Hoodedreeper's Eunos Roadster

[—atank—]

Can't wait to see pics from JF...............

[— Dandy —]

[maharaj]

New shoes look good!

[hoodedreeper]

Thank you for the kind words

Rewind back to last Sunday,i headed down Santa Pod for Japshow.



I was with Jap Car Enthusiasts for the show,and they kindly awarded me with a Trophey! Most Unique Mod (turbo conversion). I know it may not be unique in the MX5 community,but I think I was one of few Turbo'd 5s at the show.



Purchased a new gear knob at the show,fits quite nicely with the theme of the car





Sent my 1.8 flywheel away to get skimmed. The Stage 3 clutch will be fitted along with the flywheel this coming Wednesday.



Some rubber U channel to help neaten the heat shields up



Today I travelled North to Donington for Japfest 2.



My JapFest 2 Photos are now online,please take a look over at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...e=3&uploaded=6

[I<3flippyheadlights]

Car looks so good, man. The new wheels are AMAZING

[hoodedreeper]

Thanks

Update!

Last Wednesday I got my Stage 3 Clutch and flywheel fitted



It was about time I sorted out my interior,so I removed everything and work begun!

The centre bar needed grinding down and painting







I then masked up all the loom and everything else that didn't need to be painted,and then painted the floor

[hoodedreeper]

Small Update


Send the original rocker cover off to a friend to have Powder Coated. While I fitted that I also fitted a Jass Performance Front Engine Hook and Scuttle Cover from Mx5_Dan

















The engine bay is far from clean,will be giving a good clean tomorrow ready for a car meet this Sunday

[hoodedreeper]

Finally sorted out the looped heater pipe,originally looked like this



And now...



Fitted a Driftworks 4pt Harness 3" webbing (ALOT better than my previous 2" Sparco)



Re-painted the inner parts of the wings and fitted some neo-chrome counter sunk washers & bolts (matches the wheel nuts )





Also finally got round to changing the red silicone hose on the throttle body for a black one (no photo)

Couple of random photos from last night

[hoodedreeper]

Lets rewind back 2 weeks from today....





































Myself and the girlfriend were leading a convoy of 15+ cars to a car meet a couple of hours away. Approx 40mins into the journey,went around a roundabout and the girlfriend starts shouting that theres smoke coming from the engine and she saw flames through the hole in the bulk head. By the time I had stopped,the inside of the car was full of smoke and smoke was pouring from the sides of the bonnet. The convoy of cars stopped behind and luckily someone had a fire extinguisher.

Managed to get a look around the car the following day and I found the cause of the fire.


The braided lines for the Oil Cooler had touched the Alternator,burning through which caused the oil to go everywhere,igniting at the same time at a guess. Luckily it wasn't a fuel line!!


Some will say its repairable,but I've had too much bad luck with this car (front and rear fires,aswell as impacts both sides). It was time to start fresh

[BoBo]

I like the Flying Tigers Look. I wanted to do that on my old 92 but I ended up selling it.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

Holy shit, man. Glad you are ok. I guess that explains the new car.

[hoodedreeper]

It does indeed

[theothersawyer]

Damn, sorry to hear about the fire! Glad you are okay though!

[wannafbody]

Looks like the Carbon Fiber was salvagable...digging the purple car, sure it will be epic.

[Big Red]

Very lucky it was not a fuel fire...... could have been a lot worse. Should be a nice incentive to carry a extinguisher now ;)

Well done on acquiring your new car, Keen to see what you do to it & I hope you re-do the stuff that caused the heartache and build it better than before ;)