A.R.S.E.

For those who saw on FB, yes I did.

Westfield Clubman. 4AGE Toyota engine running twin soles carbs. T50 gearbox with Quaife internals connected to a Quaife lsd.

Needs some work. It’s 20 years old and needs a good tidy up. Came with spare engine,diff, bonnet, guards and boxes of bits and pieces. Should keep me occupied for a while.






Love it


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Nice, I test drove a PRB many years ago inspired by the LX4 in LFS and kinda deluding myself into thinking I might be able to use it as an everyday car lol

Farking very cool.

These 7 Clones and those of their ilk are the best fun one can can have with their clothes on.

If one totally disregards road rules, arguably clothes off too.

Nice Stu!

You have cracking taste in cars

I'm desperate to get something like this for my impending mid-life crisis.

durbster wrote:You have cracking taste in cars

I'm desperate to get something like this for my impending mid-life crisis.

Cheers mate. I have noticed we have similar tastes

Not the wisest choice of car for Tasmania but thats why I have more then 1 car I guess . Still feeling it


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On my list of cars I regularly consider finding a way to justify purchase, I think you've now had all of them apart from an Ariel Atom and a Mazda RX-8

But I can understand the latter given it's basically a financial timebomb.

Atom next though, yeah?

Funny you say that

A few moths ago I looked into the viability of fitting the 2.0 (would be a 2.5 if done though) from an NC into an RX8 as they share the same basic platform . Love the car, don’t want the engine. From what I read, it simply isn’t worth it as a conversion is just as difficult as putting any other engine in it so you might as well put a v6 or something in it. Would be a good project as I think the RX8 is on the cool wall.

As for the Atom, well yes but not in my budget. The Exocet now do a mk3 version (so takes the single donor NC) and that would be as close as I would ever get.


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What does it weigh Stu?

Jamo wrote:What does it weigh Stu?

About 640kg without me in it I think

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Well fuck me if I didn’t sell it

Went off to SA a month or so ago.


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What's next on the list?

w00dsy wrote:What's next on the list?

Another Mx5. Will be my 3rd.

Already have it

https://www.facebook.com/10ae4156/


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Ooh an NB. I was expecting ND

There aren't many NA or NBs left here now because as rock solid as they are, rust has sadly claimed most of them. I don't think that's as big a problem down under though is it, since you don't salt the roads.

durbster wrote:Ooh an NB. I was expecting ND

There aren't many NA or NBs left here now because as rock solid as they are, rust has sadly claimed most of them. I don't think that's as big a problem down under though is it, since you don't salt the roads.

The Abarth was my ND I guess (was NF iirc)so you could almost say this is #4

The NB is a replacement for the 7 and I have already done more kms in I than I did in the 7 in the 2 years I had it. Just easy and fun to drive. Being a 10AE helps me with wanting something a little unique among the other million MX5’s. 150 came to Australia.


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I drove a friend's 90bhp NB (dunno if that engine was sold in Australia) and we established that despite it not having enough power, it was still possible to do doughnuts in it.

durbster wrote:I drove a friend's 90bhp NB (dunno if that engine was sold in Australia) and we established that despite it not having enough power, it was still possible to do doughnuts in it.

Wouldn’t be much more than that

The NB only came to au in 1.8. I I think you guys got 1.6 and 1.8 options.


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Nice, Stu! God, I remember checking out one of those 10AE models at the Melbourne motor show many years ago when it used to be on at the same time as the grand prix.

Always liked the NB shape. A guy near my old work had an SP for a while that I was quite jealous of.

Better kick that cat off the roof before it makes it worse

I miss my NB

Brett_S wrote:Better kick that cat off the roof before it makes it worse

I miss my NB

Haha couldn’t get much worse

Speaking of worse, a hardtop for these in good condition is fetching $3k. Last Mx5 I had they were around $800 for a perfect one. Be nice to have a container of them that you forgot about.


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Exar Kun wrote:Nice, Stu! God, I remember checking out one of those 10AE models at the Melbourne motor show many years ago when it used to be on at the same time as the grand prix.

Always liked the NB shape. A guy near my old work had an SP for a while that I was quite jealous of.

Cheers Mick. An SP would be nice. Fetching stupid money now though. They only built them here and for targa originally. Not all of the 100 are left


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Stu you go through cars like the rest of us socks. Do you sell and buy them yourself or use some kind of agent?

The time and effort involved would give me a headache!

Jamo wrote:Stu you go through cars like the rest of us socks.

You need a fleshlight Jamo. The rest of us wear our socks.

Not really. Had the Abarth for 3 years and the Westfield for 2.

So not really like socks. More like your used condoms. Sounds like a lot because I talk about cars but really it isn’t that many.


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