Building a Rocket Bunny Miata on a budget
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- First off welcome to my channel! Here is a walkaround of my first ever project car that is very special to me my NA Mazda Miata. The Miata is equipped with a Rocket Bunny Pandem widebody kit and is sitting on some Work Miester Cr01 wheels. I hope you guys enjoy the tour of the car and it helps answer some important questions that you may have when it comes to going widebody!
10+ year Miata owner chiming in: Those are stock tail lights. The only difference between a 1.6 and a 1.8 engine/exhaust is the headers are in a slightly difference position causing the headers and the cat to be slightly off. Use adhesive foam insulation stripping from Home Depot on all of the surfaces your door cars touch to reduce the rattling. Swap in an OEM MAF, it'll make your car run better and it'll look a lot better.
That's about my dream Miata right there. Clean, dressed in white, nice and wide 👌🏻
Super excited to watch your channel grow, outstanding breakdown, thank you for being honest about all the little nuances and outlining your specs in detail. Can’t wait to see more content, would be cool to see a few minutes of your POV driving it, changing gears, maybe a Bogus rip?!? Keep filming and making vlogs, Jimmy!
Beautiful car. I love the sound of this budget engine. ❤
Recently got a 91 Miata from some people who didn’t really know much for 3.6k and so far we fixed dn all the issues it had. We did all the main Seals and belts and pumps, oil change, and recently got a new steering wheel set up. Soft top has a little tear but eh that can be fixed. The pain job is terrible and the wide body they did is terrible but that can be fixed. It was running double spacers in front and back (I took off a spacer in the fronts) and as of rn I just need wheels, tires, and wrap, and of course a new motor for the flippy lights and she’ll be good as new. Oh and an exhaust with a cutout so when I want to be loud I can
Que hermoso auto y su body kit le queda estupendo ❤ lo que más me gustó es como le quedó el techo, firme me parece excelente 😊 cuídalo mucho por favor!
Happiest Car in The World award
Keep it up dawg! Can’t wait for the s13 break down and sharkfest video Welll done
man thats a mad clean build!
Very informative and interesting! Love the rocket bunny miata!
Thank you!
Hey man wazup like your sweet ride on your CZcams video 💯 💯 🏆 🏆 @@JimmyRigs_
put some light strength lock tight on the door card screws, and get a strip of sound deadening on the aluminum panel to fix the rattle
WE ARE GONNA CRASH ON A SPEED BUMP WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
thats amazing bro! looks clean
Thank you!
This things is beaut, nice job.
Thank you!
Sick! You’re going far brother
Thank you!
So cool to see more people from idaho! I feel like we totally get forgotten up here when it comes to car content
Haha you’re not wrong hopefully I can help change that!
Great car & (soon) great channel. Best of luck to you!
Right on brotha , I dig the build .. I'm also a 91 Miata owner sept I went nuts on boring n forging n port n polish n boosted on 30psi atm lol , great cars i daily mine ...I love how clean your car looks bro the wrap is nice ... N the wheels are fire .. much respect fam peace and love bro keep it rad stay safe and build on ... Ps on door cards get a super thin foam stripping n line the door at rattle or contact points n 5hat should do ya a solid fam ... L8z brotha
Super clean Miata bro👌🏽 earned a sub
Thanks!!
Great looking Miata!
Thank you!
Great quality content, subbed.
Much appreciated!
love the car bro ! also colour choice is mint
Thanks! Glad you like it!
at walmart you can go to the craft section and get some 2mm craft foam. you can just hot glue or super glue smal 1 inch by 1 inch squares to the metal wherever it is vibrating.
I 1.8 swapped my 1990 other than header the exhuast is 1.6 and sounds nice 👍
Nice car! I'm surprised only 1000 views 4 days in, for such a nicely done mod.
Thank you! It’s a new channel so I don’t expect anything crazy haha
Look forward to seeing more content.
Currently working on a walk around of my 240 so keep an eye out for that!
Nice Miata! You're very underrated
Thank you!
i was here in the beginning 😎
the bronze looks good idk what anyone else is tellin u thats heat
Nice build 👌🏼
Thank you!
Great video!
Thanks!
Try putting a rubber washer in between the bolts in the door card and the door. That would isolate the metal vibrating and resonating with each other.
Great idea I don’t know how I haven’t thought of that sooner haha time to order some thank you!
Cool car! Hopefully I’m able to keep up on your channel!!
Thank you Saul I hope you do!
If your rear housings are stock mine definitely arnt bc they're super dark but all the light goes through well
Also do they make door cards that don't have a crank hole in them bc one of the previous owners swapped it to power windows for whatever reason
Daammmm whats the wheel and tire combo the set looks like it fits the kit really good
I got a similar exhaust setup, they sound even better with a turbo
Awesome video.👍cant wait to see your channel grow and become more popular
It took me a lot of cutting/ bashing with a hammer, but i have 15x10.5 with a 245/40 in the front and can go full lock, took me about 2 hours to get it to work.
what offset are you running?
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Hey a very inpressive build! Wanted to ask which rims are those and which tires are those on the miata? Just started my journey with building one myselfe, so could help out a lot since your rims look so good. Anyways keep it up! 🙌🏻🤩
Thank you for the kind words and good luck with your build. The wheels are Work Cr01s and the tires are Federal 595 RS!
@JimmyRigs_ what size though?
@PurpMiat try watching the video he says. Put some effort in man.
lol you’ve literally got the rugs that I want in my car
Garage Moon Power!
What size wheels do yoy run with the widebody kit? And does it rub any?
Love your build btw
mialta is always the answers
Most of the time but sometimes it’s 240 ;)
Uh ohhh, another Rocket Bunney Miata on the Tube! Lol👌🏽
Haha yup!
This is sick! Im in boise too! Just bought my first car, and have been autocrossing it... you should come out to autocross sometime!!
Congrats on the 1st car! And I’d love to I hope they bring some sort of autocross event at the new track in Emmet!
@@JimmyRigs_ Oh yeah tha'd be legit!
Hey what spring length did you get? Struggling with fitment with my rocket bunny kit. 208 represent!
why does my guy have less than 700 subs? this video is better than most that have 100k+
Haha thank you I’m sure we will hit it someday!
Could we get a link for the headlight conversion kit?
Use hush mat on backside of door cards
I need to make a build video fr
I have a ‘90 Miata and I’m trying really hard to find where you linked the rocket bunny kit and the side skirt 😅
Update : I haven’t found it 😂
Would I be able to get a miata for under £5000? (UK) And would it be a good first car???
Dude you’re the friend I’d wanna hangout with after a breakup for some reason. Take our sub.
Haha I’ll take it thank you!
I’m 16 and have a 2001 Ford F250 power stroke but I’m working towards a Miata and building it just like yours
Nice dude that’s when I started you can definitely do it best of luck with the build!
I want to get a rocket bunny kit for my na but I also wanna get proper suspension. What is recommended in terms of coil overs for the rocket bunny kit? I can’t find an answer to my question anywhere 😂
I touched on this in the video around 16:40 but id recommend function and form type 2 coil overs with a swift or 326 power spring upgrade. Good luck on the build!
Can comfirm that the fake kits don’t fit well. But if you live outside of japan or usa, the included taxes and shipping make the price skyrocket so unless you’re loaded the rep kits which are waaaay cheaper (got mine for like 300$ without the ducktail and front lip) kinda make more sense, even that they are nightmare to fit.
There are AFM to IAT sensor adapters out there. Just search it up.
And who did the swap? There are some other things that can clean up that bay, it seems like a mix of jerry rig and proper Flyin' Miata 1.8 swap.
I did the swap when I was 16/17 and I prefer the term Jimmy rigged 😂 but yeah I agree I definitely need to take advantage of all the stuff I’ve learned since doing the swap way back then and clean it up.
No way, JIMBO!
Lookin dope. Whats the name of the site you got that seat off of?
It’s called GetJpn!
Put sound detaining on back of door cards
hardtop miatas look like mini supras to me lol
I’ve always thought it looks like an Apple mouse 😂
Love the car man, You've done an awesome job but you didn't tell us what its cost
Thanks I appreciate! I will add a build cost breakdown video to my list of stuff to film!
I have a miata myself and i have also looked into most of the stuff he has done to it so here’s my take-not including the miata itself
Rocket bunny kit i would like to say is around 2.5k-2.6k shipped? Not sure how much it cost today, i bought myself a 1.8 motorfor 1.6k, which sadly are going up even more since its harder to find them low milage, the ecu alone is 1.3k (for a megasquirt), the wheels…ah the wheels, i myself want to get some work meisters s1, but he has some work meister cr01s, but both alone, atleast for the miatas bolt pattern go for 1.6-1.7k shipped i wanna say, coilovers maybe are around 1-1.2k not sure about his brand but i know BCs go for that price, bucket seat maybe was around 5-700$, hardtops nowadays in good shape are 2k, racing beat headers are about 500$, exhaust is about the same maybe 600$, tires-i know the ones he has aren’t the best but the good for the price, maybe around 300 a set?
I think that’s about all i remember him listing, so adding all that together i got 12.5k just on cosmetics and some minor upgrades.
if he builds the motor and paints the car you can for sure add another 8-10k alone, turbo kits on miatas go for 2.5k new from flying miata alone, not including pistons and rods and whatver else he decides to upgrade, and a professional paintjob itself is 5k on a good deal. But for now i feel pretty confident saying he spent around 12-14k including the car, maybe a couple grand less since he built it before everything miata related went up in price
the airbrushed engine bay looks gud, tho.
Haha thanks maybe I’ll get it professionally painted the same color but with some clear over it so it won’t flake off
how would a 15 year old in high school get into the automotive industry? like trait schools, college type stuff, I don't know but What are other ways other than college route? I wanna build cars for the rest of my life, do you have any starting recommendation like any course, vids, textbooks?
I’d recommend learning a skill that has some sort of basis in the automotive industry and then grow connections from there to eventually get a job doing what you love. I hope that helps and good luck on your journey I know it can be scary trying to figure out how to navigate going into a career that you want to do for the rest of your life but you can definitely do it!
@@JimmyRigs_ theres gon be a need 4 speed.
Just to say I’m glad you weren’t gate keeping but withholding the spacer size is kind of gate keeping because now someone will be that spec and offset and still not fit… offset now changed because there’s a spacer involved….
what camera do you use
I use an A7Siii
What exhaust is that?
racing beat headers to manzo exhaust
How come everyone with a rocket bunny kit doesn’t have a soft top. I bet it would look good with the top down.
I personally don’t like the way it looks with the top down but I’ll take it off for a future video if you guys want to see what it looks like 😂
@@JimmyRigs_ I would like to see that!
Poseo uno MD 1998 tiene 45000 KMS originales,es una delicia de auto tiene un motor 1800 camina duro,es tragón de gasolina,pero vivo muy amañado.con el
Never seen this build at a meet yet?
I come out every once and a while most of the time I just don’t know about the meets that are happening haha
bro i thought the intro was from a game lol
Haha thanks!
Boise? i live in Nampa
the words rocket bunny and cheap almost are never in the same sentence
As someone who isnt a HUGE car guy, maybe someone can explain something too me..
Why the hell do people like the look of body kits like this? All the exposed bolts, and panels that look like they are just mashed together.. I just really don't get it..
man im counting days until im able to get that car btw Im still a kid
Best of luck with it I was in the same boat when I was younger just remember that anything is possible if you put enough time and effort towards it 😎👍🏽
@@JimmyRigs_ thanks so much
but, yea
yoo crazy miata man, loved the video, earned a subscriber maybe it will help you a bit ;)
Thank you so much I hope you enjoy the future videos!
man my comment keeps getting deleted. SpeedyEFI has a MAF delete plug for 89-93 that's an easy way to clean up your intake temp sensor wiring
I’ll check it out thank you!
It should either be called "the rabbit" or "marshmallow"
Looks worse than stock imo, but props on the build and glad you like it
It’s all about preference, us 90s kids love these kind of cars .
Bros iso is through the roof 😭😭 can barely see the car
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADD X HEADLIGHTS OR ANGWY EYES I WUV U
Have you tried using sound damping for your door cards? Just an idea
Your Car is Amazing bro!!!!! FR your Miata is very beautiful. I love the fact that people still recover old Miata’s. 🤍
Thank you! If you think the Miata transformation is good you should check out my 240sx video coming out soon I think you’ll enjoy it
I thought the first clip was BeamNG.drive lol