What have you done today/recently to your 5?

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby ManiacLachy » Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:31 am

Those seats look great. Do they need adapters or different rails to mount?

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby pie5 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:06 pm

ManiacLachy wrote:Those seats look great. Do they need adapters or different rails to mount?

Factory Recaro’s bolt straight in and include the airbags.
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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Magpie » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:58 pm

Went for a drive in the rain on Sunday...

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby ManiacLachy » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:33 am

That's called swimming :mrgreen:

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Red_Bullet » Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:15 am

Great photo!

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby greenMachine » Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:45 am

Yes, great shot.

Is that a vortex coming off the notch in the endplate? Might be interesting to see what is visible in a high res image ...

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Magpie » Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:28 pm

greenMachine wrote:Yes, great shot.

Is that a vortex coming off the notch in the endplate? Might be interesting to see what is visible in a high res image ...

:mrgreen:

I’ll ask for the high res.

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Nevyn72 » Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:43 pm

ManiacLachy wrote:That's called swimming :mrgreen:


Well he does appear to have a periscope on the roof! :shock:
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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Engineer » Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:17 am

I changed the engine as I didnt like 110kw very much...
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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Zed » Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:00 am

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dummy assembled an empty cylinderblock & head to start designing the drysump pump mount & how much the exhaust manifold needs adjusting (it was made for a Vauxhall engine)
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obviously it would have been rude to not fit the gsxr1300 hayabusa itb's:thumbs:
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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Okibi » Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:04 am

Those headers :shock:
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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby SIB » Wed Sep 02, 2020 12:36 pm

After a high speed off on a muddy Wakefield infield recently, took it to the high pressure carwash, mainly for the underbody blast.
Poor decision.
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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby bruce » Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:14 pm

Speed Stripes are meant to go on your bonnet.

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby Magpie » Wed Sep 02, 2020 9:03 pm

Ordered new dampers, custom valving and other things.....

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Re: What have you done today/recently to your 5?

Postby StillIC » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:31 am

SIB wrote:After a high speed off on a muddy Wakefield infield recently, took it to the high pressure carwash, mainly for the underbody blast.
Poor decision.20200902_112425.jpg

I have lost count of the number of times a little bit of low strength masking tape (securing competition numbers) has ripped the paint off the doors of my 90 NA. Early MX5s seem to just have crap paint quality. Cheap and light I suppose.
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