I can't help modifying cars sometimes, the new mazda has been given some growl with an induction kit. My last one had a Typhoon K&N kit but they now cost £250! Sod that I thought so for under £50 I have made this...

 

 

I was inspired by some other guy online who basically did the same thing so can't take all the credit but it required a bit more than slipping on pipes and jubilee clips.

 

Here is the K&N for comparison of pipework length and proximity to the exhaust.

 

 

I firstly removed all the stock stuff, and peeled back the loom to get some more mobility on the MAF wiring and the Air temp sensor. Removed the breather line and replace with the little filter. Slightly re-routed a radiator coolant hose to make maximum mushroom room. Then it was just slipping pipes together I spose.

 

It wasn't hard but It has been really rewarding, I sized the job up, went online to ASH and ordered my own pick and mix induction kit, I put it on and it works!

 

 

It sounds great and whether it is any more powerful I don't know, but that wasn't really the point, it certainly isn't any slower or less responsive, it doesn't hiss at all on idle like some can and it grumbles like a V8 past half throttle.

 

Look at all this crap I removed

 

 

P.S. I will tidy up that pink wiring, can anyone see anything wrong with what I have done, I wondered if it would reduce torque or something but doesn't feel that way, I don't fully understand intake tract lengths :wacko:

 

Anyway, it's wicked :thumbup1:

Looks good to me Tom :thumbup1:

Hmm. My mx5 drives much better now too. I've had the brake caliper that was seized replaced :-) smells much better too!

I remember you commenting on your mx5 when you bought the zed, and I've been so tempted to swap the clio 182 for Mazda mx5!

my mate just got an mx5 today we are picking it up tomorrow I had a spin nippy but not really me

Looks good to me Tom :thumbup1:

 

Yup - and to me as well mate!

 

It has to be better now, after you have removed all that induction pipework and airbox!!

 

Richard:cool:

Thanks guys :-) once I notice some inefficient design it does my head in, even if i'm only losing 1/2 a mpg or bhp. Such long pipework taking air from the exhaust heatshield is daft!

 

My thoughts on mx5s, what Roobarb said is right I have known 3 have siezed rear brakes, they all rust but the mk2s/2.5s more than the others. The 1.6 is the best engine, the 1.8 feels stiff to me, the 6 speed is more clumsy than the 5 speed and doesn't really save any fuel. They handle really well, they have high levels of grip and you can't really slide them about in the dry. But all in all they are great.

 

If it could be found a mk2.5, 1600 5 speed with a Tom Wilson Induction kit, straight through 4-2-1 exhaust, strut braces and chassis braces, braided brake lines to standard brakes but with grippy colourstuff pads and a LSD would be wicked. That would be fairly quick and you would be able to skip the tail about a bit.

 

Purple ones are faster.

 

 

Hollings, do it, get a cheap one dying of rust with 11 months MOT and nail it about for a year, they're a right giggle.

Good work mate :thumbup: