My Roadster! 94 1.8 S-special
Discussion
I've heard that using diesel oil as a flushing oil can be effective at cleaning our oil-ways so should be good at freeing sticky HLAs as it uses much stronger detergents. If you try this don't use the diesel oil for long, just put it in, get the engine up to temp, go for a short 10 min drive then drain it all out. Replace with a good synth or semi-synth (I like Mobil 1 0W-40).
I'm using Halfords 0w40 at the mo (fully syn).
Forgot to say, ride on mine is very very hard (S-spec bilstein suspension, about 60k miles old). Great on good roads but gives my back a hard time on UK roads
Actually think my dad's mk.2 UK standard suspension is much better, much more compliant.
Forgot to say, ride on mine is very very hard (S-spec bilstein suspension, about 60k miles old). Great on good roads but gives my back a hard time on UK roads
Actually think my dad's mk.2 UK standard suspension is much better, much more compliant.
Im just gonna change the oil as normal to begin with and hope that clears it up. Its obvious from the frequency that its only 1 of the 16 tapping, and it wasnt doing it when I bought it, so should be ok.
As for Ride quality - the car has Ohlins shock, and I'm not sure ho lowered it is (A lot, I suspect). First impressions are that it was pretty stiff, but I need to do more miles before I make any decisions about that, and changing for 15" wheels.
As for Ride quality - the car has Ohlins shock, and I'm not sure ho lowered it is (A lot, I suspect). First impressions are that it was pretty stiff, but I need to do more miles before I make any decisions about that, and changing for 15" wheels.
MX-5 Lazza said:
Based on my numbers? Do I have numbers? 
Maybe it wasnt you then... someone in another thread was commenting on ride height, and that they reckond about 12" was the lower limit before grounding starts to become a real problem!Maybe I'm dreaming!
smiller said:
That. Is a looker.
Thanks! Its been in the garage for a month pretty much untouched and forgotten about, but all of a sudden somebodies driven off in the other car and I have a wodge of cash to spend. At least I've a few days off now t odo some bits, hopefully it will be on the road by New year. Just putting in a mega-order at MX5Parts, stereo bits, gearbox boots, some other little bits. Brimming over with excitement at the proposition of actually driving the thing!
snotrag said:
MX-5 Lazza said:
Based on my numbers? Do I have numbers?
Maybe it wasnt you then... someone in another thread was commenting on ride height, and that they reckond about 12" was the lower limit before grounding starts to become a real problem!Maybe I'm dreaming!
Mine was way too low on AGX/FM and still too low after fitting the P5 PD kit F305 R310 (F12 R12.2) so I raised it up to F325 R330 (F12.8 R13). That's on a mk2.5 of course which has more suspension travel than Mk1 on stock top-mounts. When I had the alignment done by Tony at WiM he commented that the wishbones looked like they were at the perfect angles for the suspension so the handling should be as perfect as it could be. It certainly feels a lot more confident and rolls less than it did when it was lower and I can't fault the handling!
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