Mx-5 gone, pug 107 and 300C now here.

[paulplom]

It was still there. The silencer after the cat and pipe looks okay.  I'll stick it in the van for tomorrow.

 

 

[gm]

Cool, might come in handy, cheers 

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, paulplom said:

Recieved the split bax box from @gm today. This 90 year old man from a back street garage in Shields is welding it now for a tenner.

He's a gem! Buddy up.

[paulplom]

I gave him an extra fiver because he ripped his finger open separating the exhaust. He didn't realise till I told him. There was blood everywhere.

[paulplom]

Circus at Blaydon this morning.

35mpg from another tank. Consistant anyway.

[motorpunk]

Great pic!

Transmission noise has existed since the clutch was replaced, it’s something to do with the alignment of the transmission on the PPF, you can slacken the bolts to adjust alignment apparently. As it drives/shifts so nice I never bothered but as you’re putting so much TLC into it I’d be interested to see if you fix it. That gear change is sweet.

[paulplom]

Cheers. I'll google how to do it.

Another track day tomorrow so I've decided to do a coolant fush and change as well as change all the shitty hose clips for proper jubilee clips. 

1st hose I pull off.... fuck.

 

[gm]

there's a set of hoses that came off the donor, nip round and grab the one you need ? 

[gm]

39 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Cheers. I'll google how to do it.

Another track day tomorrow so I've decided to do a coolant fush and change as well as change all the shitty hose clips for proper jubilee clips. 

1st hose I pull off.... fuck.

 

lucky that didn't blow when out on track if it was that weak, probably when I'm driving ! 

[paulplom]

I've managed. The hose still fit. I'm just running it up to temerature now.

 

 

[High Jetter]

Is it the correct hose? It looks like the stuff I use for commercial washing machine waste, not sure if it's designed to take temp or pressure.

[paulplom]

It had been formed to fit if you know what I mean. It was flat at both ends as well.

the fan has cut in half a dozen times now while I've cleaned up and tgebheater's nice and hot. I'm calling that a success.

It only took four and a half litres of coolant. I disconnected all the hoses and ran the hose through it for 15 minutes.

Google reckons 6 litres so there'll be a litre and a half of fresh water in there somewhere. I didn't dilute the antifreeze other than that. It should be safe for the trip to the arctic I have planned.

[paulplom]

I'm going to join green flag tomorrow.@gm somehow managed to make it blow a hose the last time at the track. If we hadn't managed to bodge it in the pit (bodge still holding), I would have been snookered 40 miles from home, eight o'clock at night.

[gm]

I promise not to do it again  

[gm]

I’ll chuck these in my toolkit for tomorrow 
 

 

[paulplom]

Stiff competirion at the track tonight.

1.3 16v with 70bhp. He's welded the diff.

#worried.

 

[djoptix]

3 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Stiff competirion at the track tonight.

1.3 16v with 70bhp. He's welded the diff.

#worried.

 

He's sandbagging. Don't make any bets with him in case it turns out to have a billet motor, 50lb of boost and nitrous.

[paulplom]

Reckons it's standard.

This corsa's a proper sleeper vxr stage 1 running 280bhp with an open diff.

Not sure why he's blacked the number plates. Never raced or rallied?

[paulplom]

This '83 jetta flies. Seems to be turbo. Golf gti engine perhaps.

 

[paulplom]

A pair of turbo'd, mx5 engined, westfield/lotus 7.

[djoptix]

3 hours ago, paulplom said:

THis corsa's a proper sleeper vxr stage 1 running 280bhp with an open diff.

Not sure why he's blacked the number plates. Never raced or rallied?

Still down as a 1.1 on the logbook. 

[stuboy]

3 hours ago, paulplom said:

Not sure why he's blacked the number plates. Never raced or rallied?

1.2 sxi? on v5...insurers

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, paulplom said:

This '83 jetta flies.

Um, not '83, it's post '98 with that front body shape. Don't know who it is though.

[djoptix]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Um, not '83, it's post '98 with that front body shape. Don't know who it is though.

I'm not sure we're looking at the same car

[High Jetter]

5 minutes ago, djoptix said:

I'm not sure we're looking at the same car

Nor me

[SiC]

On 8/12/2020 at 7:29 PM, gm said:

That's not the dim-dip relay is it? I know the one I pulled on mine didn't look like that and looked more like a normal relay. I think I still have it in the garage come to think of it...

[SiC]

Pretty sure it was this relay that I disconnected to disable the lights popping up when on side lights:

https://www.autolinkmx5.com/relay-headlamp-dim-dip-mazda-mx-5-mk1-hd22-used-8968-p.asp

I imagine if you disconnect the resistor, you'll get them still popping up just off. 

[paulplom]

That's exactly what happened when I disconnected it. So if I pull that relay, it'll stop them popping up?

[SiC]

That's what I did to mine many years ago and kept the relay on the shelf. Still got it I think?!

[gm]

makes sense, I'd thought the relay was part of the big metal box but I guess that is just the resistor bit. I've only had one uk mx5 but it was after they had given up on dim dip.