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Nov 24, 2012 19:52:33 GMT
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Legally you'll be fine with the adapters, technically you should probably have sufficiently load rated wheels but if you aren't going to be carrying any weight, I don't think anyone will notice if you accidentally grind the load rating off the back of the alloy wheel. Just don't be a nob put tonnes of stuff in the back then plough through the window of a hairdressers when one of the wheels snaps off.
As for adapters, a bloke called Gary Thomas made me a brilliant set and loads of people seem to be quite pleased with his work. Ge doesn't have a website, drop him an email at gar.thoms@hotmail.co.uk
He made me 5x130 to 5x112 and 5x120 on the same adaptors, set of four for £220 including all the bolts, and postage, and vat etc. which is cheaper than buying adapters from that adaptitusa place, even before you add on postage, import fees, vat and the rest. At $100 per adapter, I doubt you would see change from £400 by the time they had landed in the UK.
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Last Edit: Nov 24, 2012 19:57:10 GMT by cobblers
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Nov 22, 2012 18:08:03 GMT
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Whatever you put on them will end up washed off or full of grit after not so long. Spray on copper grease seems OK, just wipe the worst of the shiz off and regrease them a few times over winter.
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Nov 21, 2012 16:10:03 GMT
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Rotherham council garages are only £5pw, they have loads free and the ones in Broom (near the hospital) and reasonably secure. Not sure if they'd mind you being from Sheffield or not though.
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Nov 21, 2012 12:20:07 GMT
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Nice one, I've never met someone aged six who owned a car before!
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Pre 1960 cars are now MOT exempt.
Car looks great by the way, seems a pretty reasonable price.
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Nov 20, 2012 19:54:11 GMT
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Is it just me, or does anyone else remember when uploading meant logging into a FTP server? Yeah, and I got sick of it so I learned basic PHP and made myself an image uploader script. I don't use it nowadays cos imgur makes things just too easy.
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Nov 20, 2012 10:57:41 GMT
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It's kind of baked onto the glass, at best you can remove "most" of it but it leaves an orange mark where it once was.
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Nov 19, 2012 23:10:56 GMT
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MX5s run roughly 1.6:1 spring ratios, so wind the spring seats up by about 18mm to get the inch you desire.
As for siezedness, give then a good wirebrushing (this works better for going down though, you can't properly get at the threads above the spring seat without taking the springs off) and hammer them with proper penetrating oil a few times over the week before you want to move them.
The spring seats/adjusters are usually aluminium which expands a lot more with heat than steel does, so a general warming all round with a blow torch will help.
If they aren't gonna move on the car, take them off (you won't need spring compressors for coilovers) and drop the whole lot in some diesel for a while.
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Nov 19, 2012 22:30:24 GMT
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Great progress mate!
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Nov 19, 2012 22:24:24 GMT
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SOLD (Via gumtree - Yep, gumtree!)
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Nov 19, 2012 21:46:05 GMT
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There's a place in Nottingham who custom make you struts, and they aren't too expensive (£35 a pair ish?)
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Nov 19, 2012 20:06:53 GMT
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If you've got the exact same amp as me there's a 5v output to power the volume control board, and you just run the signal and ground into the volume board, then out to the amp itself. If not you need to get a 5v supply from somewhere, there's bound to be one on the amp as it'll be used for logic for the TK2050
Then I had some problems with the wire that connects the volume knob to the actual control board - two wires were included, one did nothing, one one worked one way round - the controller has a couple of modes for use "standalone" or for use with some certain amps, and I think you choose the wire you need to select that mode - it's not very well explained in the instructions.
It's got a mode where you press the volume knob and it can go into a "menu" for use with more advanced amps. For some reason it comes on in this mode by default so you have to click it before it works.
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Nov 19, 2012 15:48:22 GMT
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TBH I'd forgot how good it looked - Got me thinking about getting another MX5 til I remembered it's still parked on the drive. Looks absolutely gash now (ropey soft top and awful wheels), like you say my mums running it these days. I only got round to taking the coilies and HKS exhaust off the other week though!
TBH it's been an awesome car, all it's needed in repairs since I got it is a clutch master cylinder and rear caliper freeing off for the test. It's getting ready for some welding though, the back arches are dicked. My mum loves it still, but she's contemplating moving it on cos she's got a bad neck and its a PITA to get in and out of.
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Last Edit: Nov 19, 2012 15:49:48 GMT by cobblers
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Nov 19, 2012 15:28:53 GMT
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Nov 19, 2012 15:07:00 GMT
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That splitty belongs to the owner, it's running a Subaru engine with quite decent power, but looks 100% stock. He reckons he drove it to the south of France at 80mph all the way. Usually on a splitty the engine would have expired long before the dodgy handling caused you to crash, but he'd got a steering rack off a Bedford Rascal which apparently makes it drive like a dream*
* I assume one of those dreams where you're driving a wobbly old VW "upgraded" to Rascal based steering
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Nov 19, 2012 14:19:09 GMT
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I had this on my MX5 for a few years, and genuinely the only aftermarket I've ever fitted to anything that made the car actually faster. Being HKS it's well designed so it sounds proper, no annoying drone at any particular revs like the usual custom "we only have three different sizes of boxes so we put the only one that would fit" in there, in fact this system has two silencers vs the single one as stock. It's not quiet, but its a refined sound. My mum drove the car round for over a year without complaining. Mine is in good usable condition, no damage other than some scrapes to the bottom of the tailpipe where a bodyshop marked it when removing it It's not been cleaned but will come up lovely with some tar remover/oven cleaner if that's your thing. It's a full system from the cat back, to fit a 1.6 but will fit a 1.8 if you add a 1.6 downpipe or take a couple inches out of yours. Also I have an MX5parts silenced stainless decat (takes the rasp out that a straight pipe decat adds). This is a bit scraped up from running a low car, but it's far from blowing through or anything. £50 new, I want £25 I'll do the lot for £150 inc post.
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Last Edit: Nov 19, 2012 15:02:25 GMT by cobblers
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Nov 19, 2012 14:02:51 GMT
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Yeah, they're good guys - sorted me out with stacks of bits of my MX5, and hung around for me to get there when I needed a part on a saturday afternoon.
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Nov 18, 2012 11:22:25 GMT
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To the letter of the law you might have trouble, but I can't see anyone picking up on that in a million years.
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Nov 15, 2012 19:32:50 GMT
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If you've got the car infront of you, just run a tape measure around the pipe to get the circumference and divide it by 3.141
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