My Mazda MX5 S-Special Type II

[House86]

St. Anger said:

Just out of interest, where did you relocate it to?

Have seen some people move it in front of the radiator and just cut a opening into the slam panel.

[House86]

Finally got round to fitting my Laguna splitter and also a new badge for the front, think it looks alot better now its got a lip on it






Not bad for a £1.20 Splitter lol

[St. Anger]

Does indeed look very good matey - better than most of the Laguna efforts I've seen!

The car looks much "blue-er" in those last pics, I like it!

[House86]

Thanks

[Lee540]

Is picture deceiving? Looks like positive camber on both front wheels..

[House86]

Lee540 said:

Is picture deceiving? Looks like positive camber on both front wheels..

Think it's just the picture as havnt adjusted the camber.

Theres probably abit of negative camber now as its lowered quiet abit.

Could be wrong as not an expert on Camber lol

[carmadgaz]

That car seems to be a million different shades of blue, every light change seems to alter it, never seen another one in that colour it's

[House86]

carmadgaz said:

That car seems to be a million different shades of blue, every light change seems to alter it, never seen another one in that colour it's

Cheers

Think its one of the better colours available, but then I am biased

It's called Montego Blue, sometimes it looks almost green and then other times Blue depending on the light.

[Lee540]

Probs just me! Looks great! I'd like one just like that!

[House86]

Brought these seats today, vinyl but they look like leather, think they will look a lot better than the current clothes ones in there now.

Pick them up Wednesday so hopefully get them fitted this week too

[House86]

Seats now fitted, fitted one the weekend but couldnt remove one of the bolt on the other so had to get a impact gun on it today. There a lot more comfortable than the old seats and look better too

Before -



Old vs New -



And all fitted -



Just need to order a new matching gaiter now and also thinking of getting a matching cowl cover.

[House86]

Some pics of my car from a MX5 Breakfast meet this morning

[House86]

Went for a drive round Pulborough area today, some pics








Also received my new Gaitor and handbrake cover today so will stick some pics up once i've fitted them

[House86]

Fitted my new Gaitor and handbrake cover I got from Top Gaitors, big improvement over the old one and stitching now matches the seats

Old -



New -

[House86]

Havnt really done much to the car recently but did fit a chrome heater panel today, goes nicely with the chrome heater vents




Also ordered a new Silenced decat while MX5Parts had them on offer, hopefully it will make my exhaust less raspy but we'll see how much difference it makes over my current unsilenced one

[Gilhooligan]

St. Anger said:

Just out of interest, where did you relocate it to?

Wow forgot I posted here.
If you're still interested/ alive, I relocated the overflow to just behind the radiator as can be seen in bottom right hand side of the picture. I used a heavy duty plastic bottle and all the original hoses so I could put it all back to normal if I incurred any problems, which I didnt .

[Gilhooligan]

You have inspired me to get a laguna splitter. But how did you get it so cheap?!

[House86]

Gilhooligan said:

You have inspired me to get a laguna splitter. But how did you get it so cheap?!

Cheers

Bloke had spelt Laguna wrong so I was the only bid Does need cutting down quiet abit to fit tho but looks a lot better than not having a splitter.

Tim

[House86]

Fitted my Silenced decat today




Exhaust sounds a lot better now, a lot less raspy and a sportier sound

Made a sound comparison vid of the different cats fitted, although the Silenced one doesnt sound as good in the video for some reason, but does sound better in the car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ULjCsgHxs

[House86]

Brought a GoPro HD Hero 2 to use in the car, made a quick vid today testing it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY69USV0bmg

Quiet happy with the performance but the sounds pretty crap so have ordered an Audio Technica external mic for it that should hopefully solve the wind noise.

Should get the new mic next week so will make another vid to see how it compares