Mazda MX5 Eunos (The Blue Turd)
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I have had my Eunos for 11 days now, I went down to Dartford (from Leeds) to collect it.
The BT is a Mariner Blue 1993 1.6 Manual. 187,000 km's on the clock, and so far I love it, well sort of.
And I say "well sort of" because on the sliproad (after driving nigh on 200 miles home) the alternator went. Oh joy.
Got the old one refurbed after buying a second hand one and that been crap aswell(lesson learned), problem now fixed. I can drive it again! I have fixed another couple of niggles, like spraying the damaged rear mudguard and the idle droop.
Its amazing to drive, and I have had so much fun so far, even had a cheeky couple of sideways moments.
Anyway here are the pictures.(If it works)
The BT is a Mariner Blue 1993 1.6 Manual. 187,000 km's on the clock, and so far I love it, well sort of.
And I say "well sort of" because on the sliproad (after driving nigh on 200 miles home) the alternator went. Oh joy.
Got the old one refurbed after buying a second hand one and that been crap aswell(lesson learned), problem now fixed. I can drive it again! I have fixed another couple of niggles, like spraying the damaged rear mudguard and the idle droop.
Its amazing to drive, and I have had so much fun so far, even had a cheeky couple of sideways moments.
Anyway here are the pictures.(If it works)
Edited by LukeR94 on Tuesday 26th May 10:11
and yeah you can see the similarities old, blue, cheap.
Had another mishap yesterday with the BT.
The Imobillisor keyfob wouldnt connect to the touchpad so the car wouldnt disarm, queue much swearing and scratching of heads. Took apart the touchpad, didnt seem to have a problem with it, so traced the wiring to the imolbilisor box and was about to attempt to remove the full imobillisor system when a mate opened the keyfob and found that a connection had come away. So soldered back on and now it works a treat(much better than it did before actually).
Another thing i've noticed is that the crappy coilovers it has on, which lower the car, but pretty much destroy the ride as its very crashy and bouncy, are crap, so when funds allow I will be upgrading them. HSD's or GAZ (Any suggestions, dont want to spend more than about 550). Another thing I need ias a hard top, not too keen on the soft top so one of them will be getting bought aswell.
The Imobillisor keyfob wouldnt connect to the touchpad so the car wouldnt disarm, queue much swearing and scratching of heads. Took apart the touchpad, didnt seem to have a problem with it, so traced the wiring to the imolbilisor box and was about to attempt to remove the full imobillisor system when a mate opened the keyfob and found that a connection had come away. So soldered back on and now it works a treat(much better than it did before actually).
Another thing i've noticed is that the crappy coilovers it has on, which lower the car, but pretty much destroy the ride as its very crashy and bouncy, are crap, so when funds allow I will be upgrading them. HSD's or GAZ (Any suggestions, dont want to spend more than about 550). Another thing I need ias a hard top, not too keen on the soft top so one of them will be getting bought aswell.
JamesYates said:
I've got Meister R coilovers on mine and they give a decent ride, they're on group buy at the moment on mx5nutz so might be worth looking into. Don't personally have experience with Gaz but have heard that they are more track focused and can be a bit rough on the road.
Thanks, will probably get some meisters then, they seem like the ones to go for. Really going to consider that group buy on Nutz, thanks for telling me about that I didnt know it was running.
Nearly a year later im back!
Still have the car. its been through a diff since though, apart from thats its been amazing. This diff needs to be replaced soon.
It has changed a little. I have added the r-package lip that came standard on these cars as mine didnt come with one and I soon got fed up of the splitter in the first pics. I have also replaced the trashy halo headlights with standard units which give off much more light.
It now has 15x7 Rota Grid-V's, a Mintfab steering wheel, Zillalife gearknob and I slightly tinted the front repeaters. I will get a pic up soon.
Still have the car. its been through a diff since though, apart from thats its been amazing. This diff needs to be replaced soon.
It has changed a little. I have added the r-package lip that came standard on these cars as mine didnt come with one and I soon got fed up of the splitter in the first pics. I have also replaced the trashy halo headlights with standard units which give off much more light.
It now has 15x7 Rota Grid-V's, a Mintfab steering wheel, Zillalife gearknob and I slightly tinted the front repeaters. I will get a pic up soon.
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