Szemen's NA8

broady · Postby **broady** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:55 am

Does the bum dyno say anything?

Szemen · Postby **Szemen** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:56 pm

I found...With the silencer in. Day to day driving, I don't have to press the accelerator has deep, so i feel more lowdown torque. However that could be a placebo effect of the noise. As for it's willingness to rev, I think about the same. - Is it worth the noise...err..hmmm.. Hard to say. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Without the silencer....Havent tried.

philz · Postby **philz** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:03 pm

So what are you going to do?

Buy another exhaust? change midpipe?

Where are the pics?

Does it look like this?

Szemen · Postby **Szemen** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:33 pm

It does look like that =D I'm so late with this reply =P I've got a custom midpipe with 2.25" piping and a resonator. I street it without a silencer and its great. The scream at 4k and above is phenomenal. People that have experienced the RS*R will know what I'm going on about. Few days ago, i was sitting at rising from 4-5k rpm slowly, then I hammered it up to 7k rpm and even though from 4k rpm, the note is similar, just hammering it produces another unique sound compared to mild throttle at those rpm ranges. The texture of the sound, the depth of the sounds it produces is very unique. Although my main complaint is below 4k, its farty

I'm bored, and should be studying, so took a few pictures of a few mods I got. Then I realised the ISO on the camera was ramped up, and forgot to drop it back down

So forgive the grainy photos.

By szemen, shot with D-LUX 3 at 2010-04-23

First is this. Something I should of done ages ago. A 330mm Nardi Classic. 330mm compliments the mx5 so well. Feels alot more direct and gives me more legroom. A precious commodity in the mx5.

By szemen, shot with D-LUX 3 at 2010-04-23

This was more of a spur of the moment sort of thing. My mate wanted to downgrade so I got together one afternoon and swapped out my old Superstreets and upgraded to these MonoFlexes. The spring rate is high, feels more bumpy on the road, but it feels more direct and inspires confidence. Not sure if that's a good thing.
Embarrassingly, I've yet to take my car to the track, something which is really high up on my priority list. But track days and my life seem to clash way to often.

By szemen, shot with D-LUX 3 at 2010-04-23

By szemen, shot with D-LUX 3 at 2010-04-23

My brakes were squealing for some weird reason, without brakes applied. When the brakes were on, the squeals stopped. It was time for a pad change as well and the rear rotors were scored. So I ordered some blanks for the rear, I had some slotted RDAs from Zi off a group buy ages ago. I got new fittings and EBC Green stuff.
Brakes seem to have abit more feel to them, but again

Haven't been to track :oops:

so I haven't been able to give these a good workout. But damn, they are dusty!
On a final note, it seems I need to rebuild my driver side rear caliper. So a rebuilt kit will need to be ordered soon

I've got a few mods arriving from our fellow friend in JDMland, Jesse Streeter soon =D YAY! HOORAY FOR HIM!

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:13 pm

monoflex.. nice. that would look soooo good with some nice fat 15's.. slammed... volks....... or equip 03's..

philz · Postby **philz** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:41 pm

work equips eh?

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:27 pm

i'd be disappointed if he settled for something soft like te37s

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:34 pm

philz wrote:So what are you going to do?

Buy another exhaust? change midpipe?

Where are the pics?

Does it look like this?

Is that smaller pipe in the middle of the muffler the silencer? or is the outside diameter a dummy?

broady · Postby **broady** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:36 pm

Silencer of some sort.

BTW Sze, I have the exact same thoughts RE: tone of the exhaust. I'm kind of hating the boominess under 4k.

Szemen · Postby **Szemen** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:41 pm

@ Sasso: Its the silencer. Broady's RS*R has a sexy silencer which is hard to see. Whilst my one is some fugly one

@ Rims comment: ahahah, I've been obsessed with the TE37Vs.

15x7 +18 (S Lip) <- Looking at this as its lower offset, so I'm hoping for some epic TE37 +15 concavity. But alas, I've yet to seen this and how concave these get, if they aren't concave enough then....
15x8 +0 (M Lip) <- But if I go this path, I'll be VERY tempted to grab some Tuckin 99 small flares, not the N2 ones. Then I'll need to get a MP62 S/C to make it go as fast as it looks

Gots any pictures Phil?

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:47 pm

sliq wrote:i'd be disappointed if he settled for something soft like te37s

Who you callin soft

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:50 pm

was only teasing him to come out in the open with his rim choice. i'm not that naive lol

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:20 pm

sliq wrote:was only teasing him to come out in the open with his rim choice. i'm not that naive lol

Seriously though what a hot him.....mewantsbutcantaffordy
Would look awesome with 225's

philz · Postby **philz** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:55 am

Sasso wrote:
sliq wrote:i'd be disappointed if he settled for something soft like te37s

Who you callin soft

that's a 15x10 -22, so it wont look like that.

Sze- ill have a look out for some pics :wink:

, but i still say, concave te37's in the 14x6.5 +15

This is 15x8 +25

But i can tell you that probably 15x8+0 would start looking good, with dish and slight concave, negative offsets will look the best tho, so best bet... stick with what i said above... self explanatory picture below.

This is 15x8 +0, on a hachi, should look similar