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:

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LS1 yo. It gets close to 30 highway in the Trans Am and GTO with the 6 speed. Imagine what it'd get in the Miata.

[6strngs]

LS1 yo. It gets close to 30 highway in the Trans Am and GTO with the 6 speed. Imagine what it'd get in the Miata.

I got a ride in an ls2 miata up at the drift event one week, he could literally just punch the throttle real quick whenever he wanted and go from straight to completely sideways like it was nothing... Very fun, but I want the car to still be fun to drive in the backroads too and not just be sideways everywhere. lol.

swap in a blacktop, they're setup for RWD

I feel like the 4age is too similar in power delivery to the engine I've already got for it to be worth it. I took this car once up a back road near my house and it gets to a part where you are doing back to back hairpins going up hill and I had to put my car in first gear just to be able to get up them. That's only gotten worse since then because I now have a 4.1 rear end ratio now instead of the stock 4.3, so I would want something that has some low end torque to it. I really doubt realistically that I'd swap anything other than a 1.8 in though, the cost is just too much for anything else when I know I can make decent power with just a simple turbo kit on this 1.6 or a 1.8 for cheap. And drift cars are all about cheap