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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 20th, 2011, 2:19 pm
by youdirtyfox
Cheers man , its worked out near on perfect
Once the arches are rolled (end of the month)
it'll need another inch or so off the ride height to complete the
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 1:08 am
by youdirtyfox
Archenemy booked for saturday 27th August to roll the arches!
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 12:28 pm
by Josh
looks dam Good! your tires are not stretched nearly as far as i thought they would be. very nice stance. i love it
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 12:56 pm
by youdirtyfox
Thanks Josh, yeah its not an extreme stretch at all really. Tyre fitter had no problem popping them on just right! but no rim protection at all
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 2:40 pm
by marcdh
Nice one! Makes it look very mx5 with rims like that. Not a bad thing to me
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Look forward to seeing the roll and drop
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 3:07 pm
by youdirtyfox
Aye popular rim on the mx5's is the sport max 002 for its 0 offset. These are very similar
Will take a few pictures saturday hopefully when He get's going on the arches....
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 3:57 pm
by mx-3_4evr
needs more slammed lol! Lower it about 1-1.5" more and it would look even better. Take side pics too of the whole car
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 23rd, 2011, 12:45 am
by youdirtyfox
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 23rd, 2011, 9:24 am
by cWs306
lowing it another 1-1.5" inches would make it a show car... lol. and i am now looking a set of rims similar to your dirtyfox. but there ALL black. no chrome. ill get a picture soon here.
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 23rd, 2011, 12:36 pm
by youdirtyfox
There is still 4.5" from the ground the underside of my wind splitter at the front
so speedbumps arent really a problem at the minute, aslong as you go slow and dont brake too hard before hand, so ive got a bit to play with! more worried about the oil pan if anything...
No chrome on my rims, just lovely machined aluminium. Look forward to seeing what rims you are contemplating on
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 23rd, 2011, 3:18 pm
by puromx3
really nice work! im loving it
hey where did you buy the plastic to make the front wind splitter?
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 23rd, 2011, 3:54 pm
by youdirtyfox
Thanks Bro, its something im loving doing
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This car is probaly going to be my last outing into heavily modifying a motor and is third time lucky so Im going a bit ott here and there while ive got the chance to.
Was real lucky to find that large piece of plastic protecting a sheet of expensive alloy on a pallet at work, to do the splitter. Its flexible and doesnt shatter under force, it just folds. I would really like to know what exact plastic it is, but I dont sorry.
The only material I could find that was cheap off ebay ,without going to plastic manaf. was acrylic perspex in black, but I dont know if that would shatter under and impact?
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 24th, 2011, 1:08 am
by puromx3
alright cool man thanx i appreciate it.
n looking foward to how your build ends up
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 26th, 2011, 9:41 am
by youdirtyfox
Had all the tyres changed over and the new wheels put on. Roll of the arches tommorow and drop if I can be bothered too on a bank holiday
Its funny now the tyres have been stretched there is a one finger arch/tyre gap, before it was 2! Another 15mm drop would see no gap at all.
Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project
Posted: August 26th, 2011, 6:48 pm
by Vecia
Very nice car. Love the way it sits and the body is very clean.