AkumaNoZeta

Would mounting an EJ like this be feasible in your opinoins? Assuming tubed front end with SLA/double wishbone conversion. I think the measurement in red would be the biggest factor...also I don't know how the engine is mounted or where the mounts go to the block or anything.

I've been thinking of about an EJ swap for the past week or so. This is what I've been thinking so far. This is without knowledge of where or how the engine mounts are or anything. Also assuming tubed front end with SLA/double wishbone front suspension fabricated. I'm not a very good Microsoft Painter but it should give you an idea of what I'm thinking. So far the measurement in red is the one I've been looking for but can't find at all anywhere.

I always loved the Miata, but I love every small, RWD car that weighs under 3000lbs. I don't consider them girlie cars, in fact I've never seen a girl drive one ever. Now Mustangs are supposed to be "manly" cars but the majority of people driving Mustangs are girls...so I would say the Mustang is a girlie car (especially the 94-2010 ones)

Well, apparently my clutch is heavy enough to break my firewall. It's wasn't a rust issue either because there's no rust on the firewall at all, there was just a couple spots on the fender and that was the only rust on the front end at all. The rust issues are pretty much only in the back. But check out the pics. This is on the Mustang by the way.

You know what I think they should do. Make an Initial D movie with old skool cars like the S30s, 510s, RX4s, GC10s, older Celicas, and cars like that. They could probably make it a "Story of Bunta" or something like that. I think that would be the best.

310z is right, right? The way they are in the picture is if you're using brake-cooling ducts.

Even though it says it would stay roughly stock in that book, that book is based on the Chevy V8 which is proven to be a lot heavier than a Ford V8. For starters, if I remember right I believe 74_5.0L_Z got close to 45/55. I don't know his exact modifications but I know it was a tube front end with a modified Subtle Z body kit.

Well, still need to focus on where to mail my resumes off to. I want to focus sending them to the places I want to be around instead of just willy nilly all over the place.

How is California to live? One thing is I can't stand bimbos, no matter how good they are to look at, and all the bimbos from my high school came from California so I pretty much have a negative point of view of the state as of now, but you can also say that point of view comes from my own ignorance of the place. So to cure the issue of my own ignorance I'll be willing to hear how it is to actually live there. I know it's is the birth place of hot rodding so it has that going for it.

That Tail of the Dragon looks really fun, but it's not legal to drive that is it? Their website shows where all the cops with speed radars sit so I'm sure I'd get in trouble there sooner or later.

Oregon Raceway Park does look fun, but I think I still prefer Pueblo. Any other suggestions? Which one is the one with the infamous corkscrew?

I'm interested in seeing how the belt-drive will work.

I just have a case of insomnia and when I can't sleep I talk about things I shouldn't. I'm usually a sleep HOURS before the time I posted the original message. But I do like the V4, it just sounds cool. I think they should make a new one, Toyota should do it, put it in the Corollas. Also make them RWD with a 7 speed close ratio manual transmission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V4_%28engine%29 Find one, get custom internals to bore and stroke it. Make some custom headers and custom intake using MSII and I'm sure it would be cool...Unique at the least. I've been awake for far too long.

Looks great, I fell backwards after seeing that pretty orange.

I've been wanting to move, I want to be close to a road course. A fun road course. Does anyone have any suggestions? I love tight S-curves if that helps. I might have a better idea of where I would like to go if I played those Forza games or whatever they're called, that you race on actual tracks, but I'm not much for video games. I've looked at a lot of different tracks so far but barely skimmed the surface. So far the one I like the best is Pueblo Motorsports in Colorado. Are there more fun tracks than that in America? Like I said I like tight S-curves, but I would like to be by a track that has both those and big sweeping curves. Another thing I liked about the Pueblo one is it also has the drag strip incorporated into it. I'd rather keep it in the northern countries because I like the cooler weather, but the south doesn't bother me at all either.

Is it just me or does the outline of that Mustang from the side view look a lot like a S30? Just had to say it.

He has a good point. The reason I went to WyoTech was because I listened to much to the lying reps and being a kid that got kicked out of high school I felt like I didn't have much of a future no matter what I did. After I came up to WyoTech I found out I got a high enough score on my GED test that I could have gone to the local community college for free and wish I did have. At least then I could have learned how to use CADD. By coming to WyoTech I was able to learn more about cars than anybody else I hang around knew, even the guy I was trying to learn from before going to WyoTech. My dad wasn't one to let me actually work on anything, he didn't even let me do oil changes. Anything that had to be done to the car, we HAD to take it to the shop. Now that I have my own car in my own name I can work on them whenever I please but I didn't get my own car until after I finished the Automotive core classes. I highly recommend you going to college instead of a trade school, especially if you have the kind of father that everybody else seems to have that pretty much tells you "Go out there and fix it yourself". My dad is pretty pissed at me often now because I do tend to have my car torn apart all over the garage one day while I'm checking the condition of all the various parts before the road trip to get back to school, and then a couple hours later I have it all back together so I start tearing apart the old transmission to see what exactly went wrong when I blew it hoping it was the countershaft bearings but turns out I actually blew all the teeth off of all the gears. So right now its sitting on the floor on the side of his garage wrapped completely around so none of the parts gets dirty. I have all the pictures of disassembly because I know I wouldn't remember how to put it back together. I think my dad's kinda shocked I went from barely even knowing how to open the hood to rebuilding transmissions in his garage in such a short amount of time.

That was hilarious. Could you imagine if it actually worked? No more having to hide those glocks under your shirt.

See what I think would make it look better if the front end was chopped to where the line where the black bumper ends was brought in to be the new edge of the wheel well. If I could photo shop it I would.

It was almost $30,000 for the Auto core with High Performance elective...maybe $28,000 or so. But every elective after that cost somewhere around $8,400 so times that by 3, add the original $28,000 and it comes out to "I'm screwed" lol. Of course I am going with the full amount possible for rent and living checks from the school, which is $729/month. I use that to pay my rent, food, gas, and the books I buy so often. It has taught me how to live cheaply for sure. I still have to get money from my mom for whenever I go back home during vacations. Driving a 5.0 Mustang isn't the cheapest for between PA and AR. If you're able to find a job and a cheaper place to live you shouldn't need the rent and living checks and have a lower rate for your student loans. Some of the students here were previous UTI students and they said WyoTech was a LOT better. I think another issue of other students being dissatisfied is that a lot of them come from big cities where their high schools are as big as universities so going from a school that used that much money for equipment to one of a limited budget like WyoTech is a big difference in environment. I came from a small town in Arkansas where the most up to date piece of equipment we had in our metal shop was a $300 MIG (just one) welder that the teachers were forced to protect from the students because it was so up-to-date for them. Then I got up here where there's over 20 different MIGs and TIGs in the Chassis Fabrication and Street Rod shops for everybody to use without needing to ask first, in fact the students are responsible for the care and maintenance of them. So I loved it up here, but the still young and immature (Im no better though) students do drive me crazy. Oh, by the way. Nate from High Performance night class has a white R32 Skyline GTR that's pretty cool, along with a RHD imported Supra. I don't know where he gets all the money...maybe he does work for the fastest DSM racer.

When I took the ASVAB I got like a 74 and was acceptable for every category on the list. When I was told I got a 74 I was depressed because I thought it was a super low score, but I got like the highest score out of the group of people I was with that took it. Was that actually a good score or something? I'm pretty sure the guy said like a 40-something was the average.

Oh, and the students are known notoriously for street racing so you will be constantly watched by the cops. I'd recommend no reckless driving at all there, I don't take my car past 1500 RPMs when I drive. And all the bad stuff the local high schoolers do is blamed on the WyoTech students too so until you can prove yourself otherwise to the locals, you would just be another unworthy jerk from WyoTech...to put it lightly.

I went to WyoTech, in Blairsville Pennsylvania. The Automotive core is 6 months long with an elective that's done after the core that takes 3 months. You can add more electives if you wish. The teachers are great, you're there for about 9 hours a day including a 50 minute lunch period. I went in not even knowing what the difference between an I4 and V8 was, I didn't even know what a fuse was really. So I went from knowing nothing to knowing a lot in a short amount of time and I liked that, but it left me wanting to know more after graduation. The Automotive core only deals with OBD-II and the teacher may be willing to give an introduction to carburetors if you're willing to come in early or stay late. You get to take about suspension, brakes, transmissions, re-ends and stuff like that. The core is just finding out whats wrong and fixing it, giving you an understanding of how stuff works. Then the High Performance class was great, you get to play on the dyno, actually build engines (didn't get to do that in the auto core), play with carbs, distributors, tuning ECUs, and now they're working on getting an engine dyno. Its already there and stuff, just not up and running yet. The High Performance class is great if you have you're own project car that you want to work on, when I was there they didn't have the parts needed to work on the school's cars but from what I've heard that's been fixed now. The teacher there named Nate is the coolest teacher I've met, he's a younger import guy. It's been said he works for the guy that has the world's fastest DSM car, but I don't believe rumors until I have proof. The Chassis Fabrication class was my absolute favorite. You actually get to learn why some suspensions work better than others, you go over the geometry of the mounting points. And its great for learning how to weld. They have cars you can actually work on there. The teacher Dan Bracken is the best welder I have ever seen and is great at teaching it. There's also a Ray and Doug that teach for the class and they are full of knowledge on suspensions and chassis. They have great stories from their races too, like getting IRS systems banned in Super Modified circle track racing. I hated the Applied Service Management class, just because it was boring and since we had constant access to the internet during class I would play games instead of listening to the lectures so I had to work hard to pass the class. I hated it, but it's my fault that I hated it. Others may enjoy it if they can control the internet urge. I'm currently in the Street Rod and Custom Fabrication class. Its an awesome class for learning how to restore vehicles and make custom sheet metal pieces. Its both custom fabrication and custom painting so the people that take it only for the custom painting part get really pissed because you have to do all the fabricating stuff before you can paint but I love it because I personally don't care about paints and just want to fabricate. If you're the kind of person that can't take responsibility for your own screw ups and blame it on others (for example, the teachers) then it's probably not for you. The guys that are like that are what I really can't stand because they hate, and blame my favorite teachers for the things that they need to blame themselves for. I believe the prices for the classes are a little high for the short time your their and because of that how much more info you crave after the class is over. Another thing about the students that I can't stand is that about 90% of them only care about getting out of class so they can go out and party, I've never been a party person and never liked hanging around party animals. Oh, and don't even think about being with any of the girls here, they're all disease carrying liars. Another problem with the school is that the people that run it (such as the president of the company and whatever) have no idea what they're doing so that aspect sucks. But the classes are good, the teachers are great. The bad points are the students suck, the area sucks, the management sucks, the dorms suck, most of the tools aren't at their best because of previous students ruining them, and the classes aren't long enough to give you all the information you want to know which is why I buy so many books now. Also, from what I hear all the reps are liars too so its best to actually talk to people who took the classes. I still want to join the Air Force after I graduate from the Street Rod class because places seem to be more willing to hire you if you have military experience. Not to mention I would love to get the know how and experience of mechanical work by working on the planes. Getting information on the most up-to-date technologies out there. I'm not sure if the Air Force pays for college like the Army does, I know that they don't do the bonuses. If they do I would go to college for mechanical engineering or at least get a GI Bill for it if they don't fund for college. I've heard nothing but good things from people in the Air Force. It's just from what the recruiter in Fayetteville, Arkansas told me is that I have to lose 100 lbs before I can join because I'm a fat-@**. I'm sure I can do it, after I finish this school and actually have the time to work towards that goal. Right now my focus is just on school because to me anything below a 90% is failing, 91-95% is ok, and 95-100% is my goal for my grades (in actuality anything below a 70% is failing). Good luck with your ventures and I hope I helped a little

I like off the wall things though, which might be why I like those out-there rat rods at car shows. Like with those S13s that had the S30 front ends on them, I thought they were ugly, but cool at the same time.