The Sharka Blog

Roadster Garage – Sharka Feature

Sharka poses for Roadster Garage

I’ve been promising Adam over at Roadster Garage some photos and text about Sharka for quite a while now. Like, months. Like, I’m embarrassed it took me so long to send him photos. However, the feature finally came together when I had a clean car on a free afternoon and decent light to shoot with.

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Vintage Lotus Advertising

A few choice selections from the LotusElan.net library. No Miata content, but lots of gorgeous vintage illustrations.

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Air Compressor Drain Valve Mod

$30 worth of stuff to fix the $3 problem

700 words on replacing a broken air compressor drain valve with a totally awesome ball valve. Because what’s better than spending $30 to fix a $3 broken part? Not much, my friends, not much.

Except for doing all of this with the help of a small robotic scorpion.

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The Hardtop Security Project – part 2

Security bolts to prevent the top striker from being unbolted.

The 2nd part of my hardtop security project. I’ve got rare bolts from the UK, bolt specs that you can use on your own car, and lots of pix.

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Miata Soft Top Removal

Do yourself a favor and remove the driver's seat before anything else.

This is sort of a required step on my road to hardtop-only motoring. It didn’t seem like there was much information out there on this. There’s a ton of pages dealing with Miata soft top replacement, but not much on how to make a car look good with no soft top whatsoever. So, if you want to lose 37-42 lbs and turn your roadster into a speedster, read on.

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Soft Top Boot Mods

Slice this seam. That's about it.

I received a couple comments about my hacked up boot (what we call the vinyl cover for the soft top here in the States) after my last post, so I thought I’d give a quick how-to before I remove the soft top and render the boot useless. There’s not a whole lot to this mod. Still, a half hour of searching on miata.net revealed that there was not a lot of info out there about this.

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Ode to a Hardtop

Perfect weather. Yet I still miss my hardtop.

Every winter for as long as I’ve been a hardtop owner, I’ve dreaded it. The hardtop. Being closed in. The squeaks, the rattles, the confinement.

The fiberglass prison….

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Expired Polaroids

Exposure 1 - macro of a little flowering bush

Expired Polaroids? Yeah. Vintage photographic magic that was good to the last ca-click-wurrrrr. (Very little automotive content. Just little rectangles.)

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Rev9 M2-1002 Pedal Install

M2-1002 pedals installed. Wanna see how?

Hot on the heels of the 1002-style pedal review, comes an installation manual! For the same pedals!!! Those with too much free time on their hands will love it.

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Rev9 M2-1002 Style Pedal Review

1002-style pedals straight out of the package

The winter weather has eaten into my car blogging. Not much desire to go out into a cold garage and twiddle with cold tools. BUT!!!! Spring has sprung. Time for a parts review. This time, it’s a set of Rev9’s 1002-style pedals.

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