Well, yeah I can't believe that I'm making a build thread, but I gotta admit this is pretty awesome since I haven't made one in a while lol. I thought forums were dead and were a thing of the past. A lot of the ones I was part of before, are either gone or if the still remain a lot of the threads/information is gone. But not here from what I can see, glad to see this forum is still up and running. I've been a member for a while, my first Miata was bought back in 2014, it was a white 90 that I bought off this kid with some crazy camber'd CCW wheels. That car had really shitty suspension, it was kinda clean? But the whole bottom of the car was toast. It was an impulse buy, why? Because of a girl lol...really though. I had always been an s-chassis guy, now that I'm counting I've had 10 240s, none of which I kept lol. I was young and whenever a build would just get too overwhelming for me I would sell the car because of lack of funds. I went through a lot of cars like that. Anyways, I meet this girl (The One, marrying her one day) and I own an 95 Automatic S14, I wanted to sell it because I didn't want to deal with all the manual swap, so she suggests, "hey, why don't you get a Miata?"....HHMMMM Why DON'T I get a Miata? Came home with this a few weeks later.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EU...Q=w672-h674-no
Car looked cool, but it was stancey with some 15x10 CCW Classic 5s, but it was a piece of crap. Sold it a few months later looking completely different. Anyways, I went through a little break from building cars and just got a normal daily. Focused on work and other life things, saved up money, proposed to said girl, we bought a house together. And now, I have some time to slowly start building something. So last month, I started hunting and found a really clean 96 NA. I really wanted a 1.8 since the last car was a 1.6. The first car I went to see was basically everything I wanted, and picked it up for $1,800 bucks. Which was a great price given the condition, the previous owner had to get rid of it due to his parking situation.
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Now comes the fun stuff. First thing I did was hardtop. Traded the soft top which which was in perfect shape, plus cash on my end. I don't plan on driving this car topless for more than a few hours, if ever, I might get a bikini top in the future. But hardtop was on....aahhhh so good <3.
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The next thing I did was the interior. Previous owner had painted the center console and tombstone Glow-In-The-Dark :shock: So that had to go. Instead of going through the trouble of painting everything back to black, I just got new ones. Ordered a new OEM tombstone and IL motorsport center console, w/o the cup holders :lol: Also picked up a new shift boot and knob.
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I'm a sucker for Nardi Classics, so I picked one up to replace the eBay off brand wheel that was on there, and also got a new gauge faces from Adam, and you can see the black wrinkle Voodoo knob which is actually getting replaced pretty soon :8)
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Not pictured, was a foamactomy for my 6'2 long legged body lol and with that, I was pretty happy with the interior.
Now, I don't have many photos of what's to come because I was working on the car by myself and I just forgot to stop and take photos. But the first wheels/suspension/exterior package for the car arrived lol.
I went with Enkei J-Speeds 15x8 +25 with 225/45 Kuhmo 720s. RS4s were sold out, I didn't like the reviews on the Federal RSRs, Bridgestones were a little too pricey at the moment. So for the price and performance, the Kuhmos were perfect.
Megan EZ Streets. Picked up EZ streets because they're pretty good coils as long as you don't slam your car and for daily driving. These are getting replaced pretty soon, in about a month ;) ordered better coils but I'll wait to share until they arrive.
eBay GV Lip, KG works wing, Feed style sides and eBay R-package rear lip.
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I didn't hate these wheels, but for some reason I didn't like them neither. I couldn't tell what it was. They do come with a polished lip but I plasti-dipped it flat black.
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I figured it was the unpainted center cap, so I plasti-dipped int flat black as well.
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