hi there!!!<br>let me introduce myself, my name
is Frank and i live in the netherlands (europe). i
drive a Mazda 626 GLX coupe 2.0 12v
(non-turbo,non-injection).<br>i posted some pics to let you guys see what my car
is looked like. i had a small accident earlier this
year and that got my started of getting my car as it
is nowadays...did some small modifications to the
bodywork as u can see and had the whole car repainted
again, including the mirrors and striping at the
side....<br>i think the way it looks now its a bit more sporty,
i hope u guys can appreciate it. (please let me
know)<br>(excuse my english but still learning:)<br>anyways the
pics and mods ive seen here a really nice and give me
some spirit to keep doing what i'm doing, now i know
there are some more fanatics like me.<br><br>Frank.

God, I hate answering this question cause it
takes so long!!<br>Turbo is a Garrett03/04 witht he
turbonetics deltagate, Mandrel bent and polished 3"
intercooler piping, custom front mount intercooler, Mandrel
3" exhaust from turbo, 4" air inlet piping, Uni
Filter with cold air induction and cold air box (the
cold air industion is a 4" droopy tip which looks cool
as when you get down and look!), Engine rebuild with
lightend flywheel, ballenced bottom end, computer chip but
need new computer (microtech MT-8 or Haltech on the
way), aftermarket clutch (for a series 6 RX7, its
heavy!), strenghtened gearbox. Suspension is lowered on
king springs and koni shocks, with front and rear
swaybars, front and rear strut braces and nolothane bushes
all round (which have to be replaced as some of them
creak! Its embarasing), full leath retrim inside with
momo gear knob, sftermarket stearing wheel trimmed in
leather, tanky pedals, alpine headunit, with 12"sub, 400W
amp, 6x9's and 4" in standard spot. 17" wheels with
full bodykit which is modified to fit intercooler and
green detailing. Talking to PPG now about some
Harlequin paints!!<br><br>What mods has everyone else done
to their cars? Its always good to hear what everyone
is doing with their MX6's.<br>Rhys.,.

Nice car man. I noticed the Turbonetics wastegate in the engine bay pic. What
work has been done to the car?<br><br>Rob<br>Sydney<br>1990 MX-6 2WS

Rhys, thats a really nice car there!!!! i have
seen it quite a bit down the coast, but i think that
was with the previous owner.? i emailed you a month
ago on your yahoo address. did you get it?? there are
some pics of my car in the photo section(jimxsix's 6).
hopefully in a couple of weeks we should be organising a
brissy/coast cruise. let us know on the board if your ever out
cruising, we could always meet up!! <br>Cheers, <br>James.

The car is an 89 4WS. At the moment the boost
controller had died so it is in Adelaide getting re
programmed so I have to run on around 7psi which isnt the
most fun but it is still quick enough to keep up with
others! What amount of Boost are you others running and
does your Knock sensor come into play if your running
near 12psi? I know I need to get the head gasket
replaced and bigger valve springs, could the gasket be
effecting the car so that the knock sensor is coming in at
a lower boost rating? The gasket isnt too bad
though and the car isnt in any danger by driving it I
have been told. anyway thanks for inviting me to join
this club and it will be great to go on a cruise with
you guys sometime.<br>Rhys.,.

Hey thats a pretty sweet lookin mx6 sleak. I
think when you went for the goldie cruise, we saw your
vehicle. What year model? it's a very clean package. Oh,
and also welcome to the club. When future cruise's
are on the agenda, we will notify!

I just out up a few pics of my MX6. Brissy cruise
hey? Tell me about your next one cand Ill be in it
too. I live on the sunshine coast and are the only MX6
that I know of up here, it gets a bit lonley (l). I
was down at the goldie sat night and still didnt see
any Gen 1s. I think I saw a Gen2 that was dunup
pretty nicley with bodykit and all but it was speeding
and I only have 1 point left so I couldnt chase!
<br>Will be good to meet some other
MX6ers!<br>Rhys.,.<br>Sleak

Ok people, i thinks its about time we got some more foto's up, jimxsix and i
have a few more coming of our last brissy cruise, so we need more from you guys
to make it a "club Album"!

Also note that the right rear light cover is broken. Not the best look for a
show car. The intercooler also looks a bit dodgy. Just my 2
cents.<br><br>Rob<br>Sydney<br>1990 MX-6 2WS

What an awsome car!!!!. Note the main rear lights are of a 90-91 mx6 while the
middle assembly on the boot is of a 88-89 mx6. wierd!

I've posted 3 pics of the MX-6 that was displayed at the Sydney Auto Salon
earlier this month. In the 2XPOZE album. Enjoy<br><br>Rob<br>Sydney<br>1990 MX-6
2WS

hi guys ,<br><br>I have seat protectors (snap on
type) available in <br>blue, red, gold, green, chequred
flag, availble<br>with no logos, i embroided mazdza
mx-6 on mine, or <br> i have done several no. plates
on them. If any one is interested e mail me.
lsi251@..., or,<br>lsi251@..., ill be to glad to
help.<br><br> sam

I see you used my picture billyam_99!<br>how does
it look people. Give us a yell as I'm new to digital
photo editing...<br><br>It would be good to have a car
that low but in your case and by the way i have done
it, i believe it would scrape just a little (read
scrape HEAPS).<br><br>For anyone who wants to know i
used paint shop pro 7 from jasc software and just
freehand selected the body then lowered the selection.
Pretty easy to do. Oh and if you look i had to build
part of the front tyre cause it got obscured by the
front guard.<br><br>Lensmanoz

OK. I will get the ball rolling. I own an '89
model 4WS white MX6. As of yet, i have no major
modifications done yet, the only mods i've completed so far, is
a new intake system, 3inch which begins as a double
intake at the begining. One pipe under the
bumper(scrapeage) and one behind the left fog light.(can be seen in
photo album magicmx62 'outside of work'.) This then
lets the o2 through a K&N air filter. I also have a
pod filter setup. Using a Simota pod filter, bolted
straight to the AFM. This setup is only for
show(Kookaburra noise.)and is setup in such a way that it can be
bolted on in a matter of minutes. The exhaust has a
couple of high speed holes in the rear muffler, always
handie!!I have also got a front strut brace which i fitted,
makes a world of a difference with just the stock
suspension! The interior modifications benefit from a new
Alpine double din head unit(thanks jayson!), Philips
front splits(thanks jim), rear Boston splits(thanks
jayson!)And a surplus of front and rear Alpine DDDrive
speakers which are not installed in the vehicle as such.I
also have a very cheap sub($40 from superheap) and a
couple of superheap amps to run the system.All up the
system in the car is worth around $2500. not including
the Alpine DDDrive speakers. I also installed a light
weight plastic cup holder, for thoes drift sessions when
you cant hold the cup yourself! An Autometre Boost
gauge, and mixture metre. The mixtre metre gives me
plenty of stares as to what the moving light is!! The
exterior is basicly a stock mx6. No mags, not lowered, but
will be dropped two inches for handling purposes, just
gotta get struts! I have numerous photos up, but check
out the latest, i got my vehicle lowered, and it
looks like a badass cruiser!!! Change the intake and
exhaust, and you've got a car that just loves to change
gears with the press of a foot!

OK, here we have it, this XpreSSion session is
all about our members telling us about there
vehicles. What the car is eg, year, colour, man/auto,
2ws/4ws etc etc. What mods have been
done(Mechanicle/accessories/body interior xterior). What mods are lined up next.
And any other information which would be helpful for
others to ponder on. Please add a photo for us to gawk
at to!

A good way to get traction? Don't drive like a
crazy man!! How do you mean? from launch? rolling? If
your rolling and losing traction then you've got
something serious!! From a standing start, instead of
dumping the clutch like most bimbos do and thinks there
top shit, flare the clutch out, say from about
2.5-3000 rpm. U'll have to practice. But doing it this
way, theres no wheel spin, and you can gradually but
quickly apply the power to the whells and get a very good
launch.(by flaring and letting the clutch out. It takes
practice to get a good flared start, but beats sitting
there spining your wheels like an idiot!) A good clutch
is the one you have right now. It was designed and
built to handle the power of your vehicle. It is that
strong, that you theoretically wont burn it out. But then
again, ive heard someone just has... It's like all
clutch's, they will go someday, just the stocko will last
ages!!

hi guys ,<br><br>its probably a silly question,
but has any one got <br>a good way of gettind
traction for these things, and secondly whats a god clutch
to use?<br><br><br> regards<br> sam

Well I'm due for a Master Cylinder for my 1989
MX6, I had a terrible spongy pedal ever since I
changed all my Pads a few months ago, I must've disturbed
the seals when I popped the pistons. My question
is.... is a TX5 Telsta Turbo BRAKE Master cyclinder the
same unit? if so I can get it for trade thru a friend
of mine who works at FORD :) Thanks guys! and YEAH!
lets get a AUSSIE website for us!

The IRC chat is most definately much better than the chat program Yahoo has to
offer. i'll get it out soon, and hopefully many other members will follow
suit.....

Blind Freddie and i were having a good yarn to
each other an ICQ last night. And topic of
conversation had covered front and rear strut braces. Jimxsix
had stumbled upon an item which would do the trick
with little modification. As these vehicles had not
come out with front braces; and only the 4WS models
come out with rear bars.(better check to see if mines
still there hey jim?):). Well any way, the front bar is
from a Mazda 323 Familia. It is a little long for the
stut tops of the MX, but a simple cut nd weld and its
just like a factory MX6 front strut brace! In its
original, its not exactly a piece of art, but a better
refinish and you could make it look neato! I'll post pics
of the bar, standard and refinished, for people to
look at.

That sounds like a plan stan! Yes it would be a
very good idea that an official MX6 club for first
gens was created. Thats the idea i was trying to
create with this club. Im sure many others at First Gen
and MX6.com would also agree to this suggestion.

well, seeing no one else has posted any pix yet,
i have added some in photo's section.(jimxsix's 6)
only a couple at the moment, ill add some of the
interior later. i also really wanted to post some on
mx-6.com, but it's stopped working? can anyone also get on?

I totally agree, cookiedude. At the moment, its
hard to get to know the aussie guys/girls? on all the
other clubs/sites. Also, organising meet up's is really
hard. I know that there was a melbourne meetup not long
ago, but other than that, you just have to cruize
around to try and spot an mx6!<br>If we had our own
club, the possibility of meeting up with some of the
members is far greater so we can show off our
beasts!!!<br><br>I also think and official web page to go with the
club would be great, that way we can show members cars
and ideas ect. i have always wanted to do this, but
sadly i never get the time.<br><br>Anyhow, im glad this
site has started to pick up! and i'll definatly join
the club if it is started!!<br><br>James
<br>Brisbane<br>1991 MX-6 Turbo (2WS)

Just a message to let you know that I have
registered a channel on the austnet IRC server. The channel
is called #MX-6. Very imaginative huh. Anyway just
connect to an austnet server through an IRC client and
join the channel. Personally I find this a hell of a
lot easier to use than the yahoo chat.<br><br>By the
way, my IRC nickname is wlfpac. Wouldn't surprise me
if some of you have had a run in with me already but
I can assure you I'm really a nice guy
:)<br><br>Rob<br>Sydney<br>1990 MX-6

I think it's about time Australia had an official MX-6 club. Anyone else
agree?<br><br>Rob<br>Sydney<br>1990 MX-6

Pics people! If any body has pics, lets see them! we need a few more pics in the
club. Who's got the best looking mx? post your pics and well c!!

hi guys thanks for the help, i sppoke to them and
they informed me that 4-5 turns wasnt enough, to keep
turning slowely and you will get more boost, there is
also an in line restrictor that stops us from moore
grunt, so i just ran a new hose direct from actuator
then the t peice and the turbo, and **** what a buzz,
this thing is on steroids.<br><br>thanks again for
your help, if there any guys in sydney e mail me
lsi251@...<br><br> sam

I'd suggest you go to the Turbosmart website
(www.turbosmart.com.au) and download the instructions. You may have
missed something or the device may be defective. Good
luck.<br><br>Rob<br>Sydney<br>1990 MX-6 GT

If you want the adaptor plate like I said before
I got mine from Outlaw speed shop in Adelaide. But
you cannot find it under MX6, you need to search
under Ford Telstar Turbo amongst the adaptors..
Unfortunately there is no part number.<br><br>Good luck if you
want any more assistance you can email me at
turbo89@...<br><br>Regards<br>Simon

hi guys i am a new member and come across this
site by accident, cool site!!<br> just a question, i
installed the turbosmart boost control t peice, have turned
the screw 4 times and still no increase have i done
it wrong, or r these <br>things a wank?<br><br>any
help would be great?<br><br> <br> sam<br> sydney