I have masked so that the door jambs and other bits and pieces so that they will be black, as the exterior of the car will hopefully not be red too much longer, and as its only a race car I dont want to paint door jambs and that sort of fiddly stuff.
Also sanded, primed and painted my dashboard.
Came out pretty good.
And re-assembled. Check out my awesome fuel guage, haha, pulled straight from the factory dash.
Will get some more masking tape tomorrow and will finish masking the car off. hoping to get the interior painted over the weekend.
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