Miata Mailing List: September 1997, Message #46
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From: 	"Helio de Oliveira" <np18pa@mail.telepac.pt>

Subject: Re: M2 center console kit?

Date: 	Mon, 1 Sep 1997 12:40:37 +0000



> Anyway, has anyone ever seen a kit to convert the Miata's center console

> to that of an M2 Miata?  (See page 71 of Jay Lamm's "Miata Universe" for

> a picture, next to a picture of another non-R blue R package, with power

> mirrors.)  The center console "box" is gone, replaced with a piece of

> carpeting that covers the transmission hump.  The radio/HVAC panel

> simply cuts off at the bottom where the box would have started, and the

> shifter has a nice little ring screwing the shift boot to the hump.  The

> kit would work only with crank-window Miatas (there's nowhere for the

> power window switches to go).  But it would be easy to replicate, it

> seems.  Not to mention bitchin'.  Anyone?



Zoom Engineering, in Japan, does that item ! You can contact Tetuzo Fuji at

fujii184@ga2.so-net.or.jp



I think it costs aroud 50,000 JPY...or $420 USD !



> The M2 shown also has a bad-ass Momo steering wheel (three-spoke,

> leather-wrapped with a yellow stripe at the top).  Can one buy this

> exact wheel in America?  I love the yellow stripe.



I think you can find that, at any MOMO dealer ! MOMO has two or three

models with the stitched yellow stripe !



How's the miata search, BTW ???



Regards



Helio de Oliveira

'93 Silver

BEGI 3...at almost 15psi 

"at 200mph, you have no friends..."