Turbo MK1 Roadster

[tommyb]

So,



I used to own a MK1 Roadster that I modified and supercharged myself, then stupidly broke it for parts before a love affair with Nissan and Toyota drift cars. After a few years of drifting me and my other half decided it was time to get on the property ladder so I sold up and needed to get another car which was cheap to modify/run daily. I decided to find another roadster after a brief time with a Tailgate McNoIndicate 530D.



Here are a few pics of the cars I owned before, and where I started and where i'm at now with my latest project...









Then moved onto an S14A (back when they were sensible money!)









Broke that for parts then found this local and stupidly cheap, £2750 for a factory manual twin turbo black on black Soarer! Put some wheels/coilovers/intercooler/clutch on it,












Sold that for a good profit, then bought a 360hp PS13 off a mate,






Painted it, changed wheels and put a bodykit on,





Sold that, had a brief foray with Tailgate McNoIndicate's then ended up with my latest roadster!



This is where Im started, pictures are in order of where I'm up to now...





Bought some 15x9 wheels for it,



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Cut and welded arches for the extended ones,











Got the misses to make me a suede gear gator as my leather one had seen better days,






Built a turbo at work for it, TD04L with a 15T GTX style comp wheel, comp cover re-profile, this is the same spec as the turbo we built that car throttle have just put on their MX5,






Blasted and painted my rocker cover,









Fitted intercooler and MS2,





Crashed it at a drift day, fixed it and gave it a clean,






Bought manifold/downpipe/feed lines from Revent/Sturovo for the car,






Bought and fitted RX8 Injectors,






Fitted the kit over christmas, all went on first time and I set about doing some road mapping on the car,






Cleaned and sealed the softtop as it was looking pretty minging,












Bought a hardtop and Torsen for it and fitted them last weekend,






Bought a spare P/S rack to convert to manual, stripped it down this week,






Turned down the seal that splits the two halves of the rack at work so there is no resistance from it,






Welded the 2 parts of the pinion together, welded the fittings and re-assembled...




Gave it a wash.

That takes us to where I am with the car now. Next plans are better tyres, have alignment setup, and get it on a couple of track days in the spring. Im booked for a couple of sessions at JapDay at Coombe to see how it goes on track, pretty quick on the road though at the moment!
  I've just sold the hardtop as I didn't really need it although it makes the car look much better, but I never had the roof down as I had nowhere to store it when not in use. I've also sold the TRlane rollbar as I don't think they are wide enough for the car, got a Cusco item to go in its place.




Current spec of the car is-



1992 Eunos Roadster 1600

Revent/Sturovo Turbo Setup

Turbo Dynamics TD04L15T-GTX style wheel

Reverent MS2 Basic

Ebay Intercooler kit

RX8 Injectors

Ramair airfilter

AEM UEGO wideband

HKS 60mm 2bar boost gauge

Magnecor 8mm HT leads

Alloy Radiator

A/C delete

Custom 2.75'' exhaust system

6 paddle clutch



HSD Monopro Coilovers

Polybushed Torsen Type1

7Twenty Style44 15x9 wheels

Federal 595RSR Tyres

Powersteering delete, rack welded





TRlane GPD rollbar

Homebrew harness bar

Willans 3'' Drivers harness

Corbeau Sprint drivers bucket seat-Floor mounted

Momo Competition steering wheel

Steering wheel spacer

Jass Performance shift extender

Yoshibits gear knob

Door armrest delete and re-cover



R-package front lip

Feed style skirts

Carbon Miata fender flares

Spoiler delete

Jass Front towhook

IL motorsports (i think?) rear tow hook

Rear bumper cut

[joeytalent]

Nice!

[atlex]

very cool car and interesting progression. I jumped in and out at the s13 shed and then came back with a mk2.5

never really got on with the s14s

[tommyb]

Thanks.

I would never go back to an S-chassis now, they are full of rot and wayyy overpriced. Gonna stick with the Mazda for a while, such great cars to work on, and parts are so cheap!

[atlex]

Mar 28, 2016 13:52:46 GMT tommyb said:

Thanks.

I would never go back to an S-chassis now, they are full of rot and wayyy overpriced. Gonna stick with the Mazda for a while, such great cars to work on, and parts are so cheap!

I still recon of a PS13 .. suitably minty ala s662.photobucket.com/user/Sanaco6/media/misc/stance13twotone_002.jpg.html would be hilarious but the mx5's chassis is so much more rewarding, and yes parts-wise... mazda is where it is at.

When I had the S13 I really wanted a two-seater and constantly perved mx5 rear canoes.

[tommyb]

Two tones are the best, the one I used to own was dark blue before someone sprayed it yellow, another of my favourite colours!

Haven't done much to car this week, picked up some 1.8 brake carriers and discs to upgrade the 1.6 brakes. Skimmed and blasted the discs at work to make them like new again. Removed my TRlane bar to make way for the Cusco one, will probably fit it tomorrow if weather is good. New tyres arrived Friday so will also get those fitted in the week sometime ready for the better weather.