Emily's 04 VR SE

emily_mx5 · 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

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.

KevGoat · 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

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:47 pm

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.

WTS Tan glovebox $ your bank balance

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:46 am

No offence, but I can't stand the tan interiors. :lol:

To each their own.

Kev05 · Postby **Kev05** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:37 am

Emily,

I'm in favor of tan interior as well and the crash pad somewhat improves the appeal.

In relation to the chrome roll bar hoops, how do you find the noise level when driving with the soft top down at highway speed?

marty085 · Postby **marty085** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:54 am

I only wish I had a tan interior. I've seen high res photos of a white NA some website road tests and it has tan interior incl leather seats and looks awesome.

username · Postby **username** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:18 pm

I love tan interiors! Especially clean ones! Really don't like that 'mouse-trap' of a style bar though. They're more dangerous than anything

emily_mx5 · Postby **emily_mx5** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:29 pm

PaulF wrote:No offence, but I can't stand the tan interiors. To each their own.

haha thats fine mate, but have you ever sat in a nice one? Pretty classy

Kev05 wrote:In relation to the chrome roll bar hoops, how do you find the noise level when driving with the soft top down at highway speed?

Stainless steel

Basically a bit more buffetty than nothing, i'm sure its the same with real rollbars.

username wrote:Really don't like that 'mouse-trap' of a style bar though. They're more dangerous than anything

Yeah everyone hates it except me haha, but like the wheels it adds to a vintage/retro themed style.

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:12 am

emily_mxV wrote:
PaulF wrote:No offence, but I can't stand the tan interiors. To each their own.

haha thats fine mate, but have you ever sat in a nice one? Pretty classy

I've sat in a couple, including Martin's when his still had a full interior (which I hear it doesn't anymore). I'm probably not one to judge though; my interior is pretty weird and is full of things that are cracked or not properly attached.

emily_mx5 · Postby **emily_mx5** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:19 am

hahaaaa yeah i was gonna say martins does in no way shape or form count in representing

Keen to see what you do with yours though! Any specific plans?

Aussie Stig · Postby **Aussie Stig** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:28 am

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.

See Pic
Dash is more integrated, see how it flows with the tombstone. This is a great tan interior.

KevGoat · Postby **KevGoat** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:46 am

Agh!! Aussie Stig why'd you have to show that??!!

Now I'm really thinking I need to change my heavy feeling black interior!

That just looks awesome ....

spikes · Postby **spikes** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:21 am

emily_mxV wrote:hahaaaa yeah i was gonna say martins does in no way shape or form count in representing

I don't understand this interior business you speak of.

emily_mx5 · Postby **emily_mx5** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:13 pm

Ok so bit of an update

"new wheels are not quite a priority right now."
Yeah rightttt, I am sick of waiting on stuff I want incase I need the money to fix something that breaks, because this car is a bit of a lemon and i have come to terms with the fact that there will always be something wrong with it :lol:

So after many many hours of trolling Yahoo Auctions Japan and bothering Jesse Streeter, I have finally purchased my DREAM wheels!
They are made by Work... they are 15"x8"... and have an offset of +23... Thats all i'm saying for now :twisted:

But oh noes you cant really have that sort of wheel on stock suspension/alignment, ends up looking silly like this haha

So got some suspension too
Bilstein shocks out of a Clubman, with relatively new King Super Low springs, only $150 off the forum!
needed a bit of tlc.
Got the flocked bushes pressed out

Compressed the springs to take them apart

crap that came out vs new bumpstops and dustboots from FatCatMotorsports and new polyurethane bushes from AutolinkUK.

All clean and put back together!

So havnt had a chance to get them in the car yet, im thinking I might wait till I get the wheels, so I can get an alignment once.
Will be rolling the guards asap too, with the help of a friend who owns a guard roller, no baseball bats or rolls of newspaper lol.

Also got a new arm rest, the original one had some funky cracks that thouroughly annoyed me.

Lastly, more trolling on YAJ, scored an ARC rad cooling panel, which I preceded to cover in stickers :mrgreen:

I figured they are good for at least 7.3kw :lol: