[ultimateforce]

As in I live in Florida and it's like 100 outside in the sun. 8)

 

[ultimateforce]

Part deux.

 

[ultimateforce]

Almost done.

 

[timallen]

Looks like a good project car. What are your plans for it?

How's the engine?

 

[snig]

Looks like it has potential. I have high expectations for that car.

 

[ultimateforce]

Looks like a good project car. What are your plans for it?

How's the engine?

The engine needs a valve job, it smokes at high RPMs, but it DOES have 133k miles on it so I guess that kind of thing is expected. As long as it runs I am happy, I'll start rebuilding a new long block this winter but I am in no rush.

I want to built a custom turbo kit like my friend did in his Miata:
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123636964

But that is going to wait till I finish up my shop and work area (I'm a college student so the money isn't exactly pouring in) and I'll get some new tools to replace my old hand-me-downs. This summer I plan on getting my SCCA license so I can offically call my Miata a race car. :shock:

 

[ultimateforce]

Looks like it has potential. I have high expectations for that car.

It's already given me a new scar on my knuckle. I am still walking the line of money spent on Miata or MSP.. It's a tough call because the MSP is my baby even though it's looking pretty dirty in those pictures.

I don't know if I told the whole story here, but that Miata only cost me $1700.

 

[LagunaMiata]

I don't know if I told the whole story here, but that Miata only cost me $1700.

And it looks it.... pretty rough, but with some time and money it'll be nice again.
That steering wheel looks like a dog chewed on it!! :lol:

 

[ultimateforce]

I don't know if I told the whole story here, but that Miata only cost me $1700.

And it looks it.... pretty rough, but with some time and money it'll be nice again.
That steering wheel looks like a dog chewed on it!! :lol:

The rubber was kind of chipping and I kept picking at it till it ripped apart.

 

[LagunaMiata]

You pick at scabs too, don't ya?

Back when my wife was a kid, her family went to a drive-through zoo. There was a sign at the monkey cage not to drive through convertibles or cars with vinyl tops. Somebody ignored the sign. The monkeys peeled the vinyl top off the car!

 

[grinerizer]

drive thru zoo? sounds safe...

 

[Stealth97]

drive thru zoo? sounds safe...

lots of fun. Nothing like having a big giraffe head in your window snatching your food. (no joke, their tounges are like a hand with infinite webbed fingers)

 

[LagunaMiata]

We have one in the Charlotte area... our club went, and no, we didn't drive the Miatas through it!!
http://public.fotki.com/relittle/miata/lazy5ranch/

 

[Greg G]

Well good luck with that. See how nice people can be? :wink:

 

[leatherface24]

dude if you need any help, feel free to call me anytime.

 

[ultimateforce]

dude if you need any help, feel free to call me anytime.

You live 3 hours away.. Are you going to Mazdapalooza Saturday?

 

[leatherface24]

naw i have a convention i have to attend this weekend. 3 hours aint no thing. I have cousins that live in Kissimee that i visit often.

 

[grinerizer]

suhweet, that means you'll be more willing to come to our lazy asses than vice versa.

 

[emmi]

my car is gonna look like that soon, the current bumper is all warped..