Miata Mailing List: May 1997, Message #86
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From: 	David Okamoto <davo@lsil.com>

Subject: Re: '93 vs. '94

Date: 	Thu, 1 May 1997 12:30:59 -0500



Optocoopta@aol.com wrote:

> 

> Dan

> I appreciate your comments, but I was wondering if the springs are different.

> Mazda may have raised the car when they went to the bigger engine, as Bill of

> Dealer Alternative has suggested. I've been shopping for replacement springs

> for my '95, and NOBODY has asked me what year I have.





Dan and others who may be interested, I asked Tommy at Roebuck about

various springs available for different model year Miatas, thinking that

I might be able to get a set of springs from an earlier model Miata to

lower the ride height on my '95. His reply was that the only different

springs are for automatic vs. manual transmission models, otherwise they

appear to be interchangeable from one year model to another.  Obviously,

later models kept getting higher and higher, my '95 for example, so

Mazda must have elevated the spring perches on the car, rather than

different springs, which is difficult to believe.  Either that or Tommy

is wrong (heaven forbid!).



I have Tokico springs which have effectively reduced the gaping space

between the top of the tire and the wheel wells and also have enhanced

the handling (along with Tokico HP shocks and Jackson sway bars), but in

considering going to a low profile, high performance tire on a larger

wheel, I have some concerns that the ride quality might suffer to the

extent that it might become very uncomfortable.



Any thoughts/other solutions?



Dave  

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Dave Okamoto

LSI Logic Corporation

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