I broke my pinky (after last knuckle so no biggie) last year because I was using an adjustable crescent wrench when I should have went out and got the correct tool. Bascially, trying to open a diff drain plug on a parts car there the exhaust wouldn’t provide enough clearance for a ratchet and socket. I didn’t have a…

That was a stupid statement and he loses credibility for saying it. He also has a pretty condensending attitude about other people’s ability to tune cars.

The comments read like there is a difference of opinion on what makes a raw or visceral driving experience. For me, it is response to inputs and driver feedback. Feedback (except for maybe the engine) is something that has been either engineered out or lost as a side effect of other ‘advances’ and this has been…

Looks like a clear case of not looking ahead far enough. Had the truck not been there it would have been fine (unless there was a person, another car, or any number of other things out of your control on a public road). At least nobody was seriouly hurt by him driving like a jackass.

Hopefully Mazda will offer the LSD on other packages in the future. I would rather have a base model with an LSD and put 2k worth of shocks on it than any factory package. It will be at least a year until a high end custom valved and dimensioned ND shock hits the market so there is time to wait for the next model year…

I end up keeping my kid in the cart while I return it and lifting her out before I one hand it back into the corral. It’s super awkward and some stores I go to are on a pretty steep grade. One of these days I am going to end up shoving a cart into a moving car by accident.

You saw this video and it made you want to participate in a similar event? This is a shit show.

I can’t see these causing new car levels of damage. Most car suspensions corner on the bump stops anyway.

If you wanted to go back to stock sure, but then it is becoming a really shitty volvo. If you want to do it right, $2k in real seats, $400 in quality harnesses, and the some amount of fabrication work to correctly install a harness bar and harness attachment points.

Crack pipe for one of the least safe seat and harness installs I have ever seen.

As much as I like old slow and uncomfortable cars, I voted crack pipe.

Two things. First, as someone who has been on the receiving end of cad files from car companies, they view them as protected IP and are not going to share them. This is doubly true when the use of them would be circumventing their dealership network.

Your tensioners could have been machined for cheaper than they could have been printed. Printing a high quality void free metal object is extremely expensive.

This is grabbed from a random youtube video.. Also, I know street rubber vs track rubber, and it’s a computer game, but the mid corner speeds are very close to correct.

225 on 9” is standard for track and auto-x. Every track miata in the country running 9” wheels and street rubber has 225s on them. 225s are tested faster on 9” wheels than 8” wheels. Similarly, 205s are fastest on 8” wheels.

Yeah, 225s on 9” wheels if you run street tires. 275’s on 10” wheels for track rubber. 9” wheels are about the limit for rolled fenders on NA/NBs. Beyond that you are into cutting fenders or flares.

15” for life!

Mazda has offered packages like this since the 93le (r-package, 99 sport...) and they all have bilsteins with pretty bad valving. Maybe they will get it right this time? It makes way more sense to buy the cheapest package that has an LSD and then spend 2-3k on high end suspension matched to your needs.

I actually miss replied. It was meant for:

The Thunderhill 25 has had all kinds of entries ranging from factory teams to chump cars re-classed into NASA PT rules. Shitting on club racing makes you sound like a fool.