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G'Day All

I bought my first NA a couple on Fridays ago, she's an 89 Eunos Roadster. I'm new here to the forums but I browsed here a little bit before deciding that I had to have an MX5 and the first thing I did was join here cause you've got some great information and look like a friendly bunch. Anyways, enough about me, more on the car.

She's pretty much stock except for a couple of after-market goodies like the steering wheel, shift knob and rims. I don't know much about the car except that it was imported in 2005 and is great fun to drive

I bought her mainly as race car that I could drive to the track in but she's slowly winning me over to be a semi-daily driver as well. The only thing wrong with her at the moment is a crack in the radiator (from the looks of it it's original too, not bad for a 20 year old radiator). I've gotta replace it pretty quickly cause the first hill climb here in Newcastle is on the 25th of this month and I'd hate to miss out.

I don't have any 'glamour' shots of the car yet and the ones that are in the garage were taken on my phone and really only look good on my phone, but still, feel free to check them out. I'll take some pictures in a park tomorrow after work so you see how beautiful she really is.

You've made the right choice of car

Welcome to the forum. I'll let someone else say (to what is now becoming the cliche) forum welcome.

GO TOPLESS!!!

Welcome to the obsession! *runs and hides*

GAH beat me to it.

I browsed here a little bit before deciding that I had to have an MX5 and the first thing I did was join here cause you've got some great information and look like a friendly bunch

WE ARENT FRIENDLY RUN!!! ITS A TRAP!!

Welcome , there are lots of good people and good advice here.

CheyneX5 wrote:Welcome to the obsession! *runs and hides*

Thanks for the warm welcome
My girlfriend will definitely agree with the obsession, she already thinks I talk about the car too much

Welcome.

PICS! (regardless of quality or lack there of)

xatz wrote:Thanks for the warm welcome
My girlfriend will definitely agree with the obsession, she already thinks I talk about the car too much

Gee, this sounds familiar....

Welcome aboard! picsorban!

xatz wrote:Thanks for the warm welcome
My girlfriend will definitely agree with the obsession, she already thinks I talk about the car too much

welcome dude, be sure to look into the koyo/cooling pro radiators appon replacement, just jap and mx5 mania both stock cooling pro's, and koyo's generally pop up on ebay.

goodluck and have fun

Here are some pretty crappy phone pics I took the other day.

Here are some better quality pics I took in the park today.


The damage at the front is from where the old number plate bracket used to be and I only really saw how bad it was when I moved it down to those small brackets you can see in the intake. I'll take some pictures all around another day as I stopped early today cause I felt a bit silly taking pictures of my car in a park

MXHEVN wrote:welcome dude, be sure to look into the koyo/cooling pro radiators appon replacement, just jap and mx5 mania both stock cooling pro's, and koyo's generally pop up on ebay.
goodluck and have fun

Thanks man. I've been looking at the cooling pro radiators from just jap on ebay, they seem to be a bit cheaper than mx5 mania. Is there anything other than the radiator and coolant that I'd need to do an install?

Nice JD, you gotta love a silver NA.

xatz wrote:

MXHEVN wrote:welcome dude, be sure to look into the koyo/cooling pro radiators appon replacement, just jap and mx5 mania both stock cooling pro's, and koyo's generally pop up on ebay.
goodluck and have fun

Thanks man. I've been looking at the cooling pro radiators from just jap on ebay, they seem to be a bit cheaper than mx5 mania. Is there anything other than the radiator and coolant that I'd need to do an install?

you might want to change the radiator hoses if they are looking a little old, you can get silicone replacements or oem, and i recomennd changing the stockie clamps out. however these are not nessacary. check in the engine section, lots of people have been wanting a bigger radiator lately, and the threads may answer your thoughts/questions.

grump wrote:Nice JD, you gotta love a silver NA.

Thanks.

MXHEVN wrote:you might want to change the radiator hoses if they are looking a little old, you can get silicone replacements or oem, and i recomennd changing the stockie clamps out. however these are not nessacary. check in the engine section, lots of people have been wanting a bigger radiator lately, and the threads may answer your thoughts/questions.

Thanks man, I'll have a look.

If you're handy you may want to snoop around under the front bumper
at the corner it looks like something is jutting out behind it

There are bumper stays at both corners but from what I remember there shouldn't be anything there to push out the corners so much?

Aside from that it's a nice car you have, shame about those number plate scratches...

Welcome to the forum...