ashleymiche

Hey everyone! My name is Ashley and I have a 94 Miata with an 03 motor swap. The car is naturally aspirated and I track it with NASA in PT-E class for wheel to wheel. I actually work at Honeywell (Garrett turbochargers) so I design turbochargers as an engineer *yay female engineers!* for a living but I'm not too familiar with turbo Miatas. This forum has some good information so I figured I should finally join. I know the only thing anyone cares about are pics so here you go:

Here's how I bought the car (2012):



Here is the car now:

sixshooter

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Welcome to the forum. We've got a lot of engineers here! And a lot of track junkies, too.

Please excuse my avatar. Everyone knows there aren't any women on the car forums, so we tend to be rather informal and occasionally locker-room-ish. Let me apologize in advance for most of us.

Woman engineer and NASA w2w racer? Are you sure you exist?

sixshooter

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And as long as we are talking about impossible things, you didn't really drive the car to the location in the first photo. It was placed there with a crane.

ashleymiche

Haha pretty sure I exist :P First pic is by Holy Jims in CA. Hard pack dirt, didn't drive down the trail

Joe Perez

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That's a very interesting rollcage design, with the two parallel(?) diagonals behind the driver.


At any rate, welcome aboard. That's a very good-looking car, and it's always nice to have another "serious" track junkie added to the list.

Arca_ex

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That's pretty awesome, I have a TTE car here in the AZ region. Finishing the cage now for W2W.



One is the main hoop diagonal bar and the other is a diagonal for the rear legs to the trunk area I'm guessing.

ashleymiche

Joe, Here is a better picture from a different angle:




Had the cage welded in at TC Design in Milpitas. I love how it turned out. He tucked it in so close to the A pillars that I can't even get a piece of paper in between. Same for when I had my stock hard top.

This is my first year in wheel to wheel and my second year tracking on open course tracks. Started out in autocross for a while in a Mustang, graduated to a Miata for HPDE

sixshooter

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You chose wisely.

Braineack

iTrader: (62)

Welcome, ashleymiche. Check out the Miata Gallery and post up some pics!

SchmoozerJoe

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I can confirm that Ashley exists. And has a very nice Miata.
Nice to see you've finally found your way here. We won't talk about your days over on CR.

Will you be out at MMRLS again this year???

ashleymiche

Thanks everyone! Haha Joe, I never had too many bad experiences on CR. I'm just not online that often.

I'm not going to mmrls this year unfortunately :/ I signed up for NASA nationals but haven't made my last two races due to electrical issues so I'm out of points running :( it's been a rough year to say the least