[Driftmonkey]

Looks good from that angle, can't see that awful headlight cover....

 

[thetomcullen]

Look she's not on the driveway for once

Yes! Just ordered these wheels a couple weeks back. Bargain, happy with my decision now

 

[thetomcullen]

Also what size tires you running? Looks good

 

[alexevans]

Also what size tires you running? Looks good

Thanks mate, I'm using 195/45 15's. Same as MICsx on here who also has a set.

 

[alexevans]

No much to report this weekend, having a quite one.

Installed one of MX5Dans radiators.

Grrrrrrrr, look at me and all my boostings.

Not sure if I want to attempt to repaint it before the summer or not, this shows how bad the boot is.

Real men have boosted RWD daily drivers as well . Gave her a well deserved clean.

I have been speaking to some local garages about getting some dyno tuning done, hopefully next weekend I may have a complete running set up. Unless I can find anyone local who knows what they are doing.

 

[richeunos]

Looking good mate. Will a machine polish not bring that paint back up?

I like your bmw aswell btw, what engine's in it?

 

[alexevans]

Looking good mate. Will a machine polish not bring that paint back up?

I like your bmw aswell btw, what engine's in it?

Nah tried that its well and truly gone, just equals out the colour but remains just as pink.

Cheers bud, 320d M sport.

 

[Driftmonkey]

I got mine started on Friday, need to weld the join on the downpipe as the slip joint leaks like a mofo, and need to redo my compressor outlet adapter I made as it's leaking. But it was idling just fine!
Another friend of mine has just bought a mk1 and is going turbo, in exchange of me welding his sills(he hasn't got the time) he's going to make me another turbo manifold, this time for a td04.
My car doesn't make choochoo sounds, think it's because of the afm?

 

[alexevans]

I got mine started on Friday, need to weld the join on the downpipe as the slip joint leaks like a mofo, and need to redo my compressor outlet adapter I made as it's leaking. But it was idling just fine!
Another friend of mine has just bought a mk1 and is going turbo, in exchange of me welding his sills(he hasn't got the time) he's going to make me another turbo manifold, this time for a td04.
My car doesn't make choochoo sounds, think it's because of the afm?

Have you got the correct size U clamp on the slip joint? Mine dont seem to be leaking, well there is only one that I didn't weld up.

Sweet more turbos then, is the td04 the same flange as a td05?

Hmmmm. more than likely. Probably the piping run as well as the AFM. My compressor is literally spinning with only a small bit of mesh in front of it.

 

[Driftmonkey]

It's a hodgepodge of bits of pipe I had in the garage. I cut the last bend from the 2.5" exhaust/downpipe that used to join up with a hks manifold/turbo, then cut up a screamer pipe from a 200sx, had to flip the main pipe as it's 180 degrees out, cut up the flange so it's one big hole rather than 2, then chopped up a bit of exhaust and added that to make it bell mouthed, this then fitted inside the downpipe after I cut slots and opened it up.
I'm just going to weld it in situ.
My exhaust is single box but not a straight thru, so it's pretty tame sounding at idle.

Just give the car a buff, or cover it in more stickers, blerugh!

 

[towelie]

Thats just kept me occupied reading all of that! Also rather jealous too! Need to get my first mx5 asap!!

Do it, you wont look back. But then ever so slowly the need to boost it will come creeping in .

When I changed to the t28, I knocked the timing back above 100kpa 4 degrees from the map you're running.. did a bit of autotuning and the afr's look ok in boost, maybe a touch on the rich side. It seems to be ok so far, with retarding my timing autotune ended up removing some fuel at the top end and adding a tiny amount just before and around peak torque.

I did add 5-10 points on the ve table in boost also just to make sure I was tuning on the rich side of safe, if you get what I mean.

So far no explosions.. yet!

Keep on going though! you'll have a beast of a car in no time, you just have to sort the niggling problems you invariably get with a new setup! i.e my t28 hitting the bonnet lol

See more than I know about the map on my own car . Cant wait to just go bam WOT second gear up the mile straight by my house, with all that fizzy boosty goodness.

Hahaha hitting the bonnet, did you make your own manifold?

What is the fluttering? Is it air returning out the air filter?

Sounds like it, bov-less or hard bov spring.

No blow off valves here.

Nope the manifold is a HKS! It was originally designed to have a t25 on it, so with the bigger t3 compressor housing it just touched, so I've removed a bit from bonnet bracing.

You'll love it when you get it mapped properly! Have you got anything controlling the boost or are you just running wastegate pressure?

Does ms1 have boost control? Its well worth getting if you can, makes boost come on a fair bit earlier!

Looks like you're nearly there!

 

[alexevans]

Just running waste gate pressure currently through a MBC, in an attempt to reduce creep. I do need to relocate the take off point for the waste gate to after the IC.

I do need to look into EBC, I think MS1 has the facility. Just more for my reading list.

 

[Phataz1]

Impressive engine! :drool: Looks good on them new wheels too!

 

[alexevans]

Impressive engine! :drool: Looks good on them new wheels too!

Thanks, glad you like it.

 

[Scott_k11]

this is going to be awesome I cant wait to see it at a drift day

 

[alexevans]

this is going to be awesome I cant wait to see it at a drift day

Cheers bud, 3 or 4 more weeks of Uni work then I'm back on it.

The car has now moved to the front lawn, so is there..... waiting.... watching..... ready to unless turbo noises on a village near you

 

[Scott_k11]

Sweet. I should be starting my turbo stuff middle or end of May. Just waiting on one of sturovos amazing kits and couple other bits. But everything is ordered and on it's way.

 

[alexevans]

Sweet. I should be starting my turbo stuff middle or end of May. Just waiting on one of sturovos amazing kits and couple other bits. But everything is ordered and on it's way.

Good news, should see you at Smeartharpe soon enough.

 

[Scott_k11]

Yeh I haven't done smeartharpe in ages because I got matchams raceway on my doorstep which is really good and cheap. I don't have much interest in doing smeartharpe when Santa pod is the same price but better. And lydden hill to but that's more money, but amazing.

 

[alexevans]

Right that's it I'm free............ :yes: :dance: :driving: :banana: :guinness:

I had to pull away from doing anything for a couple months, as Uni was really ramping up, along with work going mental. But now uni is shut up until October, and I am off site and back in the office after a 4 month period until practical completion.

So in the meantime I had to dump the MX5 on the lawn, battery is dead, tax is out of date, MOT is due in a few weeks, but readying through my list its literally just the tuning left to do. So need to figure that out??? More reading is needed I think.

Also recently meet this awesome girl who is way more into cars than I am, she is a serious motorsport fanatic dragging me out of bed to go watch hill climbs and so on. So I got roped into doing some Marshalling as well at the local Werrington Park Hill Climb.

Managed to get the job of lining the cars up at the start point within the timing lights, which was a pretty good job. Some very nice cars indeed;

I got sunburnt like a ginger does :lol: hence the stupid face, borrowed one of the parents camper as well.

This was actually at Wiscombe Hill Climb;

Some of my particular favourites of the weekend;

The photographs taken by a couple in this Hillman Imp.

There was some big crashes which where not at all pretty;

So, time to get on with tinkering and get my boost on......................