NC MX5

[The Bogan]

2 hours ago, MBS206 said:

Have you not seen geospy.ai? It can now give GPS co ords to within a metre from a photo, even if it's a random photo you take inside.

Supposedly at the moment only the government/law enforcement has access to that... Supposedly...

Can you not just turn it off on your phone if required?

I remember a brief on this, well, I remember the brief, not what to actually do. LOL

[The Bogan]

2 hours ago, MBS206 said:

Have you not seen geospy.ai? It can now give GPS co ords to within a metre from a photo, even if it's a random photo you take inside.

Supposedly at the moment only the government/law enforcement has access to that... Supposedly...

I just looked at my camera phone settings, apparently I have "not allowed" for location 

Will that stop that app?

[MBS206]

5 minutes ago, The Bogan said:

Can you not just turn it off on your phone if required?

I remember a brief on this, well, I remember the brief, not what to actually do. LOL

It's not any meta data. They have scraped images from everywhere, and then use AI to compare your photo to other photos and work out where you are.

[The Bogan]

14 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

It's not any meta data. They have scraped images from everywhere, and then use AI to compare your photo to other photos and work out where you are.

Whomever is stalking me will need to deal with a few of these, so my safety is "assured" 

[GTSBoy]

Yes, so it won't work for places with no photos on the net. I would have said that there are no photos of the inside of my house on the net, but....then I realised that my kids' parties would have had bazzillions of photos of the living spaces, kitchen etc put on insta and other shitmedia. So... you can see how insidious it is.

[GTSBoy]

47 minutes ago, The Bogan said:

I just looked at my camera phone settings, apparently I have "not allowed" for location

I used to do that, but then I got savvy. The benefits of having your phone photos geotagged outweigh the negatives. I just don't publish any photo straight off the phone/out of the gallery/off google photos, etc. If I'm going to use a photo, other than for SMSing to fam, I will always open it on the computer, copy it/otherwise edit it and save down without the original metadata, before using it.

For example, posting photos of my engine bay into a thread on here, to show someone a plug or something - I will just screen-cap the section I want to use and paste that section direct from the clipboard into the post. No metadata goes along with.

[MBS206]

54 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:

Yes, so it won't work for places with no photos on the net. I would have said that there are no photos of the inside of my house on the net, but....then I realised that my kids' parties would have had bazzillions of photos of the living spaces, kitchen etc put on insta and other shitmedia. So... you can see how insidious it is.

If the house has ever been sold before too, they have photos from that etc.

[GTSBoy]

3 hours ago, MBS206 said:

If the house has ever been sold before too, they have photos from that etc.

In my case not, because of total reno. But yeah.

[Duncan]

oh yeah, reminded this morning....bin lids frozen shut too

[MBS206]

3 minutes ago, Duncan said:

oh yeah, reminded this morning....bin lids frozen shut too

It sounds farrrrrrr too cold at your place Duncan... Here I was thinking our 10 degrees overnight is getting cold...

[The Bogan]

9 hours ago, MBS206 said:

It sounds farrrrrrr too cold at your place Duncan... Here I was thinking our 10 degrees overnight is getting cold...

I much prefer colder weather to hot weather, and especially prefer cold to hot and humid, Goulburn does gets pretty warm in the hotter months, but, I've found the humidity there is not as painful as even Sydney, the humidity up north is to oppressing for this old rooster 

In saying this, it does get rather "nippy" in Goulburn for early morning, late in the evening walks, but nothing that a layer or two, some thermal gloves, and a beanie doesn't fix to make it an enjoyable experience, which is much more bearable to me than the oppression of heat and humidity,  especially at night when your trying to sleep

If I recall correctly, a "wise man" once said that the "Southern Tablelands" was gods country, and I will not argue that point with him for the fear of a "permaban" LOL

In car part related news: My intake is currently in Botany getting processed for the last leg of its shipping journey to my door 

 

[MBS206]

6 minutes ago, The Bogan said:

I much prefer colder weather to hot weather, and especially prefer cold to hot and humid, Goulburn does gets pretty warm in the hotter months, but, I've found the humidity there is not as painful as even Sydney, the humidity up north is to oppressing for this old rooster 

In saying this, it does get rather "nippy" in Goulburn for early morning, late in the evening walks, but nothing that a layer or two, some thermal gloves, and a beanie doesn't fix to make it an enjoyable experience, which is much more bearable to me than the oppression of heat and humidity,  especially at night when your trying to sleep

If I recall correctly, a "wise man" once said that the "Southern Tablelands" was gods country, and I will not argue that point with him for the fear of a "permaban" LOL

In car part related news: My intake is currently in Botany getting processed for the last leg of its shipping journey to my door 

 

I'm not a fan of high humidity, it's one reason I don't mind being further inland out Ipswich, except the last 3 odd years, the drought broke, and it won't stop raining, which is making the humidity nearly unbearable when the rains are in during summer!

For me, my body hates the cold, once the cold sets into my body, I'm totally screwed. I end up with severe muscle spasm in my back/shoulder muscles, and it feels like someone is trying to tear the muscles out.

I have no issues with it getting stupid hot, so long as the humidity goes away. So the last 3 years as above, have been woeful! Ha ha.

However, June 1st, and I'm only just converting from shorts and a tee, to long pants and a t shirt. And that's mainly as it's a bit wet and miserable and I wanted to work on a car.

[MBS206]

18 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

Yes, so it won't work for places with no photos on the net. I would have said that there are no photos of the inside of my house on the net, but....then I realised that my kids' parties would have had bazzillions of photos of the living spaces, kitchen etc put on insta and other shitmedia. So... you can see how insidious it is.

Oh, I forgot too, all the multimedia stuff captured and sold through things like people playing Pokemon Go.

Pokemon Go specifically, can actually be traced all the way back to a CIA investment company too. So yep, they're watching everything.

Not to mention the new stuff where they've worked out how to use WiFi signals to be able to map occupants inside of a building. That one would be something that I see being more used in public/government buildings, as you need to understand the signals when the room has no one in it first. It's not as easy as Hollywood would like you to think it is.

[The Bogan]

So, my intake arrived 

I'm not happy with the coating finish so I went to Supercheap and got some black wrinkle paint and some prep stuff

I was initially thinking about using grey wrinkle paint, but finding a quality product that gives the texture I want was "unfindable...", so the tried and tested black wrinkle paint is again finding its way into the engine bay for the OEM look

I'll sneakily head into work and get the big ovens cranking to cure the paint over the next week or so

I've also contacted MX5 Mania today to talk about the install and tune, so painting it is my "main effort" prior to sending the car off

In other news, the correspondence from the US supplier is fair to midling to say the least, I'm still trying to track down the intake box thingie with the larger intake pipe to suit the throttle body, it still is "awaiting fulfilment" (no stock currently available), if it isn't here soon I'll just get MX5 Mania to fabricate up a CAI that is easy to service the air filter

 

[The Bogan]

So far so good, another hour and their done

[MBS206]

I'm so glad base security is so high. I see they stopped some random codger from being able to just wander in off the street... 😛

 

PS, intake looks good!

[The Bogan]

Final finish outcome of 80°c was typical to the pics, I've turned the oven down to 50°c and will pick them up after the gym tomorrow 

The before and after difference was amazing, the wrinkle paint has covered all of the casting marks completely

It did take a couple of hours to key it all and get in all of the crevices, but, for me it was time well spent for the final outcome, but I have all the time in the world to do it at the moment 

Ended up with 4 coats, each sprayed at different angles to get optimal coverage and thickness

As for the fixtures and intake box thingo that hasn't made it, the supplier is apparently posting the fixtures, and, are now sending a different CAI that is in stock

The replacement CAI is actually better than what I originally ordered, but will require a pod filter that locates under the front bar, still serviceable, but it basically removes the whole OEM filter box and ducts into the front bar, so filter cleaning will require ramps and the removal of some front bar undertray, not a war stopper, just some ramps and an additional 10 minutes work every few months

From looking at it it is made from alloy pipe from the throttle body, through the CAI hole in the rad support, then right turning under the bar, luckily the wrinkle paint was on special and I got 2 cans for $30ish, so the alloy will get the same wrinkle treatment as the intake manifold, hopefully it turns up soon, either way, the car will be getting booked in soon, if the parts aren't here, I'll just get MX5 Mania to " make it work"

 

[The Bogan]

21 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

I'm so glad base security is so high. I see they stopped some random codger from being able to just wander in off the street... 😛

 

PS, intake looks good!

I transferred from full time service to Army Reserve, so I still have access, work has been super keen to get me in to work in the OPS realm, so just turning up to use the gym......and ovens, isn't causing any issues, apart from me needing to keep on telling them that I won't be doing any reserve days until I get my joint in Goulburn sorted 

Basically I can now work whenever I want, for how long I want now, and it's all tax free

Next time we have some fires or floods you might see me covered in mud, or cutting sick in some plant equipment cleaning up, the Reserves love getting in the news, LOL

[Komdotkom]

The other trick I've found with wrinkle black is to put the can in hot water for a bit to warm the paint up, and to pre-heat whatever you're painting.

It'll be interesting to see if you pick up any power with the intake, following with interest.

Got a proper lsd for this?

[The Bogan]

57 minutes ago, Komdotkom said:

The other trick I've found with wrinkle black is to put the can in hot water for a bit to warm the paint up, and to pre-heat whatever you're painting.

It'll be interesting to see if you pick up any power with the intake, following with interest.

Got a proper lsd for this?

The spray cans were in the "Kiln" room whilst I was preping the parts,  so probably around 2 hours to get them warmed up, the kiln room has 3 small ovens running at 100°c, 3 medium sized ovens running 100°c, and the large one I used running at 80°c, the room itself was about 28°c, I also spent a bit of time taping up the parts in the room as well, and by the time I was done I would assume that the parts were around that 28°c

As for power, I expect a couple of Killerwasps up high would be achievable with the current mods, I'm still running the MZR 2.0 intake and throttle body, and there is a slight mismatch with the 2.0 intake (smaller) and 2.5 intake ports (larger) on the head, this intake is matched and specifically designed to fix this issue with the ports mismatch, the throttle body is also a couple of mm larger, OEM is 65mm, the Bosch is 68mm

In the end it will look "prettier" than the molded plastic thing that is the OEM MZR 2.0 intake

As for the LSD, it's the OEM Torsen which works fine for what I use the car for, plus, basically no maintenance apart from the occasional oil change