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…
Evo is getting prepped for STU! A few parts ready to be installed, it’s been a while since I’ve really done anything with my evo. Springs were installed incorrectly all this time (by the shop that stripped my rear diff fill bolt)!! Should have been 8k/10k, but they were 10k/8k. I fixed that and should…
A few changes planned for 2015 but nothing major… I guess the biggest change is that I now co-own a 1993 Mazda Miata. Pretty random and I don’t imagine I’ll be driving it too often, but I’ll definitely take it for a few runs, help set it up etc. It was mainly for my other…
A big year of me focusing on the Mini & autocross, but some of the Evo impressions were captured here. The setup was Ohlins, stock bars, WL bushings, and my first year of trying the ER ACD tune, which helped turn-in. It was only later that I found out the car’s massive understeer was due…
Had our 2014 banquet today, collected some hardware! First award was the 2014 HS class champion award. Similar to 2013’s but larger and actually says the year. The next award is the index award. I wanted to make top 20 index this year, and was able to reach that goal at 17th. Finally, I received…
Welcome and big thanks to my newest sponsor, English Racing! ER is primarily (for me) an Evo shop, tuning my Evo & it’s ACD for an optimal autoxing setup. So while they don’t do anything directly for the Mini, they have been supporting me as a driver and in return I’d like to support them…
Decided to do a final event in the Evo, which turned out to be somewhat of a mistake. Had a hard time getting used to the car and plowed and plowed everywhere – I’ve got a wheel liner, undertray & lip to fix now during the offseason… oh well. I ran consistently in the 51.5’s…
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