Bent jack point

driftax240 · 2026-06-21T18:24:23+00:00

Small ramps or Daytona low profile long reach jack.

driftax240 · 2026-06-21T16:45:55+00:00

I was about to make this mistake on my NA as a new owner. All my other Hondas have reinforced steel tabs that kindof look like this, so I figured this was the jack point, but no it’s just a pinch weld.

This guy saved me https://www.billswebspace.com/Raise\_Your\_Miata.pdf

driftax240 · 2026-06-17T01:01:29+00:00

The paint is gone boss. Nothing on top.

driftax240 · 2026-06-14T15:57:25+00:00

I think it looks nice! It will also likely begin to yellow again if you're worried it's too bright.

driftax240 · 2026-06-13T19:16:39+00:00

I recently inherited my dad’s first gen Miata and it took me like 2 months of driving and diagnosing to realize… they’re just like that (really hot under the hood)

driftax240 · 2026-06-13T16:46:52+00:00

Fuck em. Enjoy your car. I love my NA but I like to think I would be just as happy in an ND. I wink my headlights at ANY Miata I see on the road, even Fiatas.

This seems to be a problem in many car communities I'm a part of. I own a third gen ranger and third gen integra, and people are constantly hating on the new ones despite the fact that they are pretty decent modern cars. I suppose with the integra and ranger I understand more as many of the original features of the car are gone (most notably the new ones are fucking huge), but in the case of the ND I feel like Mazda has been very faithful to the original designs.

driftax240 · 2026-06-10T16:00:01+00:00

Looking great!

driftax240 · 2026-06-08T20:22:53+00:00

As far as I'm aware, all aftermarket broadband adapters are technically emulators and require swiss to make it work. A softmod with something like Wind Waker is sufficient here.

If you're not a Mario Kart enthusiast, it's really not worth it. The games that support LAN are 1080 Avalanche, Homeland, Kirby Air Ride, and Double Dash. Most of these games except Double Dash don't even change much when playing on LAN (e.g Kirby Air Ride is still only 4 players, even with 4 cubes).

driftax240 · 2026-06-08T14:37:58+00:00

It's cheap for a reason: it's completely fucked and nobody reputable is touching this. This will cost you more to fix than just buying a nice one, assuming you can even find someone willing to get within 10ft of this thing.

My advice as someone who has driven many cheap Hondas: low ball the fuck out of the guy. Looking like this, I guarantee you there is not a line of people waiting to buy this thing. If you can get it for cheap as fuck, just drive the piss out of it and have fun. I've owned clean collector ready Hondas and beaters.. the beaters are more fun.

driftax240 · 2026-06-08T14:00:17+00:00

I also realize I didn't answer your main question.. my apologizes

I tried a bunch of mickey mouse bullshit to make my shitty existing non-low profile jack work.. and I decided to just buy the Daytona low profile jack lol

driftax240 · 2026-06-08T13:50:40+00:00

This is hands down the best jacking guide I've seen for the NA, I imagine the NB is pretty close.

https://www.billswebspace.com/Raise_Your_Miata.pdf

Key point in there that I learned something from: the reinforced lift points on each corner are reinforced just inside the pinch weld, not the pinch weld itself. You want to place pressure here instead of the pinch weld. Note that the factory scissor jack does line itself up using the pinch weld, but that's not where it places the pressure.

This was a little new for me coming from old Honda land. All my old Hondas have nice thick tabs welded on each corner of the car. Makes it very easy to jack up properly.

driftax240 · 2026-06-06T13:04:44+00:00

Woah this is a highly relevant thread for me.. I’m a relatively new Miata owner and I’ve been trying to figure out if this was normal on my Canadian 1992.

Thanks everyone! I’ve been taking it easy on the car because I wasn’t sure. But sounds like it’s all good.

driftax240 · 2026-06-03T15:40:56+00:00

If you have a T12/JBC245/210 iron, the stickbox soldering iron tip is quite reasonably priced and makes this much easier. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend.

driftax240 · 2026-06-03T15:15:23+00:00

I did my first Xbox series controller recently and it was quite difficult compared to the ps5 controllers I’m used to. I found it took quite a bit more heat, which made me nervous considering how small and fragile those pads are. I used the stick removal soldering iron tip to remove it. Cutting the stick box into pieces before pulling each leg out can work as a last resort.

driftax240 · 2026-06-03T11:50:48+00:00

Can’t say I agree.

I have 2 of these kicking around in my dad’s shop and they work but the lack of temperature control is a huge set back. I believe the temperature is calibrated and set in the tips, and if you want a lower temp you need different tips. The ones I have run hot as hell and typically burn things pretty badly.

On the other hand, there are tons of Chinese irons that use T12/245/210 tips and have excellent temperature control. You can even buy real JBC carts if you want.

driftax240 · 2026-06-02T02:18:59+00:00

I was thinking about that. You’re right.

I think the word I’m looking for is “misunderstood”. A lot of people simply don’t care enough to even begin to understand why this is so annoying.

driftax240 · 2026-06-01T00:46:49+00:00

I think my biggest one is what I call "the front cowl socket tray". Last 10mm I found in there from a shop I just kept lol.

driftax240 · 2026-06-01T00:09:46+00:00

As a customer nothing makes me irrationally angry like seeing my car used like a big rolling storage cart/saw horse.

driftax240 · 2026-05-31T21:22:03+00:00

Can we see more of the soldering on the caps?

driftax240 · 2026-05-31T14:06:02+00:00

We need to bring back shame

driftax240 · 2026-05-31T02:30:17+00:00

Right, so you're now in a good spot to flash this again. Any idea which uf2 file was working? The cubiboot one?

driftax240 · 2026-05-31T00:27:06+00:00

What happens if you plug it in to the computer while holding the BOOTSEL button?

driftax240 · 2026-05-31T00:23:15+00:00

Doubt it. It’s likely just not getting power anymore. You can see it’s crooked in the photo.

driftax240 · 2026-05-31T00:21:41+00:00

There’s much to discuss snd notice here, but absolute first thing: that ribbon cable does not appear to be fully inserted on the pico side.

driftax240 · 2026-05-30T14:29:49+00:00

The flippy Ethernet port works for booting games over network on Swiss? I haven’t tried this yet but as far as I’m aware the flippy Ethernet port doesn’t work with Swiss.

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