What did you do to your MX5 today ?

by **leamyj** » Wed, 14 Sep 2011 6:49 +0000

Brilliant!

by **Steve** » Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:45 +0000

Changed my suspension from Rokker coilovers to kyb shocks + MX5parts trim springs with big help from medic5.

by **Medic5** » Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:53 +0000

Lol two coffees and a sausage bagel

by **aquarian5** » Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:34 +0000

Nice one Steve....will be bedded in for the Galway run. :wink:

by **93 Mk1** » Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:21 +0000

Steve wrote:Changed my suspension from Rokker coilovers to kyb shocks + MX5parts trim springs with big help from medic5.

I will be replacing my Eibach springs as the front is just too low. How come you went from coilovers back to a regular set up ?
Just curious as I was contemplating coilovers as a possibility. S-Special type springs were my other choice.

by **Steve** » Wed, 21 Sep 2011 4:25 +0000

Personal preferance really, I like a firmer setup on the back than the coilovers gave me, I could have replaced the rear springs with something firmer but I already had the replacement shocks and springs in the shed gathering dust ;-)

by **sidewaysreilly** » Thu, 22 Sep 2011 2:54 +0000

hmmmmmmm, they were bouncy????????

by **peteh** » Thu, 22 Sep 2011 4:42 +0000

Made a set of custom door cards with the old hardboard door card, some timber flooring underlay, a suede imitation material and some maplin speaker handles!!

by **twisty** » Thu, 22 Sep 2011 8:52 +0000

Nice job on the door cards! :thumleft:

by **Steve** » Thu, 22 Sep 2011 8:58 +0000

very nice! :thumright:

by **leamyj** » Fri, 23 Sep 2011 9:20 +0000

What did I do today..nothing, but last night I committed a henious crime on my mx5.......I managed to put DIESEL in the tank ( not paying attention at the pump)

Luckily it was only €10 worth and I had only gone 100 yds from the station when I realised my mistake ( chugging engine and a weird smell), so I limped back and filled the tank with the real stuff. She started with a massive cloud of smoke from the exhaust and spluttered along for about 5 minutes , so I decided to head for Dublin anyway. By the time I got to the motorway she was running fine and I had no further issues for the journey... hopefully that's the end of that!!!! :oops:

John

by **twisty** » Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:04 +0000

Today was the day for a new timing belt , 100k km is getting near and i had no idea if or when the belt might have been done , 4 hours work later and the belt , tensioner and cam cover gasket are all replaced , good days work.
interestingly the old belt looked perfect but the bearing in the tensioner was a little dry and wanted changing, waterpump was perfect so i left it in there.

by **jaybond** » Thu, 06 Oct 2011 8:50 +0000

I GOT INSURANCE AND TAXED!!! I'm back, on the road again, cha cha cha!

by **leamyj** » Fri, 07 Oct 2011 7:41 +0000

Nice one Jay

by **Rebelbloke** » Fri, 07 Oct 2011 7:54 +0000

I put some Duck tape on the roof to fix the 10cm slash from some f*ckin skanger... Now where's the number for my insurance company...?