The revised spacers for the control arm spherical bearing kit arrived. The kit is made by ESM Race up in Canada. I originally found the bearing spacers for the rear lower outer position were the wrong ID and length. It took them a while to get the corrected bits to me but, to be fair, just about every machinist I’ve known seems to operate on a different calendar than the rest of us. At any rate, parts are here now and right. I’m checking with them now to ensure that any Miata kits they make in the future have these corrections.
The final hitch was in the rear upper outer; the V8R arms have the cool feature of using an eccentric bolt there to adjust camber quickly without affecting toe, but the eccentric bolt is larger in diameter than the normal bolt in that location so the ESM bearing spacers for that spot didn’t fit. Not ESM’s fault, just particular needs of my setup. Had a local machinist drill those spacers out to match the eccentric bolt diameter and now everything is in:
