All posts categorized Project Cars

Painting the Wheels Red

The wheels I bought earlier were from different cars, and I wanted to paint them bright red to get a unique look on my silver Miata. It took about 12 hours of work spread across 3 days to get it done. In this post, I describe how to paint wheels at home for cheap.

Posted on Apr 20, 2019 by Vikas N Kumar

Samurai Sword Shifter Knob installation

I saw a Samurai sword handle shifter on a friend’s JDM import and decided to get one for myself through eBay a few weeks ago. It arrived today from China and I installed it in 5 minutes.

Posted on Apr 8, 2019 by Vikas N Kumar

Replacing the Air Filter

Changing an air filter in the Miata is really easy. Below in figures 1 and 2 you can see the two latches around the intake that need to be opened with a simple flip as see in Figure 3.

Posted on Apr 7, 2019 by Vikas N Kumar

New Floormats

In keeping with our post on installing new pedals on the Miata, I had ordered new Better than Factory floor mats from Moss Miata which turned out to be quite nice looking and similar in design to the original Miata mats from Mazda, as seen in Figure 1 below.

Posted on Mar 16, 2019 by Vikas N Kumar

Tires for E-Street

In keeping with our post on wheels for E-street class for Autocross, I ordered Dunlop Direzza ZIII tires from TireRack.com with 200 treadwear and size 190/50R15 for my 15”x6” OEM wheels.

Posted on Mar 12, 2019 by Vikas N Kumar