Josh's 1990 Na6 MX5
Eyyyy my name is Josh and this is my Mx5! I'm still new to the forum and currently shopping for a Sprinter. Anyway this is my Mx5's story.
Around 4-5 years ago I was on the hunt for a silvia, well.. Anything cheap and rwd with a manual box. I'd checked out s13 after s13 only to find garbage bogan drift cars full of bog and knock off vertex kits and was nearing the end of my tether with shopping. It seemed like every car I'd tracked down ended up being a massive POS... Even the s14's I'd looked at that seemed immaculate in the adds had something fatally wrong like a dead gearbox, blown turbo, diff etc... So one day I found myself looking up random cars and stumbled upon an advert on carsales for this.
It didn't take much convincing after the test drive, I was in love. I'd always had a thing for Mx5's but I never expected to own one, especially an Na! To be honest, at this point I knew very little about cars and I thank this little red thing for inspiring a new passion. I've learned so much from this car over the years and met so many close friends as a result.
Anyway! I'd always had a thing for Mx5's from an early age as a good mate of mine's father drove an Nb8a which he bought new and later traded in for a special edition NC1. Sure enough, I bought the car.
After discovering google images, the mods began. Most of them regretful, but you live and learn. After the baffles died in the muffler, I decided to replace it with a 2.25" stainless steel cat back exhaust with a free flowing muffler, mandrel bends and free flowing exhaust. Well, that's what I asked for... Unfortunately the shop dicked me hardcore and gave me none of the above. I was left with this...
A crappy cheaply put together press bent mild steel stock system with the raspiest sound you'd ever heard. Unfortunately I was pretty shy back then and let the shop bully me and push me around, I let them win as a result and lost my money. But that's life I guess. I was young and didn't know any better.
Around this point I'd started to see the term 'JDM' come up a lot on forums, after some short googling this happened.
It's an RS*R GT2 Ex-mag cat back and holy hell was it loud!!! I also picked up a set of pretty haggered white wats that had been painted in what looked like fridge paint. I had them sandblasted and powder coated black. Oh and a Garage Vary lip
Unfortunately after losing my job, cash was very tight. Even unluckier my shocks blew. Left with no other option, the Wat's were sold and stock wheels back on. As sad as I was to see my ill fitting wheels go, this helped to fund my coilovers.
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