My "new" Miata

[MAZDASPEED MX5]

Ronin12, here are a few more pics of your new Miata from a show Zak and I had attended this summer at the Museum of Transportation in Massachusetts:

I'm sure I have a ton more in my desktop somewhere.

 

[ronin12]

Those are some good pics! Makes me wish it was spring so I can get out there to detail it, she sure does clean up nice!

 

[MAZDASPEED MX5]

Those are some good pics! Makes me wish it was spring so I can get out there to detail it, she sure does clean up nice!

It's definitely a great color and it doesn't take much to clean her up. When we dropped the car off I had mentioned my '03 Garnet Mica Miata. It's a few shades lighter than the Merlot but a classy color too! Kinda wish that it was offered on the Mazdaspeeds.....but then again it would have been a very difficult decision to make. Heres a pic:

 

[ronin12]

That is a nice color. You painted the calipers? I thought about maybe doing mine, just not sure what color to go with.

 

[MAZDASPEED MX5]

That is a nice color. You painted the calipers? I thought about maybe doing mine, just not sure what color to go with.

On the '05 MSM I went with Lava Orange and high temp clear coat. With the '03 Miata I went with Fire Engine Red with high temp clear coat (I always loved the late 90's Porche of similar color with red calipers).

I know Zak had a hard time with color selection on the 95M. IIRC they are currently a Bronze color. I would be tempted to go with a nice bright Silver color.

 

[ronin12]

Iknow I have to redo the ones on my protege come spring and want to clear coat them this time, maybe at that time I 'll do the miatas

 

[aMaff]

Quit junking up my thread!

So, I auto-xed her yesterday and today. Yesterday, I was on stock wheels w/ what could have been the tires that came with the car from the factory in 92... Seriously, these things were H rated $20 costco specials. They were squirmy...ON THE HIGHWAY!!! WTF?! Anyway, went from driving RacerXGirl's FWD DS Mazdaspeed Protege on R comps in the morning, to the RWD Miata on crap for tires in the afternoon. Heck of a transition. I was actually able to max out what the car could do on those tires.

Last night, picked up a set of 15x7s w/ azenis on them from kcbhiw. The car was completely different today lol. The weak spot went from the tires to the suspension. I'm pretty sure the suspension is pretty tired. I know I'll need full bushings at some point, but I'm gonna do the standard suspension stuff 1st then go from there. I am SO happy with the car, it's so much fun Yesterday, after the 1st run I felt like a kid in a candy store.

I heard that Tein makes a harness bar for the Miata. Does any1 know where to pick 1 up? I couln't find it on the usual suspects of miata vendors, and I didn't see it on Tein's site. I've got a race seat to put in, but I really don't want to until I can put a harness w/ it.

 

[ronin12]

(fu)

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j/k

 

[Foolish]

Weren't you planning on a roll bar? If so, I woundn't go spending money on a harness bar that will be made redundant by the one on the roll bar.

 

[MAZDASPEED MX5]

can't you get away with a cg-lock for a little while?

 

[aMaff]

I am, but that's ~$550 (when you includes padding and shipping). That's going to be a "future" project. I just figured that the harness bar would be a lot cheaper and work for the time being.

 

[aMaff]

can't you get away with a cg-lock for a little while?

well, I've seen stock seat belts and race seats. It's basically a big pain in the ass.

 

[Foolish]

Dude, you really think something like a harness bar from Tein is going to be inexpensive?? Just save your $$ and wait for the roll bar!

 

[aMaff]

touche`. But it was worth a shot. Thanks for crushing my dreams :'(

 

[Katya4me]

We've got racing seats and a CG-Lock. It works gret for us.

 

[aMaff]

I guess I'll have to see how I fit in the seat. It's not like I"m gonna take a weekend to build the whole car or anything, so I may see how the stock belts work. I know I rode in an NB and it was a pain in the ass, but it may be different in the NAs.


BTW any1 know where I could pick up a used Corbeau Clubman (black)?

 

[Foolish]

Thanks for crushing my dreams :'(

Anytime, man, I love to do it! My pleasure, really.

 

[moxnix]

In SCCA autocross you can not legally run an upper body harness without a roll bar in an open top car. So assuming that you are looking for holding you in during autocross the harness bar would not let you do this.

 

[aMaff]

damn, I must have missed that rule. Oh well, thanks

 

[aMaff]

oops....