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Track Feb 22, 2012 02:14 PM

you should do both together, otherwise you will have to realign the car twice (unless you are pretty quick on the bushings). what calipers are those?

Flier129 Feb 22, 2012 02:16 PM


Originally Posted by Track (Post 12439)
you should do both together, otherwise you will have to realign the car twice (unless you are pretty quick on the bushings). what calipers are those?

Don't have the bushings yet, I'll be doing bushings in a few months anyways.

Stock rear calipers, my front ones are newer, and functional, lol.

Track Feb 22, 2012 02:20 PM

I see, cool. bushings are great, I am happy with mine, although it seems 949 moved to prothane over ES. Probably for cost reasons.

Lookin good though, I love how easy it is to do brakes on the miata...

flying_solo Feb 22, 2012 02:52 PM

I hated doing my bushings. It sucked. Next time, I will burn every last one of them out.

Track Feb 22, 2012 02:57 PM


Originally Posted by flying_solo (Post 12445)
I hated doing my bushings. It sucked. Next time, I will burn every last one of them out.

I pretty much agree. plus jaw pullers tend to mar the bushing hole some, especially if the bushing is particularly stuck.

FRT_Fun Feb 23, 2012 07:28 AM

I didn't have too many issues with mine. Honestly was fairly easy. A little butane torch and one of those redneck setups.

flying_solo Feb 23, 2012 07:36 AM

I blame the great white north for my difficulties.

FRT_Fun Feb 23, 2012 07:59 AM

My car lived up North for it's whole life. Poor thing shows it too. Luckily no rust on the body. But the control arms were bad.

Hopefully now that it's in the South I won't have many more issues.

miata2fast Feb 23, 2012 08:48 AM

Always loved the R Miatas.

Spend the money and do the shim under bucket lifter upgrade.

Flier129 Feb 23, 2012 12:20 PM

Yeah, I'm not necessarily looking forward to doing the bushings. Since my car has spent most of it's life in up-state NY :(. I'll probably use a mix of burning and pressing them out.



Originally Posted by miata2fast (Post 12475)
Always loved the R Miatas.

Spend the money and do the shim under bucket lifter upgrade.


Not legal for my Solo 2 class and I've got a whole NB1/2 engine to swap in anyways:
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