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    The wrapped door cups have gone; maybe they'll turn up at the bric a brac table at the next MX5OC rally.

    Some ongoing projects.

    Cleaned the seatbelt webbing, which immeasurably improved the retraction, but I spotted damage to the driver's webbing. I couldn't unspot this, so I needed replacements. S-Limited belts are basically unobtanium, and any rare used belts could also be in poor condition.



    So, after a bit of research, I found a company called FDTS; an example of a once thriving car parts industry, small "mom and pop" outfits. They were able to reweb the belts. Unfortunately, the red used by Mazda is not available. I had to choose between a fairly bright red (India Red QI) and more of a wine red, BK.



    BK is actually a bit darker than original, but my eyes couldn't take QI,

    Looking forward to receiving two new belts, rewebbed for £70. Cheaper than even a pair of standard used belts.

    Thought about a rollbar cover for ages; I tried putting in eyelets into a strip of vinyl but the results were awful. After a few months, I had an epiphany. Why would I need to every remove a rollbar cover. Given the D-tec bar had to come out to remove the seatbelt assemblies, there was an opportunity.

    And the D-tec bar was tatty looking; various chips (I'm not going to get into a discussion regarding padding), and the seatbacks had actually worn some of the paint away.

    For the main bar, I used some double side foam tape; this was just to kind of hold the vinyl in place. Another £20 ($30) worth of Martim's Matador Red was procured, to yield a strip about 10cm wide. 4m is needed for a 4P bar; I had a 2m length, and 2m isn't enough for the main bar (you need nearer 3m), so I decided to "extend" the cover at the foot. Using spray contact adhesive, basically wrap the vinyl around the bar, with a little heat, to overlap. Once set, using a craft knife, trim the overlap to give a reasonably even seam. Any exposed edge is coloured in with a wipe of some colour-matched red I have for seat leather maintenance.







    Not finished yet
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    6,000 rpm - mere mortals would shift Demon I Am's Avatar
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    That looks very nice.

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    Rewebbed seatbelts received. FDTS also sent back the old webbing.

    New belts are a bit darker (the alternative was a bright red)



    Came all wrapped up



    Nicely complement the interior



    MX5Roadsters TSI that have sat around forever were finally fitted with white LEDs as sidelights



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    Great stuff. I will use your thread (and the info and samples you provided) as reference for when I want to do my red interior too. I love every small detail.

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    Not done much in 12 months, due to some personal disasters. Maybe getting things back on track.

    Lack of use meant the S-Special 2 had slowly rotted away stored in a garage. Now well on the want to being put right.










    Only covered 1000kms in 12 months!

    The S-Limited is looking flakey everywhere, partly due to a repair done to the car just after it was imported now coming back to bite me. Next year, I think this car will need two new complete rear wings to keep it from being scrapped. The S-Special I expect to sell on fairly soon.

    Swapped 96 seat belly pans onto early seats. Good condition cloth seats are getting harder to find, and for the S-Special, I really didn't want to fit early seatbelt buckles. Later seat pans are different, with a seat latch fitting, but also, interestingly, increased side bolster support. This was a really easy mini-project.





    Another reason to bin early seat pans



    New cat fitted to the S-Limited grounds out on my drive. Oops.


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    A much delayed update, and the last update, from me, on the S-Limited, aka Blackbullet.

    A little bit of bubbling turned out to be £1500 worth of welding.















    I wasn't using it much, so it went up for sale. It was tough choice; the low miles S-Limited, or the mega mileage S-Spec. Fitted it with some leather UK spec seats I had, and refitted the standard centre console.









    Now gone

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    One reason for disposing of the S-Limited is that I am now a Jag owner.

    2004 Jaguar XJ8 3.55 Sport. I could say its the same as a XJR, but without the blower or 4.2 V8. But it is a poser. Has the XJR's air suspension, with the Bilstein active dampening. Firms up the harder its driven, lowers 30mm at over 70mm.





    R-Spec seats, touch screen option. Phone holder, thankfully, has gone.




    Obviously a very different drive from a MX5. So far, it hasn't bankrupted me.

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    So, I'm back to the S-Special II, which I've had since 2005, but has been essentially unused for 2-3 years.

    Bodywork was sorted









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    I kept a few things from the S-Limited; my custom Tex mirrors, the factor Option seats and centre console delete.

    The Option seats were redyed black. Colour changing leather is a brutal process, as you need to strip the leather right back.

    The seats would have been originally a flat black





    Then, around 2006, these had been dyed red, for a R-Limited



    The red finish needs to be stripped off, using thinners and wet n dry.













    One of the odd discoveries during the teardown was that all the black plastic trim was actually white, painted black. In places, I have retained these parts, in their original rough condition, elsewhere, "new" black-moulded furniture








    So back to square one.



    Ideas, what to do with a 96 Montego Blue, still on 15" factory BBS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadsternut View Post
    Ideas, what to do with a 96 Montego Blue, still on 15" factory BBS.
    I'd just drive it and enjoy it

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    The S-Special looks good to me. I saw the S-Limited for sale so nice to see you still have a roadster. I still remember that noisy exhaust I bought from it those years ago. Puts a RS*R to shame.

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    Still around











    Not much done on the car, but now have a new driveway. COVID has delayed the planned garage refurb (needs a new roof)





    During construction, the MX5 was marooned in the garage




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