PROJECT MX5: The Revival

(I am restarting my RP as I ran out of ideas on my previous one)

Hi am David and I just picked up a new little project a couple of weeks ago. It's an 1995 Mazda MX5 1.6i which suprisingly is almost rustfree as much as I can tell. These cars usually have rusted sills. It's a common location on these cars so if your looking at buying one definately get that checked. I havent been able to take a look underneath the car but i'm gonna take the car to my buddys garage and he has a lifter I can use.

During the testdrive I noticed several things:

1. The exhaust system is non existent. After a better look in the enginebay I noticed there was no exhaust at all from the header. So as u probably can imagine it sounds like a tractor.

2. A headgasket leak. Right away I noticed there was coming a whole lot of smoke and as I drove it I noticed a loss in power.

3. Bad Wheelbearing. Sounds like it's coming from the front left wheel. Can hear it from a mile away

4. Idle issues. The car was idling from 800 rpm up to 1300 rpm at a consistent rate so that will have to be checked.




So here we have it. As u can tell the front is a darker blue. Well, the previous owner told me the car was involved in an accident resulting in a messed up front end. He claims it was fixed by professionals and that any frame damage was pulled out. I guess we'll see about that once I take a further look at it. Im hoping its farely straight so the front end alingment isnt too fucked up. Would be a headache to get that sorted

My initial plan is to make it a beginner drift car. I've been wanting to get into drifting for over a year now so I sold my MK1 golf and gathered some funds and this was the outcome.

Since it's gonna be a beginner driftcar I wont be making it look all shiny and stuff. I want it to look raw and abused! Should be a fun little project to work on the following months. Plans are to take it to Driftland once it's done so I can thrash on it and get a feel for it!