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I'm thinking again about Jenvey ITBs (plus head work and fast road cams, I already have the lightened fly and plug-and-play ECU) on my MX-5. Think this sort of thing:
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I think he has one, just living somewhere warm with amazing scenery - and more importantly roads - and a lightweight two-seat car he can play with, along with a selection of girlfriends, isn't what...

I think 39,000 of those clicks were people who'd heard one of the pictures has one of your girlfriends in it, naked...

Two pedals = left-foot braking. I messed around in a Smart Roadster Coupé for a while and quickly realised the way round the slightly hesitant 'box was to left-foot brake and simply not bother...

Those seats look superb. I've been thinking again about a Tillett seat on the driver's side with the standard one removed from the passenger side, but easy to put back in (around two minutes) if I...

Looks good. Somewhere I have a 'Mullet Rock' cassette that's dying out to be played in that tape deck!

My dampers work significantly better than the standard shocks but cost £600, which is about a third of what I paid for the car. They're not perfect but they don't need to be.

Nope, I have a bad back at the moment, that one click all round was enough to stop it crashing over every dip and bump in the road. I tried softening off the rear by a click to help after the rear...

I have Meister Rs on my MX-5 and they're great. You can adjust the height from scraping along the ground up to OEM ride height and control the stiffness from completely relaxed to track-only, but...

On the theme of lightness, someone developed this for the MX-5:

https://rev9autosport.com/project-g-g-string-bikini-top.html

I'd have one in a flash if I had a garage for my Healey. You could...

You could always replace the windscreen with aero screens and throw away the roof and door glass.

A friend put a polycarbonate windscreen on his MGB GT. A very bad move, it instantly rendered his windscreen wipers useless as any dirt on the screen would scratch it and make it a PITA in sunlight....

Is it easier to simply remove the passenger seat and bolt it back in when you have company?

That's pretty good, with some lightweight seats presumably it'll be starting with an 8?

I had an LSD in my previous MX-5, I'm surprised I took so long to have one fitted to this one. I'm sorely tempted to buy one for the Healey!

I was wondering if it might just be slightly tighter and I just wasn't used to it.

I've had a look and will do some more research.

I think it's simply the difference between how an open diff and an LSD reacts to slight differences in grip or dips/bumps in the road. I may just be talking crap of course!

What I do know is the...

I'll look into those throttle bodies. Why are you biased, Adrian?

The car's geometry was set up recently at a proper place (https://www.wheelalignmentcentresouthampton.co.uk/ in Southampton, very...

I've been driving my MX a fair bit of late and after a very good early morning thrashing over the downs to Goodwood and back the rear was a little loose in an odd kind of way. I don't think it's the...

ME221 (https://motorsport-electronics.co.uk/product/me221-plugin-mx-5-8995/) tuned by Nick at Skuzzle Motorsport near Winchester. He's a bit of a genius when it comes to tuning cars.

I don't know about the science of it all but my MX-5 now revs beautifully with its lightened fly, and heel-and-toe downshifts are more fun. An existing problem was it does try to stall when you coast...

What is it with you lot and spoilers?!

The AD08s are very popular in the MX-5 world.

The only problem is tyres take years to wear out on the MX-5, so it's not a simple case of waiting to change them! I have Michelin Sport Cups or...

I was four in 1977, my father liked driving but only had company cars (I still have a soft spot for the E28 528i). I do remember staying as a child in the Hotel de France near Le Mans because John...