Cocky Miata
The Car
 Spring '09 and nearly ready for action. |
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 Blingin valve-cover is worth .3 seconds |
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 In action at the final round of the 2009 Provincial Championship |
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 6ULs just installed |
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 Just arrived home March 06 |
 Rotas installed |
 who doesn't love Panasports |
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 zoom-zoom |
 oh yea, no ABS! |
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 mmm, sticky. |
 got grip? |
 threading the needle |
 Tyson enjoy the co-drive |
 yours truly |
 I got it, I got it... |
 OH I DON'T GOT IT! |
 06 WOSCA Regional Slalom |
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 Hiawatha - on streets |
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Technical Stuff
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| Mirror disassembly | ... | ... | ... | The problem rivet |
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| The rivet head | All the components | The solution | Components before assembly | The intended replacement rotator |
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| Assembled | ... | ,,, | ,,, | Red Interior accents done myself |
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| Gold-vs-"Bronze" wheels | The Bronze is too Brown | The gold is too metallic looking | wheel painting steps | ... |
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| The back of the stock 90 head unit | The terminals to jump for the power fix | Frozen suspension bolts | After grinding the whole open I could get a wrench on the nut | Here is how I used a small pry bar on the lower front arm as part of the "Hakuna" method |
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| The torn factory boot | factory boot cut off | Step one of installing the new boot | step twOOOoooOOOooo... | Was it good for you baby? |
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| Before... | Initial masking | Cutting out the letters | ... | Primary mask finished |
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| Painting done, with the full mask shown | The finished result | upside down cam pulleys |