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PSS9 NA Miata buddies, sup   This is a fun as hell first car. Do you have wiring in the car to mate up to the hardtop defroster? Mine doesn't.
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Unfortunately, when I bought my car it was the start of winter so I haven't had a chance to tinker with it (or even drive it hard outside of a few parking lot rips and one-tire-fires). Right now the PSS9s are at full soft and the alignment seems pretty biased towards understeer as well as having a huge front swaybar from the previous owner. So far the Miata ownership experience is underwhelming.  I don't know what the spring rates on the PSS9 are so I haven't looked into it very seriously yet, but in the general case, it probably goes something like tuning Konis: http://www.bimmerhaus.com/tech/shocktuningTN.html A lot of it will depend on your driving style. If you wait a few months for me to put summer tires back on I can share what I find. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Dec 5, 2012 |
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Dec 5, 2012 17:53
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Bilstein has a great parts department. Do what OM told you to and you should be able to get everything - adjuster wrenches (two came with mine for some reason, they appear to be different sizes so I'm guessing the collars are different front to rear) and the damping adjuster as well.
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Dec 6, 2012 07:07
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iv46vi posted:Bilstein wrenches, last I heard were $50 plus shipping. Bit rich for my blood. Still secretly hope to find something compatible in a modded civic in a junkyard one day.
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Dec 8, 2012 00:52
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Believe it or not that's actually the factory paint. I was surprised when I went to the US and found BRG Miatas that didn't look like a stripper exploded inside a Jugo Juice.
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Apr 23, 2013 18:07
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I look forward to the inevitable Miata thread bathroom scale shot where you try to figure out how much weight that alarm system just saved.
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May 8, 2013 20:57
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I was worried for a second you were going to use the airbag from a 626 which might be calibrated differently for a longer cabin. I'm curious if the nb airbag controller is the exact same and how picky the na controller actually is (since that harness doesn't seem capable of sending any identifying information about the bag back to the controller). It's probably fine. I doubt Mazda messed with it. Sure looks good on the na dash though. Good work!
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May 15, 2013 05:08
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Man, that's what my rockers look like.  I guess there was no point in deluding myself that they weren't rusty after leaving tiny clouds of orange particles behind after giving them a good punt.
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May 16, 2013 05:03
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Phone posted:I added in an aux-in on my stock 96 deck that looked like this (I think): http://www.miata.net/garage/radio_images/CIMG0351.jpg I have that same deck in mine. How'd you do it, FM modulator?
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Aug 4, 2013 17:20
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Found it, thanks. I wonder if Mouser has a proper connector for it instead of making paper clip pins. e: Looks like it's 13 pin DIN. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Aug 4, 2013 22:36
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This is like that one red paperclip guy except you're just trading Miatas. Think you can get into a PRHT before the end of the year?
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Aug 19, 2013 02:51
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My insurance broker is pissed at me owning three Subaru Imprezas at the same time so I can only imagine what they have to deal with when the Miatas aren't even different sub-models. I must admit I have thought about buying a cleaner Miata so I don't have to deal with finding someone to do my rockers.
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Aug 19, 2013 05:28
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I'm pretty jealous of your deal-finding ability. In AB, there's $3000 NAs with worse rust than my old one. The only reasonable deals have been ex-autocross cars - also with rust - and a $1500 car with so much rear quarter rot that the trunk was exposed. There are a bunch of "always garaged, never seen winter" 90-91s that are $5k+. Those don't have hardtops.
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Oct 19, 2013 22:16
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I saw that one too. I was like "eh, paint's a little bad, a dent in the fender..." then I hit the interior pictures.
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Oct 27, 2013 18:11
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Drifters (and their less talented cousins, the sticker kids) got them.
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Oct 28, 2013 01:55
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I'd be interested in that too. Set up a Google group or something?
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Oct 28, 2013 04:51
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So conflicted right now. Also we have a buncha snow on the ground so that picture sure ain't recent.
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Oct 30, 2013 04:00
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That custom paint job looks like someone hit a bunch of poo poo, looked at a Subaru Outback and had their body guy throw primered junkyard parts back on to replicate the look. I'd be surprised if it doesn't start flaking off colour coat in huge sheets because I bet the flex agent wasn't mixed right for the bumper.
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Oct 30, 2013 04:58
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I'll give him $2k for it this summer if he's still got it by then. It's more than he'd get at auction after terrifying a long line of pensioners on Craigslist.
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Oct 30, 2013 14:26
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Motronic posted:Flex agent doesn't stay in paint for more than a few weeks. It's for installation, not as a permanent part of the paint. If you don't bend the poo poo out of the plastic parts during install the paint won't lose it's bonding with the plastic and will keep on looking just fine as it cures. Yeah, I meant that they used an improper ratio of flex agent or something. That's what my paint shop guy said when I brought the WRX bumper in from the previous owner's terrible respray and big chunks were peeling off whenever the bumper flexed. Maybe I misunderstood him. Either way, whatever magic he did (proper prep?) to fix it worked and the bumper looks great now.
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Oct 30, 2013 16:04
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Sweet Christ I hope it was that loving Speedster. I think even that one had a clean title though...
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Nov 5, 2013 04:06
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Yeah you guys in Ontario got screwed on this one. We just got a record breaking load of snow in the prairies. If I still had my miata I'd have to store it somewhere so I'd have somewhere to put all the snow from my drive.
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Dec 23, 2013 05:23
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I don't think 94+ means standard Torsen. If it does I'll be very happy, but it doesn't feel like my power-antenna 97 has it. I think I'll have to call Mazda with the VIN to find out for sure.
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Apr 11, 2014 22:32
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Yeah I'm pretty sure it's an open diff. Luckily I have a Torsen sitting in the basement.
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Apr 11, 2014 22:54
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Yeah our Miata prices are obscene. The cars aren't even in that much better shape, either.
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Aug 6, 2014 14:14
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Wow, you come to this province and start looting our strategic reserve of light trucks. Jealous of this deal, holy poo poo.
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Nov 3, 2014 05:37
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Well, changing the plugs from Deepwater Horizon is going to help your low RPM stumble for sure. Throttle body looks pretty clean. Maybe try pulling the battery for a bit to force the computer to relearn.
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How's the compression for starters? Otherwise that still seems like an overly generous amount of truck for what you have into it.
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