Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby niiko101 » Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:01 am

long story short, bought a hardtop, fitted project g fusers, just test fitted rear pods didnt keep them on the car, going to start body work on the weekend

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby Hjt » Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:29 am

I wouldn't recommend much lower :D

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby niiko101 » Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:59 pm

Hjt wrote:I wouldn't recommend much lower :D



it was way lower before :) but this height it good for daily

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby bazz1990 » Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:52 am

Hi nick
Do you mind me asking you where you purchased the stance GR+ coilovers from ?
Thanks

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby niiko101 » Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:36 pm

bazz1990 wrote:Hi nick
Do you mind me asking you where you purchased the stance GR+ coilovers from ?
Thanks



hey, i ordered them from stance usa themself.

would anyone have any idea where i can get a bootlid like this custom made or order one in and around the sydney area
http://shop.autokonexion.com/Miata-89-9 ... RUNK02.htm

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby niiko101 » Sat Dec 22, 2012 1:38 pm

DO NOT BUY MAZDASPEED TOW HOOKS!!!!!

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this is what happened to mine while jacking it up from the tow hook

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby A.Chen89 » Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:18 pm

That would probably happen with any other tow hook too

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby whitena6 II » Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:30 am

I've got Benen tow hooks, and I've used the rear one as a jacking point a few times with no problems.

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby Black_Penguin » Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:39 pm

Tow hooks are not made to take vertical loads only horizontal ones, lifting half a car on some 3mm steel <10mm wide is never going to end well.
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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby Okibi » Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:20 am

Never seen someone jack their car from the tow hook before. :shock:

Sidefusers look great. :mrgreen:
If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? Neither would I.

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby tobias » Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:16 pm

Tow hooks are ment to be one of the stronger points of a car

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby bruce » Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:26 pm

tobias wrote:Tow hooks are ment to be one of the stronger points of a car


Yes, for TOWING (horizontal movements). It will fail if you are putting approx 500kgs (half the cars weight) onto a point a few centimetres wide.

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby tobias » Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:51 pm

I jack my car up by the tow hooks all the time and do so at work and I've never seen anything like that happen

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby bruce » Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:49 pm

Luck. I would never put any part of my body under there.
In all my years of hanging around workshops, watching motorsport, I've never seen anyone use the towhooks to jack.

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Re: Nick's Daily NA6 MX5 STANCED & LOW

Postby Apu » Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:11 pm

On a standard tow hook, could be OK. The rear tow hook is one of the jacking points on my Integra.


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