So now I had a Forester STI but it wasn’t the perfect fresh import I’d planned on bringing home and I could see before buying it there were one or two jobs I’d want to do right away. Plus whatever I might find after a close inspection with it up on the lift. Tyres were […]
Nothing too exciting but good to document. The belt I first got for driving the supercharger was the cheapest I could find at the time in case it was the wrong length. It had also had a pretty hard time in the early days of running the supercharger while I got the pulleys lined up […]
We always wanted to put a roll cage in Jem’s Mini for a bit of additional safety and to improve the rigidity of the shell. But I couldn’t fit one to the car with the old sills in the rusty state they were, it would have been pointless. Well since I’d replaced the sills I […]
When I replaced the sills and welded some repairs on Jem’s Mini a couple of years ago I just put a couple of layers of Hammerite black on but I always wanted to find something a bit better and more hard wearing. So a while back I did some research and found what looks like […]
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 […]
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 supercharging plan may have been on hold while the garage was being finished but the MX5 still needed servicing so this was it’s first ride on the lift! Usually Jem would be my glamorous assistant but as the Mazda is technically her car and this was just a simple engine oil and filter change […]
I did a load of cavity waxing before but it was a bit awkward with the car on axle stands. Now I have much better access underneath I thought I’d go finding all the holes I could to fill with Noxudol 700 cavity wax. This is a messy job so I only took a few […]