Made alot of progress with the spare engine recently
Made alot of progress with the spare engine recently
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That spare engine is a work of art in it's own right!
hoodedreeper (02-05-2017)
^^^Indeed! Great work Chris!
'01 NB2 aka MisF1re: http://mazdaroadster.net/showthread....218#post207218
'97 M aka Warbird, gone but not forgotten: http://mazdaroadster.net/showthread....B&goto=newpost
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hoodedreeper (02-05-2017)
Great work, looks stunning! Have to admit to having a hankering for building a new engine on the side while still enjoying the one I've got!
hoodedreeper (02-06-2017)
hoodedreeper (02-06-2017)
It was that time of year where my local car club organise a charity meet raising money for Big C Cancer and to remember our good friend Mark. Weather held out and we filled the car park again,raising £1161 on the night
The other half has been wanting to do a group photoshoot of our cars,luckily the cars stayed clean and the weather was dry
JamieH (02-21-2017),MiataQuest (05-12-2017),NCGreasemonkey (02-21-2017),Phatmiata (05-13-2017)
The past month its been abit of an Import theme
Initial D Vol 1 book
Hyper REVs the first 4 issues for the NA/NB MX5
(Another) Dcuatro Light Cover
And my latest purchase,this will be kept a secret for alittle while until i sort some other stuff out
The past 4 and bit weeks the car has been back at the bodyshop having repairs done
Mazdaspeed bumper repaired and repainted
Front wide arches/flares removed
New wide arches/flares painted and fitted
Wings/fenders painted
Driver side rear wide arch/flare repaired
Bonnet hinge replaced
I'm also re-living my child hood abit and been purchasing alot of old gaming consoles and games. Collection is growing nicely (and pretty fast). I move out late summer,gotta get the spare room well equipped
Greasemonkey2000 (03-30-2017),JamieH (03-29-2017),Phatmiata (05-13-2017)
It's too bad Tokyopop did a horrible job of localizing Initial D. It's no wonder they dropped the manga without releasing all of it. Granted, it was probably for the best, just another example of a company mishandling a manga/anime property.
Abit of an update
Went to the Spring Performance Action Day at Castle Combe
Went to Japfest at Silverstone a couple of weekends ago
Last year i was approached by a big UK Car Magazine. We've had to cancel the photoshoot 3 times due to the car keep breaking. All was looking good,so had the car valeted by a friend ready for the photoshoot. The weather was certainly on our side and i'm eagerly waiting for the issue to be published.
I've had one of Aran's M45 inlets it sitting in the garage for about a year,it was time to finally fit it. While the supercharger was off i did an oil change and fitted a new belt and tensioners.
Also while the supercharger was off i replaced the L shaped hose inbetween the Waterpump inlet and metal joiner (which goes to the lower radiator hose) as i'm pretty certain thats the cause of my coolant leak.
You may remember in my previous post (if not,scroll up ^) that i received a package from Japan. That was a brand new RX7 FD3S 99spec front splitter! I've seen one other car with it fitted on a Mazdaspeed bumper and i fell in love. It was a gamble as i didnt know what the fitment would be like.
With the original lip discontinued from Mazda,i had to improvise. Its far from perfect,its not the correct shape but i think i did a good job with getting it on.
As you can see,i didn't fix the coolant leak I need the front crank seal,timing belt and waterpump changing so fingers crossed its waterpump related.
Greasemonkey2000 (05-13-2017),Hammerhead (05-13-2017),JamieH (05-12-2017),MiataQuest (05-12-2017),oldgrayleather (05-13-2017),Phatmiata (05-13-2017)
This miata has come a LONG way in a short time.
Thanks Randy! Coming upto 4 years of ownership and its still evolving. Still more to come
Phatmiata (06-07-2017)
Y'know when you get an idea in your head,and you can't tell if its going to be a good or bad idea...well...that may have happened.
Every year it seems i do something drastic with the car and its always a risk. I've had an idea about having a livery designed and fitted to the car for almost a year now. I contacted Tom at Infamous Creations (he's done some awesome drift car designs for drivers across the globe) as i knew he'd be the guy to speak to.
A few months went by with ideas being thrown back and forth. I've always loved the HKS livery and knew that would be the one for MX5. So Tom drew out the pattern as a base and we built it from there. The design ended up looking like this:
I wasn't too keen on my photography logo being as big as that,but that could be changed later on. I emailed a local graphics company (Unique Signs) with the render back in June 2016. We got the design sorted,the guys took lots of measurements and the graphics were fitted this week. I collected the car on Thursday (25th May) ready for the Modified Nationals show the following day.
After getting back from the show today (Sunday 28th May) i stopped off at a previous location i took for photos not long after i bought it
Greasemonkey2000 (05-29-2017),JamieH (05-29-2017),Phatmiata (06-07-2017)
A couple more photos of when i got the car back
My Car Club's new window sticker
And a couple i took from the show
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