I thought I had things figured out a year ago. Daughter was starting to get a bit older, our finances were great, talked the wife out of ditching the miata, got it running again and boom...

Locked down and working from home for nearly 9 months, got the wife pregnant again and... yeah I don't see any realistic way that I'm going to be getting back to this hobby in the next million years.

I guess I'm looking for advice about how to go about this. Build as it stands:

• 97 Salvage title miata, Dark blue paint, black replacement top, tan leather interior
• Haven't driven it since January, was dialed in for 18 psi of boost with conservative AFR numbers. Needs a new AC Compressor, which is still sitting in the passenger seat.
• Hard dog double diagonal rollbar
• Has a new soft top that I installed a couple years ago, and I rebuilt the doors/windows to work like new again when I did it. Nothing leaks.
• engine
  • 97 block
    • 84.5mm wiseco pistons
    • pauter x beam rods with ARP bolts
    • blueprinted oil pump with billet gears from supermiata
    • ARP main and head studs
    • block bored and honed and align honed by good machine shop
    • ATI superdamper
  • 99 head
    • supermiata double heavy spring
    • otherwise stock
  • flattop intake manifold w/ ARP intake studs
  • blueprinted rx7 series 5 injectors (560cc ones)
  • coolant reroute, 52mm radiator, AC still installed
  • no power steering, is depowered manual
  • oil catch can with check valves between intake and pcv
• FM front sway, stock rear
• XIDA GS coilovers
• rota slipstream looking wheels
• Turbo stuff
  • JGS log manifold, ceramic coated
  • T3/T04E 50 trim turbo, ceramic coated
  • T3/T04B S trim turbo
  • downpipe for same, bolts up to 5 bolt (mercedes pattern not ford)
  • stainless 3" connects to DP with vband clamp
  • intercooler is pretty big 18x12x3 IIRC
  • FM blow off valve (the billet aluminum one)
• Interior
  • 3 gauge pod for dash cowl (around factory gauge cluster)
  • AEM wideband with LED gauge
  • Autometer mech boost gauge
  • Autometer EGT gauge
  • Autometer oil temp gauge
  • Autometer oil pressure gauge
• transmission is a 5 speed
• rear end is a GURU limited slip from Australia. They were pretty hot **** about 15-20 years ago, all billet construction, etc.
• Ecu is a 96-97 Link with a keypad.
• Car is currently set up for 18 psi with the T04E turbo

Sell as a working car or part out?

 

Part out will pretty much always beat selling whole in nominal dollars, it just comes down to time. Do you have the time/inclination to disassemble? To deal with multiple people buying multiple parts? To deal with whatever is left over when you give up?

You have a number of good parts/systems that could be sold, so I would think parting out would make the most sense money wise but would definitely be a hassle.

 

^ what he said

Youll get more dollars out of parting out, but its easier to sell the car as a whole. You could sit on individual parts for months or longer.
I, personally, have very little patience for marketplace people so the fewer things to sell the better in my book.

 

I would hold out for a good price on the whole car. It's a hell of a lot of work to take the whole damn thing apart, then deal with idiots who don't want to pay a decent price, then shipping. Too much bullshit for me.

 

Any ideas how/where to sell?

 

Making a sharable listing on Faceplace marketbook and posting to a few national Miata groups seems to be the best way for interested buyers to find it.

 

I could be interested in the xidas if you decide to part out and the price is right.