Miata Mailing List: May 1995, Message #76
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   From: dkkim@uiuc.edu (David K. Kim)
Subject: Facia lights/Cold air induction/stripped-down miatas/torpedoes
   Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 16:09:08 -0400

Facia lights:
Thanks for all the info on the rationale behind red lights...
I wonder if the night-vision concern for auto drivers came from a time when
roads were less crowded and you only needed to see the landscape (even on
country roads around here there's always someone aiming a rack of halogen
bug-burners at me).

Maybe I will stick with the stock light colors, after all.

Cold air induction:
Ever since I saw this idea I've been wanting to try building one myself
from scratch.  Has anyone else tried this yet?  My concern was mainly not
making it worse by screwing up the beneficial resonances the shop manual
claims are designed into the stock system.  I don't know if this would be
as simple as varying the length or width of any added air pipe.
A "quicker throttle response" would be nice in any case, and would add to
day-to-day enjoyment, even leaving aside a lack of power.

Stripped-down-miatas:
Has anyone with power steering and AC attempted to deactivate their power
steering?  Someone mentioned this here about a year or so ago.  First
problem is that the belt in question powers both AC and PS, so I'd have to
get a shorter one.
Would this mod. increase the "tightness" of the steering, or just the effort? :)
Could it conceivably cause damage?

Submarines/torpedoes:
Yeah, torpedoes would be nice.  I'm continually harassed by pugnacious
drivers around here in their beat-up Oldsmobuick sedans with tinted windows
and jacked rear suspension who seem to have something to prove to people in
"cute" cars.  Sigh.  Strangely, the people with nicely tricked-out
corvettes and 3000GT VR-4's don't seem to be trying to prove anything.
Gee, I wonder why? :)

I'm going to go look at my green facia panel lights.
                                                -Dave

    David K. Kim                                 dkkim@uiuc.edu
"Next to knowing when to sieze an opportunity, the most important thing
  in life is to know when to forego an advantage."  -Benjamin Disraeli