The Slow Lane

So during the next week my task was to find replacements for everything that broke. The castle nuts for the front upper ball joints, some new nuts and bolts for the rear shocks, and the alignment bolts for the rear. Sounds easy enough right? I started to realize the castle nuts would be a problem. [...]

It’s been a while since I posted about the Miata. It’s been a while since I posted at all. I have been driving the car. And have autocrossed it a few times. But for one full month, the last week in June through the first three weeks of July, the car sat on jackstands while [...]

The weekend after this thread was posted I went back down my dad’s and we put the exhaust on the car. Let it run and then changed the oil. Let it run more and burped the coolant. Then I attempted to drive it home. By now it was getting dark. First we (Irene was following [...]

Actually it ran a few weeks ago but I was too busy working on it to post on the blog. As mentioned in the last installment we had a few problems with the rear diff. Well that turned out to be a saga, dragging what should have been a 2 hour job into two weekends. [...]

The engine in the Miata. It’s finally out. It didn’t come without a fight though. There is a lot of rust on the underside of this car. The body/frame itself looks OK. But subframes, control arms, exhaust pipes are all pretty rust. So was the front 1/2 of the differential. It seems the front half [...]

A few weeks after I had given up for a while on looking for a car an autocrossing buddy of mine, Cy Lee, PM’d me about possibly buying his Miata. He knew I was looking for such and car and wanted to sell his. He bought the car from another local autocrosser last year. The [...]

So I’ve been complaining about the Prelude being uncompetitive in STS, especially with me behind the wheel, for a while now. It’s kinda heavy, or has small tires for it’s size/weight. Or is not geared high enough for larger tires or does not have enough low end torque to really use larger tires. Anyway you [...]

I’m behind in my writing but I want to get my experiences from today while they are still fresh in my head. Today was the 1st autocross since attending Evolution Performance Driving School. I was excited about applying my new knowlege but I was trying to keep my feet grounded. Like so many other things [...]

Uggg. That what I think when I think about my new suspension setup. It should have been easy. It wasn’t. Nothing has been intuitive. I put the Koni Sport shocks and 400 lb/in spring front & rear on the car over a month ago. And I still don’t feel like it is setup right. I [...]

It’s great to be back on my “competition tires” again. Love the grip. I dunno why I was expecting to finish higher than mid pack when I haven’t done anything to the car since last summer. My runs were pretty good from the get go. I was in third, then got bumped to fourth and [...]