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Unless you have allot of disposable income I would spend the money more wisely.If you are rolled the pazzos are nice.

Thanks too all that posted on how to:especially veefee800 canuck finally got the 954 in and its a big difference over the OE one.Well worth the time and effort. Thanks, Mike

160hp sounds cool till you start to factor the other mods this will incur.When under boost you had better have a programmable ECU to manage fuel air mixture,a heavy duty clutch and do you want to be the test pilot as far as reliability etc. etc. etc.

I'm going to install the shock just to see if I can without spending any extra funds.

Gotcha - someone come up with the dimensions and I'll make a couple of them. I could use some final dimensions as well for what works for the 5th gen. Either the specs of your mount, our the difference between your mount and the factory mount. Seems the R and D has been done already and I won't be able to try out different lengths till April at the very earliest. The final length of the 5th gen mounts hasn't really been spelled out too well, yet. Thanks for any help on that. I'll post up when I get some done, but would be easier if I had a dimension to work with :fing02: Zach571 Hey Zach - thought I'd follow up on this...need to get the beast fixed up for an upcoming ride. I know you have a stock bracket in hand, so I am 99% sure you need to add 42mm in height to the existing bracket, and the resulting longer bolt would need to be 110-115mm long, M10 diameter. I called a welder, sent him some pics and mockup...said it would cost $200 to add the spacer, or $150 to just fab a new, longer bracket, like the one you drew. Any chance you can fab one up for me for less than that? Dan B Uh, yea, I should be able to beat $200 no problem, including shipping . 42mm sounds right as well from what I recall reading through this thread. I'm really hoping some of these guys who have had there's in for a while will post up how its working for them and either the new dimensions of their bracket or how much longer their bracket is now. My design, (if it works out, gotta make one up and see how it looks as far as strength goes) will require a new bolt, but will not require it to be any longer than the stock one. Not to mention, shouldn't require any welding, unless there a gusset will be required with that extra length, an inch and 5/8's is how much longer the bracket will need to be. Also, it should be "keyed" with the frame rail as the factory one is. Dan B, pm me on the subject. How soon are you looking for this?? I'm thinking of installing my 929 shock after I can put a couple hundred miles on this spring. That way I have something to compare it too, need to refamiliarize myself with how it handles with the stock one first. Anyways, that boils down to the fact that I may not be the first one to use my bracket :biggrin: Zach571 Darn if a spacer gets anywheres near 100,me thinks the stock shock my doing just fine,not to say the time and effort not worth xx amout but it is just a spacer. Mike

Thanks, but I couldn't wait so I bought a mount and I already have my shock. I got as far as measuring and drawing up the stock mount, just haven't made up longer mounts yet, or the flats to have them cut out on the laser :blink: Once I'm done with it I'll one for sale, and as soon as I get the new shock in I'll have another useless one :blink: I need to either look at my notes or read through this again :fing02: to see what kind of dimensions worked for others and then I was going to make a few mounts, in something like 5mm increments. I'm hoping to make it along the same design of the stock mount, but tall of flanges are kind of limiting with the tooling we have for forming and also being that much taller it will need more support so it doesn't fold over... I don't think there should be any concern for the upper shock mount rotating. There are no forces exerting on it to do so and as long as the mount is tight... Zach571 I'd be very interested in one of your brackets when you get them made up. I have the shock already, it's just sitting there in a box waiting for the slightly warmer weather so I can get my ass in gear and do this mod. Please, let me know when you have some done. Thanks, Paul. :blink: Have a shock ready to go would like to see a bracket also.

I did a search and found the 550 for $519 new,the 450 fir 240 but I have $100 to spend.

Thats the filter I have been using on my 5th gen for the past 4 years.6607 Mike

After all it does take a alot time to get stickers on straight. Mike

I like the look ,but thats got to hot on the leg,

True that. That being said, WallyWorld Supertech ST6607 works for me. The 6607 filter was rated the highest on the miata forum,and was confirmed along with tests that were way over my head,besides its the same filter for the vfr,miata.and RX8.After 8 yrs.of using them no issues. Mike

awesome stuff!!! but why go to all that trouble to have an engine WHINE at you ? :goofy: If you have to ask, you'll never understand....... :P :thumbsup: the best reply I ever read.