{"id":238,"date":"2009-09-25T00:07:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T00:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-09-25T00:07:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T00:07:36","slug":"miatas-at-thunderhill-march-24-and-25-2001-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/trips-events\/miatas-at-thunderhill-march-24-and-25-2001-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Miatas at Thunderhill March 24 and 25 2001 pt.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img
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\/>\nAn absolutely beautiful first generation Miata with the racing beat type II nose and the racing beat side skirts. The owner of the car, whose name I can&#8217;t recall, was there with Gary, owner of the legendary Hakuna who I got to meet.<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nThis car was quite a surprise. Your eyes aren&#8217;t deceiving, you that&#8217;s a Ford 302 stuck in a Miata. I was never on the track with him but people who were said that on the straights he quickly became a dot on the horizon.  I&#8217;d love to get a chance to drive a V8 monster Miata.<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nOne of the instructors brought this race-prepped Lotus; I was on the track in an instructor&#8217;s car while this car was out on the track, and man was it fast!<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nA very nice Miata which was extremely clean.<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nLook at how clean this engine compartment is!<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nA nice silver Miata owned by Rawson &#038; Sarah Groves Hobart from Burlingame who were kind enough to email me and tell me about their car. <\/p>\n<p>1999 PEP Miata (purchased in May of 1998), Eibach springs, Koni Sport shocks, Flyin&#8217; Miata sway bars, BBS 16&#8243; RK wheels, Toyo Proxes T1-S 215\/40-16 tires, Big brake kit in front (Wilwood calipers, Powerslot rotors), Porterfield pads all around.<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nAnother group shot, I really like the wheels on the white one.<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nLook how this owner routed his intake to the cool side of the engine compartment, nice header also.<\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nmmmmmmmmmm Supercharger<br
\/>\nThis car belongs to Curtis Chin; here is a list of his mods.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PBC hydraulic hood support\n<li>Stainless steel brake and clutch lines\n<li>Momo montecarlo steering wheel\n<li>Momo superanatomic shifter knob\n<li>Bilstein shocks w\/ Eibach springs (love this combo)\n<li>Shaved nose emblem\n<li>Shaved emblems at rear panel\n<li>Custom repaint &#8211; Porsche oceanic blue metallic ( did the prep,<br
\/>\ndisassembly &#038; body work myself)<\/p>\n<li>Hardtop\n<li>Jackson header, high flow cat, &#038; exhaust system (replaced the coffee<br
\/>\ncan tip w\/ a stock looking tip)<\/p>\n<li>4 wheel alignment per Lanny Chambers specs (loved this mod !)\n<\/ul>\n<p><img
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\/>\nRight where my car belongs \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p><img
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\/>\nJust fulfilling my narcissistic needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An absolutely beautiful first generation Miata with the racing beat type II nose and the racing beat side skirts. The owner of the car, whose name I can&#8217;t recall, was there with Gary, owner of the legendary Hakuna who I got to meet. This car was quite a surprise. Your eyes aren&#8217;t deceiving, you that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moesrealm.com\/miata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}