I could use some help diagnosing a problem I'm having with my Miata (2002 with the 5 speed). I put an FM stage 1 happy meal (new clutch, 10lb flywheel, all new bearings) in almost exactly 400 miles ago. I also installed a shifter rebuild kit and replaced the transmission fluid with Ford motor craft full synthetic at the same time. I adjusted the clutch pedal/pin per the FM instructions, and it initially drove great. After maybe 200 miles it started to shift rough. I adjusted the clutch/pin out a little further, and it drove great again for a while. Then it started to shift rough again, which is now bad enough that it won't shift at all. The car will move with the clutch pedal on the floor if it is started in gear, so it clearly isn't releasing all the way.
I thought that even though the hydraulics were fairly recent, maybe I had a bad replacement part and the stiffer clutch did it in. So I just replaced the clutch master and slave cylinders (purchased from FM this time so I knew I was getting quality parts). The fluid was surprisingly gross, so I was somewhat encourage that was the problem, but unfortunately it wasn't. The clutch is also currently adjusted as far out as it can go, the pin is only threaded about half way into the nut in the pedal.
I figure the next step is the pull the transmission back off and take a look, but I'm struggling to picture in my head what could slowly work it's way out to cause the clutch to not disengage all of the way. Does anyone have any thoughts on what could cause this? Any other suggestions before bitting the bullet and pulling the transmission?