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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby the_darkside » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:08 am

My car is dríven hard at a semi-functional height, I'd recommend not going for the trap lip because if it does hit something, you're stuffed. IMHO garage vary is best.
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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby Hjt » Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:34 pm

It's just showing respect Dann. Nothing personal. If you want to chat that's fine, but the theses about Emily's car.

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby emily_mx5 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:04 am

Complete Exhaust Upgrade
FINALLY I have done something actually decent haha.

4-2-1 Maxim Works Extractors straight from Japan, coated in high-temp black paint
Custom 2.25" midpipe with Magnaflow high-flow catalytic converter
RS*R Muffler, big thanks to Jesse Streeter who brought this in for me

I would like to say a huge thank you to NitroDann, who welded up the midepipe to match the headers and muffler. It fits perfectly and has made a massive difference to the response and acceleration of my little NA6 :mrgreen:

oem temp sensor housing welded into new cat:
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stock cat vs. magaflow cat
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model no. for those interested
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neat welds:
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RS*R muffler, nfi what is says?
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midepipe in mid-fabrication and final:
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Test fitting the headers to oem system to check if they sat in stock position.
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Unfortunately they sit about 3/4" shorter, which is still fine, it just means I have to cut the passenger side seatbelt bolt slightly shorter because the midepipe is touching it. The bolt looks too shiny to be original, and sticks out past the captive plate by about 2", so should probly be shorter anyway lol.

high tensile nuts & bolts & washers used to clamp the mode-pipe to the muffler:
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stock rubbish :twisted:
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beautiful Maxim Works headers :mrgreen:
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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby Okibi » Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:11 am

Looks great emily and Dann :mrgreen:

Would be cool to get a video clip so we can appreciate the exhaust noise.
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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby emily_mx5 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:19 am

Im not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing but its reallyyyyyyyyy quiet. Although maybe anything will seem quiet after the other RS*R :lol:
Absolutely ZERO drone, which I am very happy about, because I was certainly worried as it does have a 3.5" f*ck off tip haha.

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby NitroDann » Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:21 am

So its chambered.

Good result.

Fair bit of extra grunt? :twisted:

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby emily_mx5 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:27 am

Nah I dont think chambered, rolled a small bouncy ball straight through it, its just got a pretty big resonance box, its bigger than stock muffler haha.
NitroDann wrote:Fair bit of extra grunt? :twisted:

Why yes, yes it does :wink:

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby NitroDann » Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:30 am

I reckon your hearing is out from that old Milo tin then lol.

Well thats even better, Pretty close to spot on perfect setup for a weekend warrior with some tasty supporting bits!

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby KevGoat » Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:15 pm

Really enjoying your build Emily. Jealous of the quality on the exhaust.

Keep up the great work.

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby Aussie Stig » Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:52 pm

How to make an exhaust swap interesting. Illustrative photos as well.
Not a fan of the big tip, but each to her own.

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby emily_mx5 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:36 pm

See, I thought the tip looked huge too, when the muffler was sitting in my living room, but actually on the car, its sorta small :lol:
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stock 2.25" vs RS*R 3.5"
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looks pretty stock from the side
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I love it!
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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby Hjt » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:53 am

Car looks good, I'm more interested in Hong Kong atm!

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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby Aussie Stig » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:46 am

emily_mxV wrote:See, I thought the tip looked huge too, when the muffler was sitting in my living room, but actually on the car, its sorta small :lol:
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:lol: :lol: Yep you are right, it is tucked in really tight and also a straight cut no frills pipe. Good one.

Now those wheels while attractive are a bit too fancy for my taste.

I recently came across a great mod for your colour roadster. See where your top dash crash pad and top of door pads are tan? They can be swapped for black ones. What it does is tie the dash together and makes it look a lot sleeker. Only the top bits need change otherwise you lose the tan effect.
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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby emily_mx5 » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:09 pm

Aussie Stig wrote:Now those wheels while attractive are a bit too fancy for my taste.

I love my wheels. I really do, they look really good in real life, because they have 16 spokes they look quite vintage to match the car, and they are also a very dull silver so aren't crazy shiny. Also because of the low profile tyre, the sidewall doenst flex as much as the normal 50/55/60 mx5 sized profiles, so it has less body roll and handles quite sharply :) I have tried a set of NB8A wheels and noticed a negative difference in terms of handling. So before y'all go flaming someone for having 16" wheels, think of the positives too :lol:
Unfortunately they are replicas of these:
OZ RACING - SUPERTURISMO GT
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:( I don't like fake stuff, but new wheels are not quite a priority right now.

Aussie Stig wrote: I recently came across a great mod for your colour roadster. See where your top dash crash pad and top of door pads are tan? They can be swapped for black ones. What it does is tie the dash together and makes it look a lot sleeker. Only the top bits need change otherwise you lose the tan effect.

Oh ma gawd are you crazy, I would never ever ever ever change any thing to do with my tan interior. It is so lovely and although not to everyones tastes, it is really special, and when people see it in real life they always comment on how nice it is. And anyway it flows perfectly because the top of the door cards match the tan crash pad.
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Re: Emily's NA6 V-Special Roadster

Postby KevGoat » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:56 pm

I'm in full agreement with you Emily, I love the Tan interiors.

I had similar 16" multispoke wheels - TSW if I recall correctly - on a Celica a few years ago & I loved the look. Used to get heaps of comments about how good they were. Only negative I found was cleaning them :|


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