-DSerp-'s NA Miata Build

[fuhfuh.Focus]

Nice! These cars are a lot of fun/easy to work on.

Helped my friend do the 1.6 dash swap in his car as well. Looks SO much better and dropped a lot of weight.

[-DSerp-]

Started making progress on my wheel bolts. Wanted to use the OEM BBS bolts, but want gold. So I've been told to powdercoat them gold they need to be shiny. (Either chrome first, or polish first.)

So... bought a tumbler (I can use it for other shit too!)

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Here you can see how shitty the bolts were.

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And they came out clean and ready for polishing! Polished on the left. Tumbled on the right.

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Now only 119 left!

[-DSerp-]

Looks good man, Cant wait to see it with itbs. The protégé one have the timing belt exposed right?

Yeah I plan on picking up some adjustable cam gears too. Hopefully its easy to polish otherwise I may just have it powder coated

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[TheCrabMaster]

Looks good man, Cant wait to see it with itbs. The protégé one have the timing belt exposed right?

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All done. Just need some vacuum caps for the intake manifold/intake (where you see the zipties). And to redo the lettering. Also bought another valve cover (from a 1.8 protege) to polish in my spare time.


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[-DSerp-]

Not to thread jack but here is mine, I love metallic paint. I think we have the same strut bar haha

That looks good.

Here's the hex cap and dimple ring, the silver came out pretty nice.


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And valve cover, raised letters are polished, I put chapstick on them before paint Looked better before it dried but its okay.


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[TheCrabMaster]

Not to thread jack but here is mine, I love metallic paint. I think we have the same strut bar haha

[-DSerp-]

What color are you going on the valve cover? I did metallic brass with gold flake on mine for my red Miata, looks dope

Its a metallic black. Almost a really dark grey. It came out pretty good. Hopefully I can get some pics of it dry tomorrow.

[TheCrabMaster]

What color are you going on the valve cover? I did metallic brass with gold flake on mine for my red Miata, looks dope

[-DSerp-]

this is going to be so sick

Thanks haha

polish the valve cover!

I wanted to. But it's so much freakin work lol. I handpolished the brake booster line and that took a long time. I may pick up a spare and just work on it when I'm bored. A half hour here and there. I don't know if there's enough Netflix movies to get me through it in one shot lol.

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[distorto]

polish the valve cover!

[meech]

this is going to be so sick

[-DSerp-]

Couple of small things going on. Painted my valve cover wrinkle black, but it came out shitty and I didn't really like it. So I stripped it all and will repaint today. Also reinstalled the baffling with Permatex Ultra Black.


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Also fitted my catch can with a ghetto bracket for now.


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And began refinishing the RMs. So far I'm just going to paint the hex cap and dimple ring to see if I like the paint. Then proceed to do all of the hexes and wheel faces also.
Using Dupli-Color wheel paint. Pictures make it seem like a nice OEMish silver color. Which is what I'm going for. We'll see after paint though!


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Primed:

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[TheCrabMaster]

Yeah there are plenty of people running them so they work, just gonna fine tune them. Im leaning towards running a 4age silvertop in my hardbody, so ill be running the same itbs if I go through with it haha

[-DSerp-]

Sweet I was researching that last other day also haha maybe in the future ill step my game up

Yeah I hope they work out. The parts are pretty easy to source especially if you're patient and wait for a set to show up on eBay that's in the US. Everything else can be bought easily.

Hardest part will be tuning them properly. But first thing's first I want to finish rebuilding my wheels!

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