joelw

Greetings

My name is Joel. I'm 22 and live in Fargo, ND. I fell into buying my Miata about 3 years ago when I borrowed in from a friend and crashed it. Ever since then I have been reading up and working on it, and loving my mazda more and more. This is currently how it sits...

Main Mods:
OEM Hard top
Tuckin99 N2 JDM Fender Flares
K Sport Coilovers
Flyin Miata sway bars
16x8 0 offset XXR 513 Wheels
EBC rotors and pads
few others that arent really important

Anyways, I have trolled this website for a long time but never joined until tonight. I will post my build thread starting tomorrow when I pick up the car, but this morning I fell into a free '82 RX7 when I was out on a delivery in Horace, ND bringing a Fridge to a lady. She told me I could have her car, which she bought in 1982 brand new. It is high mileage and isnt a super clean car, but hey, its free, right? Anyways, I will post up a build thread for that starting tomorrow when I bring it home.

pdrpowerofWRX

Sweet find, Joel. An original owner '82?! Thats pretty sweet. Nice looking Miata also... you can't leave us all hanging on how you came to own the Miata, with the crash and all... please tell more.

joelw

Since you asked, I will write you a small novel as I am waiting for the girlfriend to fix her hair...

I needed to drive down to California to pick someone up(another long story) and I was going to take my Lincoln Continental(at the time my ls/vtec ef civic was out of commish) when I ran into and old friend who had acquired a POS miata in a trade.

He told me to take his Miata because he wanted to see how good of gas mileage it could really get. Stupid me took him up on it. I left Fargo after an 8hour day of work(9pm) andmade it to Vacaville, by midnight of the following day(27 hours), slept for 4 hours and turned around and came back in 30 hours.

Around Montana on the way back I became quite tired. I was driving through some pretty steep mountain passes when an STi pulled up next to me and started trying to mess with me(a stock mx5 with 135k miles???) I waved him off and before I could think, he cut me off to avoid a semi. I spun 3 times and hit the guardrail. Thankfully I was ok but the car had some pretty nasty creases in the rear quarter. I sent a pic message to my friend and asked him how much he wanted for the car, as I had a blast driving it, and I had crashed it. He told me 1600 bucks.







On my way back from CA, I dropped the car off at Detroit lakes autobody school and left it there for 7 months over the winter, and picked it up with great body work and a 85% OK paint job, but a lot better than what it was before. Because I let the students work on it, my bill was 550 dollars, and I tipped the kid 50 bucks who was working on the car while in school.

I brought it home and didnt know what to do with it... I had a minty fresh miata that I didnt really need, as I was an avid Honda FWD guy. I figured since the car had made it 4000 miles round trip without a hickup, and kept me safe the whole way, I probably should keep this one.

I slowly sold off all of my other projects, but never seemed to outgrow the miata. I studied more into the cornering rather than drag racing, and decided I wanted to do coilovers. Well, I came across a picture of Chris's miata (http://www.triplezoom.com/news/uploads/miata_r_750.jpg) online and had to buy the fender flares. after that, I started really getting into the car. Everyone who always thought my miata was so "gay" or "girly" completely changed tune to "hot damn, that looks like a road race car". The car handles absolutely amazing, better than anything I could've ever expected. The next step is motor work. Its either getting swapped(12a) or turboed this winter.

joelw

Free RX7 story
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...3#post10188173

jdmminot

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You did that roadster up nicely..! My friend has a na8c that he autocrosses all the time, where are you going to be autox'ing next?

sunkistrx7

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welcome . nice ride

PlexAE86

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I've been thinking about getting into a Miata for some trackdays... How is it so far?

eklips3

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i went go karting in fargo once.
stopped at the flying J truck stop on my road trip to miami.