6strngs's project drift miata Options

[6strngs]

So, somebody suggested I should make a build thread for my miata in the off-topic section, so, here goes.



I got it from a speed shop in santa clara, basically what happened was someone brought their car to this shop, the shop pulled the cylinder head to see what was wrong, found a chipped valve, the customer couldn't afford the bill so he sold the car to the shop and the shop sold it to me with a rebuilt cylinder head for $1900. It needed a few things, but was mostly sound. The only bad thing is the car was totaled on the passenger rear quarter panel, the damage is cosmetic only and the car is a drift car now, so it really doesn't matter. Anyway here's the first round of "fixes" I did:

rewired the stereo (it was staying on even with the car off, haha)
painted the license plate panel black (it was silver which clashed terribly with the red)
reconnected the left side speaker
broke off the wheel locks since I didn't get a key with the car
Made my own battery tie down, it didn't have one before, and I really needed one...
removed the stock antenna
added a new convertible top, the window was pretty much ripped out of the old one


New top being tested out in the rain


And a pic of the "before" ride height:


Next was a set of coilovers of course! Here's a pic of the megan racing EZ street coilovers that I got for it


slammed... my buddy josh in the car, he was visiting from hawaii where he is stationed, and told me this car would still be considered needing "moar low" if it were there


And just to say that I could... I had about a 1/4" clearance,


I drove it like that for a few days before deciding it was just too low to be practical, so I raised it about 3/4 of an inch which gave me this:

[6strngs]

Next thing that was needed was a power-steering oil cooler. It's fairly common on miatas to boil the fluid when doing this like drifting or autocrossing, and in fact I still boiled it over even with this cooler installed...


The next thing I did was added some modified steering knuckles which allow for more steering angle. This also required longer brake lines so I went ahead and did stainless lines on all 4 corners:











Then I had another drifting event:





The night did not end so great. On my very last run of the night I spun out and went straight backwards into a wall causing this damage:



I did get the crash on video though!



At my next event, I destroyed the clutch in the car and had to be towed home. I currently have a clutch and a lightweight flywheel on the way but they were backordered for a few weeks so I probably won't see them until early 2013, but I have a few things I will be doing to the car when they come in Let me know what you think so far