Sandman's because basemodel build
04-16-2014, 05:20 PM
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Soz to delay but school is more important. Plus it gives me a chance to improve some aesthetics. I'll get stuff mounted up and be all set come fall. And a chance to practice drag racing at the strip so I get it down and put good numbers out the first time I run on the blower hahaha
04-17-2014, 12:44 AM
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probably more like 4 months, unless he chooses to go with some other tuner.. the build spot in my garage is kinda taken up for what looks to be the rest of the semester unless i make some crazy fast progress.. we live too far apart from one another to realistically do it over the summer, but who knows
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04-17-2014, 01:12 AM
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Well I'll try to keep it short.. it was all stock when I started with it (rather rusty as well from being a 23 year old Wisconsin driven car, everything suspension wise needed a huge refresh) and the current build list is as follows:
Koni Yellow Sport Struts
Flying Miata Springs
Flying Miata Front Sway Bars
Flying Miata Rear Sway Bars
Heim Jointed Adjustable Endlinks
Polyurethane Bushings in all joints (upper/lower control arms, Front/rear sway bars, and rear diff)
Installing Grease Zerks in all Control Arm Bushing Joints for easy/quick future lubrication
Ceramic Brake Pads
R1 Concept Blank Rotors
Refurbished OEM Calipers
Braided Stainless Steel Brake Lines
DOT4 Brake Fluid
Sandblasting and Painting all components
basically, everything from where the driveshaft connects back under the car will be either new or sandblasted and repainted. Same will happen to the front subframe in the fall at some point (maybe this summer if I get ambitious). The sway bar, koni's, and springs are just installed on the front for now. Also plan on having it boosted with a 14b by next year so I can finally get it to be quicker than the LNF (miata has about 850lbs to its advantage so it should be a close one, excited to find out).. too many plans and not enough time to realistically complete them.. car modder probs
Koni Yellow Sport Struts
Flying Miata Springs
Flying Miata Front Sway Bars
Flying Miata Rear Sway Bars
Heim Jointed Adjustable Endlinks
Polyurethane Bushings in all joints (upper/lower control arms, Front/rear sway bars, and rear diff)
Installing Grease Zerks in all Control Arm Bushing Joints for easy/quick future lubrication
Ceramic Brake Pads
R1 Concept Blank Rotors
Refurbished OEM Calipers
Braided Stainless Steel Brake Lines
DOT4 Brake Fluid
Sandblasting and Painting all components
basically, everything from where the driveshaft connects back under the car will be either new or sandblasted and repainted. Same will happen to the front subframe in the fall at some point (maybe this summer if I get ambitious). The sway bar, koni's, and springs are just installed on the front for now. Also plan on having it boosted with a 14b by next year so I can finally get it to be quicker than the LNF (miata has about 850lbs to its advantage so it should be a close one, excited to find out).. too many plans and not enough time to realistically complete them.. car modder probs
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04-17-2014, 01:25 AM
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problem then lies in finals in May come up fast for both of us, then we live like 5 hours away from one another over the summer where we both will be working. I'll be doing 50+ hr weeks of work, a summer class, and 1.5 hrs of driving a day to boot so getting time to go drive all that ways to perfectly dial in a tune and do all the build will be hard pressed (especially considering its his only car so it cant really have much down time either if something were to not go as planned, which is always possible).
04-17-2014, 10:27 AM
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no.. I started this about 2 weeks ago and plan on having it done by the end of this month
problem then lies in finals in May come up fast for both of us, then we live like 5 hours away from one another over the summer where we both will be working. I'll be doing 50+ hr weeks of work, a summer class, and 1.5 hrs of driving a day to boot so getting time to go drive all that ways to perfectly dial in a tune and do all the build will be hard pressed (especially considering its his only car so it cant really have much down time either if something were to not go as planned, which is always possible).
problem then lies in finals in May come up fast for both of us, then we live like 5 hours away from one another over the summer where we both will be working. I'll be doing 50+ hr weeks of work, a summer class, and 1.5 hrs of driving a day to boot so getting time to go drive all that ways to perfectly dial in a tune and do all the build will be hard pressed (especially considering its his only car so it cant really have much down time either if something were to not go as planned, which is always possible).
06-22-2014, 04:52 PM
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lol
lol. Hopefully I can get it redone tonight
