And the Miata world domination continues...

[Rich]

I wanna see em

[SVT_Power]

I wanna see em

Why do you wanna see his hole saws?

[Cookie Monster]

Gauges are in!

[FlatBlackCaddy]

Picture not loading for me.

[Cookie Monster]

Picture not loading for me.

Yeah I just fixed it. That's what I get for trying to do it from my phone.

I just hope it won't leak. I can't drive the car for the next week so it'll be a good time to see if anything comes out.

[Eye of the Tiger]

cool

[Rupert]

How would your gauge leak?

[Rich]

So you haz no radio anymore?  Or did you relocate it to the trunk for weight distribution?

Why is your dash blue and car green?  Spray paint that shit green

Gauges look good. Do you find they are too bright at night? 

[Cookie Monster]

How would your gauge leak?

They are connected to a sandwich plate at the oil filter - that's how they get the readings. I'm just worried the sandwich plate might leak.

So you haz no radio anymore?  Or did you relocate it to the trunk for weight distribution?

Why is your dash blue and car green?  Spray paint that shit green

Gauges look good. Do you find they are too bright at night? 

No radio or speakers anymore. And why would I paint the inside of my car the same color as the outside? Does my car look like a New Beetle?

The gauges are pretty bright at night but they aren't in my field of view when looking ahead, and they're no worse than the aftermarket head unit I had in there before.

[MrH]

So you haz no radio anymore?  Or did you relocate it to the trunk for weight distribution?

Why is your dash blue and car green?  Spray paint that shit green

Gauges look good. Do you find they are too bright at night?

Green car, purple roll bar, blue dash, gold wheels.

[Cookie Monster]

Green car, purple roll bar, blue dash, gold wheels.

Roll bar is blue breh. I wrapped the dash blue to match the roll bar.

I'm getting tungsten wheels so the car will look more subtle/subdued.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Roll bar is blue breh. I wrapped the dash blue to match the roll bar.

I'm getting tungsten wheels so the car will look more subtle/subdued.

Tungsten? That is a very heavy metal. I cannot believe it would be a good choice for a Miata wheel.

[CaminoRacer]

My oil/temp gauges are pretty bright too. I need to buy a resistor to dim them down a bit.

[MX793]

My oil/temp gauges are pretty bright too. I need to buy a resistor to dim them down a bit.

Just put some tinted film over them.

[CaminoRacer]

Just put some tinted film over them.

They only light up at night, so a tint would make it harder to read during the day.

That'd be an easy solution for Rags if his light up all the time, though.

[MrH]

Roll bar is blue breh. I wrapped the dash blue to match the roll bar.

I'm getting tungsten wheels so the car will look more subtle/subdued.

Awww man. I liked the harlequin look.

[68_427]

I thought the roll bar was purple too

[68_427]

Get a gold sun strip

[Cookie Monster]

Get a gold sun strip

LOL I just realized that red FC in the background is my friend's car, the one I had sitting in my driveway for almost a month.

Small world.

[68_427]

That was at Buttonwillow.

[Cookie Monster]

I know lol. He slapped some coilovers on and went to the track.

[Eye of the Tiger]

I want to slap something and go to the track.

[Cookie Monster]

Couldn't get the damn hubs out to get the brake ducts on. I don't want to pay the $140-150 to have a shop do it.

I'm not going to get them on before I track on Sunday, and I'm not going to track again for the next 6 months or so, so I can study for an upcoming exam in June, so I guess I'll try to install them again in 6 months or so.

[Cookie Monster]

Some photos from Laguna:







I have some video but I need to process/edit it still. I can see where I could make up a lot of time. My best time was a 1:52.2, but that was with boiled/cooked brakes. I'm getting some Porterfield R4 track pads for the front and will hopefully install my vents/ducts for the front brakes before the next track day.

There is actually another track day at Laguna on the 10th, but my car is making a horrible clunking noise when I get on the gas hard and shift. I still need to look under the car to figure out what's going on but needless to say, I can't make it to that event.

Shame, too, because I think with working brakes and some studying of my videos I can get a 1:49.

[Cookie Monster]

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/how-to-enjoy-a-track-day-without-a-car-1749908003?rev=1451578683236

LOL. I remember seeing that Fiesta ST on track in my session. He was pretty slow and I was wondering WTF a guy from New York was doing on track there. Pretty cool to see he came all the way over for a track day.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Kickass

[Cookie Monster]

OK, something's up with the car and I can't tell what's wrong based on my quick look underneath...

The car has a lot more vibrations now than it used to. The stiffer motor mounts I have usually make the car vibrate a lot at idle, but all the vibrations smooth out with some gas. Now it's vibrating even more with a bit of gas than it does at idle. I looked at the motor mounts and they look OK, but I haven't taken the front wheels off to see if the nuts have backed off the mounts. I don't know how they could have, considering they're locknuts and took me forever to even thread on.

PPF looks fine under the car as well. When I get on the gas hard and push the clutch in to shift there's a loud clunk, and near redline the shifter starts wobbling like crazy. It's not a driveshaft or diff issue since the car run rough while stopped, clutch in or out, and the trans clunk is making me think it's the motor mounts, which is why I want to recheck them.

Hopefully I can figure this out soon. I want to get back out on track.

[CaminoRacer]

Is there a trans mount?

[MX793]

Does the vibration change when the clutch is depressed versus not?  Might be a flywheel or pressure plate issue.

[Cookie Monster]

Is there a trans mount?

Nope, only bolts to the PPF which attaches to the diff.

Does the vibration change when the clutch is depressed versus not?  Might be a flywheel or pressure plate issue.

Nope. Or at least not noticeably.