1991 Eunos, No3

[craig1010cc]

After a break of a couple of years, I found myself wanting another MX5. That combined with the realisation that I was in real danger of losing my license if I continued to drive my 250bhp saab (I regularly look down at the speedo and realise I am traveling a fair bit quicker than I thought) the hunt was on for another MX5 and my Saab is now up on ebay.

I ideally wanted another NA, but with a tight budget and no linger having the facilities to weld, I thought I would end up with an NB. But then I spotted a badly advertised 1991 Eunos on ebay, not to far away and ending at 23:40 last Friday. Not having enough time to get there to view it, quick request for some better pic's and details was sent and I expected it to go over my budget. Pics and details arrived in my inbox with 1hr to go, and happy with them I stick a bid in allowing for some room for unexpected work, but fully expecting not to win it but I am the highest bidder. The minutes tick down, no further bids....... get to the final minutes, surely I'm going to be sniped, but no, I am the winning bidder

Couple of messages exchanged and last Sunday I headed down to Weston Super-Mare to collect it and it was as good as I had hoped The drive back highlighted a shake at 65 (wheels were well out of balance), there is a whine that is engine speed related (I'm assuming that its the alternator at the minute) and I think it is in dire need of a service, plus the door speakers are shot, but the shell is much tidier than I had hoped, and after a good clay and wax I think it should shine quite well. Plus it has a pipercross cone filter as a bonus.


















Not sure on the alloys, they are OZ Route 14x6 ET38's (and currently fitted with 175/65 budgets)



My previous 2 have also been 91 Eunos's

1st one went from



to



which was went through a few owners before surfacing back up on MX5Nutz, being repainted a gloss grey but titled as a drift toy and according the the DVLA has been off the road for a couple of years

my 2nd I didn't have that long (got scammed buying a set of coilovers, and some wheels bought on ebay weren't as good as advertised and I never regained the mojo for it)

[peter96]

Not a bad looking machine. Any plans for it. Funny you should mention powerful Saabs as I've recently acquired a 9-5 Aero Hot and it is deceptively quick. Good luck with your new purchase. At least you'll hopefully have some good weather this week to enjoy it in.

[craig1010cc]

They do gather pace at a alarming rate without making any fuss.

Plans for this one are getting shot of the god awful factory rear spoiler (might get a duck tail to replace it), give it a major service and a new cambelt and water pump along with a good clean and polish.
I've found out its also got some uprated monza shocks fitted and looking at it, i think it has been lowered too. Still tempted to get some coilovers and some better wheels.

[jonk]

Your blue mx5 persuaded me to buy my eunos, looked brilliant and a bit ahead of the curve with that style before Nutz went mad with it.

Looking forward to see what you do with this one.

[craig1010cc]

Cheers jonk

I was planning on recreating it, but the paint is too good on this one to break out the paint

[georgexs]

Jun 29, 2015 13:55:26 GMT craig1010cc said:

Plans for this one are getting shot of the god awful factory rear spoiler (might get a duck tail to replace it)

I thought the same, so I binned mine and got a KG Works ducktail!



Looks like with a bit of work, that could be quite tidy, best of luck with it!

[craig1010cc]

Jun 29, 2015 22:36:42 GMT georgexs said:

I thought the same, so I binned mine and got a KG Works ducktail!



Looks like with a bit of work, that could be quite tidy, best of luck with it!

That does look nice, did it cover the holes left by the factory spoiler? would be hands and save a lot of body work/ sourcing another bootlid.

[georgexs]

No it doesn't unfortunately, I got lucky and managed to trade my factory spoiler boot with a plain one for free off a guy from the MX5Nutz forum.

[craig1010cc]

thought it would be too easy oh well, easy enough to sort out

[georgexs]

Some of the other ducktails do extend far enough to cover the holes up. This one for example:

www.projectem.co.uk/

Made by a member of MX5Nutz, Vindi(Russell).

I didn't like it quite as much personally, there's a few others available as well:

www.mx5nutz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=100674

[craig1010cc]

I have been toying with a vindi,but also a rocket bunny type one (but i don't think they work as well unless it is ona more agressivly mod'd mx)

[wheelspinner]

good luck withe new car

I think your old blue/ grey car is no more i saw an ad breaking it on FB.

What colour was the blue on the RAL chart?

[craig1010cc]

Jun 30, 2015 19:02:28 GMT wheelspinner said:

good luck withe new car

I think your old blue/ grey car is no more i saw an ad b reaking it on FB.

What colour was the blue on the RAL chart?

That would be a real shame as the shell ws mint on itwhen i sold it

I don't think it was on the RAL chart,Google is coming back with BS636 for it

[wheelspinner]

I found the advert wrong plate....phew

[craig1010cc]

Tbh, it was sorn'd and out of mot for at least 2 years, i suspect it ended up being smashed up drifting.

[craig1010cc]

Well it's been a while, I've not really used it that much as I've been working up in Glasgow most of the time and only back at the weekends has meant it's spent most of the time parked on my drive unloved. I did give it a full service last summer (must be about due another soon) along with fresh oil in the box and diff, had a rear caliper stick on, so I had new discs, pads, calipers and sliders fitted to the rear, removed the broken horrid looking boot spoiler and fitted an eBay duckbill (the fit was awful and still needs finishing).

Last month was the dreaded MOT, just needed an petrol treatment to get the emissions right (too much time sitting not doing it any favors). So I decided it was time to start treating it as I'm back home again and will start putting the miles back on it. So today was an early start to head to Redditch to pick up some E30 BBSs that popped up on MX5nutz. 4hours later I was back home, quick trip to my friendly tyre shop and 4 new 195/50/15 toyo proxies mounted and I was on my way



Sadly they are missing one of the centre caps (1 got stolen when on the previous owners MX5), I think I might remove the 3 I have at the minute and either sell them on (as they seem to be asking £50 each on ebay and I like the wheels without them, but they do look better on I think) or hunt a spare and get it painted to match


they do fill the arches nicely though


But I really must finish fitting the duck tail and remove the rear mudflaps


Plus a new exhaust would be nice too