50 Shades Of Silver / Projekt Oh God What have I bought now?

in January I bought my Eunos, I'd liked the idea of one for maybe 10 years but I'd not had the time or space for one.

so, heres my '50 Shades-of-Silver (amongst other colours)



as bought and home (ok, I've too many cars....)



replaced the TSW wheels with BBS from a Bavarian-Murder-Weapon E30



the car was imported in 2000 so had avoided UK's salted roads for it's first 8 years life, being a Eunos the online vin decoders are next to useless and the dvla's regestration details are 'suspect' to say the least (it's regestered as a 1992 mx5, I guess thats the importer creating a car thats easy to sell & insure)



the previous owner had replaced the clutch, cambelt & waterpump, swapped to a mk2 dashboard conversion, fitted a cobalt stainless exhaust and a few other jobs like rust prevention.





when I was inspecting the car before purchase I noticed that the pedlebox was cracked with the throttlepedal almost hanging off, this had a major impact on the cars performance (possibly why it was for sale?)

when I got the car home I decided to remove the dashboard to investigate the wiring conversion as well as check the heater pipes & fix the pedlebox (the throttle pedal had actually dropped off after I got home!)








while the dash was out the seats & carpet followed, then I noticed that a rollcage had been fitted previously with holes drilled in the front & rear floors as well as the parcel shelf being cut (not a problem to me as I'm looking at fitting a cage :yes: - wonder what cage had been previously fitted? )



when the dash was out I decided that the conversion wiring was a bit of a mess so started looking for a replacement, this was put on hold for a while untill I spotted an advert for a UK spec 1990 MX5 for sale as a breaker...







1990 UK spec '5 with 1.8 conversion

as you can see, my 1991Discovery working for its living





little while later, some bits removed
was easier to remove the engine by chopping the front of the bodyshell off, nice un-rusted chassis rails - unlike the sills, wheelarches & floors :rant:







dashboard loom needing repair, one of the reasons behind the tango'd 5's purchase....



annoyingly theres diferent looms fitted - unknown if this is age or engine related



discovered after re-building and fitting a mk1 dash into the Eunos






so, ended up repairing the Eunos's origonal....



call for the solder & heatschrink......







bought some Compomotive wheels, unsure if they are destined for the Eunos or my mk2 Golf tdi....







another purchase, set of Ohlins adjustable dampers with springs & rosejointed topmounts, these were 'pre-loved' so a lot cheaper than new (although cost £400 so almost the same as the Eunos)

had fun when fitting, both rear damper bottom bolts were not wanting to undo as their 'captive-nuts' were 'UN-captive'










so had to remove both lower wishbones....

3 out of 4 camber-adjustment bolts snapped









weld to the rescue & re-captive nuts







random stupidity & reading crap on forums later ('Coil-On-Plug' conversion ideas )











ready for future turbo conversion (thats my excuse....... )



twin cylinder adjustable bias pedlebox



Another 'Random-boredom' idea, I've always had bias/adjustable pedleboxes on rallycars so as the Eunos is hopefully going to hillclimb & sprint its getting one



this is the 'mk1' design, not a working prototype but just pushing ideas....

the standard NA pedal ratio is 4:1, this is fine with servo asssistance but un-assisted will be harder than hell and a massive effort to stop the car so I'm looking at 5 or 5.5:1 ratio so that means shortening the pedal & moving the cylinder position.

also, I've picked up some new AP-racing 'dumpy' mastercylinders on egay for a very reasonable price









more to come once I've recovered from typing this........



Rich.