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ionn posted:Just parked my Miata for the winter (it's in a barn at a friends parents place an hour from where I live). While it's far from a snowy mess here yet, it's getting too cold here to run around with the top down, winter would slowly destroy it, and it doesn't hold my hockey gear. This is my first Miata that I just got in April and it has been an awesome season. Will seriously miss it until spring. Wash it, and put some fuel stabilizer in the gas tank (then fill the tank). edit: do what Atomizer said.
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2004 Miata Does this sound normal at idle?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D24YsEnHb2o
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punkr0csux posted:2004 Miata Describe the noise/location/what causes it a bit? Cell phone mics loving suck for figuring stuff out.
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Oct 5, 2015 23:28
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Sounds normal (bad). Check the valve clearances maybe?
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Atomizer posted:-Change oil & filter. I would only consider changing the oil twice with zero driving in between if there is a really really good reason for it. Is there? Most other people seem to suggest to change the oil when taking it out of storage. Assuming I don't have my oil full of water, what reason is there to change it before storing the car for 6 months as opposed to after?
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Work may be taking me away from the SF Bay Area in the next few months, and despite living 10 minutes from Infineon and a reasonable drive from Laguna Seca, I haven't driven either. I'd like to remedy that before I go, but my '01 NB is completely stock. Take the prius or rent a car that has a solid roof. Do you REALLY want to install a $500 (+install) roll bar just before selling the car? Hard Dog and Boss Frog are common internet mail order ones, and Blackbird Fabworx is in California but doesn't sound too close to you.
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Laranzu posted:Describe the noise/location/what causes it a bit? Cell phone mics loving suck for figuring stuff out. Any acceleration in 1-4th gear from ~2k-4K RPM.
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ionn posted:I would only consider changing the oil twice with zero driving in between if there is a really really good reason for it. Is there? Most other people seem to suggest to change the oil when taking it out of storage. Assuming I don't have my oil full of water, what reason is there to change it before storing the car for 6 months as opposed to after? As per the research I did before starting to store my Miata over the Winters, the most conservative procedure would be to change all fluids before entering storage, so as not to let the car sit with old, possibly contaminated fluids for upwards of 6 months. Obviously the longer the storage period the more you would consider putting in fresh fluids before storage (or perhaps draining them completely) but I don't even go that far. This is the basis for changing the oil, at the very least, before storage, if not after as well. I do agree that on some level it sounds excessive to do two oil changes with zero mileage between, but if you do only one I'd think it would be more important to change before rather than after storage. The oil will be unused if not fresh after storage, and I can say that the car does drive like it has new oil immediately after coming out of storage. It probably won't hurt any way you do it as long as the car doesn't have some other problem, a leak, whatever, it just depends how thorough you want to be with your storage procedure. I've been following my procedure for three, going on four years in a row. Your mileage may vary, both literally and figuratively. 
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Hopefully this post isn't too commercial - I've been a member here long enough that I doubt anyone will complain about me hawking some parts, especially ones as cool as these. If you were at MRLS over the weekend, hopefully you got a chance to check out the turbo kit I've been working on over the last few years. I started my company (Trackspeed Engineering) in 2009 to sell some of the parts I had developed for my own turbocharged Miata, and around 2011, I scrapped my own turbo car built using parts from several sources and set about designing my own kit from scratch, with the benefit of four full years of racing a turbo car under my belt. The new kit is based around the BorgWarner EFR6258 and EFR6758, and we can scale the power from 160whp all the way up to 400whp+ depending on the turbo and ancillary parts used. The manifold we're using was designed specifically for us, and it's shell molded from 347 stainless steel by a US foundry. The downpipe is all 3" mandrel bent stainless, and the turbo studs are our own flavor of M8 Inconel to ensure that everything stays put on track. The turbo incorporates a bunch of neat features - integrated bypass valve, integrated EBC valve mount, and a properly-designed internal wastegate which totally eliminates all the boost creep issues that the Garrett turbos are so notorious for. The coolest feature by far is the turbine wheel, which is made from titanium aluminide. TiAl has similar mechanical properties to nickel alloys, but typically weighs half as much. The end result for our application is a turbocharger that spins up significantly faster, which reduces turbo lag dramatically. The EFR6258 is a "big" turbo by the numbers, and it's capable of ~325whp, but it responds and drives like a GT2554R. The EFR6758 is an absolute monster, with a ~450whp compressor wheel and the same lightweight turbine wheel as the 6258. Anyway, enough yakking. I think the kit is super bitchin' and I think you guys might like it. Manifold shots. Our goals were small volume, runners directed at the turbo (tubular style, not log like most other cast manifolds), and optimized to fit the EFR6258 into the car. Packaging is tough, but it all fits with a 3" downpipe, and you can keep A/C, P/S, cruise, ABS, etc.   A few installed shots.    Dyno sheet from yesterday with the 3" downpipe blowing straight into a 2.25" stock exhaust (no stepdown pipe). Still made 158whp at 5psi.  Datalogs from last night, showing boost control with a full 3" exhaust. Garrett stuff will typically creep to 10+psi with a big exhaust at sea level, we are rock solid at 7psi. Butt dyno says 180-185whp at 6-7psi. 
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Savington posted:Hopefully this post isn't too commercial - I've been a member here long enough that I doubt anyone will complain about me hawking some parts, especially ones as cool as these. I'll pass this along to a buddy of mine who is itching for a turbo Miata
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Oct 7, 2015 21:42
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Now if only shipping to Hawaii wasn't so drat expensive
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Oct 7, 2015 21:53
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the factory wheel gap on this 2002 seems excessive Doesn't seem so bad from further away 
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Oct 9, 2015 21:04
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Well, 3k miles later my miata is still running great and nothing bad has happened to it (except for me tapping my trash can and putting a minor crack in the front bumper  ). So if the dealer had been less than honest about it's condition I think I'd have noticed by now. And I've saved about so much in gas so far. Feels good man. 
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Oct 9, 2015 21:45
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So I dont remember which of you rear end hats are from NC but that NCAC *(or what ever the championship at Zmax was called before before the monsoon canceled it) had so much god drat drama it would have run with this threads chat on roll bars. However I do want to go to it so let me know if you know when it will be. Also please make sure the stop box thing isnt a thing, they are un fun.
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I swear to christ if your name is Tim White, I might do something unwholesome to you e: you aren't tim white, you drive an e46 m3 not a 2.5RS So the NCAC was mostly other clubs being super tryhards and being awful 110% of the time. The course designers put out that course map with the stop box just to see how many people would take the bait, and one of the primary poo poo stirrers immediately went to RRAX to whine about it and made a huge public motion about how he was canceling his attendance (keep in mind, the 2nd post was like "oh sweet, it's like auto test" and more than a few people were making fun of his FSP 74 Rabbit). Most of the people who were complaining weren't even going to attend; one guy kept on making posts starting with "On a serious note," and then explain how he's up in NoVA/DC and only autocrosses twice a year and isn't going to make it out to NCAC, BUT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOW I THINK YOU SHOULD RUN IT. The genesis of this garbage is because a super old member started posting pictures from the 90s and early 00s when the club had trophy girls at the autocross award ceremony. Just re-read that previous sentence real quick... it dated about as well as you thought it would; mostly old white dudes with their socks pulled up looking goofy next to women who were specifically paid to be there. More than a few people were like, "yeah, that's weird and gross... and we're using Facebook to try to promote the club and having a bunch of old white dudes posing with trophy girls from the 90s might not be the best way to go about this", and it promptly devolved into the autocross equivalent of "Heritage Not Hate". So everyone causing poo poo on Facebook about NCAC was doing it because we had some awful backlash about telling old white dudes to take a knee. The issue is that there is an extremely vocal minority that loves to bitch just to bitch and that the Facebook page isn't locked down to Moderator Approval Only. The rescheduled date is the weekend of Nov 20th; I can't make it due to being in South Dakota. That said, we should meet up at GoPro Motorplex. Phone fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Hahaha yeah I know Tim White. I also loving hate how serious business and douchey CCR is. Also Zimmer is a bad rear end and a super cool dude. I drove carts at the Motorplex once and had an awesome time. I want to try one of their enduros, but maybe one of the shorter ones first, like the 3 hour. Its my opinion that the *insert noun* people are the worst for any *same noun* events.
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I've never autocross outside of my club, so I don't know who is a member of which club when it was hitting the fan, but more than a few of the staff were like "yeah, it's CCR". Did you see the RRAX thread? Whenever I get my car detailed+fancy garbage, I'll be in Huntersville to drop off the car. Maybe a hot date and then you could murder me afterwards. 
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Phone posted:I've never autocross outside of my club, so I don't know who is a member of which club when it was hitting the fan, but more than a few of the staff were like "yeah, it's CCR". Did you see the RRAX thread? Ive done events with SCR (my home region), CCR, and Atlanta. Atlanta was my favorite, they were all cool dudes and the drama content was low(I really like their rallycross crew). The competition is good in CCR but they have a lot of vocal douches, it makes running with them un fun some times. SCR isn't very good these days but our new SOLO director is really good so I have high hopes for the future (im also planning on starting a rallycross program in SC). I did not see the RRAX thread. I think the M3 passes the dead hooker test so im pretty sure I could fit your body in there mostly intact. Sadi fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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http://www.roadraceautox.com/showth...236994967a08288
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Let me tell you about my last experience with the local Miata club. So its 2001 and i've bought my first Miata (a lightly used 10ae). I'm on m.net and see there's a local club. Call the contact, am told it's a closed club (wtf?). They meet once a month at a biker joint (wtf?), they'll tell me which night if I fill out forms and gain approval from the members. It wasn't hard to figure out which night, since I could take a different route home that passes by the joint. About a month later I pass by and the lot is full of cycles and a passel of NAs and a few NBs. I go in and grab a table close enough to listen and watch but not be noticed. It basically was a stereotypical WASP baby boomer circlejerk. Lots of posturing and pissing and moaning on the agenda that night, namely how gen x and y suck and are ruining everything, debate about whether the NB was really a Miata, politics, who had the hottest trophy wife/girlfriend/escort, etc. And that's why m.net sucks. The end.
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Oh my god, yeah, there are a few CCR people that I really cant stand. And it looks like they are all on RRAX
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Goober Peas posted:Let me tell you about my last experience with the local Miata club. Yeah, that's why I'm hesitant to ever go to a local meet. I just use them to get parts  Also what the hell is a WASP baby boomer?
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Oct 10, 2015 16:39
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White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
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Lol. Yup, that sums up the average Miata owner pretty well. Last time I went to Miatas at the gap it was like a gathering of them.
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Phone posted:White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Born between WW2 and early 1960s
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I dunno the local group is pretty good for me. Definitely has the older crowd and the younger crowd but no jerks. You can tell when the younger crowd shows up to meets by the awful sounding exhausts and plastic bits scraping on the ground from slammed suspensions. Old peeps just have nice looking stockish cars. Autocross is drama free because we're in the middle of the ocean and have no real chance to compete outside of our region. Pretty chill. Also scored a FM 1.5 suspension with new front top hats and extended travel rear hats for stupid cheap. Adding this to the clutch/flywheel parts in the garage. Saving all the work for when wife is on break from college and can turn wrenches.
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All the parts I get are from younger dudes, because the old fucks only care about OEM. I'm trying to get aftermarket poo poo cheap, and the younger guys are always upgrading, old dudes just want to hypermile and jerk off to their headrest speakers.
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leica posted:old dudes just want to hypermile and jerk off to their headrest speakers. LOL. New thread title.
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Grid girls are not "Gross"  (But they are out of place at a local autocross)
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Grid girls are not "Gross" Sorry if I'm overreacting, but creepy dudes and the trappings they bring with them is why I have a hard time sharing the sport with my wife.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Grid girls are not "Gross"
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So I overdrifted my miata a bit right into a small ditch - no damage except some peeled off paint on the bottom lip of the bumper and surrounding area and a small crack/deformation under the strap hook. Of course it's now too cold and/or wet for me to do anything about it myself outside  . What would be a reasonable approach for a paint shop to take here? I think respraying the whole bumper would be a waste of money so the regular sand/prime/feather the affected areas?
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Get it aligned as well. You likely knocked your rear toe out.
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Holy crap the price of NC1's has cratered over the last three months. If you want a cheap convertible with modern conveniences, I highly recommend picking one up. (If you have the means, grab an NC2, but the NC1's are value town right now)
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I'd rather have an NB2 than a NC1
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leica posted:I'd rather have an NB2 than a NC1 Value is always in the ugliest version of any car. I do think the NCs would be a much more comfortable DD than an NB2.
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leica posted:I'd rather have an NB2 than a NC1 It's a real shame the NC2 appearance kit wasn't standard equipment on all NC's. That and lowering really pulls the car together.
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Twerk from Home posted:Value is always in the ugliest version of any car. I do think the NCs would be a much more comfortable DD than an NB2. Good point, but I'd have to drive one and it would have to impress me a lot to change my mind. I can't imagine it being that much better than a NB2.
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leica posted:Good point, but I'd have to drive one and it would have to impress me a lot to change my mind. I can't imagine it being that much better than a NB2. For me at least, the modern conveniences are important since my Miata is my dd. Find a loaded GT, which isn't hard for NC1's.
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Hey GEMorris, there's going to be an autox in Cary on Nov 8. Also, 
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