Garage Woolery

This is the Garage Woolery Pitcrew Roadster.  The original base car was a 1990 Mazda Miata, purchased new by Garage Woolery in July 1989.  It has been a daily driver for over 20 years and has been slowly modified since new.  It has clocked over 240,000 miles on the odometer.   Weight:  1890lbs, HP: 250hp

The Garage Woolery Pitcrew Roadster is fairly well known, and has even been featured on the Mazda USA website at the following link:  http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/displayPage.action?pageParameter=mazdaSpeedTuningPersonal&sectionParameter=tunerProfile60

List of Modifications

Drivetrain
-Fully built 1.7L engine
-Carrillo rods
-Wiseco 9:1 pistons
-Knife edged crank
-Billet crank end caps
-Head worked over
-Intake manifold worked over
-ARP engine hardware
-Steel headgasket
-Modified FM II turbo system using T28 BBB turbo @12psi
-Link ECU
-ACT clutch
-Lightweight flywheel
-Custom rebuildable driveshaft
-Guru Racing LSD diff 3.909 gears
-’99 5-speed transmission
-DIY coolant reroute
-Modified Track Dog Racing intercooler setup
-Ron Davis aluminum radiator
-Twin high flow SPAL shrouded fans
-Hybrid Function7 / Mazdacomp engine mounts

Suspension/chassis/brakes/wheels
-PPF brace
-Okuyama triangular front strut brace
-Okuyama lower front subframe & transmission housing brace
-Cannon rear subframe brace
-Okuyama K-frame brace
-Manual steering rack
-Wilwood BBK
-Stainless lines
-Firewall doubler plate for clutch pedal assembly
-Tein Flex (9kg front/6kg rear)
-RB tubular front sways, no rear sways
-Modified RB endlinks
-AWR swaybar mounts
-ARP long wheel studs
-Watanabe F8 wheels (magnesium) daily use
-949 Racing 6UL’s for track use
-949 Racing or Ray’s Engineering tuner lug nuts, depending on configuration

Body
-Custom built CF/composite front clip (front bumper/fenders as one unit)
-Pitcrew Racing nose (modified and added to front clip)
-Axis Power Racing fenders (modifed and added to front clip)
-Tuckin 99 fender flares (modified and added to front clip)
-Lucas tripod lights with custom halogen bulbs
-Simpson Design vented hood (modified)
-Cruise Power doors (modified)
-Simpson Design flush rear bumper (modified)
-Garage Vary tail light panel & lights (modified)
-Axis Power Racing trunklid (modified)
-OEM hardtop
-Autokonnexion fastback hardtop (modified with custom glass, in progress)
-Custom Project G “G-String” bikini top
-Aftermarket hardtop converted to a targa top
-Removed beltline
-Removed rear clearance lights
-TRAP front lip (in progress)
-Garage Vary Lexan side windows (modified)
-Roadster mirrors
-Shaved radio antenna

Interior
-6 point Hard Dog Hard Core Hardtop w/Double Diagonals and Door Bars (HDHCHTDDDB)
-Zoom Engineering center console
-Zoom Engineering center dash
-Voodoo shift knob
-AWD gauge bezel and gauges
-AEM wideband gauge
-VDO boost, H20, oil, and EGT gauges
-Interior gauge lighting switched to red illumination
-Lotus Elise driver’s seat, Elise passenger seat is in progress
-Foamectomy on stock passenger seat
-Vintage style interior rear view mirror
-Willans 6-point racing harness
-Rhinoliner on interior floor
-Powdercoated all interior metal pieces (dash frame, pedal assemblies, ECU brackets, etc)

Stuff that’s been removed
-Power steering
-Stereo
-Air conditioning
-All HVAC controls and underdash ducting (inside the dash is stripped)
-Heater core
-Interior fan
-Air bag system & computer
-Parcel shelf coverings
-Carpet
-Sound deadening (interior and exterior)
-Some interior panel covers
-All removeable body panels (replaced with carbon/composite replacements)
-Doors (replaced with composite doors)
-Windup windows (replaced with plug-in Lexan units)
-Stock popup lights, motors, etc
-All unnecessary engine bay doodads (too many to mention)
-Spare tire & jack
-Stock bumper reinforcements/supports
-Rear swaybar, brackets, and endlinks
-Brake dustshields

Picture Gallery

This page has the following sub pages.

• Early Iterations