Before I get into fitting this….. Yes I know it’s unnecessary and there’s nothing wrong with the OEM dump valve for the kind of boost the standard turbo is ever going to make. But a big part of the enjoyment of a car, certainly for me, is the noises it makes and turbocharged engines can […]
As far as I knew the clutch in the MX5 was nothing special. It had clearly been replaced at some point but I had no idea what with or how long ago. So I knew there was a chance it might not be able to handle the additional torque the supercharger setup was going to […]
Well this problem could probably have been predicted! The outlet of the supercharger is quite close to the power steering fluid reservoir and obviously the supercharger outlet gets quite hot so on a few occasions the power steering fluid overflowed a little, I assume just due to it expanding with the heat and it was […]
I think it might be finished or at least as finished as any project can be. I had a bit of a move around of gauges inside. I found having the wideband gauge low down a bit of a problem when trying to catch a look at it to keep an eye on fueling while […]
When I built the supercharger setup I decided to use a cheap recirculating single piston dump valve to vent boost when coming off the throttle and stop the charger boosting at idle. I chose this over a buttefly valve as fitted to the original Mini supercharger setup for two reasons. Firstly the dump valve was […]
Having done a few miles in the MX5 now with the supercharger on I’ve been giving everything a regular look over to keep an eye out for any problems that might come up. Well I noticed the other day that it looked like there was a light coating of oil over the exhaust shield […]
Well running the supercharger highlighted a problem with oil leaking past the front crank oil seal. Obviously this is not what you want to see arriving under any car though fairly normal for a classic Mini! π This job is basically a timing belt change with the added step of swapping the oil seal. As […]
Having got the garage done and the Evo ready for sale I could finally get back to the the MX5 supercharging project I almost finished last year but just ran out of time. So I got everything out of storage in the roof of the garage and tried to remember how I’d put it all […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in July 2016) Was very busy with the garage extension for a few months so playing with cars stopped for ages. Still need to do the odd car job though. Fan switch had died. Found this out while spending some time with the engine running on the drive while […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in May 2016) Not got too much further cos I’ve been busy with the other cars and other stuff but I have some updates. Once I’d proved the substitute IAT sensor was going to do the job I thought I’d go ahead and do the MAF to MAP conversion […]