Nice man, car looks perfect. What is your ride height at about? I'm going to be raising mine and I really like how that looks, i'll probably end up at a similar height.

 

Thanks. No idea, whatever FM1 is. Like 12F 12.5R? Or something

 

I've forgotten what its like to have a car that's all one color

Lookin' good man!

 

Now go build a nice engine for the car and turbo it... ;-)

 

I totally think that is something 18psi should do.

 

 

I drove my car n/a the other day. I couldn't believe how slow it was, much prefered the wrx...

 

Its a completely different feeling. My 13, like your 09 is torquey and big. My 04, way less torquey but way more direct and tossable, despite being a wagon.

The miata takes "nimble and tossable" to a whole nother level. Also it was kinda sorta fun driving the car 10/10 and still barely breaking the speed limit

 

After driving that 1.6 donor car over the rocky mountains I can't imagine going back to stock power levels. Going 45 mph uphill is not something I want to experience again.

I'd have to plan my passes about 1/2 a mile ahead of time.

 

To be fair, a stock, tired '91 on regular is a far cry from a stock, fresh '01 on premium.

But I'm with you, sir.

 

Do you not know how to downshift? I have a 92 with 330k miles on it and I have no problems going up mountain roads in it. Sure if you leave it in 5th gear it will suck *****, drop it down to third and get the rpms up a bit and it is fine.

 

Downshift I did, **** the motor was. Let's just say 20 miles out of St George the alternator died, and the motor blew. The crankshaft pulley was hand tight(literally), and the oil filter after I bought it was hand tight and it also only had 1.5 quarts of oil in the engine.

Not what you would call a healthy engine.

Saying that, after driving a diesel for 4 years, I am/was constantly nervous about revving the Miata's engine too high. Too many years of a 4.5k powerband makes you forget how rev happy/necessary these engines are. Takes a lot of reprogramming the brain cells to not shift too early.

 

lol. sounds totally the same as my cherry 2001 vvt 1.8 6sp and torsen and all SE bracing and brakes

 

I love daily driving this car. Seriously. Now that its not my "project" or "toy" but just a regular daily, and I have no intention of doing anything to it, I just enjoy it for what it is.

Its fun

 

Just keep telling yourself that...

did you ever sell the stupidcharger?

 

Of course.

And I'm not saying I'm happy with it being NA vs turbo, I'm just saying It is a lot more enjoyable when my expectations for it are not high like when I couldn't wait to boost it.

My sports car is now my daily and my family car is now my weekend toy.

lol

 

Of course.

I know what you mean. Living backwards is totally cool

 

Glad to hear you are at least enjoying the car as-is man. Sometimes I wish that I had saved up and bought an uber clean NB instead of putting all the time and $$ into my ugly na (fwiw i love na's, mines just ugly because of the paint lol). Then I drive it and the *** end steps out rolling onto the throttle in 2nd and everything is okay.

I've also started dailying my na again, and dear god i love miatas.

<3

 

Can't go wrong with the FMII "No Electronics" kit if you still have the MS3. Then you can run a povertyspec GT2560 like the rest of us mortals.

 

Nah its staying as is. Period. And I'll keep repeating this to myself every day, cause that's how often I get tempted to mod it again

I briefly tempted myself with the many MSM setups laying around our shop, just slap a complete one on here and tune it on stock injectors, stock clutch, stock exhaust and enjoy like 180whp, but I dont have the ms3 anymore and I really REALLY don't need to start any more projects.

Just finished $20,000 worth of cement and yard work on the house, and already dropped like 6 grand on mods for the '13 wrx.......I need to just stop

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this crap aint cheap