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I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but I switched jobs. I know work at Autopart International. We deliver OE parts to garages and shops. No more paying retail for car parts!
Haven't done too much on the car in the last year, but I started working on changing the rear brakes to some slightly bigger ones last week, and I got to loving the BG again.
Today I bought a bunch of parts from a guy who'd bought them all to build a Miata. He had a friend helping assemble the engine, and I guess they didn't get a piston straight enough to line up with the crank, so it was lifted to rotate it, and when this happened, a ring popped out without them noticing. Anyway, the ring damaged the block, and put a small (hopefully) cosmetic scuff in the piston just above the oil ring. He got discouraged and sold it all to me.
I got:
2000 cylinder head - Resurfaced, valves lapped, professionally assembled
Supertech valvetrain
Eagle Rods
Wiseco pistons
Freshly machined crank (just polished journals)
ACL race bearings
Full Arp set
Boundary engineering oil pump
Gates racing timing belt
Super Miata water pump
Cometic head gasket
Full seal kit
Brand new MBSP
Powder coated valve cover
Harmonic balancer
New timing idlers
Oil pan
2000 Intake manifold
2000 block - bored and decked - damage to one cylinder.. This block may get used with bigger pistons as a backup engine, or just scrapped.
The guy had receipts for everything, including the machine work. I think I got a pretty good deal.
discovered a few weeks ago that driving BG-chassis cars for so long has created some bad habits
went into a roundabout slightly too hot and felt the front end wash out a bit. quickly lifted to get the car to rotate, forgetting that my car has:
-no rear sway bar
-double wishbone/multi-link rear suspension instead of TTL/trailing arms
so instead of rotating, the car continued to push until it had traction again. I've owned this thing for months and still can't figure out why people love them so much.
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03 Accord DX: K24/5MT, peasant-spec old man's car
92 240SX: KA/T25, nerd mobile
discovered a few weeks ago that driving BG-chassis cars for so long has created some bad habits
went into a roundabout slightly too hot and felt the front end wash out a bit. quickly lifted to get the car to rotate, forgetting that my car has:
-no rear sway bar
-double wishbone/multi-link rear suspension instead of TTL/trailing arms
so instead of rotating, the car continued to push until it had traction again. I've owned this thing for months and still can't figure out why people love them so much.
Why are you so nerdy?
Aren't double wishies better for DDing? As in protecting the axle from flying sh**?
I've read that TTLs/Trailing arms are better in racing applications, allowing for easier adjustments, and also the "feel" is more natural, sort of how the tendency of a car to go into understeer vs. oversteer with respect to how "natural" it feels to the driver when you start to plow.
I dunno, I for some reason keep drifting on exit circles in the BG, and it feels very natural to me. I think I've started getting the hang of FF cars. Plus, unlike grandpa who grew up with FR cars, it feels natural to me.
And get some rear sway and strut bars. Stop trying to Takumi everywhere
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