After a few years with no MX5 in my garage, I picked up a green NB8A just before Christmas last year. Fast forward to early February and I'm at MX5 Solutions looking for some wheels for said green NB and Dave shows me a white NB8B up on a hoist, complete with a decent number of dents from the hail storm that rolled through Canberra the previous week. We talk, I mull it over for a few days, and then post my green NB for sale that weekend. A few days later on the Tuesday; it's leaving my driveway with a young bloke from the south coast, and I head back to MX5 solutions and hand over a deposit. Roadworthy is sorted on Thursday, and I pick up the car on Friday.
That Sunday we had our first motorkhana
First in class, third outright, and second driver since the top two spots outright were the same guy (national champion many years running) in two different cars. I learned that day that the car also has some kind of aftermarket LSD fitted as well, so that was a pleasant surprise.
First khanacross is at the end of the month, so this weekend saw oil, coolant, plugs changed, and the Recaro from my old NA fitted. Also picked up a set of early 90's factory Integra wheels (which I forgot to take a photo of but you can kinda see in the background on the right).
This week I'm having a sump guard made up by a mates exhaust shop, then new tyres are going on the Honda wheels.
Plan for next weekend is to fit the roll bar I picked up a few weeks back, change the gearbox oil, fit an extinguisher and harness.
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