Mazda Roadster 1.8 RS with mods, one or two

[james]

I'm on my third mk2 RS

The first one was fun:





But the sills rotted:

[james]

The second one was far too good to break up for an engine conversion; so I fixed some bits, cleaned it and sold it on







Plan was to put the RS running gear into this mk1 I had. Immediately after I pronounced my first one as dead I acquired eunos number 2:



Ah that's eunos number 1 actually - the car that made me fall in love with mx5s (it was in poor shape)

This:




Is eunos number two, I still to this day need a white mk2 / mk2.5 in my life.

Anyway I did what any sane person would do, bought a turbo kit for it:





And some suspension:




Which came attached to this thing:



There was no way I was keeping this, it was cheap and had loads of faults so I was going to break it... You can probably guess what happened next.



Yeah I fixed it up, I wanted to make it a drift car.






But wait no sane person needs this many mx5s - an issue that can acutely into focus when my fiancé left me 6months before our wedding.

At this point I got rid of everything car related apart from my tools and the white one

[james]

Before I sorted that out, I did the most obvious thing and got another mx5:





That and the green one sold fairly quickly.

[james]

The most logical thing to do with a car that needs the brakes sorting out is start preparing ti change the cooling system



Next take some bits off to check for rust



Discover a leak in the fuel tank, remove more stuff including fuel tank





Now at this point decide it would be fun to strip all the underseal/paint and paint the underneath of the car white









Despite my best attempts I couldn't find any rot so obvioualy it time toremove the interior and check for rust





Nope none there... Maybe behind the front wings:



Finally after some hammering and chiseling I'd found some:





Pretty good for a 91 eunos that was imported in 1997!

...TBC

[randomfactor]

My head hurts, I was trying to keep count. In summary do you have the white one and the blue one now?
An you are correct that white mk2s are awesome