(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in April 2016) As the charger is off the car I took the opportunity to change it’s oil. The kit was bought from eBay. The Allen key required is an imperial size, 3/16″. If you are planning on doing this make sure you have this exact size. A metric […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) Just a few pics of sorting out the rad fan and cowl to keep airflow through the rad in its new position. It was a choice between trimming the fan cowl and moving the power steering pipes out the way to use the original mounting points […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) Almost forgot. I fitted some 1.8 injectors. I actually fitted these a while ago and used the car naturally aspirated for a couple of weeks so I could be sure they were working fine with no missfires and that the ecu was able to compensate and […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) Got some of the gold heat tape stuff. I also lowered the exhaust heat shield I’d made ages ago so it can stay fitted with the charger on. I will probably add to the heat shielding or rethink it entirely if I need to but this […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) After placing the intercooler and rad in and measuring up I sorted some spacers for the rad and mounts for the intercooler. and made a bracket to hold the left hand side of the intercooler where there is an existing threaded mount. the end […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) It’s intercooler fitting time. Well almost. Got to make space for it first. It was bound to end up getting knocked around while trying to fit it so I did this as a bit of protection. After a fair bit of staring and moving […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) The original washer bottle is in the way of the supercharger inlet so it had to go. It’s a bit big to find another home for it in the engine bay so I had a look for an alternative. And picked up a 9 quid kit […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) The tensioner plate needed a bit of tweaking to get it sitting right so the belt didn’t want to run off the idle pulley but once I’d got that aligned right and was happy it would work I tidied it up a bit so it looks […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) I read that a hot side supercharger setup like I am building can suffer surge on overrun and that is remedied with the use of a bypass valve just as you will find on the original setup of these superchargers on the BMW Mini. It basically […]
(First posted on MX5 nutz forum in February 2016) With the SC on I found a nice place for the throttle body to fit and made a cardboard template of the kind of bend I’d want for the inlet. I didn’t have anything suitable so ordered a 90 degree bit of stainless pipe to […]