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  • Capt Slow

    March 8, 2011 5:44 p.m. Capt Slow Dork

    This is a stupid question that I probably already know the answer to but I just wanted to check in with the hive mind before I plunked down some cash.

    I have a NA miata with a nearly dead top.

    I acquired a NB top frame that I intend to retrofit onto the NA. I need to order a new fabric top for the frame. I am planning on ordering a top for an NB since I have an NB frame. Is this correct?

    Will the NB rain rail work in an NA?

    Thanks

  • Type Q

    March 8, 2011 7:10 p.m. Type Q HalfDork

    I think the answer is yes, but we should wait for Keith or someone like to confirm.

    If you are putting NB top on the car, we can threaten protest you for update/backdate rules violation if you entered in STS with it.

  • Keith

    March 8, 2011 7:16 p.m. Keith SuperDork

    You should, they're lighter!

    Yup, use all NB parts on the NB frame. It's a nice upgrade.

  • unevolved

    March 8, 2011 11:38 p.m. unevolved Dork

    Yep, just did this exact swap a week or two ago. Went from this:

    to this:

    Glass window FTMFW.

  • Capt Slow

    March 9, 2011 12:11 a.m. Capt Slow Dork

    I could see where you would want too. I know my super trick stock suspension and FM sway bar setup proved pretty dominant sunday

    That being said if I decided to run it in sts you wouldn't have to wait for me to install my top to protest me. My car has a torsen so it is not sts legal.

  • Type Q

    March 9, 2011 10:55 a.m. Type Q HalfDork

    Capt Slow wrote:

    I could see where you would want too. I know my super trick stock suspension and FM sway bar setup proved pretty dominant sunday

    That being said if I decided to run it in sts you wouldn't have to wait for me to install my top to protest me. My car has a torsen so it is not sts legal.

    If you told me about the Torsen, I forgot about it. As for my times at last Sundays autox, that was all me. My driving sucked.

  • Capt Slow

    March 9, 2011 12:33 p.m. Capt Slow Dork

    TypeQ said:

    ...My driving sucked.

    Yea everyone has days like that. That course was not an easy one to string together.

    I had a really hard time driving the first 3 corners smoothly. Andre figured out that we could wait to shift into second until well after the 2nd corner, but when doing that I would tend to mash on the gas and get loose.

    Andre had a hard time with the bumpy offsets through the middle of the course, I felt like I busted those out pretty well. Going up the hill 3 out of four times I think I tracked out too far at the start and ended up in the gravel which made that corner difficult to get anywhere near the apex.

    The finish was glorious though I love the way the course ended with the fast slalom into the tight kink just after the timing lights. That was fun.

    Another thing that I think benefited us was the insane rate they were cycling cars through the two driver line. We had the Kumo XS's off the MR2 on the Miata and they should have been squirley and lame in the damp cool conditions but after the first two runs they were great!

  • Capt Slow

    July 25, 2011 2:13 p.m. Capt Slow Dork

    I have to be the worlds biggest procrastinator. I have finally started working on the top

    After drilling out the rivets holding to top to the frame I started looking at them. I have two different sizes of pop rivets at home and neither one of them looks right. Does anyone know what the correct size rivets are?

  • Woody

    July 25, 2011 3:22 p.m. Woody SuperDork

    Keith wrote:

    You should, they're lighter!

    An even lighter option is to remove it altogether!

    Photobucket

  • Keith

    July 25, 2011 3:43 p.m. Keith SuperDork

    Yes, but that tends to be less waterproof

    Captain, memory tells me it's a 5mm rivet. Just drill the hole to the one you have that's a bit bigger and you should be fine.

  • Capt Slow

    July 25, 2011 5:32 p.m. Capt Slow Dork

    got it! Thanks guys!

  • ZOO

    July 26, 2011 12:25 p.m. ZOO SuperDork

    Anybody have the part number for the cables that run inside the top? I didn't have any luck finding it.

 
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