CarMakeRevive- SR20 6speed tube drift mx5

hks_kansei · Postby **hks_kansei** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:43 pm

Pleasantly surprised when opening this thread.

I expected a post of "so I bought an MX5 yesterday, my first car"
Then a few pages of "so here's what i'll be doing to it"
Before finally coming to the usual "turns out all that costs more than $1200 so I'm just putting on an intake and exhaust"

So yeah, great work so far and huge points for getting in and building stuff!

Ceptor · Postby **Ceptor** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 5:34 pm

I'm looking forward to seeing this build progress, good to see you don't do anything by halves haha

Revive mx5 · Postby **Revive mx5** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:41 am

AE86 engine bay

My SR waiting to go into

Tonight's progress- strut brace/harness bar made, strut tops fitted, bearing fitted (heim joint mounted in serviceable cups plug welded into strut tops), rear legs and one of the cross braces, will get the other welded in tomorrow

Postby **Okibi** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 2:55 am

Nice work - subscribed

emecks5 · Postby **emecks5** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:33 pm

YESSS, this looks like a bloody awesome build.
Subcscribed subscribed subscribed...
Wish I had the knowledge/money to do something like this.
This must be your profession too?

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:53 pm

It's almost a full tube chassis, nice. Why no love for MX5 geometry on front or rear?

Revive mx5 · Postby **Revive mx5** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:43 pm

lightyear wrote:It's almost a full tube chassis, nice. Why no love for MX5 geometry on front or rear?

Just working with what I know, I do a lot of work on s13's and have easy access to parts, strong diffs, lots of ratios etc

I'm actually a manual arts teacher, cars a hobby

Double diagonal probably isn't to everyone's liking but out of all the cages I've made I've never gotten to do one and just had to have one in my car.

Thought I'd also share my last build

1.8L twin cam, VVT turbo, Adaptronic ecu, Garrett turbo, front and rear air lockers, Sierra transfer case

My own custom intercooler, exhaust manifold, front and rear bars, engine mounts, transfer case mounts, gearbox mounts, front diff housing etc etc etc

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:01 am

speed · Postby **speed** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:55 am

Manual arts teacher?
Is that like industrial technology?

Wish I could build custom cars like this. Suspect that there is a lot of measuring and calculations to get it all to work together, yet you make it sound so easy.

Love the little 4WD beastie too. Always wanted to do something like that with a feroza and go bush bashing

Revive mx5 · Postby **Revive mx5** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:33 pm

Haven't updated this in ages so here goes

In no real order

Peddles
Had to remake the accelerator peddle since I'm now using a wilwood peddle box

Wheels
Been building lots more wheels, have two pairs of 15"x10" for the front and 4x 15"x11" for the rear and a pair of 15"x11.5" just for shits and giggles. All the rims have a metallic charcoal centre and clear anodised outer lips

Cage and steering stuff
Most of the cage is now done, I'm doing the roof X tonight and the intrusion bars tomorrow, then I can start on the engine bay tube work. Made a new steering column to put the steering wheel where it needs to be, I also had to tub the floor under the seats to allow me and the seats to fit, I'm 6' 1" and was feeling a little cramped, feels good now. Back to the column, I'm using Yaris EPS (electric power steering), I've used this on a few mates and customers cars and really like it, I use an aftermarket controller from Rallywiz the allows you to be able to adjust the amount of assistance, for drifting this works mint. Also using a de-powered NA power steering rack with Mitsubishi L300 rack ends that are M14 x 1.5 and have a spacer built in to allow more rack travel.

Also built these for a promo for our drift club, they use 125cc 4stroke quad bike engines, 3 forward gears and reverse, headlights, brake lights and indicators all work and they slide real good

Finished my exhaust manifold also, placed the runners in the correct firing order and made the exhaust Houston and collector as one piece to solve gasket issues and mainly because I've always wanted to do it

Revive mx5 · Postby **Revive mx5** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 5:04 pm

I think my photobucket is playing up, let's try that again

Also built these for a promo for our drift club, they use 125cc 4stroke quad bike engines, 3 forward gears and reverse, headlights, brake lights and indicators all work and they slide really good