NC MX5

[Watermouse]

6 hours ago, The Bogan said:

 I'm not keen on dropping $1500 on a new one from Mazda

Sigh....

Who are you to deny yourself?

I’ve said this many times to myself and apart from getting what I really want, I go quiet for a while whilst working out what I just did to my savings and how will I afford what it cost, then, next payday…

[Ozdavroz]

Is the toolbox that damaged the boot seal the same item that fell on the car during the storm a while back?

[The Bogan]

1 hour ago, Watermouse said:

Who are you to deny yourself?

I’ve said this many times to myself and apart from getting what I really want, I go quiet for a while whilst working out what I just did to my savings and how will I afford what it cost, then, next payday…

Whilst I typically don't cheap out on things, if I can save some money, like $1000, on a clean straight panel, that gives me $1000 to spend on other stuff, basically free money really 🤔 🤣

[The Bogan]

27 minutes ago, Ozdavroz said:

Is the toolbox that damaged the boot seal the same item that fell on the car during the storm a while back?

Nah, the one that hit the boot was a big steel locker, around 6 foot height, 4 foot wide and 2 foot deep, empty it weighs about 15kg and had about that amount of stuff in it

The photo didn't give a good representation of the actual damage, the large ding on the passenger side was about a inch deep, the one on the driver was about 1/2 inch deep, right on the curve, where the inner boot frame doesn't let you get behind it with a dolly

Basically the same issue with getting behind the damage on the centre of the boot

We could have filled it all with bog, but my OCD would be triggered every time I looked at it, knowing what hides beneath 

As for the locker, I did get the shits with it and put it in the scap metal bin, but, I pulled it out and it is now sitting in the garage at home full of car servicing stuff, cleaning gear and random tools, it's going to pay for it's indiscretions

[Milkmun]

Next minute, carbon fibre boot 😂 

[The Bogan]

MX5 Mania send me a video of some cams we are looking at installed in a NC, this only has a quick tune loaded up and it will hit the dyno tomorrow to see how it actually performs 

Will need to do the valves springs and retainers "while we're in there" for reliability 

LOL....chop chop chop chop chop chop.... 

 

 

[The Bogan]

 

Fark, I cannot get the vid sent to my message thingie to actually work in here

Needless to say, the chop chop sounds epic, and David said it will be amazing in the 2.5

 

[tweety bird]

I keep seeing supercharger kits for these listed on marketplace 😂

[The Bogan]

6 hours ago, tweety bird said:

I keep seeing supercharger kits for these listed on marketplace 😂

I did look at superchargers for a bit, but from looking, and asking around, IRT the cash outlay and power gains, a turbo has multiple advantages on these little 4 pot engines

Either way, boost is not on the cards for my little beastie due to legalities and the cost of getting it legal

[GTSBoy]

I just watched a Hagerty YT vid on the Rocketeer, with the 3L Ford/Jag AJ V6 in it.

I am now sold on the idea.

[The Bogan]

2 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

I just watched a Hagerty YT vid on the Rocketeer, with the 3L Ford/Jag AJ V6 in it.

I am now sold on the idea.

I'm wondering is the Toyota and Mazda "collaboration" could see that new Toyota ???G20 ??? turbo engine that they have been showing off recently into a future MX5, apparently it's good for 400hp out of the box

That could easily, possibly, be much better than the last collaboration between Toyota and Subaru with the boxer engine in the twins

[tweety bird]

3 hours ago, The Bogan said:

I did look at superchargers for a bit, but from looking, and asking around, IRT the cash outlay and power gains, a turbo has multiple advantages on these little 4 pot engines

Either way, boost is not on the cards for my little beastie due to legalities and the cost of getting it legal

agreed, the price vs gains it’s there.
 

unless you go china supercharger. Temu racing anyone?😂https://www.facebook.com/share/15nkfpsg7Z/?mibextid=wwXIfr

that was one of the ones that popped up on my feed 😂

[tweety bird]

2 hours ago, tweety bird said:

agreed, the price vs gains it’s not there. 
 

unless you go china supercharger. Temu racing anyone?😂https://www.facebook.com/share/15nkfpsg7Z/?mibextid=wwXIfr

that was one of the ones that popped up on my feed 😂

Adding a not in the right place helps to make things make sense 😂

[MBS206]

Now Mark, I know you've already done an engine swap, but how about doing an engine swap that reduces a lot of weight, and effectively makes it a mid mount engine setup?

 

https://youtu.be/A99702U07QI?feature=shared

[GTSBoy]

Well, the NC is just an RX8 anyway, right?

[MBS206]

26 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:

Well, the NC is just an RX8 anyway, right?

With that engine being a one rotor, would that make this into an RX4?

[GTSBoy]

2 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

With that engine being a one rotor, would that make this into an RX4?

Now we're getting somewhere.

All we need is a fractional rotor system so we can also have the RX3 and 5 back, and the world will be right again.

[The Bogan]

The incoming weather event seems to be affecting people in weird ways....🤣

And no, whilst there is some fancy engineering going on, I have no real interest in anything rotary really

I had a Capella in the 90's, the rotary engine is way to temperamental, and extremely thirsty for my liking 

If I won lotto and wanted to waste a ton of cash, a boosted K-swap would be what I would look at, until then, the N/A MZR2.5 will be at home in the engine bay of the NC

A build like this, just without the idiotic street pulls and skids would be interesting to waste a huge amount of money on

https://youtu.be/EgqAoVtUD1E?si=n3_umivrUPP8C9Cs

[Ozdavroz]

2 hours ago, The Bogan said:

A build like this, just without the idiotic street pulls and skids would be interesting to waste a huge amount of money on

https://youtu.be/EgqAoVtUD1E?si=n3_umivrUPP8C9Cs

You would need to paint your hardtop again though

[The Bogan]

2 minutes ago, Ozdavroz said:

You would need to paint your hardtop again though

Nah, I much prefer colour matched

Talking about colour matching stuff, the new/used boot lid turned up, all painted up perfectly......aaaannnndddd, it's for a power retractable hard top, not a soft top.....LOL

They are now sending a boot to fit a soft top.....,  whilst frustrating, life is like that sometimes, sometimes you just need to dodge, duck, dip, dive and, ummm, dodge.