Recent content by chiefmg

Had some medical appointments that occupied my time this morning. When I got home I shot the spats with four coats of clear. I think they came out decent. After that, I had one more task to accomplish. When I cut off the bottom of the spats I lost two of the threaded inserts (per side) that...

Replaced the spark plugs for the second time since new. FYI, this may have already been posted here but NGK ILKAR7L11 are the same plugs as the factory ones. I checked with the local dealer and they were asking $46 per for the Mazda labeled ones. I got NGK labeled ones from Rock Auto for less...

Bondo was a success, although I still had to go over the area a couple of times to get it where it needed to be. Here’s the final result next to the other one: After that I put five coats of primer on both, like so: I actually looked them over closely after the second coat and found some...

Thank you kindly sir.

Got her out today for some testing and auto tuning. I made some changes to my VE table beforehand reducing the numbers in the higher range. It was successful in that I’m not getting as much gas smell in the higher boost areas like before. I couldn’t really romp on it because of doing the tuning...

Today was a nice day so I decided it was Miata work day. Got her situated and up in the air. First thing was to adjust the rear brakes, along with the parking brake handle. I’m about out of adjustment on the handle so I may have to look into getting new cables. I’m sure they are pretty stretched...

Had a small issue with the driver’s side spat. It was the first one I cut down, and it ended up missing the point on the front that the other one has. I want them to be the same side to side so have been trying to correct that. It’s been driving me nuts. I’ve tried several different methods to...

Did you program it with "Dixie"?

I’ve done some prep work on the spats, nothing to really see until I get some paint on them. Today I finally painted and installed low profile head bolts in the two front fender holes in way of the hood lifts. I had to remove the factory hex head bolts because of interference with the body of...

The weather has warmed considerably, and my recovery has progressed to where I feel somewhat normal so I started preparing the spats for installation. I’ve been looking at how I needed to cut the bottom to fit and was nervous about screwing up since I can’t easily replace it at present. But...

So after dealing with continued cold and having login issues with my flickr account (took I don't know how many tried to reset my password) I finally can post what I promised. First off here's a link to the page showing the item for sale. Note this is made to fit a NB2. Front Spats for MX5...

Received my new valves and got the damaged one replaced a few weeks back. Weather has been poor and I have been undergoing some medical procedures which have drug me down. Not going into it a lot, but it’s something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Thankfully, that’s behind me now and I’m starting my...

You are a man who planned well. Two homes and a Miata in each. Good job!

Got the Advan Fleva V701s (such a long name!) mounted today. Installer dinged up the lip of one valve stem not allowing me to put the metal cap on, I showed it to them and they are going to make it right once I get the new stem from 949 Racing. Drove them for about 50 miles, didn’t get too crazy...

Had to drive her in the snow yesterday, she’s a dirty girl now! Had an interesting moment on the way home, turning onto the road heading to my house and there was some slush piled up from the plows. Was going slow but not slow enough, she did not want to turn. I didn’t really want to kiss the...