Last Days for the Green Frog

The Green Frog, which is the Miata whose motor died is now in Colorado, Grand Junction to be exact, getting a Year 2000 Miata engine installed. So the Green Frog goes from a 227 HP (Dyno rear wheels) to a stock engine with about a 110 HP output (rated 142 HP). Not fun anymore. Hope the salvaged engine works! Bought it from Farm Floyd who bids on salvaged autos and sells the parts.

Would you know that the day he shipped the engine I purchased off to Grand Junction, he got in a 2005(?) Miata with a supercharger! I could have used the power! I plan to sell the Green Frog or trade it in for a sensible four door, 4 cylinder, automatic tranny, compact sedan. No more turbo charging for me.

Flyin Miata was willing (for a price) to build a motor with an output over 300 HP at the rear wheels, talk about power. Would burn off the 205/50X15 tires easily. Just for a few bucks! Well a lot of bucks, about 15,000 of them. I will have to go with that 4 door sedan.

New Post, New Year

Year 2006 was a rough year for me. My appendix went bad requiring emergency surgery (you should see the scar!) and 6 weeks later my gall bladder went bad, requiring more surgery. Then something left in the appendicitis surgery require another cut to take that out. No, it wasn't a sponge or scaple.

Earlier in 2006 my dog Sassy died. Cancer took her after fighting it for 4 months, we finally had to put her down since the cancer was blocking her windpipe. Broke my heart because she was MY dog and I was very close to her.

After my gall bladder surgery, we found a sheltie at the local animal shelter and adopted that 1 year old puppy. That's Ralphie in the phote above. Ralphie has been instrumental in making me do my walking exercises and I have recovered pretty well.

In December of 2006, I took a consulting job at a company in Newport Beach. Originally it was to take around 40 to 60 hours, but it will take triple that time due to Murphy's Law.

My days of autocross driving has come to an end with my unstable stomach area (held together with stitches) and my Miata's engine went. The thrust bearings gave out and destroyed some of the rod bearings along with damaging the engine block. Oh well, time for a new car anyway.

Can't take the racing suspension of the built up Miata anymore. I will post more ramblings while I search for a replacement car.

So far 2007 seems to be working out. Lets see how this year plays out.