All 4 shocks & springs are, once again, off the car. Got different rear shocks coming, along with different rear top hats to accompany them. The fronts are re-assembled, next we'll work on getting the spring perch heights eyeballed in, corner balancing it at the new ride height (higher), and re-doing the alignment. Again. And it all needs to be done after-hours and before Friday. Buuuuuuuuh....
What have you done to your Miata today?
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I have a problem of ride-height, or lack thereof. With the 23" OD 15" tires I was running in STS, it wasn't a problem, but with the 20" (19.9" actually) Goodyear bias-plys, the car is just too low. I literally lose 1.5" of ride height just by changing tires. We're occasionally bottoming on big bumps on course, and I'm really starting to worry about damaging the tub, is it's not designed to take that sort of shock load. There's a lot of things that I can fix if they break. The tub? Not on that list. So, I'm going with shocks with a longer stroke than the shortened Koni RACE shocks, and some extended top-hats. That will let us get the car as high as we'd ever want (and then some), without hurting handling. I'd like to get it 3/4" higher at the shocks. That combined with the stiffer springs that are going on will hopefully keep us where we need to be. If we find we need to go higher, we'll be able to, but I'm pretty sure we'll be ok with these changes.
(jerkit)
Did a ton of stuff over the past 2 1/2 days. Changed oil/coupler in the 'charger, replaced the exhaust mani with one from an '05, MS competition engine and diff mounts, new fuel filter, new lower radiator and heater hoses, TDR header blanket. Picked up the hardtop from the paint shop on Wednesday before I got started, it looks wonderful now.
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- 2006 Infiniti M
Pics?
Warning better than a ticket
roy obanion
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- 02 p5, 95 miata
You should know better than to say that to rob.
This week, it got new rear shocks, new springs all around, the ride height was raised a bit, and it was corner weighted and aligned. And this evening she's packed up on the trailer and ready for our 0-dark-30 start tomorrow morning towards Atlanta Motor Speedway. Can haz gofast? 
