Wabi-Sabi + Bōsōzoku + Jinba Ittai
’99 Miata. Last weigh-in, 1,900 pounds dead even. Other highlights include …
Go go go:
Air in/out
- Compound turbo kit
- CX Racing TRB-GT35-2-V & TRB-GT3071-63-T3-RR
- High-mount FMIC with water spray
- 38mm and 44mm wastegates
- 50mm blow off valve
- 3″ fender-outlet exhaust
- Skunk2 intake manifold with plenum extender
- Kyostar 64mm throttle body
Gadgets
- Haltech Sport 1000 Platinum (stand-alone ECU)
- Haltech boost controller and manual boost controller
- AEM wet induction
Fuel
- 550 injectors
- Equal length fuel rails
- AEM inline fuel pump
- 3/8″ fuel lines
- Summit 5-gallon fuel cell (trunk)
- 110 leaded
Cooling
- Aluminum radiator
- Additional radiator (pre-thermostat)
- External oil cooler
- Remote mount oil filter
Stop, suspension/steer, and driveline:
Stop
- Wilwood 6-piston front brakes
- Two-piece front rotors
- Summit line lock
- Wilwood dual rear brakes
- 4-piston “modified fronts” (foot brake)
- 4-piston rears (hand brake)
- Braided stainless brake lines (tip to tail and equal length)
- 225/45 on 15×8 (front) and 245/40 on 15×9 (rear)
Suspension
- Megan Racing coilovers
- Destroy drop knuckles (front and rear)
- Godspeed upper control arms (front and rear)
- V8 Roadster lower control arms (front and rear)
- De-powered and modified steering rack (increased steering angle)
- Megan Racing rear strut brace
Driveline
- XTD Six-puck clutch
- Braided stainless clutch line
- Tomei 2-way differential
- Shaftmasters aluminum driveshaft
- V8 Roadsters engine subframe
- V8 Roadsters engine mounts
- V8 Roadsters steering rack bushings
Exterior:
- Rattle-can flat-black paint
- Fiberglass:
- Roof, with spoiler
- Trunk, with Duraflex ducktail and 4 pins
- Doors, with the world’s jankiest aluminum door hinges
- Raised hood with wicked-custom scoop and 4 pins
- Shortened and stretched front fenders with fender-mounted mirrors
- Wizdom front bumper with splitter and FMIC scoop
- LED headlights
- Duraflex side skirts
- Sickspeed taillights
- Hack and hammer rear “widebody”
- Shortened rear bumper with full-width diffuser
- Canards for days!
Interior:
- OBP pedals
- “Bride” bucket seats
- Takata 6-point harnesses
- Harness bar
- Hydraulic hand-brake
- NRG quick-release with NRG lock
- Carbon fiber steering wheel
- Megan Racing “strut brace”
- Gauges
- Innovate wideband
- Innovate oil pressure/temp
- Boost gauges (big turbo and compounded)
- Tach & speedo
- Water temp
- Fuel pressure
- EGT
In progress:
- Bottom-end assembly
- Eagle rods
- Supertech pistons
- ARP main studs
- Boundary Oil Pump
- Long Block
- ARP head studs
- Fluidampdr Harmonic Damper
- Cometic head gasket
Coming soon / on the horizon
- Drivetrain relocation, ~5″ back
- Tubular rear subframe
- Tube chassis
- Upgraded transmission
- Axles
- Twin fuel pumps
- 275/50 R15 rear tires
