Category Archives: Cars

Spent the first half of today (trying to avoid doing the washing and cleaning up the house lol) fitting my freshly painted front lip. More pictures in my JDMST build thread.

I bought a 2nd hand MX-5 Mania intake (same as on my old NA8C) so I had to drill a big hole in the firewall. Red marks the pilot hole (which was existing).

A cordless drill was never going to cut it, so we whipped out the heavy artillery!

Intake installed and a simple bracket made up to help it stay in place.

Zi had a load of Road&ster mags which I’ve stolen for some light bedside reading (probably NOT a great idea!).

Day off yesterday so I hung out at JDMyard all day and worked on the MX-5. More detailed updates on my build thread on JDMST: http://forum.jdmstyletuning.com/showthread.php?56475-Justin-Fox-s-2nd-Mazda-MX-5-NA8C-Roadster/page10

I’d happily own any of these!

997 Turbo PDK Motor in the engine room.

Tour of the parts room.

Serg and I spent half the day at Porsche Centre Willoughby on Tuesday. They inspected his Porsche Boxster S and we got the grand tour too. Full write-up on Zen: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/08/porschecentrewilloughby

Dat familiar ISMR car park.

OK so last week there was a puddle of green coolant under the car. I couldn’t locate the exact source of the problem so I topped up with water and drove straight to Indy’s hoping it was just a split hose (fingers were crossed!). Turns out it was my N1 water pump. Strange right?! Anyways, it’s been replaced with another N1 pump and whilst the car was at IS Motor Racing I thought I’d get Indy to re-tune the car.

He’s advanced the timing a bit (I really want that mid-range power back) and whilst we’ve lost 4kw or so boost is kicking in from 3000rpm now instead of 4000. Was a bit wet out today so looking forward to some dry weather (then it’s time for new tyres as these are so so old).

New leads, leather shift boot, wipers and trim screws.