I’ve been planning and buying all winter but it’s time to get down to the meat and get this thing on the road. I haven’t updated in a long time but there has been a lot going on behind the scenes. Some of this also depends on budget, while most all the big ticket items off the miata are sold the car itself is still in my garage.Īs an aside I was surprised that when the Grassroots Motorsports shirt showed up this year it was a FRS, nice timing.Īs always, I'm open to suggestions or comments. I know this is opposite of the proper order of events but it needs to be addressed one way or another.Īs one can see lots of stuff still up in the air and I may enter STX this year wielding a butter knife. Still unsure on this but I'll likely go for the tune and just re-tune once I get the exhaust. But, I hate to tune without having the exhaust done (or at least the header) and I just don't think this will be in the budget this year :-(.
#BATTERY BUDDY REBIRTH UPDATE#
I can have the Toyota dealer update the ECU for $130, or I can put that toward a tune. Looking at the DI seal issue TSB I have a car that falls within the affected VIN range. I also need to decide what to do about the tune. We'll see for track, I'm still not 100% convinced of the aero implications. Come spring I'll fab a muffler delete for autox at least. Again, I'm not crazy about the design but I think they'll hold up for as long as I need them. These are a stop-gap until I purchase coilovers. They held ok for the most part on my miata. I'm not crazy about using eccentrics but I'll see how it works for now. Setrab core, mocal plate and aeroquip lines. So I picked up a oil-cooler off another member here.
#BATTERY BUDDY REBIRTH MODS#
Oil cooler - I'm a fan of reliability mods (the miata is stone reliable).
#BATTERY BUDDY REBIRTH INSTALL#
I purchased a few used items to install once the car comes out of storage Install my existing Momo race seats with schroth harnesses
full exhaust with 91 tune for autox and E85 for track and fun drives Strano bar front, stock or slightly increased bar for rear (I'll do coilovers first to see if I really need bars but I suspect I'll want them for autox and would rather have the points than bars if I do TTD) coilovers, I may use RCE yellow springs as a stop-gap for this year
Locally competitive STX / HPDE and Long term NASA TTD I also received an extra set of stock wheels with it. The dash is lit up like a christmas tree with ABS, trac and stability lights on (I'm assuming this is all one root cause) Perfect candidate for a track/autox car. It isn't perfect a bunch of scratches and dings. But I perused it and after finding out more info regarding the prior damage I made an offer(quite a bit lower than asking price) and we struck a deal. It was cheap but not really cheap enough to seriously consider(for me). It was an awesome car with some really nice parts but after 7 years with it I was getting the itch for something different.Įarly winter, with the Miata tucked away in storage, someone posted a prior salvaged FRS up on the local autox board. I had a Miata which I used in Scca solo STR. More preface: I'm not new to autox or track, rather, new to the FRS platform. It may also be a good resource for other as well as for myself, seeing the forest from the trees and all that. To preferace I've never done a build log but thought it might be a good idea this time around since I'm new to the chassis and this will be a slow build, it might be fun. Perrin adjustable rear swaybar, custom endlinksīushings - whiteline diff inserts, Whiteline rear subframe inserts, whiteline positive shift kit, Whiteline steering rack bushings Perrin adjustable front swaybar, RacerX endlinks
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