My Mazda MX5 S-Special Type II

My Mazda MX5 S-Special Type II

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Tyrewrecker

6,419 posts

155 months

Thursday 19th April 2012
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tim0854 said:
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 smile
Thanks, thats the link I had. Trying to decide if it is worth 300 of my hard earned...

molineux1980

1,201 posts

220 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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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!

tim0854

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601 posts

154 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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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 smile

tim0854

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601 posts

154 months

Saturday 5th May 2012
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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 smile





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

tim0854

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601 posts

154 months

Saturday 5th May 2012
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Picked up my car this evening biggrin

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 biggrin

getawayturtle

3,560 posts

175 months

Saturday 5th May 2012
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Nice shots, car's looking great thumbup

tim0854

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601 posts

154 months

Sunday 6th May 2012
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getawayturtle said:
Nice shots, car's looking great thumbup
Thanks, love how it looks now smile

tim0854

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601 posts

154 months

Wednesday 9th May 2012
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Booked weekend away to the Brecon Beacons in Wales at the end of the month smile

Cant wait to thrash my car around the Black Mountains driving

getawayturtle

3,560 posts

175 months

Wednesday 9th May 2012
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You best return with the obligatory A4069 hairpin shot wink

tim0854

Original Poster:

601 posts

154 months

Wednesday 9th May 2012
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getawayturtle said:
You best return with the obligatory A4069 hairpin shot wink
Of course thumbup

tim0854

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601 posts

154 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Had a great weekend in South Wales, awesome roads and great scenery biggrin

A few pics -







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

getawayturtle

3,560 posts

175 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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tim0854 said:


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

I wish my 328 wasn't broken so I could go for a blast up there. grumpy

Gman28

2,214 posts

145 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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nice looking car man, i love my na. you considered removing the rear mud flaps? one of the first things i did, imo cleans up the rear a good bit smile

tim0854

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601 posts

154 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Cheers

Agree they are great cars, love mine biggrin

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 smile

House86

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601 posts

154 months

Friday 15th June 2012
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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 biggrin

House86

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601 posts

154 months

Sunday 17th June 2012
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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 smile






House86

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601 posts

154 months

Monday 18th June 2012
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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 biggrin

Gilhooligan

2,214 posts

145 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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looking good man

the bracket that holds the charcoal canister can also be removed as can be seen on the pic. i also relocated my coolant overflow reservoir too.


House86

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601 posts

154 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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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 thumbup

St. Anger

1,125 posts

182 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Just out of interest, where did you relocate it to?