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Hey guys. I'm a long time user of the forum. I don't comment or post much. I mostly use the forum for research, buy and sell. Anyway, I just wanted to start my build thread here. I understand some you may not like my car, or whatever. I don't care.
About 10 years ago. Bought my Miata for $1100, running car with rocker rust. The previous owner bought brand new NC (keep in mind, NC was the new miata at the time) I drove the car stock for about 3-4 years. I kept it stock, mainly because I had other car projects, and didn't want to dump money into. It was a great, and reliable car. Never had any problems.

## Also, I apologies for not being more detail about the build, this was yearsssss ago, and I didn't' have a full log of everything. ##



The first day I bought her.

The only thing I did was maintenance, and swap to a borbet wheels.


A few years later. I got into racing, and autoX. Only then, I've decide to mod the car a bit more:





Fast forward, I've decide to fix the rocker rust. And while i'm at it, decide to paint the car as well. The car was painted about 3-4 times (you will see this at a later post). This was painted indoor in a garage.

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After I've painted the car, it went through a few more change, I can't remember what happen first, but the car has always been evolving ever since.

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If you ever wonder why it's called project "MIDNITE RUNNER" well, here it comes. More of this later as I continue to update this build thread.

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I bit more pictures of autox and some track days:

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I wasn't happy with the garage paint job, so decide to paint the car again. I was lucky at the time, my old job trust me to use the shop after hours. Finished painting the car from 10pm-3am at nite.

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Few more pictures of the interior before it was swap to a NB dash. Currently now have a NB dash. Oh, yea, it also boosted.

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Fast forward a few more years. Made a hood vents, And some custom aero.

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Now is getting close to recent build. This was in 2017-ish. Still way more to go.

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Moving forward another year or so..
Wide body is install. 40mm rear, about 25mm front. Painted the car again.

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Here's a day time photos. I'll have to find a picture of the front on my computer somewhere.

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NOW.. finally a bit more current. I've decide to do a FULL make over. I just recently sold my old turbo engine to a friend, and now rebuilding another one.

I just wanted to update you all as well, that I finally have video progress on youtube at well.
https://www.youtube.com/sithaputh
Here is my Instagram : instagram.com/phillymiataclub/
@phillymiataclub

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This is the first video of the build. Each week 1 or 2 video will be uploaded of the whole process. Please subscribe to my youtube channel for more updates.
I have no clue how to embedded it here. Hopefully it works

Parts 001 - Door and Dash removal

Parts 002 - Brakes, Clutch and Wiring

Parts 003 - Bumper Removal and Engine Bay Shaving

Parts 004 - Front Bash Bar - Weld fill-ins

Parts 005 - Engine Bay Shaving, Weld Clean up

Parts 006 - Subframe Removal, De-powered Steering Rack

Parts 007 - Engine Tear down.
Coming soon.

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Shaved the engine bay, and clean up my horrible welding:

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Weld in the front bash bar. Again, I'm horrible at welding.

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De-Powered the steering rack

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So, I clean up the engine bay a bit more, Now I've finished both side. (Sorry no pic)
Also, decide to tear down the whole engine. This is part one, I have to make room for parts two engine tear down.

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Waiting on a few more parts, and I will tear down the bottom half of the engine this weekend

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A bit more update:

Engine tear down is completed, please watch the video here:

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A bit more update. The machine shop just finished bore out my engine block. I'm waiting for a few more parts until I install the engine component. While waiting I've decide to make a custom tail lights.

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A bit more update of the engine progress. So, I decide to clean all all the parts that I will be using for the engine build.
Here are some before and after pictures.