What did you do to your Emira today?

Perfect weather yesterday, and a good friend in town from down under. Luckily NY-218 is back open for the season and gave us a great view of the Hudson River.

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Installed the black "modern" Witamats. Fit is 99%, very happy with the shapes. They included 6 or so extra pieces of velcro that I could add where-helpful to make it taught along the door sills. Pics show them a bit dirty, but the leather is nice and cleans easily. The only downside for me is that the driver's side mat reduced the already-small dead pedal width just a bit more. Might trim the mat back a few inches there to get the full pedal back - no one will see that.

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This looks nice. Do you have pics of the back side?
 
Cleaned up and topped up after Suzuka day. Found a fair amount of track rubber stuck in the wheel barrel.
BTW this is my shiny new right-rear-quarter panel, replaced and re-PPFed after blistering.

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Drove 2 hours to the shop (Emira was transported before) and proceeded ( with some help) to pull out the seats and wheel, in order to fit replacements.

Unfortunately I’m missing parts from both the Tillett seats and the wheel, so…..

Also got some JUBU brake cooling ducts, 6 point harness and new rear discs to fit. Will also be getting a half cage fabricated (adding onto the harness bar I already have). I have a track yearly pass, but they need a half cage, seats and harness to get onto the track.

Fingers crossed can get the missing items sooner or later. It’s like my Emira doesn’t want me messing with it, every mod seems to come with some hassle, problem or something
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I consummated the relationship with my Emira today: oil change, brake fluid flush and new wheels. Oil change was straightforward but I've never spent that much time with that much of my body under a car and I got anxious a couple of times.

The brake fluid flush was easy except for the clutch bleeder which I could not find for the life of me. I skipped it and I'm telling myself it's not as important as the brake calipers because that's where lower temp fluid might boil when I take it to the track. Feel free to call me out if I'm off base.

New Aerie wheels look great but they sure seem to poke. I have the 12 mm GRP spacers but I don't think the stock wheels poked out this much. I double-checked and the offsets are the same as the stock wheels. Does this look normal?

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I consummated the relationship with my Emira today: oil change, brake fluid flush and new wheels. Oil change was straightforward but I've never spent that much time with that much of my body under a car and I got anxious a couple of times.

The brake fluid flush was easy except for the clutch bleeder which I could not find for the life of me. I skipped it and I'm telling myself it's not as important as the brake calipers because that's where lower temp fluid might boil when I take it to the track. Feel free to call me out if I'm off base.

New Aerie wheels look great but they sure seem to poke. I have the 12 mm GRP spacers but I don't think the stock wheels poked out this much. I double-checked and the offsets are the same as the stock wheels. Does this look normal?

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This doesn't look normal
 
Yea that is a LOT of poke. Sure the wheels are the same diameter as OEM? This is mine on OEM wheels lowered with the 12mm spacers
 

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New Aerie wheels look great but they sure seem to poke. I have the 12 mm GRP spacers but I don't think the stock wheels poked out this much. I double-checked and the offsets are the same as the stock wheels. Does this look normal?

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That looks way more than a 12mm spacer difference to me. I don’t think the Aerie wheels have an OEM offset. It depends what you like, but for me they come out too far and I’d try them without the spacers. But everyone is different.
 
I consummated the relationship with my Emira today: oil change, brake fluid flush and new wheels. Oil change was straightforward but I've never spent that much time with that much of my body under a car and I got anxious a couple of times.

The brake fluid flush was easy except for the clutch bleeder which I could not find for the life of me. I skipped it and I'm telling myself it's not as important as the brake calipers because that's where lower temp fluid might boil when I take it to the track. Feel free to call me out if I'm off base.

New Aerie wheels look great but they sure seem to poke. I have the 12 mm GRP spacers but I don't think the stock wheels poked out this much. I double-checked and the offsets are the same as the stock wheels. Does this look normal?

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Those wheels do not need the spacers.
 

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