MX5 Turbo - Modified

[PGD5]

More old news, but here's a better picture of the home-made turbo head shield. (strut brace about to be re-fitted)





It's made from a sheet of Aluminium (1.5mm thick I think) cut with a jigsaw with the curved formed by bending it over a scafold bar propped against the garden wall.

Part way into the Wire tuck/clean up operation..


Been out experimenting with the camera and a friends 'rig' too, here's the result:


MX5 Rig shot edit by PGDesigns.co.uk, on Flickr

Edited by PGD5 on Monday 12th March 15:13

[PGD5]

Cheers Greg - the Photography is another hobby of mine which I'm working on. Always good to hear the results are going down well

The Wire tuck, On the passenger side I've put the loom behind the wing, there's plenty of room for it and I haven't had to change the length of any of the wires. Drivers side the loom is still inside the engine bay, just rerouted so the loom tucks up under the lip to the wing. Then drops down under the headlight motor as opposed to down the side of the suspension turret.

The tuck also involves picking out what you dont really need it there too. Such as the many wires seen in the messy picture above, they aren't in use and would have been for the AC.

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piefacemate said:

Ie fit tamer and size?

Sorry, I don't know what that means

And as you quoted in the post above:
'Think I'll go for Plain discs this time too, and continue to use the 'Roddison Motorsport' pads'

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I took the car to Donnington park on Sunday (11-March-12) at it was superb!

A great day, stunning weather and a great crowd.. the car went very well all day too

Photos thanks to Dropoutmedia.com << their website includes a writeup of the day too


MAX5 Racing Track Day @ Donington Park 11/3/12 by DropOut Media, on Flickr


MAX5 Racing Track Day @ Donington Park 11/3/12 by DropOut Media, on Flickr


MAX5 Racing Track Day @ Donington Park 11/3/12 by DropOut Media, on Flickr


MAX5 Racing Track Day @ Donington Park 11/3/12 by DropOut Media, on Flickr


MAX5 Racing Track Day @ Donington Park 11/3/12 by DropOut Media, on Flickr


MAX5 Racing Track Day @ Donington Park 11/3/12 by DropOut Media, on Flickr


There's a couple of videos too See them here:

Vid 1

Vid 2

Edited by PGD5 on Saturday 17th March 20:26

[PGD5]

There not my photos these

There was a large group of Max5 race cars (thats different to Ma5da cars ) I was with. And yes there was a good selection of other cars there too, from Ginetta's, caterfields, BMW's etc etc..

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piefacemate said:

Sorry should have read fitament. Phones to blame!

I'm still not sure what you mean there tbh. I'll get pads which fit in the calipers, am I able to specify more than that?

Benjamin Shute said:

This is genuinely beautiful, by far the nicest Mx5 I've ever seen. So is there any chance of a higher res version of the Autumn photo? 1920x1200 stretches it a bit on my desktop .

Many thanks for adding that. I'm shocked so many people have said its the nicest MX5 they have seen, I really am..

Make me an offer for the high res image if you like

I'm not sure about sending out images in that sort of resolution tbh as they could be printed from that... Hmm, its something for me to have a think about. I have a new website in the pipeline, maybe a 'desktop' images section should be included?

One more photo for you.. From this months Yorkshire PH meet


Yorkshire Pistonheads by PGDesigns.co.uk, on Flickr

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Oh I am sorry.. I'll give my work out in future then.. infact the car keys are here, anyone want to take it out for a bit?

I may do desktops sized images in the future Ben But not just now, sorry

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MX5 Sunset by PGDesigns.co.uk, on Flickr

Tried my hand at shooting into the sun last weekend, on a rather misty day in the hills..

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Pictures from the cracking meet at Deepcar Autobodies











All these and plenty more on my FB page HERE

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The interior is stunning isn't it. Not mine though, that plush interior belongs to this car.. which was the prize!!

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'Rozza' I think, His forum name on Nutz is 'Fell at the last' I believe.. lucky bugger!!

I've a few pictures of the winning grin to follow shortly

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You asked that on FB too right?

Anyway just incase my reply was 'Stock bumper yeah. FM exhaust but it's much like a standard one..'

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The splitter is from a Renault Laguna, carefully massaged to fit the '5. Its the non vented type thats all, suits better without the vents imo.

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This isn't exactly up update on progress on the white car, more my own developments

So, this car is owned by Roddisons Motorsport, but I was lucky enough to get a drive in it last weekend..


Racing at Croft with Max5Racing!! Big Smile



What an incredable weekend it was! I qualified 1st in class on a dry track, with the car still in its soft wet setting! Race 1 saw me battle from the front with Rob Chilcot througout the race, until Rob spun leaving me to take the class win home Big Smile

Race 2 was completely different, and very wet! Bad enough for the track to be pumped between races, needless to say visability was very low! Anyway after a great start I passed Jeremy H on the inside and continued to hold him off for the duration of the race. Another Class Win and finishing 4th overall (ahead of several MK3 cars)

I was a very happy chappy!!



Thats my first ever Race too - 3rd time I'd driven the car!

[PGD5]

Cheers Greg

Here's the Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf4rjZXjcpk

Here I go trying to hold onto the lead..

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I took the car Drag Racing at York Dragway at the weekend.

Its the first time I've ever driven a Dragstrip tbh, though I've been going to watch the sport for almost 25 years!

Its more difficult than it looks too, as the slightest change means you lose out on your times. Say you get the smallest touch of wheelspin, that means that run is down a good half a second straight away. etc etc.. Its amazing how you soon find yourself chasing 1/10th's of a second

My best time was:

13.7488 @ 101.17mph
Best 0-60 was 5.54sec





Full album of pictures on my Facebook page HERE

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Today, is a sad day...

She's just gone up for sale

Sale Ad here on Nutz - £6.5k

But, here's the most recent pics


MX5 Turbo Strobist by PGDesigns.co.uk, on Flickr


MX5 Turbo Interior by PGDesigns.co.uk, on Flickr


MX5 Turbo Seats by PGDesigns.co.uk, on Flickr

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Has anyone noticed the Aluminium washer tank I made?

While tidying the engine bay up I thought moving the plastic washer bottle to a neater location would be nice.. and the fact that i'd just melted the standard bottle what with it fitting inches awa from the turbo!

So an ideal spot, in my mind was the scuttle panel. I'd seen the fiat cappuccino bottle fitted neatly up there so I went for one of those.. After a bit of searching I'd still not found one, so I figured I'd make one to suit

Now I've never done anything like this before. I set to it with cardbard templates, then more templates until happy. I've then bought he sheet Ally, cut and bent the tank in a little vice at home then had it welded up

The result:









I dont like to see fittings and wires on show if I can help it, so I designed that tank around hiding them away here:



And there you go You can buy replica tanks inc fitting kits on Nutz now (not from me)

What do you think?