punkoutnz

Alpaca? Can't wait to tell her you called her an Alpaca. Wait. Don't they spit?

Done lots of stuff, home made side skirts, new intake, been driving it around all summer while the wrx was being fixed up and just yesterday I picked up my new garage vary knockoff front lip. BOOM!

I'll be there, thinking I should buy a sticker this time too, even though I'm not reeeaaally that old school. Maybe if I grew a beard...

Would have been keen, except I can't fit my bike in the mx5, will have to wait till I get my other car back from the fixing people and be geared up for next time!

I can't see how a car can make you gay. Being balls deep in another man certainly can though. Then again, if the balls aren't touching, is it really gay?

How would you build an angry fat lady anyway?

Fine. I'll do it. She'd be an angry root I bet! Did she come out and have a stormfest when the cops were having a yarn to ya's?

It's not gay if you say no homo. And I figure if I put a sticker on there saying no homo, then the car is definitely not gay!

Did that continue after we left? I know you're all just jealous you can't be manly by day and a flaming queen by night...

Dude your legs are so far apart I was starting to question your line of work! Not my fault your leg was snuggling up to the bloody hand brake lever! Bench seats are for ponsonby hookers, real men use a bonnet.

You guys are thuch butchus! Two guys in an MX5 is NOT gay. Balls can't possibly touch. Though I do question the sexuality of my passenger pretty much constantly.

All this time? I guess it's okay to be a late bloomer... Was a sweet meet, freaken epic turnout and was rad as to meet some other members, given I had previously only met 3... That genuine 86 was so lush!

Two guys in an MX5 is definitely NOT gay.

Decided I'm going to come to this. After meeting some of you on Saturday you guys are too awesome not to hang out with.

15x6.5" buddyclubs. +40 offset. Tyres are RE001 205/50's. Quite sticky with that combo!

Gotta love the tan interior! At least if a baby throws up in your car it wont leave a stain aye, haha. What condition is your soft top in? Gotta enjoy the summer with the roof down bro.

Yeah bro that was my WRX. Pretty gutted eh! Dunno if I want it back though, imagine it'll be pretty buggered if they managed to get through a 5 star alarm and all the jazz to get it going.

I did stuff... Manifold had a leak, took it off, welded it up. Clearly didn't spend enough time clearing out the welding spatter though. Nek minuut... A little bit managed to get into the engine so I tore the head off, cleaned that little sucker out of there, sanded the dents off the piston and put it all back together with a new turbo. Then I turned the key and crossed my fingers. Is all running good now with no exhaust leaks and no crunchy crunchy noises. Dodged a bullet there! Well, sort of. I'm still going to need to build a new engine cos I don't trust a pitted piston knocking around in a turbo car, so that's going to be the winter project ready for next summer. Chuck some forgies au bei in there and some eagle rods while I'm at it and all should be groovy. Also scored a roll bar from the lovely land of trademe so I now sport a lovely piece of scaffolding to put stickers on (stickers make everything cooler you see). I came up with this wicked idea for the interior, I know how everyone loves two tone (including me) and anything that gets rid of a bit of brown is awesome (I tried toilet duck but that shit was stuck good). So picked up some black bits of interior and did this... Next step is to do the dash as well (which I already have, just having a wicked case of cbf right now). So here's hoping I get to enjoy a few more summer months of topless cruising without having to tear into the engine bay again.

Found that out the hard way! Royal PITA that is.

Well I've spent the last two months enjoying the crap out of this car! Put the stock Nardi wheel back in cos that momo was just too small for a car with no adjustable steering column. Painted the IC black for that extra sleeper effect, got a turbo blanket to keep under bonnet temperatures down, last weekend tinted the windows and this weekend I picked up an R style front lip for it. Here's the project I'm working on at the moment, this is the first mould of the side skirts that I'm making for it... And here, although it's dirty, it sits in it's summer guise... So it's been busy, yet not. Days like today really make one of these cars all that more awesome though!

I take it you're running the stock 1600 diff then? Look into the 1800 diff from the later model. MX5mart has a kit you can buy with all the subframe that bolts in. Goes from a 6 inch to 7 inch diff (most chicks will tell you it's that inch that makes all the difference). Plus you get the benefit of a torsion LSD. It's basically what I plan to do in the not too distant future. Also slap in the 1800 brake package while you're at it and you'll have yourself one mint set of brakes with a damn strong drive line.

Shit looks so cash! Intercooler looks mint. You could rotate the compressor housing around and run the hot side IC piping down through the guard behind the passenger side light, that's how mine is run.

Harden up! I sprayed my roof black in about 45 minutes. Average job (though I haven't buffed it or anything yet), but my top was blue and my car is green... Bit too Nandor Tanchos for me so I sorted it quick smart. Can't go wrong with a can of repco paint and a bit of patience.

Whoa an update! Bought myself a Gizzmo boost controller, now running .80 bar of boost (about 11.4psi) and then last week I found a nice Momo wheel for cheap so picked that up... Then this weekend I got a call from a mate, he'd found an MX5 with a broken cambelt for $500. We went to check it out with the idea of going halves and found it had a hard top to come with it so we dived at it! Brad's getting the car to use as his daily, and I got the hard top. Here's the car we scored... And here's my car with it's new hard top (that I painted black)... Still in the process of getting a new front lip (bit of a group buy taking place with the MX5 boys) and gonna look at copying some of the ideas the yanks have for some home made side skirts and rear lip. So just having a bit of fun with it now that the kinks seemed to have worked their way out. Looking forward to summer with a convertible for sure!

Are you looking at going the turbo route on an MX5? Bro if there's any info you're after that maybe I can help with feel free to PM me, or ask on here. I've learned a hell of a lot about these cars specifically over the last 6 months or so and there's some things I now know that would have made life a hell of a lot easier in the beginning!