Recent content by Swifty

Iron? Is this for the Renisis? I vaguely remember reading about the history of the rotary somewhere and the article stated that the seal was made of some sort of carbon or graphite based material.

I'm surprised noone here noticed that the gauges in the car are not of the current Miata. They look more like the ones in the 3. Also from the rear I don't see any of the lower chassie bracing that connects the two lower A-arms. It could be the angle, but there is somethind different there...

Yo Jim! You following me around or something? :p

I feel kinda obligated to chime in here being a noob on the board with a Miata. I've had 2 so far: A '90 (1.6), and a '95 (1.8). Both were stock when I got them, and both eventually had suspension & intake/exhaust work done on them. Statically, the '90 was probably slower than the '95...

Well, that long story not so short: He pulled me for doing 75 in a 55. I was honest and nice with him, told him I knew I was speeding and that I was egar to get home after 1 1/2 days on the road. Given that I was going 20+ over he did kinda have to write something up, so instead of giving me a...

Hell, for $10 it would be in my trunk. But in VA it sure as hell isn't $10. Back in 2002 I was pulled by a VA state trooper. Long story short, the ticket for no front plate was about $35 + court costs, making the total hit to my wallet about $65. Since then court costs have gone up about $10...

By the dude who did it Well, almost two years anyway. And thats with being pulled over for speeding and the cop taking a good look to see if he could write me up for something else. The way I see it, it's such a small infraction that it wouldn't be worth the ink to write it up. And if by chance...