Reply With QuoteExcellent!!! Very happy to hear that someone local bought Goodwin's car. I'm looking forward to seeing it (and kicking myself for not finding the $$$ to buy it myself...)
Well now I have done it (The Darkside)
After an extensive search with many helpers and questions answered I finally made a deal on another miata to join my SM #13. I narrowed the model years to 99 / 00 as my plans were to use Gary's resources to go to the Darkside as they say. My first attempt in this direction ended just short of the turbo buy a couple of years ago (everything was done to the car to be ready for the kit). What happened to short circuit the project? I can't remember exactly, but with two girls in college at the time, I am sure an emergency arose for something that one of them had to have and gone were my turbo miata dreams. Later an ownership of an STI got short circuited by another daughter going back to law school. Bye Bye Subaru. Driving the STI really rekindled the flames for an FI miata. SOOO...... with spring time coming and said college girls coming home for summer school there mom decides they can't share their Toyota any more. Smart wife says "Why not buy another miata that you like* and share it with one of the girls this summer and then you can have a fun car when she goes back to school."
* Key part of this story is "miata that you like.
So after much investigating and searching yours truly found a miata I like. It just so happens that it puts me over on the Darkside like I always wanted. It took doing a few things that in the past seemed crazy, ie, buying a car sight unseen (internet pics help calm this nerve), buying a car with a few more technical gadgets then lets say my SM, (and I suck as a mechanic but starting to suck less the last year,) buying a car in an online auction, ( I ain't so sure about ebay, but I am coming around) and finally buying a car that I KNOW has been run hard.
But I overcame all of those "I don'ts" and ended up making a deal on Brian Goodwin's 99 that he has AutoXd and run track days with since they bought it. Not to mention he used it on the street also. With some good advice from Gary and a calculator I came to the conclusion that adding on to any 99 sport or any 99 with LSD I found would probably cost me a good deal more dinero in the long run. So what started out as a search for a nice street miata to add a BRP M62 and other mods to, turned into a track hotrod that I hope to drive daily. The little track time I have time for at MSR is usually spent in old #13 as I love the no roll feel of an SM in the corners. This car may change that notion as it will be nice to pass on some straights without having to let people know in the corners that you are there so they slow and let you pass on the straights (actually you have to scare them in the corners so they don't want to be around you.) So thanks (I think) to all who helped in this step into Darkness.
Mac
(the guy at the track holding tools with the WHAT IS THIS FOR look on his face)
Excellent!!! Very happy to hear that someone local bought Goodwin's car. I'm looking forward to seeing it (and kicking myself for not finding the $$$ to buy it myself...)
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
Congrats to you!!
That's a sweet ride!
Sweet! I didn't even know that Goodwin's 99 was up for sale. Got a link to the completed auction so I can drool?
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Sweet! I didn't even know that Goodwin's 99 was up for sale. Got a link to the completed auction so I can drool?
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Beautiful!!! At 12K you got a bargain IMHO.
Chris
Well we will see, I am pretty fired up to get in it.
Mac
I can't believe the first guy walked away from it at 10k.
Wow - what a deal! That's a heck of a car, and you got quite a deal on it. imho. Can't wait to see it!
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
I know, I can't figure it out although the guy that was bidding against me emailed me later and said I got a great buy. $10K would have been a hardtop and some other goodies better! I may have to break down and attend an autox to see the cars potential for what it was built to do. I am sure knocking cones around in this would make me much better in my SM on the track. The only part of the car I was really unsure of was the Autopower roll bar. I don't remember ever seeing one. I loved the HDDDS I had on a M1. My biggest fear is becoming a boost junkie!I can't believe the first guy walked away from it at 10k.
I have seen Channelmaniac's Autopower in person and it is very nice.
Pic:
I have a differing opinion on the autopower... For track use (or if I had a daughter), I'd replace it with something more substantial that bolts to the car in more substantial locations.
Maybe 4 wheels aren't so bad after all... wickett.org
It only goes to show when people can no longer discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation, they can improvise and still find someone to hate. - Dave Moulton
The Autopower had me confused as well. It seems Brian had all kinds a expen$ive goodies on the car and skimped on the rollbar.
I'd go with a Harddog myself.
The question is will your daughters be able to handle all that power?
Somehow I don't think the girls will get to drive the car enough to find out :oThe question is will your daughters be able to handle all that power?
I, on the other hand, have already offered to help bring the car back from California!
Scott
95 FM2
95 R
TC - It bolts in 3 places on the seatbelt towers and bolts to the unibody with sandwich plates on the down tubes.
It's in there solid and I feel comfortable with the level of protection.
When I get my racer, I'll be looking at the Autopower cage for it
RJ
Daily Driver: 2013 Club edition in Pearl White Mica
Lightness? What's that? I drive a PRHT!
You will soon be saying to your daughter, I am your father, .....Go get your own car
'08 Copper Red GT PRHT, '06 Accord EXL, '05 Dodge Magnum R/T, '01 V8 Dakota for pulling 2135 Chaparral.
Well the car is loaded and on the way from San Diego. I think Brian (Goodwin) was expecting an enclosed transport, but I had to take my chances with an open car hauler for the price. I emailed Kags with a picture Brian took of it going on the trailer. Maybe he will post it for me. Let me say this, if Brian treats his regular customers as well as he has me in this internet car deal, then he may be one of the best people in the auto field at least customer relations wise. He has gotten a loyal Texas customer here.
Mac
Thanks, Chris
It looks like............ummmmm..........a silver miata!
I just hope the exhaust is still OK.
Sweet deal!
Hell, I'm excited for you!
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