Drax240z

I've got a good N42 as well, semi-fresh rebuild. (15,000km?) Where are you located?

How many square feet of sound deadening did you use? Looking good!

Nicely done! Looking forward to watching the progress of this thread as you start putting it back together. Lots of pics please!

Good choice. A lot of people talk negatively about the miata's, but they are a hell of a great drivers car.

I'm about 60% of the way there. MIG, Decent 17" drillpress, full access to a TIG and plasma cutter. The mill and lathe are in the plan, just not yet... If the right deal comes up though, I'm ready.

Just a beautiful car and build. What's on the horizon next?

A different perspective from a completely different program. Background, I went through the same, got my ME degree in 2003. Been in the workforce since then. P.Eng. now. I breezed through highschool (but enjoyed it somewhat), scored a 5 on the AP exam, wrote a perfect provincial math/calculus 12 exam. 1st year calculus was insulting to me, (I really should have used the AP credit) but I ended up with a couple of A+'s to pad the GPA. (I'd need that later!) Either you know it or you don't, and I knew it inside and out. I don't know the specifics of your class, but if you know the subject matter that well it shouldn't be a problem. If you don't, learn it. It's ok to prioritize it in front of other classes, that's what the real world is all about and that's likely what you are really being tested on. Time management and prioritization. Word of advice, find an extra curricular club to join and get into it. Yes it's more work (I was doing about 100 hours a week of school related work), but you get a peer group trying to do the exact same thing and you learn a lot from that peer group. How to prioritize, how to think critically on the work you are doing, how to be efficient. For example, we had weekly mechanisms assignments that would take upwards of 20 hours a week, and they were worth 1% of our final grade. Is it really worth putting in 20 hours for that assignment before getting the other stuff (that is worth more) completed? I thought I had to do it all, you'll learn a valuable lesson there. FSAE was my drug of choice, and helped me apply a lot of things I'd learned in school. But one thing I didn't expect, it FORCED me to complete my degree. I wouldn't have completed it without that project. I was too damn interested in building those cars, and not in my school work. But one fed the other, and the group of people in the FSAE program was tight-knit, and we were in a lot of classes together. They helped me learn how to prioritize rather than doing it all. Fast forward to my working career. Not going to tell you what I make. However, out of school I started at 41K. I worked hard, and was at 51K in 2 years. Switched jobs, and have made substantial improvements to my situation since then. Now I'm hiring engineers as part of MY team. Tony touched on it, if you have a head for business... they love to make engineers into managers. If you think you want to do technical all your life, that is an option as well. I believe an engineering degree is the most versatile degree you can have. You learn how to prioritize and how to deal with stress. That's a great leap ahead in the work place. If you aren't committed to 80+ hours a week, you should find a way to make it work without forcing the issue though. Getting kicked out can really throw a wrench into things. Hate to tell you this, but you've put it on the internet and its fair game. Take it in stride.

Dry graphite spray is usually just graphite particles suspended in acetone, or are you suggesting something other than that? Put a light coat of copper anti-seize on there, and it will help... works on exhaust studs, should work in that application as well.

Yeah I use this all the time on my workbenches, as well as any exposed surfaces of my machine tools. Works like a charm. Haven't tried it in a hot environment (ie: near brakes) to know whether it will liquefy.

The joy of the turbo buttons... what a funny concept those were!

TRS-80... that's what I cut my teeth on. It was awesome.

Firefox! You mean some people still use IE? Gah! For those that cannot spell, I highly recommend using Firefox.

Everyone realizes there is a built in spell-check to the forum software, right? The little squiggly red lines under the words aren't just for effect, they actually mean something. All you have to do is right-click on the red squiggly underlined word, and choose what you were actually trying to spell. The goal is to have zero red squiggly underlined words before you hit the post button.

Woohoo! Congratulations on your incredible achievement? Happy Birthday, go move a dirt pile from here to there or something else fun.

Your solution should be to take this to PM for answers, not to the public forum. I will answer your questions there.

Quoted for truth... I did lots of prep on mine and rattlecanned it in 2003... the paint is breaking down now. Real paint and I would have been fine now. Tons and tons of prep, and I wish I had never tried to cut corners and save a few bucks on paint.

I've been racing around in an S52 M Roadster all day today... this is going to be an AWESOME drivers car when you are finished. That engine is a joy to drive and makes all the right noises. I'm sure with 600lbs less behind it, it will be even more superb.

A couple places you can go with it. What I did with mine was build a hard pipe that routed it under the drivers side (passenger side in your case) frame rail, and came up in front of the front wheel. I fully shrouded it to keep splashing from being a concern. The air intake ends up being in the brake inlet area of the air dam. And without the filter on during a dyno run is pointless, and you'll still be sucking hot air from the engine bay... I would presume you'll use a fan or two as well which means you'll be ingesting the wash from the radiator. I'm not hating, I like the work you've done. In an all out build though, I'm surprised you're leaving "easy" horsepower on the table.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but for a 1000whp build why the H-E-double-hockey-sticks is the air filter in the engine bay directly behind the rad? EDIT: read back a bit and see it's already been commented on... still seems like "free" hp to me.

I'm going to lock this thread now. If you can't play nice, you can't play at all.

Bloody impressive! Looking forward to more info as you get it.

Video is very nicely done! I look forward to more.

Take it easy guys, this site is supposed to be open-minded... talk like this is what forced the original hybridz crew to up and leave zcar.com... feedback is fine, just keep it civil and skip the name calling.

How about a center console with some modern conveniences? Maybe a cup holder and a cell phone cavity...

Nice car! Post up your initial impressions once you get some seat time in it.