My 1989 FC Vert Turbo II

[rising son]

youre saying 25mm is weak, how wide are your wheels ? cause ive only ordered 10s.... my wheels are 8j 10j

[ali303]

youre saying 25mm is weak, how wide are your wheels ? cause ive only ordered 10s.... my wheels are 8j 10j

8Js on the front, 9Js on the back, not sure of the offset. I reckon I could just get away with 35mm spacers on the front if I was prepared for some rubbing, 30mm would be the safe option.

Well for various reasons my clutch didn\'t get done so yet again it\'s more time with the car off the road My mate didn\'t know his workshop didn\'t have a 54mm socket to get the flywheel off so I\'m going to have to try and track one down this week. On the other hand I found a video from back in the day while trawling my hard drive, happy times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9YkO9P6xFE&feature=channel_video_title

[grinder]

Wish i had a ramp when i did the DTSS bushes .. they were a right pain to do on the driveway !

there is a write up somewhere of how i did it

cant think what i paid for my bushes to be honest ..

[grinder]

http://www.mazdatrix.com/getprice.asp?partnum=14050

these are the ones that i bought ..

[ali303]

Back in one piece and ready for abuse...will get some better pics ASAP

[ali303]

I got the car back yesterday and took it out for a few spin last night, a few obvservations:

The clutch is ridiculously heavy and aggressive. I don\'t think I\'ll be driving to work in the car any more! It\'s basically on or off, when trying to manoeuvre with it (by riding on the clutch) it sounds pretty horrible but it\'s the only way to stop yourself stalling or hurtling towards the kerb!

The flywheel is very, very light. So light in fact that, if you knock the car out of gear for more than a couple seconds at a time (ie when approaching the roundabout so you can judge what the car in front is going to do) it\'ll stall itself. The car bump starts straight away if you just stick it back in 2nd but it\'s still a bit annoying to be turning the steering wheel and then have everything turn itself off when your approaching traffic! I\'ll just have to go down through the gears or make sure I don\'t let it drop from high revs to idle in a short space of time. Speaking of idle, it seems to be bouncing off the anti-stall pretty much all the time now. It\'ll fire it back up to say, 1500rpm but then it\'ll drop straight back down to the anti-stall and it\'ll keep on repeating this. I\'m assuming setting the idle higher would help?

But more importantly of course, the car drifts so much better now. As long as the car comes on boost when you finish the clutch kick it\'s happy days and you\'ll end up very, very sideways. Before it\'d only go sideways with the most aggresive of kicks and with massive steering lock (ie a roundabout or very sharp corner) as the standard clutch just didn\'t seem to have the beef to kick the rear end out on anything less. Now though, give it a tiny bit of lock, a little kick and you\'re heading towards the kerb...good times!

Some pictures:

Counter weight on



Back home





And some proper pictures:





Next jobs are to sort the clutch cylinder out (it\'s leaking so I\'m a bit worried about blowing it now the clutch is massively stronger than before), the brakes need attention (discs, pads and the handbrake isn\'t great), the wheel fitment needs perfecting (the 25mm spacers are going to go on the back and replace the 8mm ones that are there already and then I\'ll get some 35mm ones for the front), the gauges/radio wiring needs sorting and I\'d also like some rotary noise in my life so an exhaust is required.

Oh, and a big thanks to Ade (TiddlesRX7) for arranging to get these made for me: DTSS eliminators :burnout I\'ll get these fitted over the Christmas holidays!

[B.Martin]

How much were they mate?

Looking good, love that pic of it in the workshop with the 200\'s.

[grinder]

yeah i think we all need a price

[TiddlesRX7]

No worries Ali, just sorry it took longer than I thought. I can get more made up for people, But only as per the forum rules ie I\'m not a trader and don\'t pay to be so I can\'t sell them through here. Also before I get anymore made up I\'d like some feedback from Ali on the fitment incase they need tweeking slightly.

Ade

[papercutout]

They MIGHT need the sleeves shortening slightly, the length of the metal where it\'s been lathed thinner looks very long to me. Otherwise, they look great!

So, light flywheel and decent clutch =  more sideways? Good news, since I have an uber light flywheel too to fit someday! Surprised it made such a difference!

[TiddlesRX7]

These are sized off mine so if the smaller diameter is too long I need to know. Ali let me know how you get on with them, if they do need shortening I\'d just take a bit off with a file until its right.

[grinder]

must admit , mine looked slightly different

http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26650

[TiddlesRX7]

Yeah they do Stu but in the Mazdatrix link from your thread they look the same as mine (Phew!!!) thought I might have messed up for a sec:)

http://www.mazdatrix.com/faq/rrsteer.htm

[grinder]

Hummmmm and theirs looks like its 2 peice , and mine came as just the one peice ?

i bought it from there and thats what was shipped

so god only knows ! LOL

unless my inner sleve was just fitted and i never paid much attention to it ?

Lets see what happens when the set you supplied are fitted eh

[TiddlesRX7]

Im all excited now!