{"id":8,"date":"2011-11-11T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T01:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destinationssm.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-11-11T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T02:34:18","slug":"the-project-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"The Project Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you reading this will know, I’ve been working on a KL-DE-based Miata for SSM (starting with Mark Snell’s KLiata) since March 2011 or so. \u00a0Due to numerous issues with the build, I recently started researching going a completely different direction for a new build. \u00a0Several things had nearly simultaneously become apparent to me, independently: the KLiata was too heavy, and that I didn’t need a KL to make the power levels I was looking for. \u00a0So, the search began for a new car to start with.<\/p>\n

I started looking for 1.6 cars with ABS. \u00a0I searched up and down the west coast. \u00a0I found a few that looked vaguely interesting (but nothing really “right”), and started communicating with the sellers. \u00a0I’d started to get a short list when, on a frustrated Facebook post of mine, Davin appeared out of nowhere to offer his car for sale to me. \u00a0I checked it out today — weighed it and inspected it in the dark parking lot of building 33 at Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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It looked good to me, so we agreed on a price. \u00a0This weekend he will upgrade to Dennis Hannah’s STS Miata (Peter Umino’s build) and I will pick up his car and start my new build. \u00a0The motor has a blown head gasket (among other potential issues) and the top has a major tear, but that’s pretty much the point, since I don’t want either the motor or the top, so it was a pretty perfect candidate.<\/p>\n

I didn’t keep a running blog of the build of the KLiata, which I later lamented, so I’m going to rectify that with the new build, and start documenting it from square one. \u00a0This is at least as much for my records as anything else, but hopefully others will enjoy it. \u00a0My friends Brian and Duncan are also going to be helping me with the project, mostly with the custom suspension bits we’re going to be building, and they’ll be posting here as well. \u00a0I’ve also started a Wiki that will be where we keep the majority of our project documentation. \u00a0I don’t really want to keep much of anything secret, so there will eventually be pretty detailed plans in there for future people to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As most of you reading this will know, I’ve been working on a KL-DE-based Miata for SSM (starting with Mark Snell’s KLiata) since March 2011 or so. \u00a0Due to numerous issues with the build, I recently started researching going a completely different direction for a new build. \u00a0Several things had nearly simultaneously become apparent to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directedconsulting.com\/destinationssm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}