Front Wing Stays

Knocked up a couple of wing stays / brackets for the front cycle wings recently.
They're made from 3mm steel strip, 3mm plate, and some round tubes from an old bed frame :)

They mount to the top ball joint and one of the caliper mounting bolts:

Lock Stops Mk2

My first attempt at limiting the steering travel failed miserably.
The jubilee clips took a battering and broke before the car even left my garage!

My second attempt is a little more robust and uses a pair of shaft clamps from RS components (part no 691-8124):

Hopefully these will last a bit longer!


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UPDATE:  I had to ditch the stop on the drivers side as it restricted the steering far too much.
Ended up just laying down a couple of carefully placed welds on the rack instead...

Nearly done?

Just a little progress pic:

I think I might be getting dangerously close to being ready for IVA now.
Just need to make the front wingstays, paint the bonnet, and add a load of trim!

I even made myself a temporary plate out of cardboard for test day :)

Flasher Modification

One thing I noticed when checking the dash lights is that my indicators were flashing too fast for IVA.
This is due to my indicators drawing less current than the MX5 ones and cauing the flasher to think one of the lights had blown.

The usual solution is to add ballast resistors, but it's not particularly elegant, and by the time I noticed I'd already taped up my wiring loom and didn't fancy chopping into it again.
After a bit of googling I found this site which details how to modify the MX5 flasher to work with LED indicators:

http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=335534

All it involves is swapping a resistor (hope the guy doesn't mind me nicking his picture):

In fact the mod was even simpler than that; all I did was remove the resistor and not bother replacing it at all.
I figured a 1Meg resistor probably wasn't doing much anyway so tried without and it worked just fine :)