hola, me llamo sac

Posts : 112 Join date : 2010-12-06

My name is sac and I'm an alcoholic...oh wait...

yeah yeah you guys know who I am. I have a 90 miata and am broke as fack. what else do you need to know?

EDIT: some pix

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I've got Fatkat motorsports coilovers. dropped 2" and they've been revalved with heavier spring rates at 550 front 385 rear iirc.
94+ brakes with Hawk HPS pads front and rear
kirkey drag seat I can throw in whenever I feel like getting my pelvis turned to dust...
powersteering delete and rebuilt rack from parts-group.com
Kosei K1 wheels for summer. Ran some falken ZX-RT615s but they've long since been destroyed. need some new rubber for summer.
stock everything else. on civic si wheels with bfgoodrich comp t/a's right now from 1922 Razz

240k miles and still kickin!

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:41 pm

Welcome! I'm sure Adam will have lot's to talk to you about Razz

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:35 pm

Hi, my name is Adam, and I fucking love your car.

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acedeuce802 wrote:: Hi, my name is Adam, and I have a fever for which the only prescription is more Miata.

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:58 pm

Hi Zac welcome

Posts : 782 Join date : 2010-11-23

want a miataaaaaaaaaaaa

haha i was looking at some on CL and one person also has "battery dents"

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:18 pm

jw, why do you not have a roll bar? any plans on one?

Posts : 782 Join date : 2010-11-23

cause he's a broke mf.

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:45 pm

Gotcha!

Posts : 99 Join date : 2010-10-11

Welcome Zac!

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:44 am

welcome!

Posts : 112 Join date : 2010-12-06

my name is spelled "zach" and i purposely wrote sac Razz

anyway yeah, rollbar is in the works but not for awhile...

thanks for the comments guys!

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:46 pm

HDHCDDHT!

I know my miata lingo Smile

Posts : 782 Join date : 2010-11-23

hahaha just what he needs.

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:19 pm

acedeuce802 wrote:: HDHCDDHT!

I know my miata lingo

I really want to know what this means!

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:45 pm

Hard Dog (company) Hard Core (Series) Double Diagonal (Model) Hard Top (Hard top compatible)

hola, me llamo sac Harddog2

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:20 am

Convertible sports cars should come with roll cages.

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:43 am

dogbreath wrote:: Convertible sports cars should come with roll cages.

QFT

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:49 am

I must be getting old, I had to type that into Google.

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:55 am

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I'm quite aware of my options for rollbars. I have a good friend who is an amazing welder and has built full cages for circle track cars. I'm going to have him fab me one up eventually. It'll be cheaper than the 450 bucks or so to get a hard dog and it might fit slightly tighter to the roof line.

Derrick and I have had many a conversation on this topic. I have tossed up the idea of caging it but I'm not going to. Roll bar will be good enough. The windsheild collapses on rollovers but hopefully that wont be enough to kill me if it should ever happen. Besides, I wont be tracking my car much due to the fact that right now I'm broke and it's my only car. It's going to need a full drivetrain swap before too long and I think I want to turbo it.

I really love driving it on track but being my only car its gonna have to wait. The convertible aspect MAKES the car, and caging it...though fun as hell, would get annoying after awhile. Reason being a helmet is absolutely necessary at all times whenever you have bars near your head.

Ive considered caging it and making it so the top can be removed but then you still have to either sacrifice space or remove the door guts and windows. no windows = not streetable (unless like..it was sunny and warm). To be honest I'll probably either 1. get another miata to cage and go racing with when I'm older and done with school and all that, or 2. get a s5 FC turbo muahahhaa

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:41 am

Yeah that sounds like a good plan, and I agree that a cage would ruin the cruising spirit of a Miata, plus is very unsafe without a helmet.

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Here are examples I'm talking about:

Door guts removed and convertible ability kept:

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Big rollbar that WOULD work. reason being I dont think I'd clear the full 1" over my helmet from the top of a rollbar in MY car to the hood (since the windshield crushes). This could be an option if I ever got another miata:

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see how the helmets are higher? this almost makes me say fuck a rollbar in general:
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(Sorry for the long post by now)

This picture makes a rollbar just look bad ass
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and another thing ive tossed up a ton is the front lip mod:
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Idk lots of stuff to think about. I know I am keeping the car forever till it catches on fire or I roll it or some big truck runs me over. I wanna redo a lot of cosmetic stuff and the whole drivetrain as well, making it new and more reliable and maybe adding more power!

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if you also fabbed a seat bracket so you're sitting on the floor, maybe the rollbar would clear your head then?

Subject: Re: hola, me llamo sac Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:41 pm

Yeah that's dumb that rollbars are sometimes not tall enough to clear the helmet.
I like the idea of a lip, GV lips look sick!
And I think you should do an NA IRTB build Smile

Damn I want a Miata so bad