MX5 NB Skidder:..

[Flymo18]

Cool! nice vid. Subscribed, i wanna see how this turns out good luck with the competetive side of things

 

[mazdachris]

I had a cage in my old white Roadster. Hard Dog one. It made a big difference to the chassis feel. Very positive.

 

[Dunnfords]

Awesome stuff mate, love the exhaust!

Money goes on, that touge sparkplug sticker will dissappear the second it sees water..
Mine did =/

Jay

 

[Budget Drifter]

Thanks guys.

Chris, did you get rid of it?

 

[Deedilus]

Nice MX5! Buddy just got one, things are so great to drive How's the 50/50 for drifting?

 

[Budget Drifter]

MX5's handle great as anyone will say.. the 50/50 will be good for that. However at the next corner weighting/alignment, i think ill go for more weight at the front to loosen the back end a bit that way.

Good choice on car.

 

[Papercutout]

Thanks guys.

Chris, did you get rid of it?

Crashed I think it was in the end - which was frustrating for him, he was doing well!

 

[mazdachris]

Many bad things. First the water pump went, so I replaced that, then the thermostat housing cracked leaking all the coolant out, which caused the HG to go massively. Fixed that and then prompty rear ended some woman in a people carrier. Fixed it again, and then the engine developed a starting fault that i could never quite diagnose so I called it quits and got shot of it.

According to the guy I sold it to, a spare CAS fixed it. Fucksocks.

So now i have a replacement one but it's pretty basic, just a 1.6 for getting A-B

 

[ef-dave]

really like this car, keep up the good work!

 

[ringer]

LOL, that pipes silly / retarded / awesome.

I've seriously got a soft spot - I've had 3 MX-5's so far, and I think I want another one for shits and giggles.

 

[Budget Drifter]

i like the later... but due to rain, i might cut it back and be boring

They are good cars, but it's hard work skidding one. Gotta be on the edge all the time, and full throttle. It's scary when at places like Buxton with death walls...

 

[ringer]

They are good cars, but it's hard work skidding one. Gotta be on the edge all the time, and full throttle. It's scary when at places like Buxton with death walls...

That's why I love them. Everythings exciting, constantly. Just go faster, and it gets easier. If you're always trying to push it's momentum around and shift weight it makes it really hard. Go in fast, WAAAAY faster than normal, settle her up, and then it's happy sailing.

 

[Budget Drifter]

yeah. I'm sure ill perform better than usual at the Mallory park finals, cos i could go in a LOT faster. But Buxton scares the shit out of me, so i need to be reasonably cautious, it's my daily driver that i NEED, so can't mess it up

 

[Budget Drifter]

So just a little update:...

I need to revise for my final year uni exams, however, I'm sure a lot of you know that when you need to be doing something as important as that, most of your time is spent procrastinating

So I decided to drill some holes in the bumper . I have it up here just in case anyone wants to know what it looks like before they do it to their car.

I put a pikey spec 90degree bend behind the middle hole to direct air more towards the air box.

This should 'cross streams' with the direct hole on the right, and go exactly where I want it! (can you tell i have thought about this far tooooo much?)

Drilled the holes (56mm) and meshed it with some spare mesh and sticky mastic stuff...

And voila:

I'm pretty sure this hasn't increased performance at all, and it's just over-analysed and over-engineered procrastination.

Thanks

 

[Budget Drifter]

Need more lock?...

Copied from MX5Nutz...

So, now i'm getting more and more into skidding the MX5, I thought I needed more steering angle to hold more impressive skids :thumb-up:

I bought these:
Steering angle spacers | Hardware | Driftworks

They are 3mm wide, and fit fine on an MX5.

So this is what I did:
(BTW, I take no responsibility for damage to your cars, or injury due to this modification. Use your head, and only do this is you understand the risks involved)

First jack up the front end of the car.

I use a block of wood on the front sub-frame bit. Because my car is lower than stock, i need to raise it a tad on the ramps to fit the jack under.

Then get your axle stands in. What i do here is drop the car onto the axle stands and pump the jack a little so the jack takes a small percentage of the weight of the car. (not too much )

You will need to remove the under tray. This is held on by numerous 10mm nuts that are simple to find.

Then identify your steering rack.

Undo the clip at the little end of the rack (wheel end) and slide that out of the way. Then take of the large clip at the fat end. Then slide the dust cover out of the way.

This reveals this:

Once you are here, you need to peel back the 'locking' tab that wraps around the inner tie rod.

Once this is done, get a big ass spanner and undo the inner tie rod.

Once all the way out, you can now take off the tab you peeled back and put on your spacer.

Once you have done this, put a decent amount of high strength locktite, or I used hardcore bearing stuff.

Then nip it back up.

Now you need to compensate for the spacers on the tie rod end near the wheel. The spacers used in this thread are 3mm, however the tab taken off is around 1mm. So 4mm needs to be pulled in.

I made a mark using the spacer as a template, un-did the locking nut, and wound it in to this mark. Then wind the rod into the tie rod end until the locking nut hits the rod end... Then nip it up.

And that's it. Load more angle for skidding for dirt cheap.

Voila...

BEFORE ^

AFTER ^

 

[Sturge]

good write up on that guide, so simple but so effective lol!

 

[Captain Muppet]

Love the angle guide, and the speed holes - I put them in my old standard bumper too...

 

[MX joe]

nice write up pal, i need to do this with mine thanks for the tip

 

[ma70jake]

Nice MX5, Ive always liked that colour too.

 

[Darryl@TunerUK]

Excellent write up - decent amount of lock