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Originally Posted by bvanlieu
The miata has a very light clutch, and the take up point is mid stroke: as stated above you don't have to rev a lot to shift one. Its pretty easy to pick up fast.
Clutchless shifting is not something one needs to ever do unless you completely lose the slave cylinder and need to limp home: I would not spend much time on this, just look for signs of failing slave (harder to get into gear): they can fail on the miata, its a $60 part easy to swap out in < 1 hr.
Don't go mod crazy for a while. Best things to do:
1. Find a good alignment shop (miata are low to the ground, some shops don't have gear for cars that low) that will align to your spec and bring an aggressive 'Lanny' alignment or similar. $200 or perhaps less
2. Tires tires tires
3. If you get bitten by the miata bug, the stock shocks if not Bilstein are slowly dying, think of some Koni's
4. Drive drive drive
Slamming them, stiff springs what have you really can upset the fine balance of the car stock. Yes it has some lean, but that is by design...suckers will grip just fine with the right alignment and tires.  To do lowering right, you have to also have enough travel and replace more parts then just springs and shocks (Flyin' Miata catalog is a great shopping tool, but will hurt your wallet a tad: my recommended shop however
Enjoy the drive,
- b |
Thank you for the tips! What is a Lanny alignment, by the way? Is that a Miata specific type of alignment?