Custard’s Tart
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:23 pm
This is my first MX5 and I bought it to have fun in and to have fun tinkering with. Hoping to learn a bit along the way too.
The car is an 07 NC, 2.0l (for now!) and will be competing in the Qld MX5 Club championship and ticking off a bucket list of hillclimbs and other events. It’s not going to be a trailer queen, it will be dríven to all events, and hopefully home again!
I bought the car in Sydney and we spent 10 hours getting to know each other on the (faultless) drive back to Brisbane.
At the moment the car is pretty stock apart from a Bilstein/Eibach combo, GWR ceramic coated header, Cobra Race muffler (which drones like heck on the motorway), a Brown Davis roll bar, Saas seats and some nasty, green harnesses.
Wheels are original oem 17” with RE003’s.
I’ll probably swap the original seats back in as I can’t engineer the Saas ones due to the airbags not being connected. I think I’ll chuck the oem muffler back in as well. I should be able to swap back easily enough for events.
Future upgrades include track wheels and R compounds, brakes, sway bars, coilovers, fire suppression, electric cut off, possibly different seats and possibly possibly a 2.5l engine swap!
It seems everyone here names their cars, I must admit that does seem weird but getting into the spirit of things, anyone have any suggestions on a suitable name for it?
Finally, what’s a good laptime for a stock NC at Lakeside or Qld Raceway on R compounds like Federal RSR’s?
The car is an 07 NC, 2.0l (for now!) and will be competing in the Qld MX5 Club championship and ticking off a bucket list of hillclimbs and other events. It’s not going to be a trailer queen, it will be dríven to all events, and hopefully home again!
I bought the car in Sydney and we spent 10 hours getting to know each other on the (faultless) drive back to Brisbane.
At the moment the car is pretty stock apart from a Bilstein/Eibach combo, GWR ceramic coated header, Cobra Race muffler (which drones like heck on the motorway), a Brown Davis roll bar, Saas seats and some nasty, green harnesses.
Wheels are original oem 17” with RE003’s.
I’ll probably swap the original seats back in as I can’t engineer the Saas ones due to the airbags not being connected. I think I’ll chuck the oem muffler back in as well. I should be able to swap back easily enough for events.
Future upgrades include track wheels and R compounds, brakes, sway bars, coilovers, fire suppression, electric cut off, possibly different seats and possibly possibly a 2.5l engine swap!
It seems everyone here names their cars, I must admit that does seem weird but getting into the spirit of things, anyone have any suggestions on a suitable name for it?
Finally, what’s a good laptime for a stock NC at Lakeside or Qld Raceway on R compounds like Federal RSR’s?
as I can’t get the seats engineered anyway I could fit a set of Brides 
but phook they’re expensive! Funnily enough fakes are ADR aproved!