So time went by, enjoyed driving it around and thrashing it about, all taken well in its stride.

Did the typical, buy some Rota's and apply GV lip;

Also made a offset number plate bracket, hell knows why people buy these things it like a 20 minute job to make one, any-who I then realised 13 X 7 inch number plates are massive;

Favourite thing is to keeping looking at it, and having to have a window seat at the pub with the misses .

Meet some top guys from here, meet and did some hardcore epic parking skills;

Lee doing some fancy boy band walking away shot

 

More time went on, and did some interior changes;

 

And then it happened, I found myself on the youtube's one evening finding out what all this drifting is about.

So diff + MIG = Welded :drool:

After some streeto fails, and getting the police turning up at my front door I thought it was best to not be a dick and do this properly. Went and got myself a place booked at the drift day at Smeartharpe airfield.

Commence the preparation.

Got some tyres and some daisy's;

Then decided to adopted my pro tetris skills to the car, who says these cars haven't got much room are wrong.

 

3/8/13 saw my first drift day, and it was a great laugh you pick up sooooooooooooo much more skill at one of these days than pissing around on an industrial estate.

The tutoring was great as well, picked up my mistakes real quick and stamped them out.

No particularly drifty photos as I spent most of the day in the play pen getting shit right.

My mate Ash came along as well, and his day did not go well at all.

The journey there;

Stupid ginger pedestrian leaning on my car;

Oh yeah it rained big time in the afternoon;

Mazda elite pit team ;

Incoming rain clouds;

Then Ash's radiator went POP BANG SPLASH;

All in all a bloody good day, anyone thinking of doing it do it, great fun and such an amazing atmosphere.

 

So a few changes to the car;

Speedline Mistral's 15 X 7

TSI's

Carbon fibre Sparco Circuit Pro bucket seat of sexyness

Home made roll cage

Takata harness

The best seat I have ever sat in;

 

12/10/13 Smeartharpe day round 2 for me.

Another brilliant day, really got my game face on this time, realised I could do with some more lock.

My car is poo;

Popping tyres like a boss;

Actual drifting photos;

3 X MX5's ready to go;

Arty shot;

 

16/11/13 Smeartharpe 3rd time lucky;

Just a dump of drifting photos, the car only moved a few times since its last outing.

I LOVE TYRES;

Cant remember if i made this or not, probably span;

Smoking the tyres;

 

So yeah that's my years experience in the MX5, want a journey.

Got the winter to get it ready for next year, some super style knuckles in the process, loads of little jobs to do.

And this is going on;

The girlfriend loves the bedroom of turbo-ness;

 

great work dude. car looks awesome. how is the hydro is it an improvement on stock handbrake

 

great work dude. car looks awesome. how is the hydro is it an improvement on stock handbrake

Thanks bud.

Much better than stock, but you still have to give it a good old tug. Im running 0.625 cylinder and it would be even better if I had 1.8 brakes on the rear.

Over the winter I will either CNC or weld up a longer wand to it, more leverage less effort hopefully.

 

i remember when you were at smeartarpe and your mates rad went. you look like your getting on well

 

i remember when you were at smeartarpe and your mates rad went. you look like your getting on well

Thanks bud, think I have got the hand of it now.

I had to tow him 7 miles back into Honiton, which was fun :lol:

 

I like your purple nuts...

 

I like your purple nuts...

Thanks, I like playing with them.

 

Nice looking 5. That Sparco seat looks huge in a 5!

 

Nice looking 5. That Sparco seat looks huge in a 5!

Thanks, yeah it takes up most of the car. Touches the tunnel and the door car, and mounted on the floor it still rubs the roof.

 

Looks like great fun! Good luck on the turbo build

 

Looks like great fun! Good luck on the turbo build

Cheers bud, had a good read of yours.

 

Look like youve come a long way in a year with it keep meaning to drift mine but dont think I could put it through it

 

Look like youve come a long way in a year with it keep meaning to drift mine but dont think I could put it through it

Appreciated, I have only been drifting since August and really got the bug for it.

Its just the whole vibe, first time I went my car completely stopped working, all electrics dead. Got towed back to the pits, before you could say Mazda two guys next to me in the pits had it jacked up, multimeter out diagnosing faults. Found it to be a dodgy earth strap from the battery.

Its a really embracing environment. If you get a chance give it a go :thumb-up: .

 

Small update, got a new job with a firm that don't operate company cars, so I had to buy my own.

E90 320d M Sport

Leather goodness

 

Nice looking motor, but it's no 5

They do look marvelously comfortable though.

 

Nice looking motor, but it's no 5 They do look marvelously comfortable though.

Cheers bud, she's a beauty. Super comfortable even with the M Sport suspension and run flats tyres.

Definitely makes you appreciate how good a MX5 is to drive. I could run rings around this with the 5.

 

Finished .

...today it begins.

 

Awww yeeaaaah! If I had the money turbo would be awesome!