Bugger the car that TY80 brings back cool memories as my first bike was a TY50 in the same colours......:cool:

A little more progress today - managed to finish tacking down the BR's :)

Collected an MX5 diff, driveshafts, and rear uprights today:



Won them for a whopping 99p on ebay!

looking good! iv been clearing out for the last 3 years and im still not there, i think someone just keeps filling the space i make! :rolleyes:

bargain on the bits!

TY80, class brings back memories! Good luck with the build

Nice to see the TY is bringing back a lot of fond memories!
All it's doing is p!ssing me off at the moment - the brake pedal gouges a hole out of my leg every time I walk past it :mad:
Might have to invest in some shin pads!

Made a little more progress today. Managed to get U3 to U6 down.
I was struggling to get them aligned, until I discovered we had some welding magnets at work. Had them done in a jiffy with those :D



May be a bit premature, but I couldn't resist doing to air steering wheel / brum brum test :cool:

Premature? I had my build board marked up and sat on it where the seat was and did the brum brum and air wheel.

Did you have a Tinney in your hand to.....;) Like this one of mine:

Blimey 99p that's a bargain!!! Are the MX5 diffs all the same set up? what horsepower can they safely take?
If the TY is in the way I will look after it for you.......:D

I was quite surprised about the 99p, I was expecting to pay a fair bit more than that, but no one else bidded. I don't think the seller was too pleased... :rolleyes:

As far as I know, all the Mk1 differentials are interchangeable (the Mk2 and 3's are completely different, and I don't know anything about them).
The UK models tend to have open diffs, whereas the Jap imports tend to have LSDs (viscous on the early 1.6, and torsen on the 1.8).
This one is off a 1.6, and is probably an open diff. Ideally I want to use the 1.8 torsen, but this will do for now (I believe I have a torsen in my MX5 - it certainly goes sideways very nicely :D )
Mk1 MX5 kicks out 120-130bhp as standard. Many people have turbo'd them to 200bhp+ without any diff trouble (as far as I'm aware!) No idea what the maximum they could handle is.

I don't think my son would be too pleased if I let you 'look after' his TY!!!