Roll Cages Form the Foundation of a Proper Racecar

A good cage provides more than just safety. It’s the foundation upon which a racing car is built. A good cage strengthens the weaker...

Project Spec E46: Rear Suspension and Other Details

Before reassembling the rear subframe on a Spec E46, you must weld in a rear subframe reinforcement kit. I sourced mine from Condor Speed...

How to Build a Spec3 From a Donor

In the interest of furthering renewed interest in Spec3, the series leader and series director put together a constructors guide for those interested in...

Project Spec E46: Rear Subframe, Differential and Fuel Tank

With the cage freshly in the car and the car up on jack stands for the first of a thousand times, it’s starting to...

Beating Exhaust Heat

The factory downpipe from the manifold on NA and NB Mazda Miatas is wrapped with shielding and packed with insulation to keep the heat...

Project Spec E46: Installing the Roll Cage

Anytime you source out work to a shop, you are on their time schedule, not yours. You are not their only customer, you see,...

Project Spec E46: Sourcing and Stripping a Car

A few years ago, I wrote a series on building a Spec E30 as an average guy, doing a home build in his garage....

Spec MX5 vs Spec Miata

Typically, two of the costs an ambitious driver must contend with when moving up into a faster vehicle is greater complexity and a more...

Installing a Trunk Lid Spring Latch Kit on a Spec E46

So many videos and pictorials involving the modification or building of a race/track car are available out there to educate people on how to...

Developing and Installing the Suspension for a Spec MX-5

If the NC MX-5 Miata stands out from its predecessors in terms of power and size, it should be remembered that it boasts some...

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