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Postby JBT » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:20 pm

Dunno. I've only had a cursory look in there. :?
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Postby franjae » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:43 pm

Garry, did you see the need to remove the plastic trays?? By turning the steering one way and then the other way, the sway bars can be removed and installed without removing the tray.

I'll look for the air scoops this weekend and report back.
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Postby Garry » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:52 pm

I tried removing the bar with the tray in place but I couldn't get it to come out.

I've done a bit more research and the engine air intake is higher up. I have no idea what the two scoops on the side of the radiator are for. Maybe one side cools the battery compartment but the other side?

http://forum.miata.net/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=30080

Thats the engine air intake, the scoops were under the painted bumper reinforcement
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Postby franjae » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:53 pm

Yikes! Is that what my car looks like underneath :shock: Like some Robot that has lost its armour plate....

Now I understand how the Mazdaspeed CAI might be installed. Though if the filter pod sits behind the nose cone, how on earth would you clean it?
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Postby Charlie Brown » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:20 pm

franjae wrote:Garry, did you see the need to remove the plastic trays?? By turning the steering one way and then the other way, the sway bars can be removed and installed without removing the tray.

I'll look for the air scoops this weekend and report back.


All I did was loosen all the bolts to the sway, jacked up the passenger side and turned the wheel fully left. Removed the front (passenger side) plastic underguard liner, then took out about 6 of the plastic locks on the under tray (passenger side). Then remove all the sway’s bolts & nuts and extracted the old bar.
Fitting the new bar was the reverse but I needed another set of hands to help guide the bar through the maze of body parts that needed to be negotiated.
Took about ¾ hour for the front and 10 minutes for the rear.

Garry, the Eibach and Mazdaspeed springs are 28% stiffer than standard, the same as my Kings, and their sways are the same as Whiteline on the soft setting.

Franjae, my NC is lowered, slightly more than the 19mm allowed by under the rules. :roll:


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Postby jules » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:24 pm

For the life of me I cannot understand why they discontinued that colour.

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Postby Garry » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:18 pm

For the life of me I cannot understand why they discontinued that colour.


Because the person that chooses the MX5 colour combinations in Australia, and Japan for that matter, has no taste.
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Postby rjastra2 » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:48 pm

jules wrote:For the life of me I cannot understand why they discontinued that colour.

Jules


No one bought it perhaps?
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Postby jules » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:11 pm

Maybe Wayne's got it right.

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Postby JBT » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:24 pm

Garry's got it right.
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Postby AJ » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:59 pm

yep, Garry is right, Winning Blue looks awesome on the NC...............
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Postby franjae » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:13 pm

Hey CB,

What springs are you using? That is what I would like to do, not so much from an aesthetic point of view, but better handling. However being so much lower worries me, in case it scrapes over speed bumps, kerbs, etc.

I do like that winning blue!

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Postby orx626 » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:49 pm

AJ wrote:yep, Garry is right, Winning Blue looks awesome on the NC...............


Yep...I'm a big fan of the colour as well! :D

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Postby franjae » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:12 pm

Err....not sure about the red roof and no-headlight-look :shock:

But seriously, I am looking for a hardtop, where did you get that red one?

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Postby orx626 » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:23 pm

franjae wrote:Err....not sure about the red roof and no-headlight-look :shock:

But seriously, I am looking for a hardtop, where did you get that red one?

franjae


I bought it brand new from Japan...as I said in the other thread...there aren't too many NC removeable hard tops about so I took what I could get :) It's just a coat of paint to fix that awful red colour :lol: :P :lol:

Don't worry about the no headlights thing...it's got bigger issues...like no engine, gearbox, exhaust and interior. 8)

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ps...sorry to hijack the thread guys... :oops:
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