What did you do to your MX5 today ?

[barney]

put her through the nct and passed with flying colours

[anniniwa]

Congrats Barney!

[CashelMX5]

Guess you can fool some of the prople some of the time, especially today

[aquarian5]

Excellent Barney..well done.

[jayryan]

i did nothing with my 5. Its in the garage getting fixed and i miss it I'm waiting on a coilpack to come from England.Does anybody out there have a time machine? I could go into the future and get my coilpack!Anybody?

[barney]

taxed her today for 6mths and went for a blast around the local coast road. going like a clock with new ht leads, plugs and headlight vent. response appears greatly improved.

[Steve]

Installed a Limited Slip Diff with big help from Mike and Kieran yesterday.

You should see some of the stuff he has hidden away


Pulled his drift MX5 out and dropped out the diff in a few hours.



Then set about dropping out the open diff in mine and discovered issues.. mine are ABS axles .. and the ones from the drift car weren't ABS.. to transfer the toothed ring we'd need a press. We didn't have a press.



So.. we went with kieran's idea and converted the ABS axles to stub axles instead.




They fell apart on us a few times but we eventually got them together.
So, out with the old diff, then in with the new.. except.. we had to remove the exhaust, braces.. etc, then couldn't align the diff on the PPF, then couldn't find one of the collars that fit in the PPF for the bolts.. we nearly gave up at this stage as it was 9pm.. and we only had one head lamp to work with.. eventually we found the collar and fairly flukely got it to line up (pheeeww!).



Eventually got it together and finished up at 11.. home at 1:10am.. I really really hope I don't ever have to do this job again.





Steve

[mx5ideways]

was an eventful day alright,started out well but then got caught with them few problems but glad it all ended well,i really hope i dont have to do a diff again either

[galwaytt]

have been breathing a lot of Red Dust lately - no, not the stuff from Mars, but more this:



All ready to go into the booth, bar a couple of things: need to get windscreen out (see separate post.....), and the pop-up lid covers....sweet and gentle god, what's with the screws ??

[sidewaysreilly]

how does the diff feel........worth the effort????

[Steve]

Feels the same in daily driving (apart from a little chatter on slow full lock turns), it definitely puts the power down a lot better when accelerating out of corners, the inner wheel spin is gone, had one "whoah" moment so far. I need to find a wet empty car park to learn what it can do + keep me out of the hedges.

[franksm]

Ah come on...

Do you not see the people on the footpath noticing the new upgrade ? That's why they're heads are turning when you drive past.

"wow, tricked out diff"

"class ! bet there's no stub axles on that"

[Steve]

heheh "I swear, I drove past the theatre last night and they were all like.. "

[galwaytt]

heheh "I swear, I drove past the theatre last night and they were all like.. "

...nah, that was the look on the faces as they heard it whine on the drive by: in the late-night panic to finish, he'd forgotten to put oil in......and they were listening to the pinion bearings whining..........in concert....

..I'll get me coat...

[Steve]

heheh "I swear, I drove past the theatre last night and they were all like.. "

...nah, that was the look on the faces as they heard it whine on the drive by: in the late-night panic to finish, he'd forgotten to put oil in......and they were listening to the pinion bearings whining..........in concert....

..I'll get me coat...

LOL No theres deffo oil in it, hows that windscreen coming on?