nmwisima's '96 Miata

[oldskull]

I am on holiday till sunday. Yesterday I was in Richmond to visit good friend of mine and right now I am in the South of England. Tonight I will go back to London and stay till Sunday evening.

[nmwisima]

Great you are lucky.

Got the car from the garage.

Still no photos though as everything was done in a big hurry.

I didnt have the chance to drive much, cause I had to go back to the office but first impressions of the Torsen and the R&P are very good.

Firstly my friend Rotary Beat did a fantastic job. No noice at all from the rear axle even though both lsd and r&p were used...

Then, its just smiles!

Car has gained in nerve, even though i could use it even sorter (i went form 4,1 to 4,3).

Still practical to travel yet bit more wild in between gear changes.

LSD works fine but I cant say more till I really try it, can I?

[nmwisima]

Here I got some pics of the new exhaust
(You can also see the rear underbrace)




Unfortunately, when installing the LSD something was moved and the exhaust seats a bit more right than it should, so it melted a bit of the bumber

That should be shorted out tommorow

I also did a quick clean up, after more than 5 months of no cleaning

Just cleaned it with some cloth (no water) and I also rubbed the hood with Autoglym Vinyl Cleaner.
My Tan hood was f***ed up by the protection hood that rubs on the hood's frame and makes it black.

I was really impressed by the product

Stage 1 half and half with quick clean


Stage 2 half cleaned, half black


Stage 3 All cleaned


and my litte mascot

[Apolan]

yeeaaaah i love patrick But dude that looks good; perhaps some bigger pics would be in order. Tell us how does it drive now??

[nmwisima]

here are the bigger pics

Well in the begging I though I d wanted it even shorter, than the 4,3

Then I realised I just need a GReddy Turbo kit...

Car is now a perfect small car. It's waht it should be from the beggining!

Sound is perfect, response with the shorter FGR is good, and the LSD should be standar in all Miatas

In the beggining you get impressed by how much fun the car is, but then, driving fast you realise the amount of grip with the Torsen is AWESOME!!

I kept on thinking my brakes are now poor. Car needs now more attention of course but it sticks like a gum (when not forcing it to oversteer, of course)

Oh, torsen type2 invlolves in both accelaration and decelaration. Well, I d wanted it to lock a bit more in decelaration

[nmwisima]

Since noone except Apolan wants to comment my outstanding project, I ll post one more pic of the middle part of the exhaust

[Dorito86]

The exhaust looks good. Who built it? What did it cost? How about some nice pictures with the car cleaned, by the sea in the sunset?

[nmwisima]

Ehhhhh... the car wasnt cleaned for many months...

I thought I ve said all that about the exhaust. It was built by Exhaust Center, a custom greek maker, and it costed me very very few regarding Greek prices...


Maybe next weekend in our expedition.

[dikolotour]

Nice job Achilleas

I have noticed Patrick when you came to pick me up to see my AE86 before i bought it, but i didn't mentioned it

Keep up with your beautifull Miata

[Apolan]

indeed do a photosession!