Picked up this Eunos Roadster at the beginning of August '11

Mazda Eunos Roadster

Manufactured 1991

Imported in the UK 1998

1.6

The Day i got it...

How she looks now...

Clearance from the side:

Front Underneath:

Photos taken from yesterday's meet:

Current Mod List:

Digi Camo Vinyl (inspired by my old Mk2 Polo Breadvan)

TA Technix Coilovers

Mini Superlites 13x7j ET-7 (w/ Bridgestone 175/50/13 tyres) will be getting bigger tyre profile to fill the arch gap

Style Bar

Offset Numberplate Bracket

K&N Panel Filter

To-Do/Get List:[/b]

Fujitsubo 4-2-1 Manfiold

Fujitsubo Exhaust System

Hard Top

Bigger Tyres

Front Tow Hook (just needs painting)

Rear Tow Hook (just needs painting)

TSI bumper vents (just needs painting)

New Front Bumper (just needs painting)

Steering Wheel & Snap Off Boss

Edited 10 October, 201114 yr by hoodedreeper

Good progress! Tyres look a tad silly on it though :p

New tyres arrived today :p

Went over to Norfolk Areana today for their monthly Drift Practice. Weather was perfect and the track was extremely smooth! Will wait for my mate to upload his photos of me going round the track,and i'll post them up.

Heres my mate's Seirra that joined me on the track day:

I'll fast forward to 3pm,i was out on track coming round the back corner and i suddenly lost all power. So i pulled over out of the way and turned the ignition and there was nothing. Looked in my wing mirror and i saw the rear 1/4 bubbling! So i jumped outta the car and ran to the back,opened the boot and a huge cloud of smoke poured out. The battery was on fire! Once a marshal had extinguished the fire,we pushed it back to the pits to have a better look. It looks like the battery clamp (thats hooked onto the chassis) had touched the Positive terminal and that ended up in detinating the battery,setting the surround carpet alight in the mean time! So we took the battery out for a better look:

Ooops! At least i can say i done it proply! Most people blow tyres at a drift day,i happen to blow up batteries!

A pair of new terminals and a new battery and jobs a good 'un!

looks fun! how come its got a lead acid battery? should have a gell battery or agm battery

me likes me likes me likes! :) :) :)

lol at the battery :p

pics of the battery or it didn't happen

What you mean pics or it didnt happen? The photos are above ^^

Some more Photos from Ammo Photography and Dodgem Squad

some cool pics there mate

sorry mate computer was a bit silly t'other day and it didn't load the battery pics.

The Mazda lives on! The battery definately wont be going anywhere from now on...

Cool, I like mx5's

Small Update:

Had this arrive in the post this week:

It was just taped on,need to get it sprayed and then it'll be fitted :)

Yesterday i removed the fog lamp that was bolted to the bottom of the bumper:

And converted one of the Reverse Lamps into a Fog :)

Also trial fitted my 14s that i had laying about (where gonna be my Winter wheels for the Micra,but had an issue with longer rear studs + wheel nuts = would tighten but still able to move the wheel!)

I think they suit the car quite well,shame they werent wider...or had a smaller offset

My new Lockwood Dials arrived today:

With abit of help from a mate,they were swapped and fitted back into the car:

And Illuminated at night:

First lot of photos were taken on my phone,and photoshop has stopped working,so apologises for the quality

Just got the Heater dials to swap,should be a job for Sunday :)

Nice - normally dont like racing graphics on road cars, but i like what you have done

I will always have a soft spot for 5's - awesome and under ratted by the public, proper drivers cars (not under rated by the press as they love them)

and as G40Jon says - you should have a gel or agm battery. If you are going on track and have a lead acid battery then you will probably get another fire soon.. On a 5 the battery gasses have nowhere to vent to and just build up very quickly in the boot.

I have been a moderator on the main two mx5 forums for about 14 years and I've heard of this happening when you have the wrong battery and give the car spirited use.

Love your ghetto rear speakers - did you know you can cut them into that shelf if you are careful - the fuel tank slopes away on both sides and popping some 6x9's in there works well as they then have the whole boot to reflect in.

taken when i did my first ones about 2001 - these were mb quarts running off of a pheonix gold bbg amp - sounded lush for a car which normally wouldnt be great sound as it doent have many box spaces and has a little more road noise.

Edited 28 October, 201114 yr by Retrotub

Heater Dials now fitted!

Diff will hopefully be removed and welded Tuesday (providing taking it off goes to plan)

Apart from that,still waiting for some bits to be sprayed

AWESOME

Met up with a mate yesterday to start work with the diff removal. Was quite suprised how high the jack went...

Once on axle stands we doused all the bolts/nuts with penitration oil,with the help of an impact gun the drive shafts and prop shaft was removed. Last thing to do was to remove the brace which goes between the gearbox and diff,one of the bolts was stuck and wouldnt come out.

Abit of jiggling about and the help of more WD40 and a blow torch,the bolt finally came out. Now came the fun part and that was to strip the diff down. Heres the majority of the diff stripped down and all cleaned up

The diff ready to be welded!

A 40 mile round trip later and the diff is welded. The guy who done the welding said he tacked it and clamped it,and upon welding it the planet gears had moved. Which then made the centre out of line. Abit of filing/cutting and it'll line up with the grooves in the basket. So we done that and it still wouldnt fit,the shorter half shaft went in fine,but the other one wouldnt go in. With the planet gears out of line,the plate on top (where the larger part of the half shaft goes into) was also out of line,which meant the half shaft wouldnt go in.

So after stripping the diff back down again,we still couldnt think of any other way to fix it. Our only option was to source another set of planet gears (which was highly unlikely) or another whole diff.

Today i met up with my mate to collect the diff,where he then took it to H&S Performance where Mike managed to remove the planet gears and re-welded it. Having the half shafts there,they could fit them to make sure it was all lined up. Dale then went back to the garage and re-built the diff,which is now ready to go back onto the car which will be Friday.

Heres some photos of the diff being re-built and with it complete:

Will report back Friday when its all back together with my thoughts on a welded diff! Might even go for a cheeky play about to test it out haha

Took the Mazda out for a 'test drive' with the new welded diff. I know i've named the video Drifting,and i know i'm not actually drifting...but you know what i mean!

Thoughts on the Welded Diff:

ITS AWESOME! Makes drifting/skidding sooo much easier,just need to practice feathering the throttle to make the corners better,but i'm slowly getting the hang of it.

Driving the car day to day feels exactly the same! (probably because i dont floor it round corners anyway) Reversing is abit sketchy,feels like the car wants to kangeroo but then decides it doesnt.

All in all...a thumbs up!

Couldnt do a test run without a short video!

Still waiting for my bits and pieces to be sprayed,i guess the weather doesnt help either :(