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I showed up to an event in Detroit - Motor City Mayhem/Michigan Gumball. Drifting, stunt bikes and drag racing. There were professionals putting on the show.

Later in the evening during the drag racing event there was a big block Roadrunner tearing up some rubber and I made a slight hint about how I'd like to get my car out there. That somehow quickly turned into the announcer yelling over the microphone "Miata VS Road Runner!".

I was like FML no way. This purpose built drag car was on slicks and had his exhaust dumping just after the headers... Not sweet. I'm on 225 street tires and get no traction until 3-4th gear most times..

First run I tried to get him to run from a roll and he didn't quite understand the concept. Second run I wheel hopped through 2nd and missed third.
Third run I was slipping through 3rd but dusted him!
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Car had a nice little squat off the line... Still no traction.
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Then Saturday I hit the drag strip. I showed up and a friend of mine was going to let me borrow slicks.. The 14 inch steelies wouldn't clear my brakes though! I gave it a go on street tires.

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The first run was alright. Got to the line and rolled out a little slow for fear that I was going to blaze the tires. The thing actually hooked pretty well and I ended up bogging the start (didn't use anti-lag). Ignore my buddy Scott.. His 10 second Evo makes my car look like a DOG!
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Ended up with a 12.1 pass. Trap speed was 115 with a 2 second 60ft.

Second run.. I broke an axle. The burnout box was about out of water and as soon as it snagged the axle snapped. - That's my second axle in two weeks.. Not great. But at least is was the opposite axle.
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I think the car has a mid to high 11 second pass in it.

We pushed the car off to the side and I bought another Axle that night. Had it in the car in 20 minutes and drove the bitch home..

My axle repair box:
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The second axle broke almost identically to the first one.. Looks good next to my connecting rod keychain.
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So last night this guy called me out pretty hard. I quote "Bring that Junk Miata out".

His car: $100,000 BMW M6 with 25k in modifications.
My car: $12,000 Mazda Miata with whofukingknows in modifications (all done by myself).

The deal was 45-135. I didn't want this, it's not my best starting point, nor my best ending point but. Not sure why I was the one making the compromise in this situation.. I was after all in a MIATA!

We ran it out until about 150 and he eventually caught up, but at 135 I was clearly ahead.

My fav moment:
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I assume young man you did this on a closed course and wore a helmet and harness. ;)

Cool story about smoking the Road Runner without any preparation.

Pwaahahaha I love the brake boost... Lockin em up on the eway... Priceless...

Big news- Last night we were doing a photo shoot and a GTR Spec V rolled by with a Lingenfelter CTS-V Coupe...

Needless to say, we dropped everything to chase them down. My buddies jumped into the BMW X5 to video me trying to run the two "supercars" for lack of better words.

We catch them and I was unaware that the CTS was the Lingenfelter version so I didn't even want to bother with it (I thought I knew the results already). I get next to the GTR and with no surprise he didn't take me seriously. Didn't hurt my feelings.. It's a Miata.

So the CTS-V wanted some pretty bad- we line it up at a 40 roll and I maybe pull a car on him but it was obvious what happened (the dudes reaction was priceless). He yelled out the window "What the hell is in that thing? I make 700WHP".

I think that caught the attention of the guy in the GTR so he gets up next to me and we do a quick pull. To my surprise it looked like I was moving out on him. So we line it up again at a higher speed - Maybe 50-55? We take off and it looked like it was about door to door and I shut down at the end of my gear.

My buddies in the X5 were able to shoot video of the whole thing so I'll post it when it's up but I was happy with the turnout for sure.

These pics are just a couple I snapped with my iPhone at the photo shoot:
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Tell everyone it is a stock motor and a $600 ebay turbo kit.