by "Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
Published 08/22/2017 at 08:41
by "Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
Published 08/22/2017 at 08:41
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As it stands today, my Miata sits just over 193,000 miles. I just received one of those “one year ago today” notifications from my Amazon photos app and it surprises me how many miles I have added since then. That is more than 25,000 miles added while having a round trip commute of about 15 miles. Even if I drove that every week day for the entire year, that only adds up to like 4000 miles. So that is over 20,000 miles of fun driving!
Sure a lot of that has still been point A to point B highway driving but its all for entertainment purposes rather than the daily grind. In that year’s worth of time I’ve run at least 20+ autocross events, driven through all sorts of snow storms to get to ski mountains, gone on many hiking/camping adventures, toured the tail of the dragon, and barely had to do any work on the car to keep it chugging along. I think the only maintenance ive done outside of oil and tire rotations has been the timing belt job, an alternator, a drive shaft, and a brake caliper.
Also during that time I have upgraded the whole exhaust, got some new autocross wheels and tires, picked up some racing seats, continued fighting rust, and added a nice upgraded short shifter to the car.
Next up is a cross country move to Los Angeles and the crossing of 200,000 miles. Followed shortly thereafter by a retirement of daily driving duties and the start of another chapter in a new place. More modifications will certainly be planned along with more restoration of the 16 year old paint. Id love to 100% fix the rust problems and then get a nice paint job once I get to the nice desert climate. But it will also be my race car so priorities will go towards mechanical upkeep and upgrades before aesthetics.
"Captain of the Enterprise" (justanotherdayinparadise)
08/22/2017 at 09:31, STARS: 0
Is that a mustang bullitt in the background of pic 2?
"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
08/22/2017 at 09:39, STARS: 1
I’m not familiar enough with what a lot of classic muscle cars are. It was a UMI autocross so there were all sorts of old American stuff there. My car totally fit in lol.
"190octane" (admiralcb)
08/22/2017 at 09:44, STARS: 0
Not sure where you’re at now but you’re making the move to a good place for a convertible.
"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
08/22/2017 at 10:32, STARS: 0
Well yeah its kinda funny that ive been happily dailying my Miata in the Northeast (homeported in NJ) and Im planning to definitely have a hard roofed daily in LA. Seems kinda backwards but I will still be driving the Miata regularly anyways, its just supplementing it with something else. The Miata will especially shine during “winter” out there since that is the more pleasant time of the year.
I just would feel bad subjecting the Miata to a 70 mile round trip commute that I will have and with higher mileage it makes sense to limit the use. Plus then I will be able to run 200TW tires and go to stiffer coilovers without upsetting comfort/budget constraints of the commute.