new member wanting to say hello!

[Kris_C]

Hello everyone! 

 

My name is Kris, and I thought I would join as I have just bought an 1.6 mx5 mk2 California as my intended “cheap run around”

I sold my 308 gti, and wanted to free up some cash buy buying a little £3-400 motor to run about in.

and I did exactly that, but my new motor is this mx5.

 

I think I may have landed a bargain, as it has a new heated rear glass soft top,

style bars, diamond cut alloys, and a dam fine full Bluetooth sound system that out does my gti’s by far,

and I cant find any rust on the outside, or round the sills.

 

I noticed that in the windscreen is a mx-5 owners club sticker, so I figured maybe someone on here will recognise the car.

especially due to some of the aesthetic modifications somebody has done.

 

I have added a picture.

 

 

I have to say, I can see why these are so well liked! it drives and handles better than my 2011 308 gti, just with half the horse power!

regardless of the purchase price I did not “immediately” have to spend any money on the car, which I’m pretty impressed with.

although I did spend a day diy repairing a few bits and cleaning it.

 

But I have bought a new Kevlar clutch, gasket and seal kit for the box and rear crank,

as the current clutch is slipping if I drive with any sort of enthusiasm.

and I figured, make sure I don’t have to take the box off again for any reason further down the line.

This is my first rear wheel car, so changing the clutch will be a new experience for me.

 

And I am entertaining the mini supercharger idea that seems so popular, hence Kevlar clutch just in case.

I will say, for the type of car it is, the horsepower is way too low! 

 

anyway, that’s my story, and again hello everyone.

 

 

PS: I don’t use forums too often, so if anything is up with the post, let me know and I’ll put it straight.

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Eadwig]

Hi Kris, I’m liking the yellow and black.  Welcome to the club.

[Colin_b1]

hi.the car looks fast even if it isn’t.great fun.enjoy.

[Scottishfiver]

Nice wee bargain Kris!

Looks like an angry bee!  

I’d have those plastic side skirts off Kris, and expose the potentially true nature of it’s solidity as a precaution before you horse well earned wonga into it.

[Kris_C]

Ha Ha, Thanks guys!

 

Scottishfiver, You bring up a good point, I’ll have a good look round!

 

Angry bee!  

 

I cant make my mind up on the colours to be honest. I’ll give it some time to grow on me.

 

I really do think they should have made these with more poke than they have.

obviously so much effort has gone into the handling and ride comfort,

I mean its 17 years old and can be driven over a speedbump with not even the slightest knock bang or bump! I am impressed by that!

the solidarity has me silenced!

 

but at least 150bhp should have been the starting point for these. I really do think.

 

 

oh and my new clutch kit arrived today, so I’ll have to look into making a start on that.

 

Anyway guys thanks for the positive comments.

[DonT]

Hello and welcome to the club and forum

[mondrian]

Bienvenue

2017 : https://youtu.be/nqY8boaMdRs

2018 : https://sites.google.com/site/mx5mondrian/home/2018

 see you in Normandy next year

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[Kris_C]

Hello again, This is Kris_C I couldn’t log back into the account that I made this post with, so here I am nearly four years later on a fresh new account. I still have the car, and it has gone through a few changes since I bought it in 2017. Unfortunately the picture I posted back then of it doesn’t seem to be showing any more. I will see if I can dig one out of it. I will post some pictures up of it over the next few days.
Anyway Hello all, again.

[CeramicMX5ND2]

As I wasn’t an owner or a member of the MX-5OC back when you joined, I’ll say hello and welcome from Nottinghamshire now!
Rob

[Kris_C]

Hi Rob, thanks for the hello! I should have kept visiting the site to be fair.

[Kris_C]

Well I found a picture of the car when I first bought it. At £350 cash, it was a bargain!

I will admit, I haven’t changed much on the exterior other than the wheels and roof, but this is as it is now.

I liked how the car handled but I felt it needed a bit more power, so I bought a cheap turbo kit and started my learning curve. Dont Push too much power through an mx5 without opening the engine and fitting some better rods. this was the second engine I had rod failure on.

Whilst building an appropriate engine, I purchased this beautiful mk2.5 s-vt with the intention of stripping all the mk2.5 parts out and swapping them for my mk2 parts. 6 speed gearbox, 3.9 torsen diff
most of the interior etc.

This was me building the new strengthened engine for the California (not ideal in the kitchen I know)

and here is the complete engine ready to go in the car.

Whilst building the engine I did a lot of work to the California, and sold the mk2.5 s-vt with all the parts removed from the California installed I think it ended up being the only mk 2.5 in the country with windy windows the guy who bought was happy with it though as I fitted the lighter flywheel and clutch from the California, which gave it the “pep” of a 1.6 I literally rebuilt the California. (I got a bit carried away with paint)

And here is the now nearly finished project, running all be it on the old tune.
I need to finish running in the engine, fit the oil cooler and get it retuned.

It certainly has been a learning curve for me, as before this I had only ever changed a few engines or done the odd cambelt, I had help with the original turbo conversion from a lovely lad called Jo whom I first bought the original long gone turbo kit from, other than that I have figured out most of it myself, and fingers crossed I have got it all sorted now. I never built an engine before, and I dont intend to again to be fair This thing puts a smile on my face every time I drive it! So in my eyes it was worth it!

[Kris_C]

If anyone wants to see more pictures of other bits I did or ask how I did anything or suggest how something could be done a better way Please feel free to let me know, I’m still learning. and advice is very welcome. ( in the picture of the complete engine before it went in the car, the water pump pulley is the wrong way round! see! Stilll learning)