One of the last NB's getting boosted

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07-16-2022, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by yossi126

I think what started this realization of going too far and asking a 30 year old chassis to excel in a dual duty situation, and turning out to be impossible, is installing the Xida race coilovers.
This is in no way a hit on Supermiata, as I think this set is the absolute best in the miata game when it comes to the track, but for 99% of street use it made me hate the car slowly over time.
Having driven and rode in dozens of NCs with various shock setups, while "versatuning" them, made me realize how this chassis and suspension is so much better than the best setup an NB can get.

NC has always been, fundamentally, a better overall car. Just not always as much fun/dollar ratio. With NB prices climbing and NC prices levelling off, that calculus has changed. NC has gone from being expensive enough to be only considered as a primary car to being a side project separate from the race/track auto-x build. Also les compromise in street manners to make a fun HPDE NC build. A truly fast HPDE NC still gets unruly but the threshold of civility is much higher than it is for equally fast NB.

My daily is an ND2, mostly stock. track toy is an NC2 that no longer a comfy street car. Still dreaming about a restomod NA that looks near stock but has a few modern tweaks.

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