Off-season mods
Brown Santa came today with a box from Mazda Motorsports. This will give me plenty to do during my Holiday vacation. I plan to…
- Install new front bushings
- Replace timing belt, tensioner spring, and associated seals
- Replace water pump
- Replace ignition coil
- Replace oxygen sensor (causing CEL)
- Replace cat-back exhaust
- Plus, I have several other chores, like adjusting my top latches and window seals.
What are you doing?
Rear main is leaking (was when I bought the car), so I'll be replacing that and throwing in a fresh clutch while it's apart.
Fresh brake pads and maybe rotors depending on their condition.
I'm really starting to like the looks of the Deuce Hard Dog roll bar, but I must resist!
Get the RX-8 Sold. If so, put a rollbar in the Miata.
Replace the Civic's suspension with some Konis and GC and some fresh brake pads. Maybe replace all the bushings with ES.
94 Miata R package RPF1 195 RS-R RB FSB FCM Bilstein Ebay Coilover 550/350
91 Civic Si Daily Beater
"Its more fun to drive a slow car fast, than it is to drive a fast car slowly".
Figure out which car I'm going to autocross next year... Practicality says come "play" in ST2 since the Miata has bad shocks in the front and severely sagged FM springs in the rear, so it's time for coilovers.
Maybe 4 wheels aren't so bad after all... wickett.org
It only goes to show when people can no longer discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation, they can improvise and still find someone to hate. - Dave Moulton
Replace the OEM cat and rework the exhaust from the OEM manifold back.
Install Recaro seat in the car.
I tried to get a matching one for daddy, but She Who Must Be Obeyed said no.
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Nice!Originally Posted by altiain
Maybe 4 wheels aren't so bad after all... wickett.org
It only goes to show when people can no longer discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation, they can improvise and still find someone to hate. - Dave Moulton
Don't we hear this every year about this time?
BTW, you're showing how long you've been gone. There is no ST2, and your Miata isn't eligible for STS. So it's STR for the Miata or STX for the RX-8.
Come play in STX!
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
ST2/STR whatever, you know what I meant... And, yes... STX is the other option floating about out there... Or C Stock, I suppose if I felt like changing tires.Don't we hear this every year about this time?
BTW, you're showing how long you've been gone. There is no ST2, and your Miata isn't eligible for STS. So it's STR for the Miata or STX for the RX-8.
Come play in STX!
Maybe 4 wheels aren't so bad after all... wickett.org
It only goes to show when people can no longer discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation, they can improvise and still find someone to hate. - Dave Moulton
Maybe some Sector 111 front control arms so I can get more than -.6 camber. Either that or sell the car and buy something else.
VW Bug in running shoes
M Porcupine sedan
M Porcupine coupe
Crusty old e46 beater
Battery Powered appliance car
Not a good plan....RX-8's run CS next season!Or C Stock, I suppose if I felt like changing tires.
Well, duh... I certainly wouldn't want to return the Miata to stock... Oddly, I *do* have an RX-8 in stock trim, though...Not a good plan....RX-8's run CS next season!
Maybe 4 wheels aren't so bad after all... wickett.org
It only goes to show when people can no longer discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation, they can improvise and still find someone to hate. - Dave Moulton
CRX
1. Fresh Engine - currently at the machine shop
2. Lighter Exhaust System - hope to lose 20-30lbs
3. Lighter Seats
4. All New Hoses
STI
1. Timing Belt/Water Pump
2. Anything else Kim wants
Z06
1. Thermostat/Coolant Flush
Last edited by Davidss; 11-24-2009 at 12:18 AM.
been thinking about washing the black one...but prolly just pay someone to do that...
- Possibly some bushings
- Shocks - Koni OTS
- Alignment
- Kumho 710 - 205/55/14
New front wheel bearings. One is really starting to make noise.
Maybe an exhaust. Stupid STU rules will not allow me to do headers with the 6" rule on cats. I am really close to saying F*** SCCA and running BMW, NTAXS, PCA, NASA TT. Headers and race cats give me 30HP more at the wheels and keep me in the same NASA TT class.
What is the rule on cats in SM?
M3 is always the answer.
Let's see?
Coilovers
Brake pads
At least one racing seat
Clutch work
One more set of wheels? Maybe.
Bobby
RED RULES!
90 Miata, 04 Rubicon, 05 Boxster
--probably helping with some of the above
--new front and rear bushings for 93
--new clutch
--install passenger racing seat
--looking at header options, liked the one DavidSS showed me at the last TT
--hmmmm find new trunk lid and play with a wing?
I learned this the hard way.....
Take all of your valuables out of your car at night. This includes taking the mounting hardware off of your windshield or dash and hiding the power supplies. I lost over $ 1,000 to a thief with no hope of recovering my items and to top if off they smashed my window in the rain and my truck got soaked. Let my loss be your learning experience.
1. Timing belt/water pump
2. brakes
3. Tranny and diff fluid swap/shift boots
4. new race tires
5. alignment
What the car needs^^
What I would like to do
6. Coilovers
7. wider wheels to go with said tires.
8. anything else STR legal that I can afford to do
"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague longing for something salty" - Peter Egan
I really liked how the header, intake, and crank pulley changed my car. After the coilovers and wheels, look into these. I just went with a cheapo Raceland header from eBay, for now.
Everything is bought. Send money.--probably helping with some of the above
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