My Mazda MX5 S-Special Type II

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Roll Bar arrived today

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Had a great day yesterday at Mercedes Benz World yesterday for the Pistonheads Sunday Service, followed by some B road blasting

Fitted some clear reflectors for the front bumper




Also brought a Baffle for the exhaust as was a bit loud, really suprised how much quiter it is now with it fitted, wont have to buy a different exhaust now

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Sun was out today so decided to go for a blast round the Pulborough area, some great roads round there






Not the best Photos but was enjoying driving it too much to take any others

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Done a few small jobs today, started with fitting a grille as car hasnt had one since I brought it, sprayed the tow hooks black while I was at it to match the grille



Applied my Pistonheads Smiley



Also took out my Cabin brace and windblocker ready for my rollbar to be fitted next week, thought it would be rude not to see what it'll look like fitted




Cant wait to see it fitted properly next week

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Cheers mate

Think the grille stops crap getting into the front and looks good too

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Tyrewrecker said:

Looking great - where is rollbar from?

Cheers

It's a TR Lane GPV Rollbar

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Tyrewrecker said:

Thanks - got a link mate?

Heres a link to there website http://www.trlanefabs.co.uk/MAZDA-MX5-GP-ROLL-BARS...

Ordered mine through there ebay page though as they send them out quicker

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molineux1980 said:

Looks fantastic! I love my 5, but we have a baby coming in July. The wife has a Mk5 Golf GTI, not sure we can run 2 cars. I'll be gutted if I have to let mine go!

Thanks for the comment

Would suck if you had to sell your car, there such fun to drive

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While my cars been with Garath at the MX5 Restorer I thought I would give my garage a paint to try to make it a bit brighter and reduce the amount of dust in there.

How it was before, quiet dark and gloomy



And all done, its alot brighter in there now and floor is looking alot better, still needs a bit of tidying tho.

Not bad for £29 of paint





Go and pick my car up this evening, cant wait to see it with the new rollbar in and smoothed bumper

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Picked up my car this evening

Stopped and took a few photos on my way home -

Smoothed front Bumper,





and smoothed rear panel and TR Lane GPV Roll Bar fitted,








Hopefully get some better pics over the weekend

Car really needs an OEM lip but that will have to wait till next month now

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getawayturtle said:

Nice shots, car's looking great

Thanks, love how it looks now

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Booked weekend away to the Brecon Beacons in Wales at the end of the month

Cant wait to thrash my car around the Black Mountains

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getawayturtle said:

You best return with the obligatory A4069 hairpin shot

Of course

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Had a great weekend in South Wales, awesome roads and great scenery

A few pics -







Wright up of my trip and more photos here http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&amp...

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Cheers

Agree they are great cars, love mine

have taken the mud flaps off before to see what it would look like and I prefered my car with them on, so think im going to keep them on for now

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Just won a Renault Laguna splitter for the grand sum of £1.20 on ebay as the seller had spelt it as Leguna lol

Pick it up Sunday, so will hopefully have it fitted by the end of the weekend

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Well cant pick my splitter up till this evening so probably wont have time to fit it today, so decided to clean the engine bay a bit by removing the charcoal canister that doesn't do anything.

How it looked before removal -



Removed from the bay



and how it looks now its removed, tidies it up a bit and saves a bit of weight

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Finally managed to get a matching centre cap so now have a complete set.


Can now get them refurbed, just need to decide what colour to do the wheel centres

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Cheers

Did have ago at removing the bracket but couldn't get it off, will have to get the hammer out the weekend and have another go lol

Yours does look a lot better with the coolant moved

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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.