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^^ Good to see JimmiO before his incident :(
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Originally Posted by tehzack
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Our drift season here is pretty much kaput at the moment as well. It's a massive bummer.
What's your steering setup look like now on the miata? If I recall correctly from earlier you had the SPL inner/outer tie rods. Do you still have that? Have you moved to a cut steering knuckle or anything yet?
Originally Posted by RalliartRsX
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^^ Good to see JimmiO before his incident :(
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The season started back up, video and photo dump.
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I've followed this thread for a while as i have similar plans. I'm curious about cooling. Right now I'm on a stock rad w/o the AC fan due to IC piping. Looking to change the Ic piping and upgrade the cooling all around but am curious what your experience was like with your various setups over the years?
Obviously it would be ideal to have a car that can hot lap all day but $$$ is always a factor due to other priorities. Keep shredding man! |
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I've followed this thread for a while as i have similar plans. I'm curious about cooling. Right now I'm on a stock rad w/o the AC fan due to IC piping. Looking to change the Ic piping and upgrade the cooling all around but am curious what your experience was like with your various setups over the years?
Obviously it would be ideal to have a car that can hot lap all day but $$$ is always a factor due to other priorities. Keep shredding man! From the drift event in the video I posted. Attachment 233570 Attachment 233571 |
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Took the M3 to a SCCA Track Night in America at Thompson Speedway. Fun change of pace, car needs a few things like a fuel starvation kit, apparently some e36's don't like sustained right handers with half a tank of fuel. Also need a diff breather and a shifter kit with a 2nd gear lock out...$$$$.
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Looks like a blast. I've been wanting to track my daily (323 GTX) as well and I've been slowly prepping it to hopefully hit some events next year.
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Originally Posted by Fireindc
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Looks like a blast. I've been wanting to track my daily (323 GTX) as well and I've been slowly prepping it to hopefully hit some events next year.
Do you ever take the miata to timeattack/track days? Would love to see it ripping around, I bet with some minor tweaks it would be a real threat on the road course. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f966f91ba6.jpg https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ea5c6144cf.jpg |
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Lock City Drift season opener last weekend.
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Wet event, but dried up towards the end of the day. Got to drive with 2 other turbo miatas, so that was cool.
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Nice content! Glad to see you are still ripping the car. Thanks for sharing.
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Another drift event. After 8 years of drifting, and 6 years of drifting with the car turbo'd, the transmission (NA 5 speed) finally bit the dust. Lost 2nd gear.
Carnage photos of transmission for everyone's viewing pleasure. This came out of the drain plug, good start lol Attachment 233537 Splitting the bell housing Attachment 233538 Getting better Attachment 233539 Very nice Attachment 233540 Attachment 233541 All things considered the flywheel looks ok after so many years of clutch kicks and abuse. Obviously a lot of heat, but didn't see any cracks. ACT Streetlite flywheel. Attachment 233542 Attachment 233543 Attachment 233544 Flyin Miata Level 1 clutch, again held up and lasted surprisingly great Attachment 233545 Attachment 233546 Ordered a new ACT Streetlite flywheel, my buddy is giving me his gently used FM Level 1 clutch and ordered a new pilot bearing. Swapping in a NB 5 speed, hoping that trans lasts me as long as this one did. |
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Driving photo's from the event. The transmission issue happened on my 4 run of the day, I managed to keep driving, using 1st and 3rd gear, wasn't great but still had a good time driving with my buddies.
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Nice update! My 5 speed has been going strong as well, lots of track time and DD use at a power level known to eat 5 speeds. Some just seem to hold up.
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I have another 5 speed to swap in, so I'm going to give it a shot and see how long it lasts. My buddy has a 6 speed swapped in his car and says it's def not as smooth as his 5 speed was so for now I'd prefer a 5 speed based on that.
But if this 5 speed doesn't last I'll probably look for a 6 speed. I haven't looked into the 6 speed swap as far as gear ratios to see how different it would be for me on track as well. |
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Side by side flywheels. Old one looks worse out of the car, pilot bearing was very rough. Didn't expect the pilot bearing to have failed this quickly, not many miles put on the car.
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The six speed is pretty delicious with the MR shifter.
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Got the transmission back in the car, learned the NB 5 speed has 2 pins in the turret vs the NA 5 speeds 1 pin at the front.
Attachment 233523 Called my buddy to see if he had a spare NB shifter, fortunately he did. Unfortunately the turret boot was destroyed, so I had to get the boot off my NA shifter. That was a huge pita. Attachment 233524 Used my old NA antenna to pull the boot up onto the shifter, after what feels like an hour I got the boot off. Attachment 233525 Attachment 233526 Had to replace the boot on one of my axles, also had a pretty good clunk. Found a decently worn spot on the star nut, flipped it, and put it back on. Hoping the ball stays off that spot and the clunk is gone. Attachment 233527 Axle back together. Attachment 233528 Got the car on the ground, and went for a quick test drive. Transmission shifts fine, clutch feels good, will see what happens at the next drift event. Attachment 233529 |
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Forgot the car also has Toyota COP's now, and two catch cans. Please ignore how disgusting and filthy my engine bay is, cars a bit of a track rat...yikes.
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More driving, the new to me transmission survived.
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Drove 2 drift demos for some local car shows.
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Lately, I've been struggling with shifting from 2nd to 3rd at higher rpm's. This wasn't always an issue, but it's been getting more difficult as time has gone on. I'm thinking it could be the MazdaComp motor mounts getting, they've been on the car for about 7-8 years. The rubber mazda comps have seen a lot of clutch kicks, hard on throttle and off throttle, and the car being thrown around back and forth throughout those years.
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Old mounts are out, new ones are in.
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Finally put together a video from the last event of 2021. We ran the road course in reverse, and it made for some fast driving which was great to do again.
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Been a long time coming but finally ponied up, and bought better rear upper control arms. Pacomotorsports arms with Energy poly bushings.
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Got to test out the new ruca's at LoneStar Drift's, Drift Week 5 at Thompson Speedway. Much better camber wear.
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Another drift event, another video.
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Had an off at the last drift event, I'll post the video up, and hit a plastic water filled barrier. Passenger side front took the hit, and this is the second time that sides taken a hit. First time was into a car, and I hammered out the apron damage and kept driving for 2-3 years.
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I always enjoy your updates @robertw , keep 'em coming.
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Drove GridLife at Lime Rock Park this weekend. Haven't been back to Lime Rock for drifting since 2013, my first drift season, so it was amazing being back.
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Experiencing some breaking up / stumbling at 6k rpm street driving. On track, when the car is warm / hot, not noticing the same issue. Feels like spark cut or fuel cut, so have to trouble shoot that. |
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With the e36 M3 gone, I've been looking for a replacement family cruiser / fun car. Needed to be able to seat 4, and be on the "sportier" side. Settled on a GR86, put a deposit down in November 2021, and the dealership could not get the car in the spec I wanted. Saw this car pop up on marketplace and decided to buy it. 2004 GTO.
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Oh wow beautiful car. Looks like it was kept really clean.
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The Munroe lives!
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For your back's sake, that would be Self Loading Cargo I hope?
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That’s a Graaco 3-in-1, and judging from the inserts and low shoulders, maybe not yet, but soon.
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Originally Posted by Gee Emm
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For your back's sake, that would be Self Loading Cargo I hope?
Originally Posted by curly
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That’s a Graaco 3-in-1, and judging from the inserts and low shoulders, maybe not yet, but soon.
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It's interesting to see how much you improved over time, good work. The GTO is a very capable car in the twisties. The M3 is regrets.
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Cool GTO! A few dudes bring those out to our time attack events and they have always impressed me in that regard. Not quite as much as a new Camaro, but still impressive!
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Just finished swapping rear CTS-V Brembo’s onto the GTO. Car came with Brembo’s on the front so did the rear swap to match and balance the car out. I need to work on the Miata but the GTO’s been too much of a distraction atm.
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Spring is here so time to get all the junk off the miata, and get it ready for drift season.
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First event of the season, blew up 2nd gear again. Picked up another 5 speed, but i may have to swap to a 6 speed and hope that holds up better.
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