All my other email list default reply to the entire list, so here is another fwd email. :)
Nathan Sumner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Sumner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:40 PM To: 'Aleksandr Milewski' Subject: RE: My LS1 Miata drives! Yes, I would recommend the kit. Its pretty well thought out and is pretty much "bolt on". I did all the work in my parents shed on jack stands with standard tools. I had to paint shop cut and fill the gussets in the engine bay but besides that no cutting or welding is needed. There are a couple downsides with the kit: Lowering the steering rack adversely affect bump steer (the new kit might address this, see below), it does hurt ground clearance some but is more than daily drivable ASSUMING you find a way to tuck the exhaust nicely. My exhaust is not tucked up nicely and I am going to have to get that changed. The engine mounts have 1/2 inch solid rubber "washers" and the trans has a 1/2 rubber spacer as well so noise/vibrations are significantly higher than a standard production car. They have made the kit so you can use the factory t56 trans mount to help out but mine doesn't use it. I don't really care about the NVH and was expecting it from the get go. Now, they have redesigned the kit somewhat (mainly k-member) to allow more ground clearance and have full "race" camber boxes and there is an option to have the k-member tie back into the frame rails for added stiffness. Dan says with the new kit, the lowest thing is the exhaust going under the diff and that they have a special pipe to use for an exhaust for maximum clearance. I will be getting the new k-member shortly and will of course take pictures and blah blah about it. From what I have heard from Dan, it is a big improvement. Nathan Sumner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Aleksandr Milewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:40 PM To: Nathan Sumner Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: My LS1 Miata drives! Nathan Sumner wrote: > Thought I would let everyone know that I got my LS1 Miata fully > functional (mostly.) and put the first 30 miles on the conversion just > now. So, at the end of the day, would you recommend the Racing Concepts kit? I took a cruise through your build blog and it looks pretty nice. I have a friend who a) already has an LS1 powered FD, and b) has another LS1 on the shelf waiting for for a project to materialize. He's thinking NB. ;) -Z _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
