Maintaining My 1993 Mazda Miata

Owning a 1993 Mazda Miata means wrenching almost as often as driving. This project collects the running maintenance log, photos, and reflections that keep the car on the road throughout graduate school.

Photo Gallery TODO

Add high-resolution images in assets/img/projects/miata/ to accompany each milestone:

• ![AC repair reassembly](assets/img/projects/miata/2025-04-13-ac-repair.jpg)
• ![New soft top installed](assets/img/projects/miata/2025-04-20-soft-top.jpg)
• ![Fresh battery swap](assets/img/projects/miata/2025-03-16-battery.jpg)
• ![Post-internship shakedown](assets/img/projects/miata/2025-09-24-ac-diagnosis.jpg)

Replace the placeholder paths with real photos once uploaded.

Maintenance Log

• Battery replacement after storage (Mar 16, 2025)
• Restoring cold air (Apr 13, 2025)
• Installing a new soft top (Apr 20, 2025)
• Diagnosing the post-internship AC failure (Sep 24, 2025)

Each post above walks through the tooling, photos, and lessons learned for that repair session.