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On 10/16/2024 at 9:28 AM, Kinkstaah said:

Also, is it too late to say that people also usually throw a cam in there while they're pulling the engine out so that there's more power up top to go with the displacement?
 

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Get them to put the cams in. Everyone has happier with cams installed.

Be happier with the end result. Happier than you are now.

6 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

Get them to put the cams in. Everyone has happier with cams installed.

Be happier with the end result. Happier than you are now.

Maybe later, I'm currently just enjoying the car

On 17/10/2024 at 11:09 PM, MBS206 said:

Ill go with end of Jan. I think he wants his roof first...

As I haven't heard from MX5 Mania IRT the roof I say I've missed out as they are as rare as hens teeth and sell fast

I am still looking though, as yet I haven't found one though 😪

 

Took the MX5 to Goulburn to have a early lunch with the daughter, took the long way home via Robertson pie shop, loaded the boot with apple turnovers with cream, and some rocky road, then headed back down the Pass and along the Hwy to Holsworthy 

Roof down all the way, life is good

For a awesome day out we only saw a couple of cool cars sadly, a mint standard looking Evo 9 leaving Goulburn and heading onto the Hume Hwy was the highlight, I've noticed a lack of cool cars in the hills and Hwys over the last few years of my weekend cruises around 

Where are all the cool cars gone? Sold? Broken? Or to clean and expensive now to actually put miles on?

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Standing around having photos taken on insta.

(sad but true).

Go to a track day, what is actually there nowadays could suprise you, you need to update your cool car in the hill radar to include VW, Hyundai, BMW etc :D

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1 hour ago, Kinkstaah said:

 you need to update your cool car in the hill radar to include VW, Hyundai, BMW etc :D

 

Never, well......, some old BMW'S are kinda cool, like old Alfas and Fiats (althoughI would never own one), and I have a soft spot for old Bettles (punch buggies), as for the new BMW, VW and Hyundai's might be a blast on the track, I look at them like soulless tools

1 hour ago, The Bogan said:

 

Never, well......, some old BMW'S are kinda cool, like old Alfas and Fiats (althoughI would never own one), and I have a soft spot for old Bettles (punch buggies), as for the new BMW, VW and Hyundai's might be a blast on the track, I look at them like soulless tools

I'm not saying you're wrong, see my rants about modern BMW M cars being unfun at any speed on the road and expensive at the track...

....but these are mainstream enthusiast cars now. What you're seeing less of... is classic/vintage cars being driven around in anger, as they are classic, vintage cars now.

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20 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

I'm not saying you're wrong, see my rants about modern BMW M cars being unfun at any speed on the road and expensive at the track...

....but these are mainstream enthusiast cars now. What you're seeing less of... is classic/vintage cars being driven around in anger, as they are classic, vintage cars now.

Yeah, suppose so, tracking them nowadays is a fool hardy enterprise IRT risk vs reward 

But, where are they gone IRT Saturday and Sunday cruises

I dig people wanting to keep them mint, but only to a point, the joy, for me at least, is driving them

I suppose alot of people are treating them as assets now, not as things to use and enjoy

 

On 10/27/2024 at 1:06 PM, Kinkstaah said:

I'm not saying you're wrong, see my rants about modern BMW M cars being unfun at any speed on the road and expensive at the track...

....but these are mainstream enthusiast cars now. What you're seeing less of... is classic/vintage cars being driven around in anger, as they are classic, vintage cars now.

You need to visit Ipswich.

Plenty of clapped out R32 and R33s running around here as daily drivers.

And when I say clapped out, they're how you'd look at a VN, when it's the year 2010...

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  • 2 weeks later...

Purchased intake noise for the MX5

YEAP, a zero performance mod, but, after going for a spin with one installed (passenger seat ride), for me it is well worth the LOLS it gives with the intake noises over 3k rpm, just like the ITB's dort...........minus the top end performance of ITB's 🤣

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Hang on, it is mad AutoExe JDM shit,  so I'll probably get a sticker worth + 5kw

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1 hour ago, GTSBoy said:

Insert tab A into slot B?

The boy just hit up google translate and it worked a treat, he said step one was "please urinate with precision and elegance", he then sent me the correct translation 

I get some new loctite for the small fixtures tomorrow and get some "dort" going after that 🤣

15 hours ago, The Bogan said:

Dort sounds above 3k rpm are dorty 🤣

I might krinkle black the alloy 🤔

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The car is red. Leave it red, it looks great. Unless it's sealed though it's not going to be doing anything for performance and just suckin in hot air, mind you.

3 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

The car is red. Leave it red, it looks great. Unless it's sealed though it's not going to be doing anything for performance and just suckin in hot air, mind you.

@KinkstaahKrinkle paint the "silver" alloy, not the red filter frame

Engine bay heat won't be a issue worth worrying about as the silver alloy blocks it off on 3 sides, as for the top, the bonnet seals most of it and the big OEM CAI intake snorkel is still fitted in its original position 

I will head into Clark's Rubber when I have some time to grab some pinch weld to tidy up the alloy after I paint it

As for performance, I honestly wasn't expecting any, the only reason I got it is because the intake noise sounds cool to my old ears when I'm feeding it the beans

Sometimes it's the silly things you do in in life that gives the most fun, and I do love anything that makes cool car noises

In other news: I survived 4 nights at sea with Jackie not throwing me over board, holidays are continuing now as we are currently chilling at the Beachcomber in Toukley, after taking the coast roads from Sydney in the MX5, top down all the way, Toukley is where I spent a good deal of my youth holidaying during the summer months, there's lots of reminiscing going on,  and lots of beaches and old houses to visit

Next on the list is to head to Batemans Bay for a few days, but we will take the Commodore out to stretch its legs, then Commodore hasn't really moved for months

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