My 2019 Miata

[DocWalt]

Got my Miata aligned the other day. Here's the before:



and then the after:



On the street I can't tell a difference at all, maybe it tramlines a bit more? Should be way better for autocross though! If I drive really aggressively it will still ride the outside rear bump stop which makes it nicely loose. I may end up trimming the front bump stop a little bit to loosen it up even more, but that will be down the road after an event or two, I think.

Drilled a hole in the silly factory shock tower braces and painted the holes:





Now I can easily get to the adjusters for the front shocks I was a little concerned that rushing to adjust them with the knobs would be a pain in the butt, so here we are. I can just drop an 8mm hex driver down the hole and easily adjust now.



I took advantage of the nice weather today and washed my car, slapped the Karcepts sticker on to thank them for all of their help on this project.



Slapped the class numbers/letters on to grab a pic or few





I also slapped the front Mazda sticker on. I have two more, one for each rear quarter panel. It was a bit windy today and I didn't feel like messing with the larger stickers.

[DocWalt]

Put the rear quarter panel contingency stickers on. Shiny

[j2k4]

Gonna quit your job and drive pro...

[DocWalt]

Gonna quit your job and drive pro...

I wish...

[DocWalt]

For those ND guys using RaceCapture, I updated my definitions file with fixed brake pressure. I had to write a script to read the CAN message and process it to fix the bizarre thing Mazda did with the value rolling over.

I also rescaled the steering angle to be based on the physical degrees of the wheel, instead of -100/100% value.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Rb...4Ori00IDsybH_X

[DocWalt]

My first event in my ND2 before Charlotte next week. Possibly the bumpiest, grittiest, roughest surface I've ever driven on. A stock Miata shouldn't get wheel spin in the middle of 2nd gear, haha. Effectively useless as a TnT, but I had a lot of fun! I didn't get to use any of the advantages of the ND2 and all of the disadvantages were in play. Oh well.

I was in really good company in PAX at least



The meatier autocross tires really fill out the wheel wells much better




Important mileage milestone, haha




Gridded up next to a really rare car!




Got a nice pic of my car behind said Porsche




PAX results:

[j2k4]

Go Pro, young man.

[DocWalt]

I finished 3rd in class at the Charlotte Champ Tour and 15th overall on PAX index. Not a bad result. The car felt REALLY good.

See my videos below:






My codriver's videos as well (he finished 6th in class on the back of a sloppy day 2 performance after a solid day 1):






My car is currently in pieces ready to go to a body shop however (entirely unrelated to the autocross, thankfully). Unfortunately the entire trip pretty much sucked from start to finish. I'll share more details later.

[anyonebutme]

You took pics of the front and underside, right?

Just another reason I have zero desire to go there. That place is full of retards and cops.

[DocWalt]

I went over to the dragon after Charlotte and met up with a friend and his friend. Some assclowns tore past Killboy store/Deals Gap at 80 mph with the sheriffs there eating lunch witnessing it. We left shortly after to head out. Our first pass together was at a relaxed pace, me having never been there before and all. We caught some morons going slow while using the entire road. One of said morons decided to stop dead after a blind corner to build a gap to the cars ahead and accordion effect and I got smashed into my buddy's car by his friend. The guy behind me had ZERO chance to stop. Hell, I barely stopped before hitting my buddy in the first place... None of us were hurt, it's just an enormous PITA.

Depressing as fuck de-modding a car to go to the body shop. The remote canisters were mounted literally right where the car is all smashed up but didn't get damaged thankfully.