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Greetings all,
Has anyone fitted a filter relocation kit? I am thinking of fitting such a beastie as i do my own services and think it would be a good idea. Any advice on price and local availability would be appreciated.I'm located in Victoria.
Cheers -

What model? NA NB NC?

I had a Thompson Relocation Kit on my NB8A and had no issues with it

http://www.thompson-automotive.com/cata ... 029486.htm

Sorry about that - car is an NB Titanium 2002 -
Thanks -

Iv got a Works Engineering relocation kit from Mania. Very good quality everything fitted together nicely and no leaks at all. Good price too.

Glad you like the kit speedfreak and thanks for the support!

(I'm the Works Engineering distributor and sell through Mania)

I've fitted the works kits twice now and have been very happy, I have always used liquid threadtape on all AN style fittings to guarantee leak free operation

They are truly gorgeous pieces BTW. Really really nicely made, machined alloy with fantastic quality fittings.

Dann

I also got a works engineering kit through mania and combined it with the works oil cooker, lovely bit of reliable kit but I did find the supplied hoses a bit long.

I'm currently putting together a DIY kit for when I put my engine back in the car.

I managed to get the spin on adapter and filter relocation block for 25 bucks shipped!

Just need to figure out where I want it before I can get some lines made up.

My main reason for this is that it would be much easier to add an oil cooler to the system after the engine is run in..

Here's a quick question - would you prefer steel braided or fabric braided hoses?

Works Engineering used to supply fabric braided hoses but switched to steel braided as customers wanted it.

Fabric braided hoses are of course easier to fit - cut with a pen knife, fit the supplied banjos, job done.

Steel braided hoses are a bit more complicated and requires specific tools...or "standard" length hoses which are usually too long for an MX5.

Fabric braided every time. 2 meters of hose would be more than enough to do some nice neat runs.

I recently moved my oil cooler and the metal hoses were even more oversized in the new spot so bought some sexy kevlar braided, steel reinforced oil hose and screw together fittings in various angles.

It is worth noting that the works stuff has metric threaded holes, common oil fittings tend to be an AN fitting so you need to buy adapters.

The works stuff has threaded holes which allows for cheaper banjo fittings, although you really need HUGE ones if you want to keep oil pressure up IMO.

Lucky is comes with HUGE ones.

Also fabric EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Braid seems like a good idea because it wont wear through but it wears though everything else so you need to keep it strapped still like fabric anyway, so it loses basically all of its advantage immediately.

Dann

It is also much less willing to make nice turns. In short...fabric good, metal braid bad.

+1 for the works engineering kit. very happy with mine

Agree with fabric braided/rubber hoses. much nicer to work with and it wont saw through other parts.

and1 wrote:I'm currently putting together a DIY kit for when I put my engine back in the car.

I managed to get the spin on adapter and filter relocation block for 25 bucks shipped!

Just need to figure out where I want it before I can get some lines made up.

My main reason for this is that it would be much easier to add an oil cooler to the system after the engine is run in..

I did my own DIY oil cooler + oil filter relocation kit and reckon I spent anywhere between 3 and 5 times on getting the fittings right as I could have just by buying a pre-made kit. I'm very happy with the final result and consider it better than any pre-assembled kit that exists so here are my suggestions to save you some $$$ if you do go DIY:

1. Buy AN-10 oil hose lines to guarantee maximum oil flow (the Works Engineering kit hoses are certainly large enough) - you don't want to go through the hassle of fitting everything only to later find out that your system is crippled by poor oil flow.
2. Banjo fittings are MUCH less hassle to work with than elbow fittings in confined spaces
3. Check out all available oil cooler sizes so that you can figure out where and how you are going to mount it
4. Use an oil thermostat in your setup
5. Educate yourself on fittings and tap sizes (ie. NPT threads, BSPT threads, AN-threads, etc)
6. Don't be afraid of making your own oil hoses - if you do them yourself, you can get them the correct length.
7. Do lots of research on this to see what others have done and learn from their mistakes and successes.

Here's a link to the start of my installation, I learned a LOT during this process: http://mx5cartalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=41091&start=161