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Sweet, they are great little cars. I'd like to have another at that price to strip weight-wise and see what I could come up with.

The "Pelican Part" of the miata world is miata.net. They have a great "garage" section on the regular site (before you get to the forums) that covers a bunch of the common mods and maintenance things. Also, if you do some searching in the forums, you'll find a few threads like "what's you favorite cheap mod", "what mod do you regret", "what 3 mods would you do first" etc....

Lots of good ideas. Having to hold the door handles when closing/locking the doors bugged me. There's a mod to disable that. There are lots and lots of things that can be done with these, and most of them are quite a bit cheaper than a Porsche.

Don't get me wrong, I still love Porsche's, and if I someone gave me one today, I'd drop the miata in a heartbeat (or maybe turn it into a track toy).

This is a personal preference thing. After the seats in the 911 (which fit me well and provided good lateral support), the seats in the miata felt horrible. I felt like I was sitting on them rather than in them. Also, at 6'2", the miata was a bit tight re: headroom. I performed a foamectomy on my driver's seat. Now I sit lower and deeper into the bottom and back of the seat which means I've got a lot more lateral support (as much or more than the 911 seats) and, to me, it's more comfy.