August 18, 2012 - Here's one of the finished uprights in place.
I'll put up some more pictures of them in the daylight later. You can see all the holes for the adjustment system as well as the double bend that moves the mounting points inboard and also twists the upright. Did you ever notice that the trunk opening for the Miata doesn't have parallel sides? I hadn't.
You can see the specific shape of the mount between the holes - that's copied right off the steel NASCAR mount, and is needed to allow the maximum angle position. It appears there's about 16 degrees of adjustment in this wing, by the way.
Once I was done with all the shaping, I threw the uprights in the bead blaster to give them a nice finish.
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