What does your engine bay look like?

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby Si.G » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:24 pm

Not the cleanest or the smartest, but here's my nearly complete ITB install, using AE101 throttle bodies on a customer manifold. Just need to make up an new throttle cable and do some mapping.

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby Okibi » Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:43 am

bump
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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby davekmoore » Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:33 am

Pixolas NB8A
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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby trader » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:45 am

All bling - no go!
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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby Okibi » Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:35 pm

Looks good, someone else who's spent way too much time with a buffing wheel. :mrgreen:
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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby zoomzoom » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:19 pm

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Still a work in progress as always. A bit rough but it does the trick.

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby Apu » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:28 pm

Mine looks like this! Taken by Justin Fox at Zen Garage.

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby NitroDann » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:29 pm

Your engine bay looks so stock but I can spot lots of goodies in there :mrgreen:

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby Apu » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:39 pm

Yeah, it was quite funny...I had to look around to remember what's gone in.

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby toppertee » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:34 am

zoomzoom wrote:Image

Still a work in progress as always. A bit rough but it does the trick.

Cheers

Tim

Putting it mildy. It left me for dead down the back straight. One of the best mx5 at the track day. I was really impressed with it.

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby toppertee » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:36 am

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My unit, all 100hp of it :mrgreen:

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby Joshhh » Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:41 pm

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Getting this going again :)
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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby Magpie » Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:52 pm

ImageDSCN2808 by Eipeip, on Flickr

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Re: What does your engine bay look like?

Postby hks_kansei » Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:59 pm

https://flic.kr/p/tQoXEz

Like that.

but with the rocker breather relocated to a filter hidden inside the guard rather than just a pipe to the ground.
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