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EvanB GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/7/23 6:09 p.m.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:
wae said:

edit: Is that a bird egg in front of what is left of the drivers seat?

Nope that's the knob for the seat slider. The seat certainly wasn't gonna slide so I got out the angle grinder for removal.

EvanB GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/18/23 12:38 p.m.

This weekend I had plans that were canceled at the last minute so I decided to go rallycross instead.

Friday I changed the oil on the Miata since it has been a couple years. I also wanted to install the 24mm swaybar that I had for it. I found one of the stock swaybar brackets in my parts stash and assumed I had both. After an hour of looking I couldn't find it so I went to the junkyard. The closest thing they had was a RX8 so I pulled both brackets to try. I installed the swaybar mounts that I bought since I had cut the stock ones off years ago.

The mounts have two sets of threaded holes, one with a closer spacing that matched the stock Miata bracket (on the inboard side) and one with a wider spacing that matched the RX8 brackets (outer). I figured the RX8 brackets would work so I started mounting it, unfortunately with both brackets on the outer set of holes the spacing was two wide and the bushings were fouling the curve on the bar. Compromised and used one Miata bracket on the inner side and one RX8 on the outer side to get enough clearance to fit. No pictures as I wasn't thinking about it while fighting the install.

Photo from Scott Zimmerman

This was my first time at Joe's Speedway, it has a lot of elevation change and the surface is very hard packed. I haven't driven the Miata since last fall and never on this site but the swaybar seemed to give much better turn in and I was having a great time.

Ended up the day first in class (out of three) ahead of a E36 compact. I was well ahead of the entire MF field but couldn't beat the times of the MR-S in PR.