0
DONE!
Posted by
Andrew Warren
,
12-20-2010
·
2,492 views
My Spec Miata is finished and ready to head back to my home town in NJ and get some vinyl! I had a friend of our race team print out the graphics from some designs we sent him by e-mail. They only cost about 60.00 for the whole set! They were pretty easy to put on with the application kit that was sent with the graphics.
And after all this, i blew up my motor in the first race... . It ended my season because I had spent all of my reserve funds building the new car. This winter I'll be rebuilding the motor again as well as figuring out what i did wrong the first time so stay posted for another blog on that!
*Some things to note:
- My seat is too high and i feel really cramped inside so i need to cut off the factory mounts and bolt it to the floor.
- I didn't use high temp wheel paint on the wheels and now they are glazed over from the heat so i will have to re-paint them.
- I'm too fat and don't fit in the seat particularly well, so i'll need to re-adjust my love handles.
- The center net blocks me being able to reach the fire system pull and cutoff switch on the passenger side of the main hoop, so i need to find a way to work this problem out.
- I still don't have the madcat bumpstop kit so i'll need to pick that up this winter.
- My alignment was done by a shop that doesn't normally corner weight, and for some reason i feel it's not the way they said it was. I'll be finding some scales so i can do it myself following Jim Daniels' guide.
tags: miata SM spec miata mazda mazdamotorsports
And after all this, i blew up my motor in the first race... . It ended my season because I had spent all of my reserve funds building the new car. This winter I'll be rebuilding the motor again as well as figuring out what i did wrong the first time so stay posted for another blog on that!
*Some things to note:
- My seat is too high and i feel really cramped inside so i need to cut off the factory mounts and bolt it to the floor.
- I didn't use high temp wheel paint on the wheels and now they are glazed over from the heat so i will have to re-paint them.
- I'm too fat and don't fit in the seat particularly well, so i'll need to re-adjust my love handles.
- The center net blocks me being able to reach the fire system pull and cutoff switch on the passenger side of the main hoop, so i need to find a way to work this problem out.
- I still don't have the madcat bumpstop kit so i'll need to pick that up this winter.
- My alignment was done by a shop that doesn't normally corner weight, and for some reason i feel it's not the way they said it was. I'll be finding some scales so i can do it myself following Jim Daniels' guide.
tags: miata SM spec miata mazda mazdamotorsports
Just dropping by to say "nice blog". So...."nice blog".
I'm confused, these pics show the car as "orange", but some of the pics over on your race team site show it as blue. ???