Whats up, my name is Matthew and im from the Bay area. I've owned my NA8 for a little over 2 years now and had an NB2 for a short period of time (crashed). After i wrecked and parted that, ive been building the NA again, so the project as a whole was at a stand still for quite a few months. Its rolling along now, with a lot of near-future goals. Ive been on clubroadster for a long time and lurk a lot of forums and this is my favorite, most respectful and informative one TODAY.
Thanks!

 

Your name threw me off.
Need more pics.
What are your goals?

 

Pak is my last name lol.
Sorry, i registered and posted on mobile earlier

recently just got back from an LA trip to Blackbird Fabworx:




my car is in the middle here.. i got quite a few people around me into Miatas too.


I'm also a tech at a somewhat decent Firestone, so thats currently funding me:



The image you see there^ in the second picture shows some healed damage from an accident i was in. Some lady ran a red light and hit me in the rain, i thought the car was forever tweaked, but ive since replaced plenty of components and everything checks out.

But this accident i was in happened to be a total loss for the car, so I got paid and kept it, and bought another miata. Lol. I started heavily modifying that one until I crashed it, won't say how beside... touge. Lesson learned.
Picture of said NB:



Attention is back to the NA, my [only] other car, so I'm now trying to make the NA track ready, power goals are undecided 100% but I have a few ideas. It truly just depends on what opportunities present themselves.

 

Yeah, I read it as Patsmx5, who has been a member here for a long time.

I love black miatas. Neither of my miatas are black.

 

You crashed that pretty green NB?!?

OK . . . probation period.

Seriously though, in a couple of decades we're really going to miss these cars.

 

<p>petition for name change lol. i keep seeing patsmx5 too.</p>

 

Is that a cage or roll bar in the black car? Looks nice.

I have to say the green car looked nice, too bad it's gone.

Regarding your power goals, no matter what you decide, just make sure it involves installing a turbo on your miata.

 

Supercharger life not what you'd hoped?

 

Turbo > Supercharger

And to answer your question, when I ran 28 PSI with a turbo I broke pistons. Now I break Superchargers. Just got it back from Whipple actually...

EDIT: Techincally, now I break pistons and superchargers. Before, only pistons.

 

I dont mind a name change!
It's a Blackbird Fabworx 4pt single diagonal, thank you. I really like it.
I work and school a lot so it's hard to do real power mods without having some off time.. it will come in time though
I'm trying to get my hands on ms2/ms3 soon and a 99 head.

 

How much was the roll bar?

I turbo'd my 99 when I was in school. Worked and saved up some money, bought used parts as they were available, did a lot of research and eventually built a DIY turbo setup. Mine was reliable* and fun.

*Reliable given the budget and my tools/knowledge at the time.

 

Thats the goal. Nothings stopping me, its just still early in the process.

the bar was $590 after tax and with a metallic bronze powdercoat.

 

pakmx5, congrats on signing up at the best site on the web!

 

Old thread, but what wheels / size / offset are on that NB?

 

No worries.
They are Konig Flatouts in a discontinued bronze: 15x8 et25 with 205/50/15.
replicas of Volk CE28 or CE28N or something.
I think Good-Win Racing sells them and a variety of similar Konig wheels.

 

Hi there!!!1!!one!!

 

Thank you!

 

This. Maybe after you drive my car in a couple weeks it will help steer you that-a-way.