What'd you do to your car this week/weekend?

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:15 pm

What rollbar did you get?

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:26 pm

Not sure what make it is, its been through 2 forum members and i think the first guy got it from pickapart.

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:46 pm

Wouldn't be my first choice for looks but certainly looks solid. Struggling to find them in NZ

Skilfil · Post by **Skilfil** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:50 pm

Drove it the long way up north, picked up some $60 drift rims.

Took a picture

MX5 by Skilfil, on Flickr

And heres my slowly increasing collection

MX5 by Skilfil, on Flickr

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:15 pm

Think i saw a car like yours driving past drury on the motorway tonight

sprsta · Post by **sprsta** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:26 am

not my car but this is what i have done to it this weekend

she cant decide if she wants to paint or not, i think she should
what do you guys think?

here are some sneak peak test fitting pix

you can check out more on this car on facebook

www.facebook.com/powerwingnz

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:47 pm

Painted would look better,

I went to a drift day today and had a pretty decent time thrashing. Many people had problems or crashes.

I hit the wall in the same spot but harder so she is gonna need some work.

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:14 pm

can i have your broken taillight if you change it?
i have evil plans for it along with my broken RHS one.

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:16 pm

sprsta wrote:not my car but this is what i have done to it this weekend

what boot spoiler is that? it'd look cool with some stainless cap screws

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:46 pm

One of the guys at work used to work in the hi-fi business for a few years and had a listen to my sound system...
long story short, he replaced all the caps in my (brand new) JVC speakers with higher quality poly-something capacitors.

after giving putting the speakers back in today, end result = richer and smoother midrange and high's.

well worth it for the grand price of $35 for the caps and a coffee for his morning tea

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:14 pm

SLYDIT wrote:can i have your broken taillight if you change it?
i have evil plans for it along with my broken RHS one.

Sorry but thats the one I put in for drifting so when I smash like today I dont ruin my good one

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:31 pm

Video from today.

http://youtu.be/UpHHJ7TYTpg

ryanhorton1973 · Post by **ryanhorton1973** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:42 pm

Fairly productive day. Removed the poorly wired aftermarket front driving lights and all the associated wiring and switch. Fitted a front brace bar that I bought from a member on this forum. Spent two hours changing the roof from a mouldy brown colour to black. Bad news was I have a fairly significant oil leak from somewhere. Guess I will have to start investigations once I have degreased the engine.

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:13 am

Well that was a fun weekend. NOT.

Friday night I had my windscreen utterly destroyed. As well as my fender damaged as fuck.

That's what happens when a drunk cun* comes at you with a piece of 2x4. Totally un provoked. He is lucky my friend told me to stop I was ready to go with my metal bar

Time for a turbo build.

tomtikki · Post by **tomtikki** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:25 am

chris wrote:That's what happens when a drunk cun* comes at you with a piece of 2x4. Totally un provoked. He is lucky my friend told me to stop I was ready to go with my metal bar

??? And you didn't deal to the guy!? Like, not all!!? There are rules, you don't fuck with another mans automobile! (pulp fiction quote)
Ok if he was mental our maybe even off his head on P, I might not retaliate but drunk! Your way too nice! -wait, was he REALLY big?

Sorry for you man, that really sucks!
-Damm your really not having the greatest luck with your car at the mo.

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:28 am

tomtikki wrote:
chris wrote:That's what happens when a drunk cun* comes at you with a piece of 2x4. Totally un provoked. He is lucky my friend told me to stop I was ready to go with my metal bar
??? And you didn't deal to the guy!? Like, not all!!? There are rules, you don't fuck with another mans automobile! (pulp fiction quote)
Ok if he was mental our maybe even off his head on P, I might not retaliate but drunk! Your way too nice! -wait, was he REALLY big?

Sorry for you man, that really sucks!
-Damm your really not having the greatest luck with your car at the mo.

I use the term drunk loosely I would put my money on methamphetamine. I got out of my car holding my pipe ready to go at him. Until I saw him and three others chasing us down in which case I got to a ridiculous speed down a suburban road :/

But no, my luck is ass. This has made me realize the car needs to go, it doesnt feel the same to drive, and frankly I'm scared driving it :/

tomtikki · Post by **tomtikki** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:46 am

chris wrote:I use the term drunk loosely I would put my money on methamphetamine. I got out of my car holding my pipe ready to go at him. Until I saw him and three others chasing us down in which case I got to a ridiculous speed down a suburban road :/

But no, my luck is ass. This has made me realize the car needs to go, it doesnt feel the same to drive, and frankly I'm scared driving it :/

Fair call on getting out of there then!
-I had something similar happen to me & if it wasn't for my mate physically throwing me back in the car I would have had the crap kicked outta me!-

Don't loose heart with the car dude, you have too many stories with it now!
And what could you possibly replace it with that has the same kudos? Psssft, your hooked and you know it!

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:48 am

tomtikki wrote:Fair call on getting out of there then!
-I had something similar happen to me & if it wasn't for my mate physically throwing me back in the car I would have had the crap kicked outta me!-

Don't loose heart with the car dude, you have too many stories with it now!
And what could you possibly replace it with that has the same kudos? Psssft, your hooked and you know it!

Haha Nah, I'm actually to scared to drive it now, the guy knows what my car looks like, what I look like and that I had his party shut down. Idk, possibly another mx5, or I'll just sit on the forum and troll without a car

tomtikki · Post by **tomtikki** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:01 am

Well as ironic as your wheel colour choice was perhaps a can of black spray paint couldn't hurt, some carbonfibre wrap for the bonnet & boot (eBay, it's cheap) and grow a big dirty moustache....
http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/downloads/beardtypes1.jpg
You'll blend right in with the crowd!

Problem solved, next, world peace!

Skilfil · Post by **Skilfil** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:48 pm

chris wrote:Haha Nah, I'm actually to scared to drive it now, the guy knows what my car looks like, what I look like and that I had his party shut down. Idk, possibly another mx5, or I'll just sit on the forum and troll without a car

Thought you were just being dramatic about giving up on MX5's until I read that, yeah fair point you don't want some drop kick going after you.

I've had the same feeling when I got chased in my VW one day, this was the Golf so it kind of blended in with the other Silver Mk3 GTI's except I had a Zender spoiler on the back.. So if you knew what to look for I wasn't hard to spot.

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:06 pm

Skilfil wrote:
chris wrote:Haha Nah, I'm actually to scared to drive it now, the guy knows what my car looks like, what I look like and that I had his party shut down. Idk, possibly another mx5, or I'll just sit on the forum and troll without a car
Thought you were just being dramatic about giving up on MX5's until I read that, yeah fair point you don't want some drop kick going after you.

I've had the same feeling when I got chased in my VW one day, this was the Golf so it kind of blended in with the other Silver Mk3 GTI's except I had a Zender spoiler on the back.. So if you knew what to look for I wasn't hard to spot.

I know - a lot of my friends are calling me out for being a bitch. But it's like shit dude, you drive a car that stands out and think that no one notices it :/

Skilfil · Post by **Skilfil** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:37 pm

chris wrote:I know - a lot of my friends are calling me out for being a bitch. But it's like shit dude, you drive a car that stands out and think that no one notices it :/

Hah, try sitting at the lights minding your own business while some bastard gets the jump on you because he recognized your car from down the street.

I'd rather be called a bitch than be a tough guy in hospital or worse getting stuck in the ground.

If that fails, just rape them. ಠ_ಠ

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:03 pm

oh man, really sorry to hear of your woes Chris

at the least have you reported it to the police?

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:52 pm

Washed the car, finally cleaned the inside of the windscreen which was horrendously dirty and then went and got petrol. On the way back home I took a slight detour to Piha and back and realised I had used up a quarter of my tank I had just filled

oh and finally installed the injectors properly so they no longer leak like a sieve with pinched O rings.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:41 pm

Have the whole week off work so had a list of stuff i wanted to do to the car.
Yesterday i removed the teins with stock shocks and refitted the coilovers.
Broke dads jack in the process so it was stuck on axle stands the whole day

Today i took the teins off the shocks and took them to danch02 so he can remove his cobras as his car is very low in the front.

Tomorrows plan is to give the car a polish as the rear end is starting to fade again.

Then im going to have to figure out what to do till the drifting on sunday

What'd you do to your car this week/weekend?

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