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Postby xatz » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:47 pm

G'Day All

I bought my first NA a couple on Fridays ago, she's an 89 Eunos Roadster. I'm new here to the forums but I browsed here a little bit before deciding that I had to have an MX5 and the first thing I did was join here cause you've got some great information and look like a friendly bunch. Anyways, enough about me, more on the car.

She's pretty much stock except for a couple of after-market goodies like the steering wheel, shift knob and rims. I don't know much about the car except that it was imported in 2005 and is great fun to drive :D

I bought her mainly as race car that I could drive to the track in but she's slowly winning me over to be a semi-daily driver as well. The only thing wrong with her at the moment is a crack in the radiator (from the looks of it it's original too, not bad for a 20 year old radiator). I've gotta replace it pretty quickly cause the first hill climb here in Newcastle is on the 25th of this month and I'd hate to miss out.

I don't have any 'glamour' shots of the car yet and the ones that are in the garage were taken on my phone and really only look good on my phone, but still, feel free to check them out. I'll take some pictures in a park tomorrow after work so you see how beautiful she really is. :)
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Postby Hammer » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:10 pm

You've made the right choice of car :D

Welcome to the forum. I'll let someone else say (to what is now becoming the cliche) forum welcome. :mrgreen:

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Postby CheyneX5 » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:20 pm

Welcome to the obsession! *runs and hides*
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Postby feel_ixx » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:23 pm

GAH beat me to it.

I browsed here a little bit before deciding that I had to have an MX5 and the first thing I did was join here cause you've got some great information and look like a friendly bunch


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Postby grump » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:38 am

Welcome , there are lots of good people and good advice here.
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Postby Hammer » Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:03 am

CheyneX5 wrote:Welcome to the obsession! *runs and hides*


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Postby xatz » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:47 am

Thanks for the warm welcome :)
My girlfriend will definitely agree with the obsession, she already thinks I talk about the car too much :P
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Postby Jeo » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:32 pm

Welcome.

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Postby CoffeeBoss » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:11 pm

xatz wrote:Thanks for the warm welcome :)
My girlfriend will definitely agree with the obsession, she already thinks I talk about the car too much :P


Gee, this sounds familiar.... :D

Welcome aboard! picsorban!

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Postby RG.net » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:31 pm

xatz wrote:Thanks for the warm welcome :)
My girlfriend will definitely agree with the obsession, she already thinks I talk about the car too much :P


welcome dude, be sure to look into the koyo/cooling pro radiators appon replacement, just jap and mx5 mania both stock cooling pro's, and koyo's generally pop up on ebay.

goodluck and have fun :)
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Postby xatz » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:14 pm

Here are some pretty crappy phone pics I took the other day.
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Here are some better quality pics I took in the park today.
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The damage at the front is from where the old number plate bracket used to be and I only really saw how bad it was when I moved it down to those small brackets you can see in the intake. I'll take some pictures all around another day as I stopped early today cause I felt a bit silly taking pictures of my car in a park :P

MXHEVN wrote:welcome dude, be sure to look into the koyo/cooling pro radiators appon replacement, just jap and mx5 mania both stock cooling pro's, and koyo's generally pop up on ebay.
goodluck and have fun :)


Thanks man. I've been looking at the cooling pro radiators from just jap on ebay, they seem to be a bit cheaper than mx5 mania. Is there anything other than the radiator and coolant that I'd need to do an install?
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Postby grump » Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:55 am

Nice JD, you gotta love a silver NA.
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Postby RG.net » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:47 pm

xatz wrote:
MXHEVN wrote:welcome dude, be sure to look into the koyo/cooling pro radiators appon replacement, just jap and mx5 mania both stock cooling pro's, and koyo's generally pop up on ebay.
goodluck and have fun :)


Thanks man. I've been looking at the cooling pro radiators from just jap on ebay, they seem to be a bit cheaper than mx5 mania. Is there anything other than the radiator and coolant that I'd need to do an install?


you might want to change the radiator hoses if they are looking a little old, you can get silicone replacements or oem, and i recomennd changing the stockie clamps out. however these are not nessacary. check in the engine section, lots of people have been wanting a bigger radiator lately, and the threads may answer your thoughts/questions.
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Postby xatz » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:20 pm

grump wrote:Nice JD, you gotta love a silver NA.

Thanks. :)
MXHEVN wrote:you might want to change the radiator hoses if they are looking a little old, you can get silicone replacements or oem, and i recomennd changing the stockie clamps out. however these are not nessacary. check in the engine section, lots of people have been wanting a bigger radiator lately, and the threads may answer your thoughts/questions.

Thanks man, I'll have a look.
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Postby PUR157 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:43 pm

If you're handy you may want to snoop around under the front bumper
at the corner it looks like something is jutting out behind it

There are bumper stays at both corners but from what I remember there shouldn't be anything there to push out the corners so much?

Aside from that it's a nice car you have, shame about those number plate scratches... :frown:

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