Ben Sale's white 1990 NA6

[-alex]

That's a great time Alex. Congratulations.

A great time is a 1.05 a good time is a 1.15 a n00b time is 1.23

[-alex]

Anyway I topic.
Car requires a new hand brake and will receive further thrashing.

[bensale]

Has anyone changed a handbrake cable before? Where did you source the part from, quite expensive, will work out at around $200AU + from the UK for all 3 parts of the cable.. If thats what it costs okay.. Just seems like it should be less..

[Pamex]

Try Allmaz. That's where I'll get mine. If I recall, there is a write up on miata.net.

[fattima]

What I'm posting on the forum

Would a NB one fit? If they do you can have the one off the NB.

[bensale]

It has been a while since you've posted, make me look good! I'll have a look at the part numbers and see if they are the same.. Can't see why not though as the cars have the same brakes and floorpan.. Thanks

[bensale]

Looks like the front half of the cable is the same.. But the rear bit where it splits to each side is different apparently.. But going by the photos on MX-5 Parts website I can't any major differences... There are a lot of NA-NB parts that aren't meant to be interchangeable but I've found are, maybe this too..

[hks_kansei]

The only difference I can think, is possibly length (although it would be minimal difference)

Didn't the NB (or NA8?) have a slightly wider track than the NA6 or something?

[bensale]

Pretty sure thats all the same as all of the parts that would be affected by a changed like that are interchangeable. The NB has 5mm wider track due to the uprights/ wishbones but my NA's whole rear subframe could go in your NB and vice versa let alone just the uprights. Front is a little more complicated in the changes but still interchangeable.

The NC has a much wider track but NA /NB is the same shell, mount points etc. I figure if the front cable is the same then the rears should be the same length. Only change could be if they pressed the floor pan slightly differently and routed the cable longer or shorter.

[bensale]

I got a new handbrake.. Massive thanks to Bruce!!! Turns out I only needed to replace the part that goes from the lever to the point where it splits to go to each calliper.

I then went and had some fun...



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Thanks to Bob for filming the video and an extra huge special thanks to the Boaks for lending me a set of wheels and tyres to get to Adelaide the day after so I could shoot this video... The wheels and tyres they gave me and are on at the moment are a set of 17s with R-specs.. Anyone with a lowered / stiffer car I can advise you to never actually pay money to do this to your car bith for the sake of your back as well as the handling characteristics of the car!!



Also shot a few videos of interest recently... WTAC with 7tune and the Phillip Island 6 hour for Mazda Australia to help promote club level motor sport and the MX-5.

[Dweezle]

Can you now lock the rears with the handbrake??
None of my mx5s have been able to do that

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[bensale]

They still don't lock when you just reef the handbrake up... But they now lock a lot easier when you use the right technique.

[PaulF]

Nice work in that motorkhana! It kind of looks like you were past the end of the garage at the end though...

[bensale]

The nose is just in, maybe not the side lol. That was a fun run anyway, trying different techniques and figuring out what works. Turns out the constant slide for the whole test is slower... But more fun and more impressive looking!!!

[ak_perth]

Definatley looks impressive doing the constant slide. I've never dríven a car that hard in the dry (plenty of times in the snow in England though ), but looks very skillfull. Well done