Arisu: Before/After Photos.

"mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/" (mxxxxxm24) 10/24/2018 at 18:10 • Filed to: Arisu, Miata, Miatafications, wrenching

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I just got to thinking how different my car is now from when I got her. Arisu was a bone stock 1996 m edition with 83,xxx miles on her and bad rocker rust. She was in solid shape otherwise. Although she  had no filter in the air box and a shitty replacement steel exhaust with a stainless steel tip welded on. The soft top was ripped and there had been a re paint on the passenger door without the factory rock guard for some reason.

I first got her back in April 2014... This picture was taken in July after rocker rust repair.

Fast forward to October 2018 and she has 125,xxx miles on her, but she has lost weight. Over 100lbs to date. I’ve accomplished this by replacing entire exhaust, removing soft top, spare, driver’s seat, steering wheel/air bag, arm rests, visors, etc. My original goal of keeping a factory looking car has strayed a bit but not completely lost. I plan on a few finishing touches such as custom wheel center caps to make the wheels look more conceivably oem.

After. Current state of things.

On to the interior...

My original factory interior. I kind of miss it like this... So clean, so pure.

My current interior has evolved in to what is in most part, because after installing the roll bar I realized my head would hit in a factory set up. Now that is no longer an issue and I fit in my car much better than before. Like a glove! That and the rigidity of the roll bar make it worth it.

Current Interior. Might black out those bolts on the door. Also should have spent a little more and gotten the black pearl shift knob... Dammit.

So there you have it. In summary: I have spent way too much on a car of which the value will not be positively affected by modification. Though it is becoming the realization of my ideal sports/fun road car. I do believe nice examples of NA Miatas (and NBs), especially limited editions will be going up in value due to the huge number of people trashing the majority of the good ones.

What about you, Oppo? Show me your before/afters!

bob and john > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 10/24/2018 at 18:27

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before: a 100% bone stock suzuki SV650. 4K km.

by the time I sold it:
GSXR front forks
GSXR front wheel|
GSXR rear suspension
ABS disabled
Yamaha R6 master cylidner
red LED lighting
LED headlights
red double bubble screen
stainless steel brake lines
techspec tank pads
SVRP motosliders
SVRP clipons
-1 on the rear sprocket
DID red chain
bestem tail tidy
mototuner tail light
plate relocation
plate flipper
keyless entry
and 255K km added to it. no thats not a typo, i put 2 hundred and fifty-five thousand kilometers on a bike in 5 years  


man I fucking miss this bike so much....

Decay buys too many beaters > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 10/24/2018 at 18:47

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The $200 miata is coming along nicely two yea rs later

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > bob and john 10/24/2018 at 18:54

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Damn! That became a beast of a bike! 255km! Wow. Why you sell??

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > Decay buys too many beaters 10/24/2018 at 18:59

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Nice! I see you’ve all but gotten rid of the hideous stripes and leds that undoubtedly cost more than car did lol. And new wheels and tires.  Is that a roll bar? Did I miss anything??

Decay buys too many beaters > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 10/24/2018 at 19:50

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Well... Nature did most of the stripe removal.

I went over most of the parts here

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/long-overdue-200-miata-update-1826202472

Since then I have also added

A long tube header -free exchange for my stock 1.6 header

Lights - $60

and I have recently acquired the following, which is sitting in my garage ready to be installed

Complete 1.8 swap

94 Torsen Diff

Riceland Coilovers

Fiberglass hard top, needs gaskets

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > Decay buys too many beaters 10/24/2018 at 20:50

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Coming a long way!  glad to her moving forward still!

sony1492 > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 10/24/2018 at 21:07

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Its transformed over the past few months, I’m basically trying to recreate(and improve) all the best parts of the previous sc I had. Starting with the appearance and suspension, then moving into drivetrain, power and brakes. I ’m midway into appearance(needs paint and bodywork now) , and 3/4 into suspension(needs solid subframe mounts)

Decay buys too many beaters > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 10/24/2018 at 21:44

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I bought it for lols. But damn, I sure do love it more than I thought I would. 

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > sony1492 10/24/2018 at 22:02

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Nice!  Love sc’s. Perfect wheel choice

bob and john > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ 10/24/2018 at 22:21

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it was a number of compounded factors. main amoung them was that I was simply bored of the platform. There was nothing else I could have done to that bike to make it any faster (for reasonable cost o bv s) and the motor was starting to burn oil.

Also, i had NINE of these in the mean time. so i had a lot of exp with the platform and again, I just needed a change (thoguh I still have one for track, go figure)

mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > bob and john 10/25/2018 at 09:07

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Ah yeah, well that is a good reason .  It would appear you would be an expert with them at this point though.  You should keep one around!