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From Tallahassee I was headed to Tampa for a big Miata event. It was an awesome drive on two Florida highways with nary a car. At least up until I started hitting pockets of traffic lights north of Tampa. With each light synchros were failing. I was putting the car in first while rolling up to the l...

I managed to get a good 45 minute varied drive in on the car before my road trip so I could test it all out. I was hoping to have the AC working before the trip, but when I pulled vacuum on it, there was a leak. So AC is still on the list. Fortunately the heat wasn't bad during the trip. First stint...

The oil cooler adapter plate was also adjusted while I was in there, but then new position in favor of the cooler lines placed the fittings in interference of some bosses. Those were adjusted with a grinder for a clean fit. http://fe3miata.com/site/wp-content/images/17_0302_FE3-subframe-drop-020-1.j...

This car is being used- and that means sorting it out. I had a serious lag in cold start up oil pressure, some bad HLA (lifters), a whacked out oil pressure sender I couldn't get removed and an oil pan needing some adjustments. I got crafty with some scrap lumber and built a rig so I could drop the ...

KOSH racing's 1995 Mazda Miata with stock 1999 1.8 BP Miata engine. Fast pass at the Grassroots Motorsports $2016 Challenge, Gainesville Raceway in Florida: 14.775 @ 91.88 mph Run was made on road race radial tires (extremely stiff sidewalls), so it was very difficult to launch with any rpm and not ...

I did see some vw tires at 155sr15 on CL but they were too pricey.

Using them up front crossed my mind, but so did the idea of them being rated at 60mph and the implications of them falling apart at speeds above that on this car. Agree that there are many advantages to them for drag racing. Next year we'll have a better set of drag rubber/wheels. You're robot refer...

The car also made a brief appearance in some local TV news coverage. Unfortunately before we had the race rubber on. Apparently we have magically turned that keg into an engine. Amazing what some crafty firmware can do. ;-) http://www.wcjb.com/local-news/2016/09/race-cars-built-2016-challenge-compet...

KOSH Racing had good weekend in our FreeEMS powered Miata at the GRM Challenge over the weekend. Our effort went exceptionally well considering we started the first morning of the event without lug nuts specific to our competition wheels. And then there's the part where the car had yet to drive itse...

Owner: Steve Make: Mazda Model: Mx-5 Miata Year: 1995 Engine: Mazda BP-4W (from 99 Miata) Capacity: 1.8L Power Adders: Possibly NOS, Turbo for 2017 Firmware: 0.2.0-SNAPSHOT-429-gc00110d-GRM2016 FreeEMS-0.2.0-SNAPSHOT-288-gc2a0282-M2CUPCAR-MitsiAndMazda-CAS-4and2.s19 Hardware: Jaguar A7 #42 Descript...