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Flipflops aside... how do you stall a manual transmission on a mass produced modern car with less than 200 hp more than once in your lifetime?
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Fish Cake posted:Joined the Miata crew this week with a '21 RF GT The MX5Things roof controller was a huge quality of life improvement for me, a fellow RF owner. I also got his dongle that keeps the radio and accessories on when you turn the car off. Center cubby shelf is also also a nice little accessory for organization.
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Oct 29, 2023 09:15
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Ether Frenzy posted:Flipflops aside... how do you stall a manual transmission on a mass produced modern car with less than 200 hp more than once in your lifetime? Why would you think a low horsepower car is harder to stall?
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Oct 29, 2023 16:20
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my stall count in this ride is 1 (due to me not understanding the hill hold when i first got it) but let's not cluck at people that aren't perfect mario andrettis at this stuff
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Oct 29, 2023 18:13
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My last stall was because I was driving equally the family car automatic and the Miata and my brain thought I was in the automatic for just long enough to stall.
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Oct 29, 2023 18:19
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My Miata would probably be pretty easy to stall; it has a light clutch and I think a lightened flywheel. It gains and loses revs super quickly. But I haven’t yet, so I got that going for me.
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Oct 29, 2023 19:12
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Ether Frenzy posted:Flipflops aside... how do you stall a manual transmission on a mass produced modern car with less than 200 hp more than once in your lifetime? Not helpful and weird logic.
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Oct 30, 2023 00:06
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Cat Hatter posted:Why would you think a low horsepower car is harder to stall? Because the easy cure to stalling is to give it more gas, and with 200hp you're not exactly going to be out of control by giving it as much gas as is necessary to get it moving.
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Oct 30, 2023 00:59
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Ether Frenzy posted:Because the easy cure to stalling is to give it more gas, and with 200hp you're not exactly going to be out of control by giving it as much gas as is necessary to get it moving. But an engine with more low end torque is less likely to try and stall in the first place because it has an easier time just pushing the car forward. I learned to drive sick on a Corvette and yeah, you can get it to stall but you need to be a lot more careless with the clutch in the first place. Then again, my first reaction to the engine stumbling is to push the clutch back in and start over instead of gunning it and hoping there's nobody in front of me.
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Oct 30, 2023 11:26
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Cat Hatter posted:But an engine with more low end torque is less likely to try and stall in the first place because it has an easier time just pushing the car forward. I learned to drive sick on a Corvette and yeah, you can get it to stall but you need to be a lot more careless with the clutch in the first place. I agree here. I had a C6 Vette a few years agoand it was impossible to stall. Zero throttle, dump the clutch, and the car lurched lightly forward and kept rolling. Even on an incline I couldn’t get it to stall. Man I wish I still had that Vette.
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Oct 30, 2023 11:31
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Driving with flip flops isn't hard it's all in the technique, and if they're too big for your feet and catch on the floor mat then you just take em off and drive barefoot easy peasy lemon squeezy
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Oct 30, 2023 18:11
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Driving with flip flops isn't hard it's all in the technique, and if they're too big for your feet and catch on the floor mat then you just take em off and drive barefoot easy peasy lemon squeezy I do that too but I didn’t want to bring it up with all these aggro questions lol
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Oct 30, 2023 18:34
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I live in Florida on the beach and spend lots of time on and around the beach. I rarely wear shoes lol. As long as you're wearing the correct size flip flops it's never an issue
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Oct 30, 2023 18:51
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autocross nerds were gravitating towards boxing shoes last i checked, if you want to get really dorky about it I have to pay really close attention to what shoes i wear when i hop in; if i'm not in my cloudfoam sneaks the pedals are 'too close' to me and i gotta kick the seat back a notch. Not one extra millimeter in these things, i swear!
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Oct 30, 2023 19:20
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I’ve tried actual driving shoes, and boxing shoes are similar. Converse are my go-to for everything, including autocross.
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Oct 30, 2023 19:24
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Fish Cake posted:Joined the Miata crew this week with a '21 RF GT Hell yeah this owns OP! Man I really want an RF
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Oct 30, 2023 19:27
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I got some Puma Speedcats for longer drives and autocross, I like em
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I was at the WRC Central European rally and some hero is running a Fiata   They weren't... doing great but they're trying  Eyud posted:I got some Puma Speedcats for longer drives and autocross, I like em  I feel like I look a bit dorky in them outside the car but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Though tbh any light, compact shoe works fine. Dress shoes or boots not so great. The sole on Yeezies doesn't fit between clutch pedal and the wall so I can't use the dead pedal comfortably. Also feel super dorky.
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Oct 30, 2023 20:15
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TheBacon posted:Man I really want an RF i get that it's NoT A CoNveRtiBle and some people really want the ragtop vibes, but as soon as i saw the RF pics i knew that i wanted one, and i am not sorry for my purchase. I call it my baby ferrari. it's so god damned cool and fun and nice looking. Also a lot harder to get plunked in a casket from than a real supercar.
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Jonny 290 posted:i get that it's NoT A CoNveRtiBle and some people really want the ragtop vibes, but as soon as i saw the RF pics i knew that i wanted one, and i am not sorry for my purchase. I call it my baby ferrari. it's so god damned cool and fun and nice looking. Also a lot harder to get plunked in a casket from than a real supercar. I had an NA for a year and it’s wet way too much in Seattle for a compromised soft top. I also have weird security anxiety about someone slashing it, also the cost of that.
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Oct 30, 2023 23:18
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I think the side profile of the RF is just hands down better looking than the softtop and was willing to make compromises regarding weight and wind buffeting to look cool Regarding stall chat: you have to understand that I am very stupid
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Oct 30, 2023 23:40
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ND Model: In case anyone else has finds themselves in the same circumstance as me (enjoys track but can't legally get buckets or a roll bar due to cost or specifically for Australians - draconian car modding laws) - there's a fujimura harness bracket you can get for a hundred bucks that allows you to mount a four point harness on the stock seat. The cool thing is, if you're an idiot willing to risk damaging your seat, turns out you can absolutely just remove the stitching on the seat headrest pass through mesh and have the harness straps pass right through - pic attached. I'll need to put a daub of super glue on some threads to make sure nothing splits (and somehow one of my headrest call/navigation speakers stopped working at the same time - no idea), but it's workable! Hopefully this will reduce the amount of being thrown around in the cabin that I got prior - semi slicks, firm coilovers/sways and a factory three point is a rough combo for long track days!   https://www.rhdjapan.com/fujimura-auto-4-point-seat-belt-harness-anchor-right-hand-side-roadster-nd5rc.html Isolationist fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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Oct 31, 2023 10:25
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Second round of supplemental payouts went through + a 1k deductible IN case you were thinking about leaving your RF outside during a hail storm
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 Hail Mary, full of grace, the shop is with me. Next week i show up at the shop like an annoying rear end in a top hat with a paint thickness gauge and one of those PDR light and crosshatch reflector things to make sure they didn't gently caress up my Child. And then i get my car back, and never again will it see a hailstone.
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Nov 11, 2023 01:14
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In my experience if the body shop says it'll be ready next week you should have it by Valentine's day. Good luck!
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nah i trust em to a reasonable degree, we had a Talk about that. i already waited three months for this appointment. If i'm wrong, oh well, nbd, winter anyways.
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Nov 11, 2023 22:50
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What are folks using for floor jacks for their NDs?
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reversefungi posted:What are folks using for floor jacks for their NDs? The cheap race/low profile harbour freight one. Someone (I think flyin miata?) makes a puck you can put in that fits the frame rails.
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I have the Daytona low profile one from Harbor Freight too and it can get under my nd.
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phosdex posted:I have the Daytona low profile one from Harbor Freight too and it can get under my nd. I LOVE my low-pro blue Daytona but it can’t get under my NC in its current state. The Jack is about 1/2” too tall (obviously not the jack’s failing). I just drive the front onto 2x4 sections and it’s no problem though. Yes, I have procured the correct spanner wrenches from Bilstein to adjust them, why do you ask? 
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lol Ether Frenzy posted:In my experience if the body shop says it'll be ready next week you should have it by Valentine's day. Good luck! you're not wrong but they called me yesterday on due day " so those little plastic fake windows got cracked when we pried them off, we have new ones coming in tomorrow and it'll be ready friday" i'm viciously curious to see why they had to get those off, considering that we both agreed that the buttress part of the roof assembly was 100% perfect and undamaged lol if they just repainted the whole loving car
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Jonny 290 posted:
they couldn't get it to match so they absolutely did lmao
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if they have any leftovers i'm going to ask for it for touch-ups (or to maybe paint a bmx or something with it)
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It is done.   They did such a good job. I can't believe that hood came primered. Skill. Total damage $9,872.14 e: reference pics immediately post hail - spoilering for trauma   Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Nov 18, 2023 |
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Nov 18, 2023 00:06
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Looks great, even if they had to gently caress up those plastic trim bits and repaint the whole car to do it (lol)
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haha yeah But on the upside, i have no paint swirls any more, and one of those fake windows was slightly warped from idk somebody letting it sit under a magnifying glass or something. Now it's super flawless.
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Nov 18, 2023 00:30
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Dang that's a real slick job, I'd be plenty happy with that.
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Nice! The body shop I take my cars to for the occasional bumper ding/rock chip fix use the exact same paint as the factory so everything comes out flawlessly, they can even replicate BMW orange peel to perfection. Woof at that damage, that must have sucked.
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honestly i've survived so much trauma and stupid bullshit in the past 44 years that i just kinda shrugged and said "you're a dumbass for leaving the parking garage before the skies got clear, and now you're about to pay for it" and then i just put it in geico and the shop's hands and relaxed and told myself that eventually it'd be a pretty thing again. i'm proud of myself for being kind of chill about it
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Got a clunk on the back end of the NB so I've fired the parts cannon seeing as the majority of the parts currently on there are anything up to a quarter century old. Shopping list was: Adjustable upper control arms Refurbed lower control arms Powerflex road bushings for all of the above HSD coilovers At some point I want to swap out the rear subframe and I need to replace the crusty-rear end rear brace under there too but this is already more money than I really wanted to spent on this shitbox. So suspension wise the only thing that won't have been replaced on this car is the front upper control arms *edit: and rear anti-roll bar. All the braking components were swapped last year too. The car still looks like poo poo. FML. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Nov 20, 2023 |
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