Really? Another Miata thread....

[rherold9]

As usual things take longer than expected especially when dealing with rusted to shit bolts and rusted to shit threads that make you feel like you are torquing something to 100 ft/lbs but you are actually loosening it... Also, wrestling with exhaust hangers is always fun...

To sum it up the gear box is noticeably butter smooth with the XT-M5-QS goodness. The exhaust sounds more or less stock in my opinion.

I think I went too safe especially if I'm going catted header and helmholtz mid or it may be perfect, I don't know. We shall see and hopefully it turns out the way I want it to or I'll be going to the race single. I thought the muffler would be actually a bit more noticeable after reading reviews and questions. When it just seems like NC owners are very picky about loudness in the exhaust. The loudness so far is very very close to stock. The tone is also basically stock with a tiny more growl to it. Don't think most people would know I had a different muffler from the inside of the car. The only real big difference I noticed was a grumble from about 1800-1000RPM on deceleration. That's about the biggest difference for me so far.

The transmission fluid was a breeze except for the mess of the pump aftermath. Definitely aren't many choice when it comes to pumps but basically it held a lot of extra fluid and the hoses as well so that clean up was fun to say the least. It was probably also the first time the transmission fluid has been changed in 93k miles...

Really interesting to actually go under the car and see the underbody of the car for once as well as suspension components. Oil changes will require removal of the plastic splash/aero tray.

Now on to pictures:

















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