Project 10AE Miata

[Goodspeed]

Quick update - I'm trying to attend as many auto-x's (include the college one of course) as I can for the rest of the season. The car is very, very fun and neutral, with no real bad habits (that I can tell). The R1R's are a bit finicky on tire pressures, with water sprayed on them between each run they're awesome but if one isn't mindful they seem to get greasy quick.



I just did a little mod this morning that is honestly one of my favorites so far - gotta love the little projects. Swapped the stock '99 taillights for new '01+ units. I hate hate haaate the center dark-yellow sections on the originals, which are banished forever with the new lenses. I actually tried to do this a year or two ago, but got burned by receiving cracked lenses from a Miata dismantler that looked nothing like the pictures, so these are brand new units.

This was actually somewhat of a pain however, as (unbeknownst to me) Mazda swapped the turn-signal sockets from a 3 prong in 99-00 to a 4 prong in 01-05. An hour of filing the receptacles later and they fit, and look a lot better.