Watto's NA6

[tasna6]

Alrighty, been lurking for a while on these forums, about time I contributed! I've had my 1993 LE NA6 for around 2 years now and still loving it. let the ramble begin!

Purpose for buying; Wanted an affordable convertible for dual use - MX5 vic/tas club days with the wife and track days to get my speed fix for around 5K - in which I picked this one up for a tad over this amount.

It has mid 260ks and running well, the only engine gripe is that the lifters can get noisy around town, but found minimised using 5w30/40 synth engine oil

Engine is stock except for a Racing beat pod filter and am now just really learning how to rev it out to get the most out of it. I used to have a worked 2ltr mk2 escort that had plenty of torque and weighed less, which in hindsight should of kept it when the kids came rolling along, but that's another story.

The Leather seats were rubbish, all torn up so I replaced them with some unfortunately badly matched tan vinyl covers from Pakistan or the like which took forever to replace along with the usual foamectomy.

Had some king lowered springs installed, which did not actually lower it much as I suspect it was still sitting on the stock saggy springs. So lesson here is that I should of waited to install some coil overs.

As I intended to track it I Installed a Automotive plus roll bar, and a cobra seat. Unfortunately my head is the roll bar buffer atm and my next project is to somehow lower the race seat.

I plasti-dipped the original 14in BBS's so it doesn't look so grandpa, and want to wear out the bridgestone re002's before investing in some 15's and some decent track oriented rubber.

There was recently an unfortunate incident where the next door neighbour left the handbrake off in thier 4WD which rolled back into the 5's left rump. This had the side effect that I got a partial re-spray, but unfortunately due to the not so good paint the panels are all so mismatched, so it's currently back in the paint shop to finish off the rest of the car minus the windscreen surround (which would of meant windscreen removal, new rubbers etc) and frankly this is not a high budget car.

I installed a water temp guage with help from a kit from Davis craig that which I cut the top rad hose in half to fit, but this was absolutely rubbish - I couldn't stop the temp sensor fittings from leaking, so promptly pulled this out. I have also noticed that there is a real minor coolant leak coming out of the bottom of the timing cover, so looks like a water pump will be going in when I get around to it and at the same time whack in a coolant re-route kit which will have a fitting for the temp sensor.

Recently completed a hillclimb at our local track (baskerville) in which came in 2nd or 3rd (results pending) in the under 1600 cc class out of around 7 entries. I'm behind around 1sec (41sec total) dedicated track cars with proper track rubber, so grip is limiting me atm. video here https://youtu.be/subjrOobKE8

piccy time;