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Missed out on the cheap price for the SS, stupid Mark not getting all his personal administration in order, oh well, It will still be awesome x1 million.

Also painted side mirrors satin black to match the roof, why you may ask, because I had some paint and was bored.

Thanks for the links.

The main problem is there is nowhere for the air to exit, most (all) cars have some form of venting built into them, alas the MX5 is designed like a parachute when fitted with a hard top, I will get some MX5 dash vents from the wreckers and install them at the rear of the parcel shelf, I will then duct it out the back and have it exit on the passenger side utilising the little tool bin thingy in the boot.

Im guestimating that it is a low pressure area so air should be sucked out whilst driving.

2 each of these bits, just need a hole saw to suit and some balls to do it.

Installed where I drew the boobies.

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After nearly being rear ended whilst sitting at traffic lights I took a idea that my mate did to his car, I fitted a flasher unit to my boot lid brake light.

Hopefully a flashing red light might catch the eye of the next idiot who isn't paying attention when driving.

Fitted Sparco 4 point, fitted fixed seat, fitted fire extinguisher, bled brakes, emptied glove box, checked all fluids and oils and removed floor mats.

Race prep done for Sunday, LOL

After a round at Wakefield the Silver Slug has showed a few failings, the diff is garbage and single pegging, looking at a KAAZ 1.5 to sort this out, the RE002 are not good either so some Semi's will be looked at after the diff is done.

Brakes held up fine so no dramas there.

Very small engine leak discovered, only very minor but I threw in some NULON stop leak to hopefully soften up the gaskets and get them sealing better, then I found out it might be the power steering leaking at a connection which I will attempt to tighten later, the leak only turns up on the track.

Trying to decide if I want to get another motor to rebuild over time or just get the one in it done. nothing overly major, basic bottom end rebuild with better rods, all balanced, head rebuilt and shaved to up compression a bit, some cams and a ECU so everything talks nicely, and not a turbo in sight.

I also want a Ishift for it so I don't have to keep looking at the tacho.

After turboing 3 mx-5's, i wouldn't bother doing anything with the motor except a turbo, the first b6 na went from 58rwkw to 165 with no internal mods, and was thrashed daily for 6 months till it was written off, and the b8's respond even better. How do you find the chassis stiffness, the last one i did we fitted a full butterfly brace, and it seemed stiff as.

I don't have a problem with the stiffness of the chassis.

As for turbo's, been there done that, not interested, yes I know you can make easy power with a turbo but I would have to rebuild it anyway to get some form of reliability.

Owning the 5 is not about making big power, if I wanted big power I would put a turbo on it after a rebuild and make 1??kw or 13BT it and make well over 300kw or a big lazy V8, but if I end up making 90ish KWATW and can daily it and run some super sprints and its reliable for a few years I will be happy.

As for power, a member is making 94ish atwkw in his 5 and doing 1.11's at Wakie, learning to drive it properly and set up will assist me in smoking cars with twice my power around the track, I learnt my lesson with my old Skyline that lots of power = lots of hassles when it comes to reliability and the amount of money spent on consumables like gearbox's, tyres and brakes and everything else that comes from running a motor hot and hard.

Plus I'm only in it for some fun and the only times I want to beat are my own.

But this is what it would look like if won LOTTO >

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