punkoutnz

Nope I bought this from a guy I've known for years. Was his mother's car before he inherited it and it spent far too long sitting in a paddock before I took delivery to restore it.

So spent a bit of time on it today, lifted the engine and gearbox out (leaving a HUGE puddle of oil from the gearbox... WHOOPS!). So going to pull the sump off this week and get a new oil return -10 fitting welded on, bolt my new 2000lb carbon/kevlar clutch kit on and then bolt the gearbox on and put the lot back in the car next weekend (if all goes to plan!).

Still got much to do, but moving in the right direction...

Nah I ditched that spoiler aye, it's now on Zac's MX5 which he's just posted a thread on too. It suits his red car, I didn't like it on mine. Something about tan leather, luxury green and a T wing didn't work.

Sweet colour. Wheels are pretty choice. I'm amazed someone turboed an auto?! What ECU is it running? Standard internals?

Yeah dunno why he kept it auto, although the gearbox seems to have held up fine. Far too rev happy for a turbo though! It's running an Autronic ecu, and yeah, standard internals.

Okay so back in March I bought this sweet little turbo MX5. Original downside was it was auto, but it was turbo, looked tidy, drove nicely and all that, but puffed a bit of smoke. Also had tein suspension, fully certed, and came with a nice pair of scissors for my new job as a hairdresser. Drove it for a little while but problems started to rear their ugly heads and the inevitable happened...

Along came fail number 1. Fudged turbo. So I got given a new turbo. Bolted that in. Turbo number 2 failed (had had a dodgy rebuild in the past we think, and had been sitting for years).

So then I thought "ah bugger it" and the project began, and since then it's been sitting in my garage in various states of undress.

So here I give you, one British racing green Miata...

I ditched that spoiler, was really a love it/hate it thing and I decided I hated it.

Original turbo was a TD04L, ditched that and went to a bit of a hybrid VJ14 with which died, now I'm going to run a T25 from a silvia that seems to be in good nick. The old oil return was dodgy, so that's kind of why I've pulled it all apart, proper dash lines, a proper oil return, proper water feeds, etc. Also doing a manual conversion while it's off the road.

Here's the second turbo setup I ran. Note the dodgy oil return line running all the way across the engine bay. Yeah nah that was crap...

All gone now, here's the new setup as it sits ready to have the IC piping and downpipe all made up...

I've got the next few days off work with the plan of getting as much done as I can, got a sweet Toda flywheel to go in, will be taking an old clutch in to autoclutch to be rebuilt, picking up some more fittings tomorrow and pulling the engine and box out on friday so it's all on the stand and easy to work on.

Been 4 months or so of annoyance, but hopefully it'll be plain sailing when it's all back together! Pleny more pics, etc to come.

Mint little mx5, mazdaspeed lip = win.

Screw it, I'm making a thread for mine now, there's too many to stay closeted!

Why not just wood grain the whole car??

it's a garage vary knock-off made by touge-run

There u go punkoutnz

Legendary! I take it you shipped it from the states yourself?

God damn I love how a few bits here and there can make an MX5 look totally balla.

Argh what is that front lip!!?? I have been looking for one for ages now for my MX5 and haven't even found out what the damn thing is yet!

Yep the SR16VE box is perfect, has a slightly closer ratio too. You'll need to swap your speedo sender to the cable one for the N14 as the vzr one is electric but it's only one 10mm bolt = 2 min job.

The LSD and non LSD have to different length driveshafts mate, and different inner cv's. If you got yourself a non LSD gearbox you'd need the driveshaft from one of the NZ new SR driven pulsars (rare as hens teeth?). However your choice of LSD gearboxes include the N14 gti, the N15 gti, vzr and autech or various primeras came out with LSD. If you find a hydraulic one you can swap over your cable shifting mechanism very easily.

Hope that points you in the right direction!

Yeah sorry I couldn't make it in Sunday Sammy! With my MX off the road, and Darryl's urgent need to get his car going again I just flat out ran out of time this weekend. And this coming weekend I have Zac's MX5 to paint and Juleon's clutch to do!

I'm sure I've seen your car on the coast aye, do you drive it around often?

Sweet! Should knuckle in and get one days work done at least.

Hey Sam, next weekend is a long weekend... Reckon we can finish Mavis by Monday?

I reckon if the carb has been sitting dry for ages you should pull it down and give it a clean out. Probably find one of the jets is slightly blocked which is where you're losing power under load. Bit of compressed air through the jets should sort it out, failing that soak some carb cleaner in it to get rid of any green deposits that have collected.

I've been dealing with Silverdale Radiators for years. Little bit north of the city but they haven't let me down in a solid 10 years in either price or service so always happy to go back there.

http://www.silverdaleradiators.co.nz/

Name: James

Location: A little north of Auckland, a little south of Northland

Cars you own: 1992 Mazda MX-5 Turbo and a 2001 V7 STi

Mods: A few here and there...

Links to pics:

How you found out about oldschool: Dodgysam and Darryl have been members for a while. Dodgysam has been trying to get me to join up for ages! Didn't figure you'd be into a dirty VZR pulsar but maybe the MX5 will slip in... Just!

You provide the beverages and the tools, I'll provide some labour. Hell we should get HEFTY going the same weekend... Lulz

Sam have you STILL not finished this thing? Come on bro, I'll have a wife before you get this thing back on the road!

P.S = Hi all!