anyone driven a spec Miata? - Lateral-g Forums

**Streetking** · #1 05-28-2007, 11:14 PM

So I was sitting around having a few beers the other day with some of my track buddies and they were giving me **** about me kicking their ass at the track. They said the only reason I was doing that is my ZO6 had too much hp.. This is coming from guys driving ZO6s, gT3s, GT3RS, ect.. So I decided that we all get the same car. We decided that we will buy 6 Miatas, set them up the same way, turbocharge them ect..

we shall see..

SW

Btw, this is my new track car..
A friend of mine was buying a new boat and wanted to sell his new Z. So I got to thinking, might be a good time to upgrade to a new track car. My '01Z has about 3500 track miles on it and is a great car but what the hell.. I picked it up a few weeks ago. I ordered full suspension, Brembos 6 piston front, 4 rear, aluminum radiator, solid bushings, seats, harness bar, belts ect. I sent it to my tuner to get the same cam as my blk car, light clutch ect. 551/494 at the wheels. It will have it's first event this weekend..

**camcojb** · #2 05-28-2007, 11:28 PM

I think Mark Stielow did some of that recently. Did very well as I remember, and had a ball. Definitely separates the drivers as the cars are so equal, plus the regular series doesn't have a ton of power, so smoothness is rewarded.

Jody

JamesJ · #3 05-28-2007, 11:30 PM

I have two spec miatas, both for sale! and a toter home with trailer.

We bought one of our miatas the first year it came out and let my sister drive it for about 2 years then we turned it into a SSB then a few years later it went to a SSC car and now its a SM.

We have had lots of fun with them and they are great cars and are so easy to drive. they never brake and are just plain strong little cars.

ArisESQ · #4 05-28-2007, 11:53 PM

so any othe rplans for the red Z to set it apart from the black one? kinda interested to see what you do.

chicane · #5 05-29-2007, 12:37 AM

A few years back I was contracted to do some development work (suspension and drivetrain) for Tri-Point Enginnering / MazdaComp... and was lucky enough to get some good seat time during development of TPE's multi/consecutive year championship winner (Jeff Altenburg). It was actually kind of unfair... we had all of the former Mazda IMSA crew working the project (engine and electronics). Well... maybe that... and our "open" budget.

The hands down top of the list items are: Penske's, a "tuned" MazdaComp limited slip diff and some transmission tweaks. Those alone are going to be the majority of 'reliability' items. The differential carrier (posi) is about as big as your fist... so remember that when you start throwing squirrels at it.

That little car is pretty bad ass when you get it set-up correctly.

There are a bunch of cheap and stupid simple tricks to give it an edge. But, since you are all going to set them up the same... I guess it wouldnt be fair to just tell you.

mazspeed · #6 05-29-2007, 12:44 AM

You have way too much money SK

Hey chicane, I have run those cars at Thunderhill before with all the Tri-Point suspension systems in there. I can vouch for these setups. I used to drive to Tri-Point from Santa Barbara to pick up parts all the time for my 7 back in the day.

**Streetking** · #7 05-29-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by chicane

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There are a bunch of cheap and stupid simple tricks to give it an edge. But, since you are all going to set them up the same... I guess it wouldnt be fair to just tell you.

Yes it would..

SW

FYRARMS · #8 05-29-2007, 04:38 PM

Hi, SW!

**Streetking** · #9 05-29-2007, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by FYRARMS

Hi, SW!

Hey man, glad to see you made it over here.. This is a great site with alot of good information. What are you building??

Did you hear what Chris' Supra made?? over 1560!!

SW

chicane · #10 05-29-2007, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Streetking

Yes it would..

SW

Not that I can confirm or deny that this post ever took place...

...just PM me when its that time.