My "new" Miata

[aMaff]

Yes, Miata, not MX-5 damn it! Picked up a 1992 Black & Tan last night I'm planning on building her for STS2. I'm going to start with a "good" suspension, wheels and tires to get used to the car, and to attempt to tighten that stupid nut behind the wheel. I have to work a few little, miata bugs out. Haven't found anything major, just the usual idle droop, dead cat rattle, and a couple other minor things. After that, race seats / harnesses / roll bar, followed by engine stuff when money allows. That should hold me for a season or 2. After that (and hopefully a promotion or 2 lol) I'll be able to go full out on the suspension. After that? Who knows, maybe drivetrain swap w/ a 1.8 w/ mazdaspeed diff and go to CSP / SM. Either way, this is going to be a LONG term project. Should be fun tho

UPDATE:
Parts List Added. I don't have everything there yet, but all of that should be on the car by next season. I'm abt to place the order w/ Good Win here in a bit. Only place I could find good prices on everything I needed.

 

[iLisa]

Yay!! Glad you finally got one!! Have fun with it!

 

[MiaTurbo]

yay! welcome to the club. the cool club

 

[GordonJ]

Very nice. Don't see many black miatas around much anymore...

 

[nate0123]

congrats (2thumbs)

 

[Prodigy]

Nice Andrew!


I knew I should've bought a miata instead of the Quaife... heh.

 

[crazyGJ]

(cool) Nice!!!

 

[SilverBulletES]

Sweet yo!

 

[lagunamiata]

'92 black & tan is a pretty rare car... congrats!

 

[Canecreekfreak]

congrats! Great looking car!

 

[aMaff]

congrats! Great looking car!

It passes the 10 yard test

 

[mazdaspeed777]

that will be nice for the summer

 

[jersey_emt]

Congrats, and welcome to the club

 

[Kansei]

:d

 

[Kansei]

Congrats, and welcome to the club

I know some day I'll join it too. I'm constantly tempted.

 

[jersey_emt]

I know some day I'll join it too. I'm constantly tempted.

Have you driven a Miata yet?

If not, don't, unless you are looking to buy one in the next few days!!

 

[Kansei]

Have you driven a Miata yet?

If not, don't, unless you are looking to buy one in the next few days!!

I've driven 3.

First a 2002 with 48kk miles, Sunlight Silver.. 6spd, pretty mint.. but it was 2005 (summer) and they wanted 17,500 for it.. . Plus, it rode like junk compared to my P5, something was up with it.. definitely wasn't taken care of very well.

Then one of my friend's back home convinced his mom to get one as a summer car.. she was bored with her tdi passat and wanted something fun. 1991 red with the hardtop Miata with 120k miles. Complete service records since new, has been on Mobil1 for a really long time, runs perfectly, drives perfectly, no chassis shake or anything. 100% rust free, was definitely just a summer car.. I drove it for probably like 4 hours in one day, it was soooo much fun! I don't care if it has a 1.6 and 14" wheels, it's just SO much fun!

Then I test drove a 97 in a weird metallic dark green/blue, it needed to have the front and rear bumpers repainted, had aftermarket 15s that I didn't like at all, and had some chassis shake. It was 9600, and they offered me 11,000 for my P5 (this past summer with 70k miles on it).. I was filling out some paperwork, called my mom and she found my title and was ready to drive up to the place to hand it over. But then they were like "well you have aftermarket parts on your car, you'll have to put them all back to stock".. which would mean I'd have to drive 6 hours to rochester to get my stock struts, springs, exhaust.. not going to happen.

Some day I'll get one

I'll just have to live vicariously through maff until then. Drive the hell out of that thing!

 

[aMaff]

Have you driven a Miata yet?

If not, don't, unless you are looking to buy one in the next few days!!

+1


On a side note, I got bored and decided to check out what kinda deal I got. I totally forgot to check it out during the test drive, but I have a finned diff housing, and the "eared" stub flange. It's probably shot by now, but it is / was a VLSD! w00t!

Gonna test it out this weekend

 

[kcbhiw]

I know some day I'll join it too. I'm constantly tempted.

Be careful with that temptation. It struck me and I ended up with two .

 

[aMaff]

Be careful with that temptation. It struck me and I ended up with two .

that that is about 2 too few....