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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
Suspension / Drivetrain
AZ-6 transmission
Xida ACE 550/350
Keisler drop spindles
Urethane control arm bushings
Supermiata sway bar kit, maybe
Supermiata end links
That's guna be a pretty sweet setup for "dual duty" !
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)
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.
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?