New Corbeau racing seats are the latest addition to the Miata. I thought I might make custom seat brackets but, with the lumbar support maxed out, I can reach the clutch a little better than I could in the stock seats. The trouble with being only 5' tall. :)

The top clears the seats fine, although the seats do redirect a little more air into the cabin. The bolsters are tight against the doors. The only fitment issue I really need to solve is making the seat belt easier to get to. They were moved inward for the roll bar and now need to go outward to get around the seats!

Miata came with a sad old tan vinyl top with an opaque plastic window so it was a huge improvement, putting this Robbins cloth top with a nozip glass window on it. It folds down with the Hard Dog roll bar just fine, but it does bump the sides of the roll bar on the way back up. Better pictures coming soon.

This mean looking Hard Dog Sport with double diagonals replaced the chrome style bar that I bought the car with. Accompanied by some sexy vinyl stripes, applied by Chris, these mods have taken the Miata much further from being just another cute little car!

I had to relocate the windscreen and make a custom bracket to hold it against the top of the roll bar, but I was glad to still be able to use it.

The silver stripes make the raised bump in the hood more noticable.

Nothing much going on here, just clean and shiny. The Miata's paint, when we bought it, inspired the purchase of a rotary buffer and a clay bar kit. It went from feeling like it had been sprayed down with AquaNet hair spray to being smooth as glass!

Chris redid the vinyl paint on the dash and changed the padded dash and upper door and speaker covers from tan to black for me. The vinyl paint looks great and is holding up just fine. I'd like to make a tan and black shift boot one of these days. Two tone is cool. :)

"While I've got this out..." Miata was stationary at the time while smog issues were being resolved so it could be registered. This lovely mess started with just taking off the steering wheel to put the airbag back on. Next the door panels came off so I could make them two tone and then the dash really needed to match so I took it out and then, if I had the dash out, I might as well go ahead and change the dirty tan carpet to black...

Chris looked at the piles of screws and nuts and bolts and all the dangling wires and was truly frightened. Pa nicknamed it the "planter" for a while.

Some of the pictures from the ad I saw the car for sale in. The chrome side mirrors weren't on the car, they were rusty and in a box. They went on ebay along with: the steering wheel, chrome fuel cap, chrome vent rings, chrome shift plate, polished ebrake handle, embarrassingly loud muffler, intake turn signals, style bar, Jackson Racing gauges, push start button, crappy stereo, and the tan carpet. I liked the wheels and, most of all, I liked the supercharger and the suspension upgrades. Those stayed. :)

Finally, the rain has stopped!. I thought I was back in Seattle for a while. Chris and I both got outside and washed our toys. I finally managed to unclog the drain pipe on the passenger's side of the Miata. I had to push through from the inside of the car - the end result looked like Miata took a poo! Too bad I didn't do it soon enough to keep my trunk from growing a layer of fur...

New shift boot! I made this on my new industrial sewing machine with Ultraleather. The boot attatches to the car like the stock boot does but I've modified the upper part so that the shape lays smoothly and always comes up to the base of the shift knob.