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29-11-2002, 11:30 PM | #1 |
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[color=#FF0000ost_uid0]Anyone here driven an MX-5 turbo?[/colorost_uid0]
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30-11-2002, 01:13 AM | #2 |
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[color=#000080ost_uid0]i'd say driving a turbo astina is more fun... [/colorost_uid0]
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30-11-2002, 01:18 AM | #3 |
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]certainly more exciting that driving a TT
/daniel runs away out of erics reach ::[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]How about this then:
There's a company in Queensland that completly rebuild MX-5's with a 4L supercharged v8. The only original panels left after the transplant are the door panels! It [iost_uid0]only[/iost_uid0] costs around $125,000 for one. Now [iost_uid0]that[/iost_uid0] would be fun![/colorost_uid0]
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30-11-2002, 01:27 AM | #5 |
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[color=#000080ost_uid0]how about a little mazda 121 with a 13b turbo setup.
spin those skinny 14" wheels.... :laugh: :laugh: nah, on a series note, i dnot think the excitment level in a turbo mx-5 will be higher than a turbo'd astina. lots of people think that the astina are used for shopping and pick up the kids, but if your astina can kick a wrx's arse, then thats a diff. story. /i go look for daniel now........ ???[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]yeah thats the Bullitt MX-5 i think. runs a wolf computer. apparently the one in the Wolf ad cost a grand sum of $12 to build, as they started with a wreck...
actually i'd love to freak people out and drop the B6T into the 121 bubble they do it to festives so it's apparently quite possible to the 121 /daniel runs away further [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]yeah thats the Bullitt MX-5 i think. [/quoteost_uid0]
I can't remember, but I think it was. *I saw it Ralph a while back. *Gotta love that mag! * / Gaz sits back and enjoys the show....[/colorost_uid0]
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[quoteost_uid0="rupewrecht"][color=#000000ost_uid0]/daniel runs away further [/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000080ost_uid0]/ getting closer............ [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]/daniel sees Mal drunkenly stagger into Erics' way and bail him up. daniel gets away
the moral of the story? there was a story?[/colorost_uid0]
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[quoteost_uid0="rupewrecht"][color=#000000ost_uid0]/daniel sees Mal drunkenly stagger into Erics' way and bail him up. daniel gets away
the moral of the story? there was a story?[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0] [color=#000080ost_uid0]/mal and eric goes to the nearest pub for a good time and forget about daniel... no story = good story ??? ??? ??? ???[/colorost_uid0]
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30-11-2002, 02:08 AM | #11 |
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[color=#FF0000ost_uid0]what reason(apart from being a smartass) would u fix up a 121?
i already knew about that v8 mx5, and i heard that mazda was a bit ****ty about it... some ppl thought the turbo mx5 was 2 powerful...picky hey[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]why does anyone modify any car?
because it's to be different. [/colorost_uid0]
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[quoteost_uid0="Sandyman"][color=#000000ost_uid0]what reason(apart from being a smartass) would u fix up a 121?
i already knew about that v8 mx5, and i heard that mazda was a bit ****ty about it... some ppl thought the turbo mx5 was 2 powerful...picky hey[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0] [color=#000080ost_uid0]what's the power output for the turbocharged mx5? they would be around 1100kg? 2 powerful? so the car would be more diffiecult to drive? if that's the case, i would have to disagree with that. a tubocharged mr2 (mid engine, rwd) with 165kw at the flywheel would be more difficult to drive than the turbocharged mx5.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well, the original designer of the MX-5 said that even the turbo had too much power for the design, let alone the 4L supercharge v8. And I should imagine that Mazda would be ppretty pissed[/colorost_uid0]
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30-11-2002, 11:49 AM | #15 |
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[color=#FF0000ost_uid0]The Bullet (Bullitt? spelling!?!) SS Roadster is $125000 for more than just the engine. Its a lexus 4.0L V8, which can be bought off the shelf for significantly less than $80000. The car has been totally changed..... thinking back to the review in MOTOR they absolutely loved it, including handling. Theres no such thing as a car thats too powerful as long as that car has been modified to handle the power. For example...... 400kw is too much for a Falcon Forte. Suspension is all wrong, wheels too narrow, diff not sorted etc. Tune the car to the extent that a V8 supercar is (fine..... completely changed but u catch my drift) then the car is on rails AND has a truckload of power that can be put to the ground (with a bit of skill).
No real reason that Mazda should be pissed off, not to say that they;re not, but the car barely looks like an MX5 by the time that Bullet is done with it.... plus Mazda's turbo version was about half the price! Bullett is no differerent to any other modifier! I wont comment on the 121....... but i do know that there is at least one turboed bubble car floating around. Seriously![/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#FF0000ost_uid0]think the turbo mx-5 had aboot one fitty kw.
very true, brad, very true.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid3]Guys, what do u think of this rotary turbo MX5? *
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[color=#000000ost_uid1]3pm in the arvo is a bit early to be putting remarks about
me being hammered. *If you had waited a couple of hours would have had more cred. Thanks for the drinks Eric. *The cross was great as always. Cheap drinks at empire followed by the Zen for a bit of Doof Doof. Bexta rocks. Also did you see the owner of RBaby is a doorman now out the front of one of the srtrip joints. *Not the one we went to, but I wont tell your wife OK. Just playing along Mal[/colorost_uid1]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]4 some reason i couldnt see the rotary mx5 pics u put up apparition, but ive always liked the idea. but i think that its only a legal conversion in perth, because the other states have rules about the size of an engine in relation to the car size or somethin. i think the 12A conversion is allowed but the 13B is 2 big. but then isnt there some type of law that u cant put an engine over 15 years old into a newer car?? and what the point of puttin a 12A into anything.
i dunno but they have ways 2 wreck everyones fun.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid1]When you cant put a 13b in then the 12a will have to do
wont it. *My mate has a nice RX-3 and he cant put the 13b in the and get it engineered. *You cant do it anymore. So he is going a turbo 12a. *Should still kick butt. As for having too much power it does happen. *1OFF the BD4's MR2 has too much power have seen the clips of it doing laps and because its a dyno car the boost comes on too quick and it was out sideways all the time. There is also a car on the serious performance videos old mazda/toyota/datsun cant remember which but it looses traction too easily so it actually runs slower because it cant get it to the ground. *He turned down the boost and ran faster times so there is a thing of too much power. *A good strip car does not make a good street car and not just talking suspension. Regards Mal[/colorost_uid1]
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