Ever get bored of your car?
 

Good God i'm at that point where i'm just bored of my car. I cant see any direction to go with it.

My 99 sport had been a c-stock champ in its day and just a more fun car to drive than my 92 ever was (even with the turbo on the 92). After I started Grad school i stopped racing much and said "the hell with classing" and went past the common c-stock mods. I installed a set of revalved bilsteins, 550 350 springs, Poly bushings, and a 01 mani, 15x8 6ul's. But now I just dont know what to do feels like every option will cost me more $$$ and time than fun.

The car is my DD and is around 16x,xxx miles. A leak down test shows the motor is fine but I remember all the small BS that comes with TC/SC the car from the previous go around. Yeah I know I can make it reliable but it would mean a lot of the money spent on the car already would be junk. As well as I now know all the little crap that one needs to factor in to have a nice "bulletproof" kit. But unlike when I was in college I will have to pay for it upfront as I don't have the time to search the web for bargains and little time to wrench.

I think about going with a bar and seats but I probably wont track it and the bar would be dead weight at autox. If I had a second car I would track it as my job offers an inflexible attendance policy, and although and HPDE is relativity safe I cant afford to miss work/school due to the uhoh factor. I'm about 5 classes from being done with grad school (if you dont count the certification test at the end), but that will take longer as I just got engaged and probably will takingnext spring and summer of to get ready for the prep classes, and wedding details (remember inflexible job)

Maybe i'm just at a point where moving on to a different car would be the best. :ohnoes::ohnoes:

:violin:


yes, but not really.

As much as we all really like the miata, there's always another car. I've had my car since 2002, and it's looking like next year I'm going to get rid of it. I really love my car, it's freaking insane, but at this stage in my life I need something that's better on gas, newer, and more practical. I also find myself opting to take my motorbike out now instead of my miata. The only time I drive it is to take my daughter to school in the morning, and then I do the whole drag racing thing when it's happening. Otherwise it just sits there.

I can see myself a few years downs the road picking up a datsun 510 or something similar and putting a miata powerplant into it, turbo it, etc.

I dont think i'm ready for "practical" lol. PLus the miata with the trailer can be pretty practical lol.

I'm going to get a honda fit and slap a rotrex on it

k20 swap, then a rotrex. :drool:

I get bored with my car everyother week. What I want is a '68 Hemi road runner. Then again, my car is fast as hell and it gets like 29 mpg. Plus I tune it with a laptop instead of turning screws or changing carb jets. The boarder you get, the faster you need to go. That's how I see it. Make it faster and faster until it scares the shit outta you. Then you won't be bored.

I get depressed. The end of last year went to shit.

1 - Buy a Geo Metro
2 - Use it as a Daily Driver
3 - ??????
4 - Jump into your Miata on a sunny day and you will appreciate it like never before

I love my car more than people. It never get's old.

7 years of ownership and I can't see how I can get bored with it.

This. But I daily a Jeep, and it rides/accelerates/stops like a truck (i.e. poorly). Everytime I get back in the Miata I appreciate it all the more.

I've had a miata of some sorts since 1998.

I've been looking around for 80's turbo boxes (323, mirage turbo, starion/conquest, etc) but they are mostly run down and I'm so hard pressed for wrenching time. Doesn't help that I dont have a garage, just a carport, at my apartment.

No I don't get bored of my car.

I do get bored when little car projects turn into huge frustrating mindbombs because the part/parts manufacturer fucked shit up.

Driving, no, I do not get bored.

As soon as you're rid of it you'll be kicking yourself for going through with it. My dad did this with his speed boat (there's a gas guzzler) I did it with my first done up car. My wife is trying to make it worse by saying 'you can't get a bike unless the miata goes, but the miata should stay'.

I agree with the above points about having depressing dd's making the miata seem awesome in comparison. My truck and other car are good at what they are good at, but that's not speed or handling.

BTW don't most people get these feelings in the winter if their car is put away? I know that's when I get them.

Usually when I'm in your position it's time to start over.

I'll go find so poor college kid across town with a POS he just had to unbolt the turbo off of and trade him cars. I get a new canvas and the car goes to someone that will enjoy it immensely.


jk.



I hate to say this as I really do admire your car...but it does sound like you either need to move on...or find an interim goal/situation you're happy with. Dreaming big (and realizing when you can't fulfill that) is a sign you really do love the project. Your anguish comes from wanting to do more and not being able to. It's enough to torpedo something you'd otherwise be happy with.

Maybe just accept that it is what it is and focus on what's really important now. If you find that you're not using it or don't feel the same then look at a different platform. For those not looking for huge downtime projects, lots of work and heavy investment a newer car with a few bolt-ons can be enjoyable. It will never have the potential of the Miata...but it can be something semi-practical that actually gets you to work reliably and that you still look forward to minor wrenching/mods every other weekend on.

Good luck.


*first vulture on the scene for epic partout of one of Houston's baddest Miatas

ftfy

Yes, because I drive it to and from school/work every single day.
I need a boring daily driver.

I do, that's why I change set-ups and on a never ending quest of love for more power.

Not only am I bored with my car but I've really started to hate it.

bored, no.


son, you are disappoint, yes.

I wouldn't say I'm board of my car, I'm board with the lack of power but that's a solvable problem. I love the way it handles, I just need a turbo with a little boost.

Bored? Nah I haven't driven it in about a year. Right now it's completely stripped of just about everything. I'm actually a bit excited to do this budget build.

after 10 years i forget how to feel about this car. this week it has been quite nice though.

We did just that the other day. Got a little board and felt like having some fun. Convinced the wife to take me for a ride in the V8 (went to PetSmart to buy more fish - the hobby that never ends). "Broke down" for the first time in the V8. She was driving and the tranny wouldn't come out of gear. Had her coast into a parking lot and found that the shifter was two parts (lower/upper) held together with hex bolts. Slapped them back in and drove off. Was glad I didn't lose the tranny but I have doubts about it and will probably have to go into it at some time (likes to pop out of 3rd/4th gear which I hear is a common problem with the T56).

Hemi RR, eh?

Well, I fight boredome with variety. This is what plural marriage SHOULD be like. Stable includes:

1966 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible (440 -- my first car)
1981 Mercedes 380SL (wife's car -- good for driving slowly to the golf course)
1990 Turbo Miata (usually the favorite -- but I don't drive it in bad weather or when I need to carry people)
2000 Ford Expedition 4x4 (for the horse trailer -- or any trailer for that matter -- the tank)
2009 Pontiac G8 GT (modern reincarnation of the Sport Fury -- goto car when things are really cold, really hot, or I need to drive someone around and don't need all the room in the Expedition).

So, with that, I never really tire of the Miata. Plus, my daughter's about to start driving, and she thinks that she should share the Turbo Miata and the torquemonster G8 with me. So, another, stock Miata may be in the works.

Lol @ the prosepect of sharing your turbo Miata and G8 with a teenage girl...

<- Would not let a teenage girl touch my car if my life was in danger...

Also, you really still own your first car?

My father still owns his second car (he's 68 years old - bought the car 50 years ago). A 1940 Ford Deluxe.

Not his car but an example:
http://www.chooseyouritem.com/classi...luxe.Coupe.jpg

Track that POS and you will love it all over again, oh and get some elise seats.

never bored, all it takes is a good session on a road course. there's nothing i could buy (afford) that would go faster at the track and be simple to work on, have cheap parts, or induce so much pleasure to my brain. a good civic/integra would be a close 2nd, but fwd (or awd) is NOT as much fun as rwd, i've tracked them all.

for the first time in about a year I got to drive by myself yesterday. No competition, no groups to keep up with, no passenger, just almost a full day of driving just to drive. Moral of the story I dont think it was the car, I think it was more of the I'm just tired of being busy all the time. :)


off-topic.

I been wanting elise seats but for the price they want :jerkit: might as well get some other seats. Plus since I can not get online during work I always miss the deals. Any good places to look besides like lotustalk.

Yep. And my first wife too. I've had the car longer than the wife . . . and she knows it!! She used to be jealous, but she's gotten used to the situation.

I was bored with the car the day I bought it, and a few days after it rolled out from the swap, I was bored and ready for a bigger engine again. Every time you get high, it takes a bigger dose to "try" to achieve the same goal, but at the end of the day you just realize it'll never be like the first time...

This is why I am going back to stock. But stripping the shit out of the car and just messing around. Start small and you have lots of room for improvement.

If the miata is your daily then ya I could see getting bored with it.

i get bored of cars too easily. ive had 9 in the last 2 years.

curently the only car i can drive is my miata and i cant stand to DD it.. i put 2k miles on it last year and ive already put that much more on it since febuary. it sucks in new england always dodging pot holes and for me high crests in the road, there isnt much space, its loud on the highway, and isnt all that fast.

my 2.5rs has a blown engine and my GTI isnt registered in hopes it will sell soon.

i am thinking of trading in the GTI tho now for a fit. adn hopefully ill get the damn subaru going soon and ill be back to using the miata as a nice weekend car only and ill be able to change it up if i do get bored of a car

Those Elise seats are worth the money, bar none best seat I've ever sat in. I have Recaros now fyi.

http://www.nubax.com/

Bored of the car, no, but tired of working on it and just want to drive it for a couple weeks, yes.

There is a local one in Vancouver. It's sweet.

I have not owned a car longer than one year aside from my FD, but that thing never ran more than 3 months total anyways.

Since I turned 18 I've had (I'm 23 now)

97 VW GTI
92 Skyline GTS-t
Honda Beat (Kei Car)
Mini Rover
FD RX7
92 Jetta 2 Dr
90 Miata
93 Sentra SER (still own)
96 Miata (still own)

So ya, I hear you. I get bored easily. I always told myself I would never sell the FD because I'd spent too much money and time on it.... but it's gone. Now I'm telling that to myself about the Miata... but I guess when you have as much as I do into a car you start crying inside and hope nothing ever happens to it

Bored of the car, No
Lack of time to play or work on the car, YES!