My 3.1L of Combined Japanese FURY! plus an American 5.7L

[Vitamin J]

Alright, let's start it off with my daily driver. A 1986 Honda CRX Si (that's SPORT injected) it made 91bhp 20 years ago and did 0-60 in 8.1 seconds...20 years ago. Now it'll do 0-60 in 8.9 seconds. It's a ball. Too much fun. It weighs 1900lbs, that's less than a Lotus Elise. It'll stay pretty much stock after I upgrade the suspension (20 year old shocks make me hurt) and maybe rebuild the engine (burning some oil). Oh it'll break 300k miles next month.

I painted it in my garage with a can of Rust-O-Leum and a roller. Looks pretty good for a $60 DIY job.

Here's when I first bought it:

New brakes:

And stainless steel brake lines (like a race car vrroooooom)

After my paint job:

Alright, here's my tow vehicle, 1994 GMC Suburban, 212k miles. Those Chevy 350s will go forever:

Here's my baby, 1992 Mazda Miata that I race in SCCA Spec Miata:

 

[D-Fence]

Did you crash the CRX? The Indicator seemes a little bit moved (btw: RICE!!!!!!!11111111111 ). Do the stickers really give you +20hp?

 

[Vitamin J]

Did you crash the CRX? The Indicator seemes a little bit moved (btw: RICE!!!!!!!11111111111 ). Do the stickers really give you +20hp?

No rice! No I didnt crash it, its just old.

 

[Lilleput]

Puked a little in my mouth when i saw your CRX paint job, though the MX5 looks fun.

 

[mancs]

Nice car park m8 . I love the miata .

 

[BlaRo]

The stock CRX, the Loch Ness Bigfoot of the automotive world. It's so rare, it makes old Bugattis look like Wal-Mart fodder. Good job on maintaining yours (though the paintjob...what was that for?!).

 

[Vitamin J]

I wanted the paint job to match the era. Something like this would not be out of place in 1986. Also, white is the easiest color to make look good, and I was painting it in my garage so I needed all the help I could get. I like it.

 

[Viper007Bond]

Now it'll do 0-60 in 8.9 seconds.

:lol: @ dropping the clutch in a CRX

 

[Vitamin J]

Gotta keep the revs up!

 

[patrick10]

i dont know much about spec miatas, but what kinda of modifications can you run? do you have to stay na?

 

[Vitamin J]

http://www.specmiata.com/specifications.htm

 

[bone]

a stock CRX (even rims)

you simply don't find those overe here anymore

on the paintjob though

 

[Vitamin J]

a stock CRX (even rims)

you simply don't find those overe here anymore

on the paintjob though

The rims are off my Miata. The stockers were 18lbs phonedial rims. These weigh 8.2lbs

 

[Vitamin J]

Got some brake upgrades for the Suburban. Cross drilled rotors up front with ceramic pads, got a good deal on them too, installed in about 15 mins:

This should make those emergency stops on the highway with the trailer a little less scary.

 

[Vitamin J]

Got some pics of it today so I thought I'd post them. 1994 GMC Suburban 1500 4x4, BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A tires 265/75/16, cross-drilled front rotors, tow package, leather, loaded, 6-cd changer, 12 speakers, 4wd w/ low-range, 5.7L V8.

This morning:

Just now:

 

[mancs]

Damn you have snow. Get out your miata and go have fun

 

[Viper007Bond]

Damn you have snow. Get out your miata and go have fun

Well he is in Colorado and at ~5000 feet elevation.

 

[AiR2k]

Oh man, those comments at streetfire.net sucks.

You have nice cars. I would really love to buy some old rusty car and fix
it to it's original condition.

 

[Vitamin J]

We got an assload of snow. Shut down the highway from Denver to New Mexico and shut down the airport for a long ass time too. Here's some pics of DIA:
http://www.9news.com/9slideshows/DIA after blizzard - Dec. 21, 2006/

Mostly gone now.


Here's a video of me getting my Honduh stuck:
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/cda3c4e1-d11a-4cd1-98e0-989f001aec67.htm

 

[tmbrudy]

Oh man I am so envious of you, Not only do you have a SM car, but a CRX Si ?! Seriously awesome, I like the paint to be honest, it fits the car, they used to do silly awesome paint like that in the 80s.