Since no one else started a new one!
Fill us in folks!
This is the place to set your goals and check them off!
I am building my list, too.
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Since no one else started a new one!
Fill us in folks!
This is the place to set your goals and check them off!
I am building my list, too.
New helmet for auto-x and Mechanix vented gloves
Finish cutting out my rear bumper, because racecar
Hella OEM style E-code headlights
Replace Throwout & Pilot bearings
Clutch & flywheel that came with the car
FM Little Big Brake kit maybe.. current pads are good but rotors could use a turn.
Find and fix the new, small oil leak
Keep the interior clean, as usual. Paint is awful so no worries there.
- Tune the Megasquirt ECU
- Drive the car a lot, gather lots of data, refine the engine tune
- Take car to a load bearing chassis dyno for even more engine tuning
- Install new brake discs and pads all around
- Reattach Redline Goods leather gauge hood cover where it is coming loose
- Modify instrument cluster so that the lights behind the tachometer are more diffuse so all the numbers on the gauge face are illuminated, possibly install LED bulbs
- Install Revlimiter anti-glare lenses for my KG Works instrument panel cover
- Install new door panel interior trim (upper and lower panels, door pulls)
- Maybe purchase and install new coilovers (Fox or XIDA) if time and budget allows
- Maybe retrim spare NA6 seats in black leather if budget allows, swap out MSM seats
- Start work on restoration of D-Tech M2-1001 front bumper and making mold to reproduce in carbon fiber
- Also improve Megasquirt Tune
- Nakamae Type R seats
- Install FM Happy Meal Clutch & Flywheel
- Wooden KG Works Cluster + Install Revlimiter Gauges :fab:
- Install FM Butterfly Brace
- Nardi Classico 340mm or 360mm Wooden Wheel
- Center Console Delete
- Simplify even further...
- Sell Enkei RPF1s ;)
- Sell Joyfast Short Shift Knob
- Sell Nardi Deep Corn Wheel (330mm w/Red Stitching)
DIY the heck out of the interior
I've only owned my car since Dec 2015, so my goals may seem a bit...."quaint".
-Finally Install My Suspension Setup
-Buy Some Real Wheels and Better Tires
-Figure Out My Seating Situation (Keep Surfboards or Go Aftermarket)
-Nuke the Bose Amp, and Get Better Sound From the Aftermarket Head Unit
-Exterior Dress Up
-Don't Go Overboard
The realistic plans:
-Install MR Short shifter
-Re-cover door panels & install LE speaker covers
-NA8 Seat belt recievers
-FM Shock tower Brace
-Corns shift knob
-Trade my Nardi wheel for one with polished spokes
-Frame rails / maybe butterfly brace
-Valve cover powder coat change
-New coilovers
-radiator
-clutch & fly wheel
The "if those get done and Im feeling wild plans":
15x9 or 15x10 6UL
Fender flares
Part to be installed
-MR short shifter
-tail lights
-headlights
-exhaust
-seats
-gauges
-tsi's
-Radio
-Center console
Parts to purchase
-Coilovers
-FM Happy Meal kit
-Wheels and Tires
Problems to diagnose and resolve
-Phantom draw on battery
-Noise from front of motor
Thanks Gang for making this thread worthwhile!
I hope to post my plans. But today showed me a change.
Have incoming parts and bits. But what is just a coolant leak finding another outlet is the game now. Hoping to arrive in Fla. in the original guise so I can come home to a swap. But the new time line if the 'moving leak' is more than expected is now up-for grabs.
Post on fellow nutz! Push me to get Noir to 'Palooza no matter what I find after the snow!
Peace!
WAIT - WAIT until the shop tuning the car calls me with good news, and then..... post a lot pictures dyno videos having fun with my NB roadster.
I just went back and looked at my 2016 goals, and realize that I actually met most of them (remarkable!) - and then deviated from that plan quite a bit (sold cams & ITB's, installed FM2).
For 2017:
1.) Recover NA6 Seats in leather from Pakistan, install.
2.) Find a shop to Paint GV Tail, install.
3.) Washer Fluid Bottle Relocation, Tribute Nozzle install.
4.) Nakamichi HU & door speakers install, and Headrest Speaker Replacement.
5.) FM Butterfly Brace install (since I went turbo, I now have room to upgrade from plain rail braces!).
6.) Nardi knob & handbrake stain & polyurethane.
7.) Sticky Dash (this will more likely be done NEXT winter, as I'm away again now...)
A safe and happy 2017 to all! -Matt
Done.Quote:
Pretty much nothing. I think I want my own home more than car stuff now. I guess this is growing up
I had no time for my car last year. Hopefully this year will see some more positive changes.
At least get the passenger seat reinstalled...Quote:
Originally Posted by Demon I Am
Oh, wait. I haven't one in either.
* Maxim Works headers.
* Fujitsubo Legalis R catback exhaust.
* 4.1 Torsen LSD.
* Samco silicone cooling hose replacements.
* Nakamichi CD400 Headunit.
* Retrofit JDM Eunos Roadster fog lights.
* Refreshing all OEM suspension components and control arms.
* Mazdaspeed suspension bushings replacements.
* Mazdaspeed differential mount bushings replacements.
* Retrofit OEM NA8 A/C unit with all component parts.
* CocoMats Sisal custom floor mats.
* Maruha power window regulators.
* Nakamae tan plain doorcards with tan door pull straps.
* Nakamae tan quilted seats with the seats re-foamed.
* Robbins cloth soft top with glass rear window, no demister lines.
* Wilwood 4 pot front brake calipers.
* BBS Mahle 14x6 +13 wheels in silver (second set of wheels).
* Finish the wife's Mustang II (So I can start working on the Miata!)
* Jetstream TSI's with clearsies
* 3rd brake light clearsies
* Polish & wax body
* Zoom gas cap
* Baseline the existing engine, fix cooling & oil leaks
* Shifter bushings
* Drive it a bit, decide on future brake and suspension upgrades
* Ecotec 2.4 engine swap
* Bling fog lights as DRL's
* Tires and wheels
* Start transformation from a Miata to a Eunos Manticore
* Hood vents
* Body stripe and Spec II spoiler
* Mini winkers and side stripe
* Carbon Miata quad light rear panel corrections, paint, and installation.
* Front R-lip spoiler
* Clutch and brake master cylinder, clutch slave cylinder.
* RevLimiter vent rings
* Finish Bikini cover, need clamps
* Lower side skirts with reinforcements
* Carbon Miata front air vent with Cosmo grill
* Cut rear bumper and incorporate Corvair Monza vents
* Fix quad headlights
* Sell Flyin Miata engine
* Update the Manticore build thread with more goofyness!
I've got no major plans for my car this year, mostly small things like some dress-up bolts under the hood. I am thinking that the shorty rear bumper needs some kind of cut-out, it is just too... vast. I am currenlty leaning towards something like this.
http://i.imgur.com/1aytjAI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zNytgSP.jpg
I need to paint my trunk hinges as well.