Kula's NA6

wun911 · Postby **wun911** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:31 pm

Full respect to the light weight mods....

kula · Postby **kula** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:24 am

havent taken it past 180, maybe when the turbo comes on ;)

Sean · Postby **Sean** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:51 am

Sasso wrote:
kula wrote:Aussie ones go to 220? JDM go to 180.

Dewa make faces which go on top of the factory ones, for both 220 and 180 speedos. the ones i liked and bought were only for the 180kmh so i got a JDM instrument cluster from mx5mania.

I popped it open, replaced the dials with the AWD ones, and roberts my fathers brother. Yes, the pointers were rotated slightly, but they all read true, I used a GPS to check that the speedo was still accurate. and it does go up to 190-200km/h

he makes a massive range of various faces, for both NA and NB, even RX8 as well, and I think NC now.

Ah K so its just the face then. WHen you say it goes 190-200 is that just the readings or does the needle actually go there? On mine the needle stays at 180 even if you go past it. I just jacked the rear wheels and redlined 5th. It hits 180 at the end of 4th even, so none of 5th gear is measured. Maybe I'm best to get an aussie speedo and somehow swap the km's over.

On the road/track the car wont go much over 180 unless you have a few decent mods, 5th doesn't seem to have the torque to turn the wheels any faster than 4th can turn them at 7200rpm.

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:21 pm

Sasso wrote: I just jacked the rear wheels and redlined 5th. It hits 180 at the end of 4th even, so none of 5th gear is measured.

...have you never seen Ferris Buellers day off?

Ajay · Postby **Ajay** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:38 pm

hahaha!! could end badly.. save it for the DYNO :lol:

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:43 pm

You'd be spewing if that happened to you though...

Ajay · Postby **Ajay** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:17 am

on the dyno your car is strapped down...and is quite safe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIf7NHqkGs

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:16 am

Sasso wrote:Dyno is too expensive for this simple experiment which went quite well I thought, the dyno looks way more dangerous since its actually loaded, the car just felt like it was revving in neutral.

The dyno would be way way safer than just propping the car up. It's a bit counter intuitive because you can kinda see the car move, but there's a lot more safety involved in a dyno, not to mention the engineering that went into building the thing (which you should appreciate) with all it's safeguards etc.

Wheres think about you propping it up with the jack or whatever. What if some kids are playing ball and they smack a cricket ball hard into one of the jacks. Jack goes out, wheel hits ground, car hits wall. For example...

Ajay · Postby **Ajay** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:10 pm

imagine at 180k's.. the car hitting the ground and taking off :shock:

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:41 pm

It's only a hypothetical situation. What if your jack fails under load due to whatever reason and it drops? Different problem, same result.

Meanwhile, how many times have you known of a dyno that has been correctly setup to allow a car to spin off it?

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:16 pm

Actually I don't get under my car to do any work, but that's because I'm lazy and I also would have no idea what I'd be doing under there :oops:

In the end, my point is that I wouldn't jack the car up and rev it til it won't rev no more for fear of something silly happening (it's not impossible... just very very slim chances) and the car ploughing into a wall.

kula · Postby **kula** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:30 pm

new plates

well not that new, but have added them to the thread.

also have a cat back exhaust to put one, might do that tomorrow.

kula · Postby **kula** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:34 pm

Sasso wrote:Kula I can't wait till you get your turbo, the car will be almost complete. When are you planning it to be on by?

Were you planning on getting some bigger anti roll bars? I have some Signature bars similar to whiteline and they're pretty good, the car is much more stable in corners and sits almost dead flat.

What are your thoughts and experiences with the FM butterfly brace, I should be getting one soon but might have to sell it because I have no money. My friend has one and he said its the best mod he's done to the car, before he put the turbo on.

yeah turbo isnt too far away, i have a big box of stuff ready to go!
just need to source a computer for it..

i have racing beat hollow front bar, and whiteline adjustable rear bar on,
they did make a nice difference, noticably flatter and easier to drive.
i had the front one on only first, had a wakefield day, and it was easy to drive, but for me was just too hard to get away from the understeer.
with the rear bar on now, its just a bit better, noticably less understeer on entry, and abotu the same coming out...

yeah the brace helped a lot, its big and heavy, but yeah it firmed it up a lot, less rattles too.