Slow Progress
Finally got some primer on the car, definitely make it alot easier to look at!
Roadster Collective @ Le Mons 2012?
It’s definitely been quite sometime since our last post! With school, work, startups, and life, we are all busy with what seems to be everything leaving little or no time for this blog. I hope to change that in the coming months with a new goal.
Barney the Project Miata is still sitting at the shop waiting for a roll cage, driveline, and all the goodies. My new goal for both Roadster Collective and Barney is to have us ready and racing at the Chuckwalla 24 Hours of Le Mons event December 8. Watch this space for more updates, photos, and video in the coming months!
Epic Drives: Audi R8 in Norway
Found this video on my daily Youtube browsing and this roadtrip video caught my. Excellent footage and photography of a beautiful Audi R8 Spyder in some of the best roads of Norway. We hope to have a roadtrip video for you guys soon! Enjoy!
Video: Love for Life by Antti Kalhola
This short video by Antti Kalhola helps remind us why we do what we are most passionate about in life whether it is racing or something else. Check out his other motorsport videos at:
2012: A Fresh Start
With 2012 a mere five hours away, its nice to be able to look back at this past year and notice the progress that we’ve made with the Roadster Collective project. Early this fall we solidified our business plan and started towards launching our website. We’ve been working on design layouts, logos, and the overall function of the site. I’m very excited with the amount of potential the new year brings.
The holidays have left us with little time to work on Barney [our project car] lately but the body is nearly ready for paint. To keep things simple, we’ll be going with a white paint job. I’ve been working on livery ideas and I would definitely love to have R2 Limited’s rocker stripes integrated into the over livery of our car.
Pictures and more updates soon to come. Happy New Year everyone!
Barney’s Engine
Hope everyone had a great holiday! Yesterday we checked the endplay and bearings on the 1.6 we tore down last week and things look pretty good. Not much else to do here, so we will be moving on to the head with port polishing and servicing the valves.
Montego and Fall Colors
There are just some colors that work perfect with Montego Blue NAs.
Miata on Fire?
While my NB was at Robbins for testing, I was driving Devin’s spare car around Santa Barbara. After all the abuse we gave it, Beater decided that it had enough and that it would go out with a bang, oh and it did. I threw a connecting rod [or two] punching out giant holes in the block and oil pan. To top it off, the car caught fire but luckily it didn’t take the car with it. Good times!
Devin’s cool trailer setup (more on that later)
The fire was hot enough in the rear to do some damage.
Note the giant hole where the oil pan normally is.
Something isn’t right here….
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Ruben Sarino
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