- Remove stock seat belts
- Swap stock seats for race seats from STR car (25 pounds each, minus seat belt receivers)
- Swap stock steering wheel for race wheel with quick release
- Add front splitter
- Add rear spoiler
- Remove stock stereo, Bose components, CD player, XM components, and speakers (make plates for resulting holes)
- Remove "fog" lights and replace with brake ducts
- Remove rear view mirror
- Remove lane departure camera (per update/backdate)
- Remove rain sensing wiper assembly (per update/backdate)
- Remove visors?
- Add 15x11 wheels and 275/35/15 Hoosiers to start (update to 15x12 and 295/30/15 Hoosiers when available)
- Add flares to cover wheels/tires
- Replace wheel studs with ARP extended studs
- Replace stock lugnuts with 949 Racing aluminum lugnuts
- Replace stock shocks/springs with Dynamic coilovers and Swift springs. Starting springs rates to be 728/448 F/R
- Replace stock brake calipers with Flyin Miata Little Big Brake Kit
- Add Pagid pads from Mazda Motorsports
- Replace stock front rotors with 2 piece rotors from Karcepts
- Add air ducts for brakes
- Replace stock front swaybar with Mazda Motorsports speedway style bar
- Replace stock rear swaybar with Mazda Motorsports rear bar
- Add offset bushings to front suspension to get 3+ degrees of negative camber
- Replace other suspension bushings with Delrin
- Replace rear differential mount with JBR mount (per reliability/durability rule)
- Replace stock battery with Battery Tender BTL35A480C Lithium Iron Phosphate battery
- Replace stock exhaust with AVO header, Goodwin midpipe (replace converter with a resonator?,) and Fujitsubo muffler
- Research replacing stock motor mounts
- Replace stock flywheel with Fidanza aluminum flywheel (research getting "race" clutch made)
- Replace stock differential with differential from automatic for better gearing
- Add Cusco LSD to automatic differential (supposedly the same as the Fiat unit)
- Remove A/C? (Need to find alternate idler pulley or shorter belt)
- Research alternate pulleys for engine
- Remove plastic upper engine shield
- Install Mazda Motorsports oil cooler
Monday, September 11, 2017
List of things to do
This will be far from a conclusive list, but I wanted to start posting a to do list while reading through the rules. Some of these items have already been done, but I will try to document them where I can.
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Stock steering wheel with airbag weighs 5lbs 1.6oz. MPI steering wheel with Snap Off quick release weighs 3 lbs 1oz. Will need to get hub adapter of 70 mm or more. That weight Will need to be added.
ReplyDeleteStock seatbelt assembly weighs 4lb 14.3oz per side.
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