That is very TWOC'y and snide.weeksy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:43 am OK, so it's £8500, but it's a 'classic' in my book
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-XR3i-in ... SwnidgFxZr
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Asian Boss
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To a kid looking up to me, life ain't nothing but bitches and money.
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wheelnut
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I love ours - it’s a 2007 NC3. We’ve been all over in it. Had it about 8 years now and will keep it a while longer. Not fast, but they don’t need to be. Brilliant, brilliant little car.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:03 pm We bought Mrs Ds pretty tidy 1.8 Eunos Roadster for about 2 grand in 2007 and sold it in 2014 for about £850 i think. So the tester's offer is pretty good I think.
I really miss it sometimes. They're not very fast, but they're very sorted. The suspension is way higher spec than anything else in the class (double wishbones all around) and they feel properly 'tight'. They say you can tell if a car is a good driver in the first 50yds of driving and I'd say the MX5 passes that test with flying colours.
I call ours Dougal cos it’s magic on roundabouts.
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wheelnut
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Nah - it’s great as it is.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:37 pm Not fast... in that case you need a Chinese turbo kit off t'bay.
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Mr. Dazzle
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BBR in Brackley (just round the corner from Mercedes F1!) do loads of tuning bits for MX5s. Their turbo kit ok the mark 1 1.8 takes it up to ~240bhp.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:37 pm Not fast... in that case you need a Chinese turbo kit off t'bay.
What you really want though is a conversion by Flying Miata in the US, take out the cast iron Mazda engine and drop in an Aluminium 6 litre V8. Doesn't even change the weight
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KungFooBob
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My mate had a Mk1 for a decade, you name it, he did it, was a ringtool for many years.
He ran a couple of hundred quid Chinese turbo kit and a home built mega-squirt for years without issue.
He ran a couple of hundred quid Chinese turbo kit and a home built mega-squirt for years without issue.
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Reminds me when I needed a new vacuum pump for the Landie and just put vacuum pump into eBay/Amazon (don't recall which), thinking it would give results for cars in my 'online garage' with them.
The site decided that automotive wasn't even the category it would choose.
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Gone.
Need to get my SL320 back on the road....then sell that as well!
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Need to get my SL320 back on the road....then sell that as well!