Hi!

since i got my Miata for a while now i'd thought let's make a build thread.

so let's get started! i'll make the first post with clickety links since i've got a lot of pictures and i don't want to drain your internet.


A while back i bought a stock Miata for a fair price, the soft top was pretty bad but it had a pretty decent paint with 137k km on the clock, minimum rust and a MOMO wheel and knob, i was gonna use it as a daily until i remembered how much fun i had drifting the previous one!

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first upgrades i made were a new soft top, a new shifting knob from D1 Spec(weighted one for easier shifting), D1 Spec lug nuts Black and a set of 13 inch "Mangles Type 2" kinda like steelies but Chrome. yeah i know they're small but so cheap i couldn't resist it.

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after that i bought a new massive mirror, tow hooks and swapped the QSP 70MM Dish wheel from my corolla.

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a new set of turn signal lights, smoked and with orange light bulbs

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now the money spending started, i bought a D1 spec coilover set with Stiffness setting (34 clicks) and installed them with a friend, pain in the ass job but the results were great! the car improved so much in handling

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TRACK DAY BRO! first time with the new setup on the track and man she was flying, i've been pushing a lot of 2 liter cars, an Opel Speedster GT and some BMW's, LIGHTWEIGHT BRO! had a blast that day, first time on a real track and i wanted more and more.

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Better view of the wheels and Recycle people!

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then the day i've been waiting for finally came, the first drift day where i could really test the ability of the car and it went great! she listened most of the time to what i wanted to do but i lacked the skills to do more tricky stuff like inertia and linking the corners but i also still have an open differential which makes it harder to do low speed drifts.

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DORIFTO YO
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i bought a Volt, Oil Temp and Vacuum meter because race car!(oil temp isn't setup yet as i still need a sandwich plate for it, pain in the ass to get it setup right with all the wires and shit! >:(

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Road trip time!
i took a roadtrip with 40 other cars through The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourgh and Germany with many different roads, from long stretches to short hairpin corners, kinda like Initial D roads eventually and made some maaaaaaaaad skids. eventually we ended up at the Nürburgring for a lap around it and i was scared as hell. if you've driven it you'll probably relate with me. it was raining badly, i had almost bald tires with 3.0 Bar in it and it was the first time i drove it BUT! non the less i enjoyed every single second of it, the track was slippery but i didn't really mind because i was able to drift pretty easy!

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Inside view!



the next week i went with a mate to France in his Civic for a few days with my car safely on the driveway, but the rain back home was pretty intense and when i got back home my trunk was a small pool that could've had some fish in it. the trunk rack was just bolted on and the heavy rain ran straight past the bolts into my trunk so i searched and found a Miata trunk with brake light in faded red(side note: the Mazda mx-5 sold here did not have a third brake light, they don't call those a Miata here those are just the American imports, Jap imports are the Eunos Roadster), we painted it black as a temporary option and fitted it.

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and finally i bought a new exhaust pipe the old one was rotten and leaked on several spots, SK Imports pipe form Titanium, bought it from a friend who didn't like the noise and the fact that it melted his rear bumper, i don't really care about that since it's a drifter and i'll fix it with zipties and duct tape

LOUD NOISES! no exhaust pipe yo!

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and the last thing we did was make the car real JDM YO.
we bought 2 large Spray cans, 1 in high gloss black and one in white, some tape for some mad shapes and started to work on it, first we made it black again, then we started placing the tape in the right place, blocked the parts that didn't needed to be resprayed again with news papers and started painting with white.

Rising Sun trunk yo!

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i'll update this thread as things move forward, up until now i just have a TR Lane roll cage ordered.