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Mark,

I bumped my timing up to 14 degrees from memory.

Sounds like its coming along nicely!

I'd be going the roll bar avenue first. Why I hear you ask?

as you said - get to the track quicker, and its a good safety item.

plus go take it for a lap with the stock suspension and you've got a good base line.

is yours the SVT motor?

Ive seen the SVT motors get to 1.10's at wakefield with basic bolt ons (ECU, exhaust, intake, suspension and semis)

otherwise 1.11s would be very acheiveable.

Not the SVT motor mate.

The strut brace arrived today, its all cleaned up and fitted now.

Still waiting for the exhaust wrap to turn up though, bloody post man, hurry up and get here.

Roll bar it is then, it makes sense.

I might get UNIGROUP to do my timing and then put it on the rollers for the LOLS.

I also need more cardboard, I used 1 square meter of it already but only worked out what I don't like for a shroud so far, the recycling bin is half full of templates and gaffa tape.

Mine made 75 rwkw back in 2010 at Unigroup!

that was intake, exhaust and 14 degrees timing.

when I took it to Jez's workshop for the cams and ecu, the base run almost 4 years on was still 75rwkw!

now makes 94rwkw

I was bored and removed the exhaust to prep it and paint it, and then the post man arrived with the wrap, sweet.

Part 1, cleaned and painted, should be wrapped and in later tonight, I don't know if it will benefit with the powahs but it will be a vast aesthetic improvement.

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LOL Matty, always thinking, if I was gonna spend a bucket on it I would do a 13B, but I'm not spending a bucket, just cheap stuff and fun.

Finished most of my Bourbons the exhaust finally, what a bitch it was to wrap (I'm as itchy as a MOFO), all torqued up and run to dry and shrink the wrap, just need to re torque it after a long run tomorrow.

I'm very happy with it,, the heat in the engine bay is noticeably less and looks better than the POS shroud that was previously there.

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Went out to MX5 MANIA today for a look, do want some stuff, cool guy too, and very helpful.

Also went to UNIGROUP to talk about timing, no can do as it runs a trigger, they say it should run at optimum with 98 as the knock sensor will give it more timing if its not knocking, so should be fine, they gave me some options but said for the couple of killerwasps and the slight move in torque it wouldn't be worth the dollars or time on a stock motor.

On a side note: After going to MX5 MANIA and looking at a rather large amount of cool stuff I need everyone to give me their cash so I can buy everything that I dribbled on, thankyou for your support.

After making up 11ty7 templates I fabbed up a tin protype to see how it sits, I rattle caned it black because I had some paint, all I need to do now is get some alloy and beat this one flat to use as a template, also need to get to Clarkes Rubber to get some vinyl edging.

It will get the compulsory black VHT Wrinkle Plus paint job once finished.

All in all it will be held together by 3 pop rivets and fixed by slotting it under the front guard.

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Clarks rubber, good call.

I had my exhaust finished today, 2.25" pipe from the headers to a very high flow cat, from there its 2.25" the rest of the way to a straight through rear box and out the back.

Slightly louder than I thought but it sounds good, it will settle down after a while I would imagine, worst case scenario is I put in a resonator mid way to settle it down a bit.

Still waiting on happy prices from MX5MANIA for rollbar, suspension, and some Sparco Sprint V seats, as well as some other odds and sods.

I shall be making the most out of the money I got from the sale of the Ford, I was told that was my budget so I'm going to use every cent of it.

Finished my filter box today, made from 0.6 mm stucco aluminium sheet, the edging was some pinch weld PVC stuff which was perfect and looks good, the alloy cost $30 for a 900 x 600 sheet (smallest sheet they had, only used 1/3 of it) from Bunnings and the edging cost $5.50 a meter from Clark Rubber.

It looked too shiny bare so I gave it a coat of satin black, I feel it looks much better black, I used the Stucco because it was much more ridged than the plain 0.6 alloy.

Need more parts now to fill in my spare time.

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