Turn both tie rods so the front wheels turn in the direction the steering wheel is off. Start by doing 1 wrench flat at a time. If you turn both equal amounts, your alignment specs stay the same, and your steering wheel is centered.

 

Curly thanks for that, I need to do it; just been too busy on dang S2000's.

Without further ado; 225/45/15 Toyo R888R on my 15x8 et25 wheels. It is such a perfect fit i'm actually a little bummed; since I have +30mm wide fenders on route. Handling is great and now even in slight rain on ground I can pull full throttle 2nd with zero wheel spin. Honestly the grip is a little astonishing, 30+ cars and a couple hundred track days and my first 100 treadwear tires did not disappoint. Hit a baby milestone in mileage. Also I thing I've realigned my goals based on the for sale threads here; I'm freezing any more HP mods. Time to bring the Vette back home so I can leave Miata for trailer/track only use.

 

Your car just gets better and better. I had an FM 2560 kit on mine a while back, and miss it terribly. Maybe I'll see you one day around the neighborhood, and can snag a ride.

C

 

I'll do you one better Chris for the kind words. If your out at a Kellers meet i'll let ya drive car. I'm actually hunting for a second opinion on my cars handling. It feels perfect, but being on stock sway in front I'm wondering if I'm leaving some time on table. Have a Driveway Austin time attack in a week and hoping to smoke all my S2000 buddies.

 

Hmm, now I feel the need for a No. 5 special. Oh, and bonus points for the red on black theme...... a flashback to my car from 2008

 

Great news. Armed with facemask's I showed up with a S2000 crew of friends for a Time Attack competition at Driveway Austin Motorsports on L1. I won most improved of day award. Super happy about that. First time I've really felt the Miata was dialed in. It was so hot my Defi ZD gauge kept shutting down. I kept jumping into friends S2000's with AC inbetween heats. Toyo R888r 225 tires did as I would expect and E85 kept car spooling smooth.

 

So I aligned my own car with Paco Motorsports hub stands. Second product from them I've not been happy with my purchase. I do think it's a good idea on hub stands and feel in better hands results would be far superior. I went to a Miata track alignment specialist; Texas Track Works. Here's where I landed.



Spent a weekend repainting my trailer. Tow rig in heat performed perfect and I loved being able to jump in truck idling with AC. Even though I was chugging water all day I got multiple migraines.



This event is my favorite all year around. Goes from 4pm to 11pm. Night is for experienced people only and late late most people are going home for bed. So night run is usually with only 2-3 other cars and you get to really hone your night driving skills. I ran on gopro 2:43.720. I was .2 seconds from one of my friends top times.



So next projects to help drop times are as follows.
1. Drop temps somehow just a little more; Lap 6 in day 95F I was getting coolant to 235F and Oil 275F. Need to think hard on which to increase cooling capacity on.
2. Get a proper driver seat so I stay planted.
3. Sway bars because stock didn't do great at COTA even with coilovers.
4. Possibly raise front as it was rubbing here and there. But I think sway bars may resolve this.

Day run.

Night run and yes visibility is just like video.

I have some on track photos coming in next week or two.

 

Awesome car, man! I too snagged an already built "dream" Miata at a heavy discount.

Glad it's running great and thanks for posting videos. I can't wait to track mine.

 

COTA 07/20 Night photos came out awesome.

 

After track day had a odd event where car drove fine two days and then would have boost issue and tach would drop. The VERY first issue was this car was bad wire for crank angle sensor. Ordered new sensor and rewired everything. Hasn't came back. Also installed Ultrashield Race seats/harness only to discover I HATE being held so tightly in a small car. Put stock seat back in and have some more idea's for making it lower for tracking. Development hit a hard stop for Miata when I traded my C6 Vette for Shelby GT500. Currently building a burned down S2000, Lotus Elise and Toyota Supra Turbo to get me back topside on Miata progress. Still need to install the sway bar and reinforcement. I want to finally dump Hydra EMS, but it's hell trying to spend money on a part that's working.

 

Might not be the same issue at all, but I had an issue where my car was running perfectly, then started cutting out in boost with the tach cutting out. Long story short switching the crank pickup from rising edge to falling edge (and re-timing the car!) fixed my issues. Thought I'd throw that out there at least. Your car is sick, I love the night pictures with the brakes throwing sparks. Thanks for sharing the videos and pictures.

 

The night pictures with the brakes throwing sparks is awesome! Nice build so far!

 

The fix for 11/12/20 issue was replacing crank sensor. Of course it was that easy. I did this months back, but I forgot to update status.