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Originally Posted by SteveH1
Nice build.
Where did you get the header tank from
Thanks
Stephen
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From a company called
compbrake. Fairly expensive but clean and neat and of high quality. Any over pressure is dealt with by the cap which has an 8mm spout you can direct away from the electrics and engine bay. The polo one would just spit it out the back.
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Originally Posted by Rosco
looks really neat! i love how clean it all looks!
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Cheers, it's amazing what you can do when you have time on your hands. I did most of it whilst waiting for the DVLA. It's probably the cleanest engine I've ever had inside and out. I used simonz silver alloy wheel paint from halfards to paint most of the parts and a hightemp silver paint for the exhaust which seems to be holding up well.
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Originally Posted by Ianr
Its very interesting to see how your engine fitting compares with mine Chris. I don't know where you got the room for the battery where it is. As always brilliantly put together. Are you still using the same ECU or is it another for the 1.8 (I ask co I may be doing the same sometime)?  |
No I had to wire in the 1.8 donors ECU, just a case of routing and shortening wires and trying to figure out which wires go to the back and to the fuse box. Every year of MX5 seems to be different and god know why they use same colour and stripe wires for different things like the engine fuse B/W and tach wire or the L/R ignition live but also fuel pump relay to pump wire. Took a week of every spare hour to get it all wired up neat.
The battery is a quality bike battery I think it's a
varley redtop 20 or 25 I forget. Very compact and just there to start the engine really. It wasn't that expensive at the time but still a lot for a battery. Thanks for the compliments guys. Nice to know someones still reading my thread.
Sorry what am I saying!!! It's an
Odyssey Extreme Racing 25 Battery - PC680 , I think i was just looking at the varleys at the time!! Doh!