We are replacing Taxi's grotty NA6 tub with a much nicer NB2 tub. It will be transformed from the rough edged, uncomfortable and loud track rat to a more refined and comfortable track capable car. The focus is to retain full street comfort and civility while packing in as much track performance as possible. The new donor is a very clean black '03 Sport with great A/C and 102k on the odo. We're swapping in the OEM cruise control. We'll start a separate thread for the Teves ABS conversion.

Outline for Taxi II build

Exterior
2003
Wrapped gloss gray with metallic orange stripe down the center
Keep OEM mini tupperware skirts and rear spats
Carbon Miata trunk with integrated duck tail
Touge Run vary copy front lip
OEM hard top
M2 Sport bar - wrapped gray
Bolt in harness bar - wrapped gray
Singular hood vents
M2 Hardcore double diagonal roll bar
OEM seats for street
Element 50 fire suppression
50mm Steering wheel spacer (for OEM wheel)
Custom gauge faces with 8,000rm redline

Engine
2.0L BP6D, 175whp on 91
Supermiata +2 O/S CNC head
.430 lift cams
Forged rods
Supermiata billet oil pump gears
10.5:1 compression
Thermal coated piston crowns, valve heads, exhaust port, combustion chamber
RB header
Custom catted midpipe
RB muffler
DIY PNP Pro ECU
Supermiata Qmax reroute
Supermiata LS coil kit (prototype)
Supermiata Crossflow radiator
Setrab 20 row oil cooler

Suspension / Drivetrain
AZ-6 transmission
Xida ACE 550/350
Keisler drop spindles
Urethane control arm bushings
Supermiata sway bar kit, maybe
Supermiata end links
P/S delete with prototype Supermiata spacer pulley
Supermiata BP hybrid Sport Clutch, sprung hub
Supermiata BP light flywheel
11" BBK
Supermiata brake lines
Supermiata hybrid motor mounts
949 Racing 15x9 6UL
225/45/15 Rival-S
Custom Teves 4 channel ABS from E46
3.9 Torsen (swapping out 4.3 Tochigi-Fuji)
MR tall angled shifter
ETX14 battery (11 lbs)

Track day swap in parts
Prototype Supermiata seat brackets
Sparco Rev
Safecraft FIA 6pt 2" belts

The donor

 

That's guna be a pretty sweet setup for "dual duty" !

What's an AZ-6 tranmission?

 

Prototype LS coil kit eh?

 

OEM

 

Prepped the car for vinyl wrap. Touge run fron lip and Carbon Miata trunk with integral ducktail. 15x8/ 205 here but it'll run on 9's when done.

It's on Illumina's, FM springs and FM sway bars (F&R) which are for sale. $500 for everything including top mounts, fully assembled. $60 shipping to lower 48. (Sold)

 

 

Donor car is a beauty. 175 horse ponies at the wheels will sound pretty good out of that RB header!

 

Sexy.

 

At Aerowerkz in Walnut, CA. I guess the front bumper skin was a lot worse than I thought. Also, I have low standards. Philip was doing a ceramic coat on a La Ferrari a few weeks ago.

 

That doesn't look like the same orange wrap as your Mustang.... disappointing .
8000 RPM redline on a street car doesn't mean frequent rebuilds? Sign me up.

 

$12k 2 liter race engine. Visa, PayPal or wire transfer.

 

Progress so far

 

Emilio, always impressed with your builds and this is no different.

Just for my own curiousity, clearly you have a decent budget in building the BP engine for track duty. What made your decision to go this route over the K-series like Deviate? How will this car differ from Deviate in its intended purpose?

Thanks!

 

BP is easier and more relevant to the average Miata owner. Also reflects our product line.

 

excellent wrap color choice. I'm googling their rates as we speak

 

Nardo grey?

Very tasty.

 

Not Nardo gray paint, but that was our target when choosing this vinyl. Really amped to see it done.

 

 

Would you just look at that?!



This is me subbing to the build

 

Nardo gray, primer gray, same thing.

--Ian