On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:34:41PM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote: > On 6/5/09, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This'll have links to pictures of my current racecar and daily driver > > http://red4est.com/miata > > About 8 years ago I almost had my wife convinced to let me turn her > '94 Miata into a Spec Miata. Since we already had the car, the > conversion would be relatively cheap, as far as race cars go. It was > then that she realized her baby (the car, not me) very well might not > come home intact, and that's how my racing career ended before it got > started.
1) Don't race a car that you care about. 2) It's almost always cheaper to buy a used racecar than build it yourself. I'm not trying as hard as I should, but I really need to sell my racecar. I just don't have the time and money to mount a serious racing effort, and I spent too many years driving on the track while a race was in progress. Though some of my best races have been for the honor of not finishing DFL. My best race was probably one with someone who wasn't even in the same class as I was in. His car had power, mine had handling. Spec Miata is perhaps the best racing for your dollar out there. Mazda's support of the series is amazing (parts at dealer cost). The racing is very close. The last SCCA race I ran, qualifying times for the row I was in and the row ahead of me spanned all of .060 seconds. That works out to about six feet over three miles. As to reliability, it's my experience that Miata's are just slightly more reliable than an anvil. Since driving my car in a 25 hour enduro (we finished fifth in class http://red4est.com/enduro) I had to clean out the gas tank and replace the fuel filter because I got water and gunk inthe tank, plus I've changed oil, brake pads and tires. > > Those are some really interesting photos you have there, Larry. Thanks. I've had fun driving pretty much anything with wheels and an engine on the track. I'm looking forward to getting the MG back on the road, Leroy should finish rebuilding the motor in the next week or two. With luck, I'll have the car back on the road this summer. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
