Garage Moneypit
Timo's collected adventures in car- and bikedom
Archive of posts with category 'miata'
It’s been quite a while since my last post. We ended up moving across the US and between selling our previous house, buying another one, the move itself and all...
My experience with the Mazda dealer in Seaside was OK. We had some communications issue as everything was via phone with me being a couple of hundred miles away. On...
It’s always a little nerve wracking when you take a a new-to-you car to the track for the first time. It also really doesn’t help when the track is a...
Bunch of actual updates are coming, but I had to choose between wrenching time and some last minute fixes, or updating the thread.
Recovering the dashboard ended up being delayed, we’ll get to that shortly as I actually started doing that today.
Spent some time putting the Flyin miata suspension together today. I had ordered all new components (shocks, springs, bump stops and top mounts) so I could assemble the suspension without...
My original plan for tomorrow was to swap out the dash and the main carpet for the LE ones that I bought not too long ago. The guy I bought...
Time to deal with the next “big” interior mod before the really big interior mod. IOW, time to get rid of the fugly steering wheel.
Ended up fitting the exhaust sooner than I thought. It was straightforward - the exhaust came with all the hardware and (again, thanks to the climate), the exhaust on the...
I’m still in the “beginning to hoard parts” phase, plus I haven’t been feeling well for the last week or two, so not much progress. However I couldn’t stand wobbling...
Not much progress recently, had to spend time fixing my truck (for towing duty for the race car) and I am waiting for parts. Some of which arrived today:
The “painting by numbers” continues. One of the advantages of having had a few of these is that the basic jobs just naturally flow.
Today was the day to jack up the car, take the wheels off (boy are those ninetiestastic Momo wheels heavy), crawl underneath and see what I would find.
Unplanned purchase #1 showed up. I knew I wanted white wheels on the car for some reason, and I like TE37s, so the plan was to acquire a set of...
Went to the local AAA office last Monday to get the car registered. Even though our local DMV doesn’t have massive wait times, my wife had suggested I’d try AAA...
It’s about four years since I sold my last NA, which I swore would be the last one I would ever own. Same thing with the one before that, and...
