The Evo’s battery had a very sudden death after the CCSCC School & Test n Tune. Drove home, parked the car, tried to start it 2 days later and it wouldn’t go. Very strange, since it started up just fine on Saturday and Sunday morning in Champaign. Had the battery tested at Autozone and turned…
First event of the year in the Evo was the annual CCSCC school & Test n Tune. Had a great time out here last year in the Mini and I thought it’d be a good chance for me to take out the Evo, get more seat time in the car and get more comfortable with…
With all the changes I’d made, I had SPS once again align and corner balance the Evo. With the new plates, the alignment specs became: Overally pretty satisfied with how it turned out. I thought I’d get a liittle more caster out of the plates than I did, but I think for now everything is…
Next up for the Evo was installing the Ciro Design caster plates. With the rear of the Evo wrapped up, just projects with the front end of the car left. We made quick work of uninstalling the front struts of the Evo. This was a very easy process. Just 3 15mm bolts at the top…
Annual kick-off test n tune with Stl Solo @ Family arena. Great event and went very smoothly. With events now $40/per, $45 for a tnt is extremely good bang for the buck. After a so-so first event with the CCSCC, the TnT was a good chance for me to get acclimated in the Mini again.…
ith Chicago region being down, and our neighboring CSCC in Indy being down as well, there was a huge turnout and lots of talent at the event. With the stiffer bumpstops and this being my girlfriend’s first event, I decided to put the sway bar in the middle setting. I was really happy with how…
As time has permitted, I’ve been getting little things done for the Evo. To recap, I’ve been waiting for the rear diff to be refreshed and returned to me, which it was a week or so ago. Rear diff with rear cover by Jon@TRE. Includes sight glass to see the oil Decided to add a…
Wanted to make a quick Miata update – New bumpstops – pictures lost. These are the front bumpstops, which began to disintegrate at the bottom. Very soft overall. These bumpstops & packers come from the rear of my Mini. Doing the fronts were very difficult compared to the rear. We used the ‘Long Bolt’ method…
Decided for the 2015 season to swap to a black harness for the Mini – I run a black Schroth harness in the Evo so I thought I’d give the red harness a try for the Mini last year. It was nice for a while, but got a little tiring on the eyes. Thanks to…
With the 2015 season prep underway I wanted to share a quick post about bumpstop tuning, or at least my understanding of it. One of the updates I will be doing to my Mini this year is swapping the rear bumpstops out in hopes of getting the car a little looser, so I thought this…
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