Miata Mailing List: November 1994, Message #7
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   From: Tim Lawson 
Subject: Re: DAILY digest of "miata" mailing list (part 1 of 1)
   Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 08:42:50 -0500

>When I went out for lunch today I was greeted by another
>white Miata parked two slots down from mine.  The license
>plate was "MEOW-TA" from Mass.  I was curious if it belonged
>to anyone from the net?  I know someone had compiled a list
>of plates, but I don't seem to have saved it!
>
>Mike

I've seen the MEOW-TA Miata regularly here in the garage at Lotus (Cambridge 
MA). I'll try and track down the owner and post details.

I've got an '89 White Miata (actually August 88) with 78K miles and the 
original Jackson Cold Air Induction System with the glow wire mass air flow 
sensor. Until about 2 weeks ago I was getting lousy perfromance - no power at 
low revs and stumbling. Lester Seal (ace technician at Wellesley Mazda) tracked 
it down to to a dirty connection in the four-pin plug on the air flow sensor. 
Cleaned up the performance is back to normal. This makes me wonder if any of 
the other intermittment roughness experienced by other people is connected with 
the performance of any of the ECM sensors. Yes I have replaced the ignition 
cables.

Does the Jackson system make a difference to performance? Yes but only at 
extremes. About two years ago I went to the Miata Drivers school at the 
Bridgehampton Circuit on Long Island. There were many flavours of Miata there. 
One guy had all the suspension mods you could think of and was fast through 
corners. However there is a long uphill with a full 180 bend and I could always 
get away from him up the hill. In day to day driving it doesn't make a 
significant difference.

Tim Lawson
Founder Member Mass Miata