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NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:56 pm
by Jash
MX5 Humans,
Tried searching for this to no avail.
Pretty sure my Jap NA6 has neither, which models came with them?
Many Thanks,
Jeff
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:02 pm
by sailaholic
All came with aluminium bonnet, none came with aluminium boot from factory as far as I'm aware
Magnet will tell you what you've got.
What's with the mx5 humans thing? Just a way around saying hi guys / girls?
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Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:24 pm
by Boyracer
There is a limited edition in Japan that had a alloy boot as well, you can get a after market steel bonnet that is way cheaper and heavier than the original alloy bonnet.
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:42 pm
by Jash
Thanks for the info guys, and yes I don't mean to assume that everyone in here is a dude.
Limited edition explains the alloy boot costs that I've seen...
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:55 pm
by wassup
The aluminum boot lid you're talking about came off a M2 1028 model with a run of 300 in Japan
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocities.jp%2Fclubm2_hp%2Farchive%2Fcat28.html&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8This is how it compares to a standard NA bootlid and its about half the weight too.
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:57 pm
by Jash
Oh my. Cleanup aisle 4.
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:09 pm
by ultim8m
yup all mx-5's have an alloy bonnet, soft top nc's have an alloy boot as well ive heard,
alloy bonnet comes up nice with a polish
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:48 am
by sailaholic
eunos90 wrote:Hi mxers I have an imported 1990 NA Eunos Roadster. Both bonnett and boot are standard aluminium. Thay certainly did things a bit different with their home market. Cheers Mike
Are you really really sure? Was there anything non standard on the car when it got imported?
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Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:48 am
by wassup
sailaholic wrote:eunos90 wrote:Hi mxers I have an imported 1990 NA Eunos Roadster. Both bonnett and boot are standard aluminium. Thay certainly did things a bit different with their home market. Cheers Mike
Are you really really sure? Was there anything non standard on the car when it got imported?
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My thoughts too. The 1028 seems to be the only NA that got a factory aluminum boot. Easy enough to confirm. It should only weigh 3.5 kg
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:58 am
by 93_Clubman
eunos90 wrote:I have an imported 1990 NA Eunos Roadster. Both bonnett and boot are standard aluminium.
A number of people have thought that as it did get wrongly mentioned on various MX5 forums, but it's not usually the case.
Re: NA Aluminium Bonnet/Boot
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:41 am
by Jash
Alloy Bonnet, Steel Boot on mine. Man I love that M2 Boot, but for 1500 bucks for a secondhandy I reckon I'd go carbon and pocket the difference.