have you weighed the power leather vs cloth manual seat? I'd love to see how much lighter they are. When I pulled the leather ones out of my car they were back breaking.
have you weighed the power leather vs cloth manual seat? I'd love to see how much lighter they are. When I pulled the leather ones out of my car they were back breaking.
Not an e46, but the manual vaders on my e36 M3 ...
oldrotarydriver wrote: Lightness is all well and good, but the pic of the Miata battery makes me sweat. Optical delusions aside, is there any way that retainer is insulated, or can't make contact to the posts if the battery shifts?
This is the FACTORY setup. I literally took out the giant 60 lb battery, put a hockey puck on top of the 20 lb Miata battery and screwed it back in to the exact same spot with the exact same hardware.
klodkrawler05 wrote: have you weighed the power leather vs cloth manual seat? I'd love to see how much lighter they are. When I pulled the leather ones out of my car they were back breaking.
The cloth/manual are "heavy."
The leather/power are "really heavy."
The forums claim 25-35 lbs per seat difference.
Ricky Spanish wrote:oldrotarydriver wrote: Lightness is all well and good, but the pic of the Miata battery makes me sweat. Optical delusions aside, is there any way that retainer is insulated, or can't make contact to the posts if the battery shifts?This is the FACTORY setup. I literally took out the giant 60 lb battery, put a hockey puck on top of the 20 lb Miata battery and screwed it back in to the exact same spot with the exact same hardware.
I think oldrotarydriver is referring to the new battery having the two posts much closer to each other than the factory battery. From the picture it looks like they are almost touching the hold down.
If you had to use a hockey puck, I am sure they are not as close as they look.
Slippery wrote:Ricky Spanish wrote:I think oldrotarydriver is referring to the new battery having the two posts much closer to each other than the factory battery. From the picture it looks like they are almost touching the hold down. If you had to use a hockey puck, I am sure they are not as close as they look.oldrotarydriver wrote: Lightness is all well and good, but the pic of the Miata battery makes me sweat. Optical delusions aside, is there any way that retainer is insulated, or can't make contact to the posts if the battery shifts?This is the FACTORY setup. I literally took out the giant 60 lb battery, put a hockey puck on top of the 20 lb Miata battery and screwed it back in to the exact same spot with the exact same hardware.
That is what I was looking at, and pardon the "optical delusion" quip. The angle of the photo makes it look like the hold-down clamp bar can make contact with the battery posts if the battery moves in the slightest. The gap to the positive post is what prompted the comment. If the clamp has a path to ground, it looks like a fire in the making if the battery managed to shift and tag the + post.
Aha! Thanks for the concern. No, not gonna die today. More updates forthcoming as the car evolves.
Ricky, any pointers you're willing to share on ride height? I'm in the middle of attempting to get an alignment for autox and stuff a 18x10 square set up on my E46 M3. So far what I've seen on forums is 13.5F/13.0R, which would provide about 3/4" of rake. I'm shooting for -3.5* camber in the front and -2.0 in the rear. I may need to add a 5mm spacer up front to clear the spring perch. Any sage wisdom you could share would be appreciated!
Running the Motons I'm at max ride height in the rear (which is next to nothing) AND a small spacer to get a little more height in the rear, and from there a slight rake in the front - I haven't measured on the ground. I had the car corner balanced on scales at the local shop with the following weights:
FL 832 FR 890 RL 878 RR 876
To provide further updates:
I ran with CNY SCCA and wound up with 1st in class, 3rd/53 raw I then ran with FLR SCCA and wound up with 1st in class, 2nd/98 raw (lost to the B-mod)
I am not an alien driver. The car is insanely fast.
Looks awesome and sounds great!
I'm in Syracuse, I'll be seeing you at future events I'm sure. I couldn't make that CNY event because my car was stuck at Cantech, but I'm planning on coming out to the 6/11 event. That will be my first event in this car, so I'm excited to see what it can do.
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