My Gay Little Track Toy...

[Mr Burns]

Cool, there aren't many "bad" 5s anyway....until people start to destroy them with sik stance, dildo gear shifter etc.

None are fast, at all, until a V8 or blower gets shoved in the nose.

I could have spent less for my SV-T but I didn't want to travel to all ends of the country, did want a warranty and wasn't having one without air-con again...and leather.

Oh, have a check to see if you've got chassis bracing, some late mk1s had it from factory and it makes more difference than anything you could do with suspension settings. If not, get some.

I'll have a look... I'm pretty happy with the handling, even though I'm going to stick my neck out and say my coilovered Ignis handled better lol.

 

[Jamie86]

Ste, fit some decent seats if can you will be amazed at the difference!

 

[Mr Burns]

Ste, fit some decent seats if can you will be amazed at the difference!

Funny you should say that, my brother has some Caterham seats in his garage .

 

[Jamie86]

You wont regret it the best thing I did to the car tbh!

Also ditched the armrests for some extra elbow room and added a knob extender as kept hitting my elbow on the centre console..

 

[Mr Burns]

Yeah I keep hitting my elbow too lol.

 

[Jamie86]

Get on the other forum and get a Jass extender well worth it.. I got a 4" which is a bit overkill tbh..

 

[Mr Burns]

Cheers I've got some new brakes btw!

 

[Jamie86]

Which pads did you go for?

I got some of the group buy hoses and some new calipers for mine..

plus some new coilovers, so I can get rid of my mazdaspeed/eibach setup!

 

[Mr Burns]

Which pads did you go for?

I got some of the group buy hoses and some new calipers for mine..

plus some new coilovers, so I can get rid of my mazdaspeed/eibach setup!

I've got Brembo discs with DS2500 pads and Hel braided lines which all seem to work fine

I'm also running the Mazdaspeed/Eibach set-up, it's good but it's hard isn't it!

 

[Mr Burns]

Got the cleaning stuff out the other day...

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[Rob]

Hard as nails. I love it.

 

[Gaz85]

that looks epic

 

[Djw Dave]

Thats lovely.

 

[George@RTR_Parts]

Looks awesome mate.

Great little cars these. Been driving my parents eunos about in France last couple of weeks, even in standard form they drive spot on :approve:

 

[Jamie86]

It's a less abused version of mine

 

[Harpham]

Looks wicked. One of the best i've seen, infact.

I can never look at the front end of these without seeing a big happy smiley face.

 

[ch!ppen]

Love it... Makes me miss mine - but i miss it pretty much constantly lol.

 

[Alex5]

Where is the best place to buy one of those front lips for the Mx5 ? Ebay? any particular ones are the best?

 

[Silent_Scone]

Awesome little car! I will own one of these

 

[Mr Burns]

Where is the best place to buy one of those front lips for the Mx5 ? Ebay? any particular ones are the best?

Mine was on the car when I bought it, so I can't really help much. I think mine's called a GV lip which I'm assuming stands for 'Garage Vary'. Hope that helps!

 

[aucky]

iirc the genuine ones from the states are fibreglass. The copies are usually PU, which wont get smashed if you knock it.

 

[Mr Burns]

Yeah mine's not fibreglass, thankfully lol.

 

[aucky]

My fibreglass splitter is in 3 pieces in the shed lol (not GV though)

 

[DanielJames]

Rapid? Not really, I kept getting out-dragged by 1.8 diesel VAG cars in mine.

Oh yeah, those 1.8 VAG diesels

Car looks epic for an MX5! Not usually my cuppa but looks ace

 

[Jamie86]

Where is the best place to buy one of those front lips for the Mx5 ? Ebay? any particular ones are the best?

Alex i have broken my car so my GV rep lip is for sale and just down the road, pm me if interested!

 

[RMDavis]

Looks awesome mate! I still miss mine. They really are cracking little cars, anyone that gives you the stereotypical hairdresser comment has obviously never driven one! Your lucky yours has a hardtop! I had a brand new soft top and it still leaked like a sieve! (Have some seat covers to hand)

Here's my old girl....

 

[Mr Burns]

Looks tidy mate, it's becoming increasingly rare to see clean mk1's these days.

 

[RMDavis]

It was tidy apart from the sills bud! papermache had more density! It was the s-special with LSD and Bilstein shocks had such a laugh with it!
Your lights look good with the colour coded surrounds

 

[BustaMOVEs]

Ah I see your over here too ste.

Just started to break mine

 

[Mr Burns]

Did some tracktime at the Forge Motorsport Action Day at Castle Combe... I'd never been to Combe before so had no idea what the track was like, so I had a quick walk around the perimeter checking out the bends and off I went. I don't think I did too badly considering the competition lol.

 

[Toby]

Looks like a lot of fun Ste!

 

[Mr Burns]

It is... That fact that it doesn't have enough power makes it all the more entertaining.

 

[Toby]

True that.
Less braking that's for sure, carry the speed etc...

What tyres you running?

 

[Mr Burns]

Federal RS-R semi-slicks. They're the only tyre I've run on the Mazda so can't really compare them to anything, but they do seem good once they're warm!

 

[Goodj]

I cannot recommend Goodyear Eagle F1's enough.
Awesome tyres

 

[Mr Burns]

One of the photographers on MX5Nutz got a pretty cool track shot

 

[Jamie86]

Cool pic!

The lack of power is annoying on action days as few people want to get overtaken by a MX5!

What kindda lap time did you manage?

 

[Mr Burns]

No idea dude, tbh I needed more time to learn the circuit. I felt like we were going pretty well, and people watching said it looked quick so I'm happy lol.

 

[Jamie86]

Just wondering as yours is a pretty close spec to how mine was, although admittedly done a few laps of Combe by now

 

[Mr Burns]

It's all on that YouTube video above dude, but it was literally the first and only time I've been around Castle Combe lol.