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    I don't want it unless it smells of stale Japanese Cigarettes.

    I sold my first Miata, a Mint black 1995 Black & Tan back in June 2014 thinking I wasn't going to need a car for at least a year. Well 9 months later I definitely needed a car. I had been looking at Miata's on Craiglist for a few months leading up, lots of good cars seemed to be out there. The minute I started looking with intent to buy all of the decent prospects evaporated. Well, mid Feb 2015 I was in Korea visiting a friend when a buddy messaged me on facebook in the middle of the night with a craigslist link to a '94 M in the middle of Oregon. My buddy went and looked at it for me, said it was solid. The day I landed back in Washington I made the drive down and picked it up. (6-7hrs each way).

    It was mostly stock. NB Bilsteins was pretty much the extent of the mods it had on it.

    (I'll find a photo)

    I drove it more or less as it was until the end of 2015. I picked up a set of Enkei Big End Barrel
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    I added some OEM Cibies, Corn*s Esqueleto seat, Dcautro lid, and an RS*R
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    Well things went pretty sideways for me in 2016. In August poor decision making took over and I purchased the Laguna Blue '94 from Jeremy.
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    I did Laguna things for a while. I swapped all my parts over. Drove it to MRLS. Than made more poor decisions.
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    I sold the Montego to my brother and the Laguna to a friend. I sold some parts off as well. I drove normie cars for a while, bought a FXT, and a Mini. Borrowed a friends Nissan Rogue for a few months and imported a drift car. Not in that particular order.

    I was given the opportunity to buy back the Montego car from my brother (it was still in my name surprisingly) and I took it. The car had 20000 additional miles on it and lots of dog hair.

    I cleaned it up and started putting parts back on to it. (i'll dig out pics)

    On a Saturday in May 2018, feeling particularly motivated after one beer I decided I should install the Mazdaspeed BSpec ITB set I had owned for a few years. The whole process took about 2-3 weeks from start to running again. I did it in the carport of my apt and didn't seem to have pissed off the neighbors. I still have a few small issues from this swap but everything was pretty much plug and play.

    Im over it for now. Photo dump:
    Drive down to MRLS 2018 with no bumper. Picked up Simpson designs shorty in Sacramento
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    NA6 Dash swap happened:
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    My engine bay from a week ago:
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    I'll probably edit this once I get bored again. If there is one thing I like doing it is taking photos of working on my car, so more to come.

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    3,000 rpm - starting to feel the power druz's Avatar
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    Only the best stale Japanese cigarettes.



    Coming back down for the Reunion again this year?

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    Quote Originally Posted by druz View Post
    Only the best stale Japanese cigarettes.



    Coming back down for the Reunion again this year?
    You bet! Gonna be a big one!

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    5,000 rpm - there be torque here! MaRcOp01o's Avatar
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    So when can I take those ITBs off your hands? Want to see an ITB'd Supercharged B-SPEC?
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