DoneDeal/gumtree.ie etc. Thread

[Dave]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DRIFT-QUAD-125...item336571fe46
Coolest looking quad ever!ha

[Kruizer]

How cool is this ?

For sale is my heavily modified mx5. I've owned it since May 2008, and used it every day. The car had 88,000 miles on the clock when I bought it, and a full service history up to that point. Since then, it has been regularly serviced by myself. Just last week it had oil, oil filter, plugs, a new inner tie rod and a full set of brakes pads. I've just put 12 months MOT on it.

The car is a UK model, originally powered by the de-tuned 88hp 1.6. Both those factors make it surprisingly cheap to insure, especially considering the level of modification. Being a UK model it has seen some salty winters and both the sills have been patched. The passengers side was done before I bought the car and is a simple plate over the outside, not especially elegant I'll admit but functional. I paid to have the drivers side sill and arch done, and the quarter re-sprayed, at a local body shop in spring 2009. The lower front corner of the drivers rear arch is now showing a little sign of the paint bubbling, and there is a small spot of bubbling on the passengers rear arch, only cosmetic though. The body work on the whole looks good with a bit of elbow grease but has a reasonable number of stone chips, and minor scratches, along with a number of smallish 'car park' style dents in the drivers door and front wing, please look at the pictures as I've tried to show it warts and all! The boot lid is currently painted with stencils of engine parts from both the original piston engine and current rotary engine, if its a deal breaker it could easily be swapped from a red boot lid from a breakers!

Inside the car has a the basic specification, so windy windows, manual steering rack, etc. The carpets, dash and door panels are in good condition. There is just one small nick on the passengers door panel and a few minor scratches on the top of the centre compartment. There is also a switch blank missing to the right of the steering wheel, where a boost controller once lived.

The interior has some simple but effective changes. The Lotus Elise S1 seats are mounted by fixed brackets to the original seat mount locations on the floor. They are much lighter than the stock seats and you sit lovely and low in the car. The brackets I made are currently non-adjustable, and suit a driver of 5'6" - 5'10" (depending on how close to like to sit), but are easily modified to provide other seating positions. Because the floor pan is unmodified it would be an easy job to swap in any other seats and I'd be happy to do a deal on the seats. The other major modification to the interior is the Safety 21 4 point JDM roll bar, its a proper roll bar mounted to the floor behind the seats and through the parcel shelf, and adds lots of extra chassis rigidity.

Over the summer of 2010 I swapped the original 1.6 piston engine out for a 13b rotary engine. This is a very rare conversion, due to the large amounts of fabrication needed to make it happen! There are only a few in the country ( 3 or 4 I believe) and as far as I know mine could well be the only one with tax and test on the roads right now! To fit the engine a professional fabricator lifted the transmission tunnel, heavily modified the front subframe, built custom engine mounts, built a very beautiful custom sump and built a custom oil pick-up for the sump. The rest of the conversion was completed by me at home.

The engine came from a 1989 Rx7 FC3s EGI. It is the n/a model and had 90,000 miles on it when removed from the working rx7. When buying it I was told it had been rebuilt 15,000 miles ago, but there was no proof of this. It starts equally well hot or cold. The engine is on stock ports, the emissions components have been removed, the secondary throttle plates have been removed and blanked off, the coolant flow to the throttle body has been bypassed, the 5th and 6th port actuators have been removed completely. The car will come with a spare lower intake manifold with working 5th and 6th port actuators. The exhaust is a completely custom system, cost me over £800. It's quite loud! but a nice tone. The exhaust has got a 2.5" sports cat in it, but I also have an un silenced de-cat. I'm running the engine on a Megasquirt MS1 ECU, built and tuned by me. It made 160 RWHP and 175 HP at the flywheel on the dyne last week, which shows its a good healthy engine. The engine loves to rev and the throttle response is great, its fantastic fun to drive. It really suits the chassis and overall driving experience. Please read the spec list as there's too much to mention!

The car is lowered on Eibach -30 mm lowering springs and Tokico HP dampers. The ride is fairly stiff but not bone shaking. I've also got a set of Mazdaspeed coilovers with mk2 top mounts that I will throw in. The rear dampers of the Mazdaspeed coilovers are blown, but if you can find a replacement pair of dampers they were great. I had the car aligned in autumn 2010 to my own specifications, slightly altered from WIM fast road settings due to the slight weight re-distribution from the rotary engine. Its a fun set-up, quite lively with predictable oversteer.

It's with regret, that I've chosen to sell this car. Realistically the engine does 20mpg on a combined run, and I'm currently doing around 400 miles a week in it, so its not really practical to have just one car. Also after heading on for 3 years with this car I want to move on to a new project. So I'm selling it to to put money into my rx7 project

Due to the rarity of this conversion its a vary hard car to price. I'm asking for £4,300 and I'm open to sensible offers, I think you get a very special car for that amount of money. I've only taken it to one show, and when I did it had people round it all day and a couple of pictures ended up on Speedhunters.com.

I am open to p/x's, I'm after a car to drive day to day while I finish my Rx7 project. Preferably something RWD, maybe a bit retro and up to a value of around £1,000. E.g. cheap mx5, old Rx7, BMW e30 etc. I'm open to ideas, so try me

Message me or email to steve.atterbury@gmail.com please.



Chassis and Body

• 1996 Mazda 1.6 Mx5 UKDM.
• Red (with multi coloured boot lid)
• 12 Months MOT & 2 months Tax.
• 129,000 chassis miles, 6,000 miles with this engine.
• Garage Vary front lip spoiler
• Both rear sills have been repaired
• Some signs of paint bubbling above drivers sill and on passengers rear wheel arch
• Usual bumps and scrapes due to 16 years of daily driving, a couple of reasonable car park dents on drivers side.

Engine & Drive train

• 1989 Mazda Rx7 FC3s EGI s4 13b engine. 90,000 miles when removed from working Rx7, believed to have been rebuilt around 75,000 miles, no proof of rebuild.
• Dyno proven 160 rwhp, 175 hp at the crank
• Starts fine hot or cold.
• Rx7 gearbox with Mx5 tail section.
• 12a front cover
• Custom engine mounts
• Custom sump and oil pick-up
• Heavily modified from sub frame
• Transmission tunnel lifted to accommodate gearbox
• Custom exhaust system. 2" mild steel primaries 22" long, collecting into 2.5" stainless system with sports cat ( Flyin' Miata 2.5" ) and 2 straight through silencers.
• De-cat pipe
• Rx7 oil cooler with custom lines.
• 52mm thick aluminium radiator
• OMP blanked off, premixing 150:1 with Castrol TTS
• Injectors Cleaned and flow tested
• Walbro 190 LHP fuel pump
• Rx7 FC3s Turbo II crank angle sensor and coil packs
• Megasquirt Ms1Extra ECU, on a v3 board, with Zeal daughter board to decode rx7 CAS, running 029y firmware.
• Innovate LC-1 wideband O2 sensor and gauge
• Usual throttle body mods.
• Pipercross air filter


Handling

• Tokico HP stock replacement dampers
• Eibach -35mm springs
• Fast Road alignment by Power Station, Tewkesbury, August 2010
• Recent tie rod
• New brake pads front and rear.
• 15x6 et +38 JDM Mazda Enkei wheels
• 25mm hub centric spacers from DM Motorsports
• 195/50/15 Toyo T1Rs, 4-5mm tread across all 4, edge worn on both sides but fine for MOT
• Spare set of TSW 15x6.5 et +35 wheels with 4 practically new budget tyres

Interior

• Safety 21 JDM 4 point roll bar, with proper roll bad padding.
• Lotus Elise S1 cloth seats. On custom frames, bolted into a fixed position currently
• Rally Designs 330mm suede deep dish steering wheel
• Pioneer head unit with Alpine door speakers


£4,300 ONO


More pictures HERE

[peterhouze]

a link from driftworks would have done but its fuckin class

[alan moy]

What engine
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/1766045

went ta c this the other day not as clean as it looks wheels gone and rusty under the bonnet as well polish fella selling it wont drop on price at all 150 km on shell as well

[Kruizer]

a link from driftworks would have done but its fuckin class

Saw it on Mazda Rotary Club, not sure if yee would see it so copied the add. Lower on fatter wheels

[dermot-r32]

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/1807437
only sold a week or two ago iirc and its for sale again
any1 know it??

[Kruizer]

Maybe cause its butt ugly LoL

[peterhouze]

Saw it on Mazda Rotary Club, not sure if yee would see it so copied the add. Lower on fatter wheels

ah it was on driftworks before xmas id i remember would be a cool daily

[dermot-r32]

Maybe cause its butt ugly LoL

ha.i like it for some reason,

[Kruizer]

ah it was on driftworks before xmas id i remember would be a cool daily

They are fair light so would be a cool trackday car too with that power, only thing better would be the 231bhp engine and 6 speed box from an RX8 in one...

ha.i like it for some reason,

Its probably one of them grow on you after time cars