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That ought to end the idea of the Miata as a track car.
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You should also do an event to get that Turbo on the skid pad. It won't slide easily with AWD, but it will slide and you should get comfortable with car control of that monster.
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Peter (not "Pete") K. 2016 Cayman S 1999 Miata ("SM") race car 2016 Toyota Highlander--tow vehicle/wife's DD 2017 VW GTI SE (DD) Gone and missed: 1992 Miata ("SSM") race car 2009 911 C2S Coupe 2004 Toyota Prius - sold to son's girlfriend 2006 Dodge Durango 2003 Acura MDX 86 Black 911 Coupe race car 86 Gold 911 Targa 82 WineRedMetallic 911 Targa |
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It'd be fun (though the horror of the tire cost!).
It's the upside of the miata, everything is so inexpensive!
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When I first read this, I though, "How do you get a 12.2 in the 1/4 mile and keep it under 80MPH?" (75-80 is the name of the drag strip.)
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Funny Greg, I had exactly the same thought.
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Porsches have a lot of parts!
I got to visit with my long lost car for a few minutes today. It was interesting/surprising/worrying to see quite so much of it in pieces next to it while it sat on a lift. There sure are a lot of parts to a car!
Anyway, Colin & John Behe seem to be taking great effort to ensure that the car will run quite well when they are done. John things he's found the various sources of the litany of CELs that the car has and continues to throw. The good news is that the patient seems imminently savable. Nothing life threatening at all in the list of issues. Even the turbos are good. Behe figures another week or so to get it all done and put back together and assuming that they were successful that the CEL issues have all resolved, then the next step is for it to go back to the other shop and get the bumper painted and have a few other issues resolved and then it'll finally be able to come home. I'm targeting end of October (if I'm lucky). It's been 5 gone for months this particular time (it's spent 9 of the last 12 months in a shop). I can't wait to drive it once it's been given a clean bill of health.
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Current cars: DD: Caddy CTS-V & CLK55 AMG Fun car: C6 Z06 Wife's DD: Buick Enclave Gone and missed: Acura NSX (mod'd) Cadillac CTS-V (1st gen-lightly mod'd) Jeep SRT8 Maserati GranSport Miata Porsche 911 Twin Turbo Saab SPG (heavily mod'd) |
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Does your Porsche have daddy parts or mommy parts?
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I didn't go underneath to check!!
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When did you see Behe? He was up at Summit Point all day today.
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Peter (not "Pete") K. 2016 Cayman S 1999 Miata ("SM") race car 2016 Toyota Highlander--tow vehicle/wife's DD 2017 VW GTI SE (DD) Gone and missed: 1992 Miata ("SSM") race car 2009 911 C2S Coupe 2004 Toyota Prius - sold to son's girlfriend 2006 Dodge Durango 2003 Acura MDX 86 Black 911 Coupe race car 86 Gold 911 Targa 82 WineRedMetallic 911 Targa |
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Talked with John yesterday and saw Colin today.
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