my 93 SSM FD build

[Brent]

Well, it appears I have everything buttoned up *knock on wood*. The oil lines are my biggest concern. They aren't leaking, but driving it hard on the track is alot different than the street. I think the lines will hold.

Fuel is good. Brakes are bled. Still fighting with my wideband but I'm very confident the car is running rich(famous last words). I have a new LC-1 that I may switch out just to see if the one in the car is in fact bad.

My Westco Miata battery died on me. It actually leaked gel out of the bottom corner. I called the people at GoMiata.com(where I ordered the battery) and they did a warranty request for me and had a new battery on the way. The whole conversation was maybe 3 minutes and very painless. He said it would take prob. a week to get a replacement battery. That was on Monday. Which would leave me without a battery for this weekend. The way we fabricated the rear bin when I relocated the battery, it has just enough room for the Westco. So my dad started calling some of his contacts and found that American Battery in Nashville(about an hour drive for me) had a gel battery with almost identical specs and dimensions that was reconditioned for $30! Called my brother who was working in Nashville and he said he could pick it up... awesome!! It was a full family effort... haha. I figured worst case scenerio I could bolt a battery box in the hatch and put a Optima Red Top or something in it as Mike ran the cables a little longer than they needed to be during the install. So I run to mail off some parts and when I come home UPS has delivered a box. Sure enough... it's my new Westco So now I have a $30 back up.

I'd really like to get my roll bar, seat, and harness in... but the roll bar is missing the bolts that mount the main hoop to the floor and I'm not about to try to track down grade 8 hardware at 5pm. That will happen next week. I just received my new 6 point harness a couple of hours ago as well.

I'm going to mess around with it for the rest of the night and I'll prob. leave in the morning tomorrow for VIR. Should be a really good weekend.

The last time you'll see my car wingless for a while as I'll be picking up my carbon fiber hatch and RE-A wing from Fritz tomorrow. And the 18x10 CCW's with 275's all around:



The engine bay with a new rebuild from David at Rotary Rebuild Store! Very happy with it and looking forward to seeing how it does at the track this weekend. Have a few new things in the engine bay but all the main components are the same.

New LIM... tight fit. Not really liking how it's that close to the hot side of the turbo/dp flange.

Gauges... with my LC-1 giving one of it's various error codes. My AC panel is looking rough. Need to find some time to strip the adhesive off of it.


I'll be glad to get back to VIR... they built that track for single turbo RX-7's.