From my entry on what we did Friday you can see that Autoweek and ZF don’t let grass grow under our racing shoes. Speaking of shoes, a box of new Alpine Stars racing shoes were handed to us upon check-in… Continue reading
It’s the first Saturday of the month and that means this morning was Cars & Coffee in Raleigh, NC. Its amazing what vehicles decide to come out for this informal car show where no one gets a trophy. It was… Continue reading
With the suspension all set and the car corner balanced it was time for one more detail. I needed to find out what the true power band was so that I could make the most of the Shift-I that I… Continue reading
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This 1996 Miata has come a long way since it became a track car project. It already had 151,000 miles on it but a lot of changes have taken place that will allow it to corner like never before. Even… Continue reading
This morning the 16″ Enkei wheel arrived from Tire Rack mounted with a set of Bridgestone RE-11 Potenza tires. The call came from the guys at Performance Chassis and I headed right over. After cutting them out of the packaging… Continue reading
With the seats finally bolted in and the interior just about complete I was waiting for the coil-over shocks to arrive from Flyin’ Miata. Friday came and so did the UPS truck with the box from Flyin’ Miata. I took… Continue reading
Progress continues. The big accomplishments are: Getting both the seats in! The Miata is not easy to fit racing seats in. There is not much space and it got even tighter when I installed the optional door bars that came… Continue reading
I can’t get any credit for originality here, but I really like how these ABS plastic door panels turned out on the track Miata. I searched about on the Internet to see what others had done to improve on the… Continue reading
It was nice to unload the Miata from the roll back yesterday and nicer still to take a look at it this morning. I spent the day re-installing all the lights on every corner. The headlights were in but all… Continue reading
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