SOCAL Rambling thread

[blitz_86]

Where did you guys get your padding at?I recently got my miata and it came with it

[tougetofu]

Originally Posted by JonB

Oh yeah, because multiple people helping one injured person is exactly how it would go in reality. There wouldn't be people on the side watching and hoping. Only people with their hands on the victim, right? You remind me of this guy. So I'm just not going to bother with you anymore.

haha jeez man go cry about it.

[JonB]

Originally Posted by tougetofu

haha jeez man go cry about it.

No disrespect, but I'm just trying to get my point across that you're ignorant and an asshole.

[dreaminghana]

Originally Posted by JonB

No disrespect, but I'm just trying to get my point across that you're ignorant and an asshole.

+1 for the funny thread
Another +1 for making a good point.


I wish I had a roll bar so I can:
1: Stiffen the chassis
2. Feel safer on the streets (I don't track my car at all by the way)
3. Rock that bikini top

[sirpriz]

why cant i find a 95/96 the second i sell my car to get one..there are no nice clean specimens....

[RoTArYRooKiE]

He's only expressing what MIGHT b his opinion. The moment he tries to pass it off as a matter of fact with that absurdity then check him. Don't feed the trolls.

[MxALBERT]

What's up fellas in kicking around the idea of getting myself into another miata

Anyone got a lead on a good 5 speed no salvaged one ?

Prefer NA

[JonB]

Holy shit! What's up Albert! Haven't seen you in here in a LONG ass time, lol.

[emtran]

Braytonia has a turbo'd na for sale. 92 with a 95 in it, iirc. Hes asking 8k but its a clean car if you ask me.

[emmi]

Originally Posted by tougetofu

Looks fake as Fuck. Two miatas in the background just Chillin huh.

Originally Posted by Detonator

I posted this a while back; here's the story:

I rolled my '01 Crystal Blue in April. No roll bar. I got my head and face gouged and cut up BAD, and came real close to bleeding to death pinned upside down in the car. Hospital, 7 weeks off work, and now facing 1 to 2 years of facial plastic surgery to repair the bloody meat that the trauma team did their best to sew up. Nasty. (Update: 3 surgeries so far, 9 weeks off work total.) And with all that, I was extremely, extremely lucky. Should have died or worse. When I replace my Miata, it will have a roll bar, period. No hurry, because I can't be out in the sun for the next couple years.

As others have said, Miatas are hard to roll over, but they'll obediently do it when the laws of physics say they must. All it takes is a small mistake, or lapse in attention, in the wrong place. In my case, it was the wrong line through a downhill hairpin, getting one wheel off the edge of the road, causing the right side of the car to go up a mountainside. I don't remember the flip. All I know is I slid on the asphalt with a ton of Miata strapped to my back, leaving about a 12-foot skidmark of blood and skin and tissue on the road. The windshield folded down flat. I'm about 6 feet tall, and the seatbelt and the 01's high seatbacks somehow kept me from breaking my neck, but they couldn't protect me from getting hacked up real good.

I had considered the argument that a roll bar can cause rear-of-head injury in a rear-ender, and that you'll probably never roll a Miata. There's some merit to that, but from my experience, I'll never drive the twisties again without a roll bar. The answer might be different for those whose driving is mostly in traffic, but for me, the answer is the tallest bar that will clear the soft top, with real good padding and/or tall seats from an '01 or later Miata.

---Detonator

Originally Posted by Detonator

Actually, the blood wasn't really the main point of the photo, it was to show the geometry of the situation and how little room you have under a flipped Miata without a rollbar. That, and the visual of the Miata upside down, something so out of the ordinary that maybe we unconsciously tend to believe it can't happen. There's always a lot of theory and speculation on this issue, and my purpose in responding to this thread was to provide some hard evidence from personal experience. I feel a kinship with fellow Miata owners and I really want to prevent others from ending up on the wrong side of the odds.

y dont u go to m.net and argue with detonator how that accident did not happen.

[emmi]

Originally Posted by MxALBERT

What's up fellas in kicking around the idea of getting myself into another miata

Anyone got a lead on a good 5 speed no salvaged one ?

Prefer NA

get them while they're still clean! the quality in used ones are getting shittier and shittier

[MxALBERT]

Originally Posted by JonB

Holy shit! What's up Albert! Haven't seen you in here in a LONG ass time, lol.

Yeah it's been about 2 years looking for another commuter but miss the simple miata seriously a no BS car

Originally Posted by emtran

Braytonia has a turbo'd na for sale. 92 with a 95 in it, iirc. Hes asking 8k but its a clean car if you ask me.

Yikes that's about 6k out my price range

[batou]

^ it's def. a nice car. I checked out his car.
Welcome back!

Originally Posted by tougetofu

Haha i know just felt like talking about random hooplah. Stupid kids these days.

Damn jay chill out were just screwing around. Haha.

Do I know you?

[Dicker]

DO I KNOW YOU MOTHERFUCKER??????

[batou]

Originally Posted by Dicker

DO I KNOW YOU MOTHERFUCKER??????

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU????????????????????

[Mexican_Guy]

Originally Posted by emmi

y dont u go to m.net and argue with detonator how that accident did not happen.

damm :S

just to read the quote you post make me fell scarred, i never ben in any type of accident, but that experience make me think twice about the roll bars.. i need one a.s.p.

[JonB]

Originally Posted by SilentBerserk

damm :S

just to read the quote you post make me fell scarred, i never ben in any type of accident, but that experience make me think twice about the roll bars.. i need one a.s.p.

At least our cars come with some sort of stock roll bar-ish setup. But I'm about 5'8", and with the seat in the lowest position, I failed the broomstick test =(. That's why I ended up getting a AWR/Goodwin double hoop.

[dreaminghana]

OMG. Manny Is SOOOOOOOO Awesome. I Love him sooooo much, but dont tell Jo. He fixed my computer for me, and i now have two computers to surf on. My job hunt is going to be twice as productive.

[Neocataboi]

Originally Posted by dreaminghana

OMG. Manny Is SOOOOOOOO Awesome. I Love him sooooo much, but dont tell Jo. He fixed my computer for me, and i now have two computers to surf on. My job hunt is going to be twice as productive.

Aww!

[jdmcwestevo]

hey do any of you guys have a NB around the Malibu or SFV area? if you are please PM me thanks

[Pak]

anyone else got roadster back syndrome?

[Conundrum]

Like a hurting back??? WAT

[sirpriz]

i found a r-package in vegas.. spend 2 hours on the phone with the guy last night talking about the car, he takes pictures, tells me he will email in the morning, told me he wouldnt show the car until i saw the pictures, i told him id fly out first thing in the morning... he wont answer my call until this afternoon, and tells me that he sold it this morning, and that i was asking to much of him too take more pictures (that he already took and told me hed be happy to) Fml... this is the 3rd clean miata that ive gotten douched out of...

[Ben/brg]

Still better than giving a douche money. No matter how nice a product is, if the seller is a dick, I lose all interest in buying.

[Conundrum]

Originally Posted by Ben/brg

Still better than giving a douche money. No matter how nice a product is, if the seller is a dick, I lose all interest in buying.

Easily.

[perzbenz]

a car just came in for a smog. it was clicking bad...then i saw it had a missing oilcap and zero oil. owned!

[jdmcwestevo]

Originally Posted by perzbenz

a car just came in for a smog. it was clicking bad...then i saw it had a missing oilcap and zero oil. owned!

ouch lol same thing happened to a dirtbike that showed up to my garage it was making tons of engine noise i checked the oil and sure enough not even showing on dip stick haha

[jerjozwik]

sigh... i killed my elantra that way. car had a lot of miles on it. and i was in the middle of a home renovation. was too distracted with working on the house everyday that i skipped an oil change... and ran out of oil.

tick tick tick tick tick.. its ok, cuz now i gots a miata!

[perzbenz]

my VIP bunny

[batou]

i fucking hate bunnies.

edit: let me preface that -

They were cute, until my gf got one, and it shit everywhere.