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! š 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 […]
A few years ago I caught some TV coverage of the Goodwood Members Meeting and thought it looked like the kind of thing I’d better go to sometime. Then a few months back a friend mentioned his dad was getting some tickets and would order a few extra if we fancied going. So me and […]
Jem’s Mini had been trapped at the back of the garage the whole time the front was being extended andĀ then stuck in it’s new space while we did all sorts of building work around it, waiting for the new garage door. Although it was covered, it got pretty dusty and messy especially with concrete and […]
I replaced the drivers sideĀ handbrake cable a while back see here. Inevitable the passenger side one now needed doing too. I was very happy with the quality of the Pagid replacement cable I got last time so I got a Pagid item again. Old one out, new one in place one end and the other […]
Pretty much what the title says really. Not too exciting but one of the little jobs I tend to do as I prefer to finish a set of 4 tyres together so I can buy a full set when it’s replacement time and it’s a nice way of checking the wheel alignment is OK. If […]
The exhaust was not the greatest when we bought the MX5. It consisted of the standard manifold, standard down pipe, some kind of bodged de-cat pipe and a mild steel cat back system that I think was just a cheap pattern replacement part. When we first got the car I did a bit of reshaping […]
The poor old MX5 had gone a long time without a clean as I’d just not had time to do it so it got a proper clean and coat of QD to shine it up when I had some spare time one Sunday morning. Looks pretty good when it’s clean and shiny.