Cracked Exhaust Manifold - Suggestions ?

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Cracked Exhaust Manifold - Suggestions ?

Postby pixola » Thu May 20, 2010 12:31 pm

All fixed :)

Thanks to Les for getting back in touch with Steve Lee.. now at KYP.

The cost of the service was about as much as the manifold, which justifies just buying a new one rather than patch up the old one (and have it fail again later). Time taken to take all the exhaust manifold nuts off, and replace I guess was about 4-5 hrs on my bill.

Steve also got creative making the plumb back for my BOV using parts of S14 and Skyline. Looks almost stock :)

Now for new brake pads & rotors.. more time off the road !
Mazda didn't build the MX-5 to chirp on gearshifts

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Cracked Exhaust Manifold - Suggestions ?

Postby Okibi » Thu May 20, 2010 8:37 pm

Can't wait to see you back on the road, your car is brilliant. Can we tempt you to compete in some club motorsport?

AFARCC also have a track day, some skid pans and sprints coming up if you want somewhere to reacquaint yourself with the NB.
If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? Neither would I.

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Cracked Exhaust Manifold - Suggestions ?

Postby pixola » Mon May 24, 2010 10:21 pm

Cheers Dave,

Probably when Josh is a bit older.. MX5 is not a high $$ priority for me now.
Just drive it when I want to smile :)

Next goal.. A "vintage" F360 in about 10 years time hahaha
Mazda didn't build the MX-5 to chirp on gearshifts


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