Recent content by Shamus

You would have to strip everything out of the engine bay and change where everything goes to fit that in. It would be a cool conversion though.

Like I said I would rather get the bits and the specialist near me said he could see what he has to keep costs down and would rebuild it for me, I would just have to take it out and put it all back. I'll get some pics of the MX5 after it's had a good clean which I may do later if the rain stays...

Agreed but I have zero spare cash, with the RX8 I'll probably just try and strip it out and buy bits as and when I can, it's in the garage so not causing any problems. As for the MX5 I'm not messing with it at all. A 2J conversion would be awesome but I would then have to buy a 3rd car for work...

If you supply the engine I'm willing to give it a go. Also which car do you think it should go in? :lol:

I just finished watching this and that thing is ridiculous. I don't know were that guy gets his money but he spent a serious amount doing that car. I'm guessing summit racing gave him good discount too for all the advertising he did for them. :D

I'll take a look at that over the weekend. I can imagine I may need a second mortgage to pay for that though. :D

Well it finally went bang a few weeks ago! Developed an oil leak from one of the cooler pipes but seeing as I was driving down the motorway and unaware of this the No 2 rotor has been starved of oil and shat itself for lack of a better term. The engine cut out and I had to be recovered to mine...

Nope still going strong, and it's not actually using as much oil as I expected, fuel on the other hand I just don't think about it as I may cry lol.

They are so cheap it's not a bad idea, I may go look at v8 conversion kits, just out of interest though. :lol:

Lol, not sure yet. I'm going to sort out all the little cosmetic bits first, wheels, couple of small scratches and marks. I'm going to take the starter motor off this weekend if I get chance and see if it's been upgraded to the newer one as Mazda would do it under warranty if you asked but I...

It's in the lower bracket and is 290 for the year to tax, which is till a lot but after 2006 they went up to 500. Coming from a diesel it's not to much of a change driving wise like you say just warm them up properly and it should be OK.

Cheers Rich, Looking through all the paperwork the guy has kept up with all the services even though the mileage he has done didn't require one. and owning it for 11 years I'm assuming he knew what he was doing with a car like this and was an enthusiast, at least I hope.:)

I just checked Chris and apparently the power starts to drop at 8800, beeps at 9000 but it will got to 9500 although it is believed this is more the tacho being over optimistic so for all intents and purposes it is 9000 or just over. Not that I plan on hitting the limiter obviously but it's nice...

Maybe I miss read but I was under the impression that the beep sounds at 9000 and it goes to 9500, I'll re-check as I wasn't looking the dash at the time. Your probably right as my car knowledge is way below most peoples on here. The sound system is very nice, I haven't had much chance to play...

Thanks, I like the comfier ride at the moment mate and slamming it will destroy my ****ed back on the **** road to work.