Good Luggage Crew - Turbo Eunos Roadster NA

[B.Egan]

sounds like a rip off considering there 80$ a wheel

I dont like the steels all round there a wheel for smashing i think.Id only run them on the rear.

The yellow stickers were nice to see on them though! i only seen the white and red before.

Good to see it road driven!

White and red stickers are Diamond Racing. Bassett make lighter, stronger steels, and are a big company rather than one guy doing it in the evenings like Diamond. I have no problem with anyone ringing up Bassett and getting a quote. They dont deliver internationally so you have to try and sort that yourself which isnt easy, sort all the import paperwork, and then import duties. Shipping is alot more expensive than the wheels. So then see if its a rip off.

Always seem to get negativity off you Tekno. Or some sort of sly digs that I dont drive my cars on or something? I see the last line above as another veiled one. I dont exactly see how you can say this when you dont know me or are from anywhere near the same place. In fact I only ever see your 20v sit at shows so could I say the same about you? Lose the superiority complex and why dont we both twin our road cars in Portlaois next sunday?

[Tekno Twinky]

White and red stickers are Diamond Racing. Bassett make lighter, stronger steels, and are a big company rather than one guy doing it in the evenings like Diamond. I have no problem with anyone ringing up Bassett and getting a quote. They dont deliver internationally so you have to try and sort that yourself which isnt easy, sort all the import paperwork, and then import duties. Shipping is alot more expensive than the wheels. So then see if its a rip off.

Always seem to get negativity off you Tekno. Or some sort of sly digs that I dont drive my cars on or something? I see the last line above as another veiled one. I dont exactly see how you can say this when you dont know me or are from anywhere near the same place. In fact I only ever see your 20v sit at shows so could I say the same about you? Lose the superiority complex and why dont we both twin our road cars in Portlaois next sunday?

Take a chilly brian you seem upset there its fact diamond wheels are 80$ a wheel thats all i was saying? Ok this basset crowd make "better" "lighter" STEEL wheels? i dont think theres a competitve market for steel wheels there tbh so id buy the cheapest balanced set i could as there purely for saving good real wheels from getting smashed rather than a cheap fix at ILLFITMEANTYO fad shite thats my view on steels anyways

Sorry if you picked me up wrong there at the end but i actually meant it as a complimeant as in fair juices to you for road going it cause i seen you pull in aroun half 12 and wait at the gate to cross.The dudes DC2 was gorgous from what i seen.

I have track car brian id just bring that thus I AM SUPERIOR
nah i gotta work though im doing mondello on the 25th though should be kewwwl

[B.Egan]

Take a chilly brian you seem upset there its fact diamond wheels are 80$ a wheel thats all i was saying? Ok this basset crowd make "better" "lighter" STEEL wheels? i dont think theres a competitve market for steel wheels there tbh so id buy the cheapest balanced set i could as there purely for saving good real wheels from getting smashed rather than a cheap fix at ILLFITMEANTYO fad shite thats my view on steels anyways

Sorry if you picked me up wrong there at the end but i actually meant it as a complimeant as in fair juices to you for road going it cause i seen you pull in aroun half 12 and wait at the gate to cross.The dudes DC2 was gorgous from what i seen.

I have track car brian id just bring that thus I AM SUPERIOR
nah i gotta work though im doing mondello on the 25th though should be kewwwl

Not saying their much better or anything. There both quite similar, just Diamond Racing are known for being hard to deal with and taking ages. You will have to chase him alot to get a set. But even then Diamond Racing wont work out at $80 each to your door. You're welcome to find out. But it will be alot more than you think I'd imagine. Regardless I ment the trading thing in jest. As for "real wheels" etc. If 10s are good enough for Dennis Healy to drift on then they're good enough for me. I dont need the jdmtytessedyo wheels to make me feel kewl. Black Equip 03s in the future but they'll be fine for now.

Personally taking the risk of drifting your own raod car would make you superior. The whole point of having a track car is to go all out in it, alot harder to do the same in something you have to drive home that evening ha!!

I expect the drifting to all go shite in it tbh, but worth a shot and would be cool to have something different out there competing next year.

OT but think you were actually sitting behind my parents in the stand Cillian!! God only knows what they were saying and making of the whole lot haha!! Came up really to hear Dave commentate but actually really enjoyed the day and couldnt get over how professional and exciting the drifting was!

[Tekno Twinky]

Not saying their much better or anything. There both quite similar, just Diamond Racing are known for being hard to deal with and taking ages. You will have to chase him alot to get a set. But even then Diamond Racing wont work out at $80 each to your door. You're welcome to find out. But it will be alot more than you think I'd imagine. Regardless I ment the trading thing in jest. As for "real wheels" etc. If 10s are good enough for Dennis Healy to drift on then they're good enough for me. I dont need the jdmtytessedyo wheels to make me feel kewl. Black Equip 03s in the future but they'll be fine for now.

Personally taking the risk of drifting your own raod car would make you superior. The whole point of having a track car is to go all out in it, alot harder to do the same in something you have to drive home that evening ha!!

I expect the drifting to all go shite in it tbh, but worth a shot and would be cool to have something different out there competing next year.

OT but think you were actually sitting behind my parents in the stand Cillian!! God only knows what they were saying and making of the whole lot haha!! Came up really to hear Dave commentate but actually really enjoyed the day and couldnt get over how professional and exciting the drifting was!

GTF ha i was actually trying to contain fowl language! think i may have offeneded possibly your mother when i fuck'd the judges for not sending o'shea through! Bring it up at dinner let her know im sorry if it was her lol

Yeah im just strongly over opinionated at the best of times tbh the cars clearly the tits but i like when people give their genuine thoughts up on my car(s) threads so thats just were im coming from really.

i love this long time except all the stickers in the windaaaaaaa

[B.Egan]

GTF ha i was actually trying to contain fowl language! think i may have offeneded possibly your mother when i fuck'd the judges for not sending o'shea through! Bring it up at dinner let her know im sorry if it was her lol

Yeah im just strongly over opinionated at the best of times tbh the cars clearly the tits but i like when people give their genuine thoughts up on my car(s) threads so thats just were im coming from really.

i love this long time except all the stickers in the windaaaaaaa

Ha she hears worse dont worry!

No I respect your opinion alot, and take all on board. Just feel in general you've been pretty harsh on me over the years, whether it be built not bought comments, or not driving my cars as they should be. And to be honest both arent really justified if you knew me personally. But I'm very opinionated myself so cant hate someone who is the same. So huggles at the next event!

Mintos 5 is epic. Wanted to actually spray mine that colour, and then saw he done it first so had to forget it. Plus my paint I feel is in great nick so not gonna bother doing anything with it now. Love is rear cutout and diffuser idea.

Have to update this thread on all thats been done over the last while, just waiting on the pics. Still very much a work in progress, but starting to get there.

[alan opel]

just waiting on the pics.

not the only one man! come on!

[B.Egan]

not the only one man! come on!

Ha I've none myself Alan. But a mate has alright, just have to wait for him to send them onto me. Just seeing will any surface on this forum or other ones. Havent seen any of the front yet. Didnt arrive till about 1.30-2.00 on the Sunday, and just made it at that as was still trying to recover after the Monster party. Was there all sat though. Noboby might have taken any though.

[nicknack]

[B.Egan]

Right so its about time I started updating this on what happened over the last month or so. This will be a long post so sorry about that. But I'll add in pics once I get them to break it up a bit.

So firstly I'd gotten the wheels and test fitted them with fresh 195/45 Toyo T1Rs alround. Immediately I found I'd have to get coilovers. Knew I'd have to anyway but thought I might be able to survive for a while without them...but I was wrong. Luckily though I managed to locate a set of Tein HA coilovers on donedeal for a bit of a bargain price. The coilovers were fitted and since the mx5 allows you to adjust camber, castor and toe as standard, we rolled the arches and set it to max camber and max low the night before Japfest.

I also got my bootlid spoiler from the UK, and in our carpark at about 5am before Japfest it was riveted on.


Mechanically the sump was leaking. The exhaust manifold and another pipe needed to be welded. This was done and a full service done alround. Also wrapped the manifold in some top quality volcanic exhaust wrap!

Threw on the GOOD LUGGAGE sticker on the front and the car went to Japfest. It was running pretty sweet and looking pretty well, but still not quite there.....but close enough.




Now although the car was extremely low (you could just about fit your foot under the chassis rails), I drove it like this alright, and even did pizza deliveries in it and managed to get it over monsterous speedbumps......albeit with alot of scrapping and grinding. It was also not rubbing on full lock, aslong as you didnt go over a bad bump at the same time.

Drove it like this for a while, but then a drift day I wanted to do was looming and so I had to start getting it ready for that!

[B.Egan]

So for the dirft day there was alot of things needed to have it 100% spot on for it. I knew I wouldnt have time to do it all so just tryed to sort the essentials. The diff and a hydro.

Now the diff is an ongoing saga that has been a bit of a disaster. It has a 1.6 VSLD. Welding it would have been fine only that the diff is so small and considering the power it was unlikely it would hold, and probably take the halfshafts with it. I had to be able to drive it home so it just wasnt an option. Getting a 1.8 diff, halfshafts and prop were the next option, but anywhere I rang who had those parts available were looking for stupid money. So Will_C came up with the idea of shimming the diff.

Heres the basic ideas of it:
http://zilvia.net/f/s-chassis/200226...-j30-vlsd.html

Seems very successful on S-bodies so in theory should work on the 5 as its just the exact same just scaled down.

So I had to get shims made up and Colm off the site here helped me massively out and made them for me at short notice, and at a really really cheap price too!

I had previously bought a second 1.6 VSLD so the lads could rebuild this with the added shims, while I could still drive the car.

But it was now the night before the drift day. The lads rebuilt the diff and the shims seemed to work mint! Happy days! But after fitting it and running the car it was seen that the bearings were wanked in the diff. It couldnt be used as is. Sad days! So at about 4am before the drift day the lads put back in my other 1.6 VSLD. Disaster as it would have to do for the day. But the upside was that once the bearings get replaced the idea should work and I shouldnt have any more 1 wheel wonder problems. A silver lining at least.

Onto the hydro......