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The only thing I can say about this is that both of the Miatas I had were quite nice cars. However, they weren't nearly as comfortable and quiet... different beast I guess, but strictly speaking from a reliability comparison standpoint, the Supras might as well be Yugos.

...if your car has been a daily driven car for 16 months without burning a drop of oil, running low on coolant mysteriously, or being covered in random ick when you look in your engine bay. That said... my ears still miss the 7m sound. Too bad there aren't any running well enough around here to...

I used to think along the same lines of weigh transfer, but sometimes you gotta think a bit backwards. :) If you lock up your fronts (too much front brake bias), you're going to merely slide in whatever direction the momentum will carry you. If you still can steer, and lock up your rear wheels...

Pass. Snow has been on the ground here for at least 2-3 weeks now, and while the majority of it has gotten off the roads, it's still nice and brown/black from all the filth on the roads that gets stuck to the snow. The stuff's only pretty until people get around it... That, and it was -9*F...

I gotta say, the LM5 is gotta be my favorite among CCW's selection. Simple, and custom sized, count me in. Might end up getting a set at some point next year actually...

Haven't kept tabs on Jarco, but I believe they're still around. JHot on the other hand (where I got mine from) seems to be shutting down. Unfortunate, too, they were pretty awesome...

Water/meth injection does wonders for pump gas. ;)

That's the appeal of it for me. :) If you were switching to port injection for boost, wouldn't that kinda defeat the purpose of doing this though?

Another thing to consider gentlemen, is the fact that you're removing weight from the middle of the car. Not exactly the ideal place to remove weight from...

I see your logic here, but this will generally cause understeer. Front wheels lock up when they have more brake bias, whereas the rear tires will lock up (and initiate a slide) if you have more rear bias. ;)

Normally I can't stand behind these "bailouts" but for all you guys... I'd support it. :)

Got all golds on your B-license? Congrats man, I think that makes you number two so far on here. I got the B all golds, and half of the A-license with all gold, the others silver and closing in WAY close on most of the times. I imagine the IC license is going to be hell to get golds though...

Hah! I had one quite a bit like it, a TE72 actually. It was my first Toyota: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2167175/1980-toyota-corolla If you ever get one, I have an extra set of headlights for it. Had a really sweet 2nd gen Celica on my profile too, but I've since sold it...

I gotta say, whoever thought it was a good idea to stuff the engine under the windshield in the LS1 F-bodies was a real ass. Was NOT a fan of trying to work on the SS when I had it... I'm in for pics of Mike in the barbie car. :p

Subscribed. I've been tossing around the idea of an s2k myself, but now I'm more leaning towards a Westfield (Lotus 7 replica) with an s2k drivetrain. All the power, 1300lbs less. :) Also, I did something similar in a Miata, twice. Top end of 3rd at 7k, go to shift into 4th, and thanks to...

Overall power may not be your biggest concern. The way I see it, that high compression would do WONDERS for your responsiveness of the engine. All the other things are just custom fabrication and tuning... HOWEVER... how is the head shape? It's an F-variant, which historically means a narrow...

This was about the funniest damn thing I've read in a long time... COWABUNGA! :biglaugh: This is another extremely valid theory. No sense in having hundreds, if not thousands of spare motors sitting on a shelf for the rest of forever...

Sounds like my old 88, you lucky bastards... I wouldn't remove the factory stuff if it's already in place, I'll take an extra 20lbs of sound deadening to my car in place of a droning headache. ;) To the OP, I would leave it in if it's already in place, if it's the original stuff, it should do...

Huh... Certainly interesting, whatever's going on. Bird flu v2.0?

11.3:1 stock, I can't imagine wanting to go with much higher compression than that if you were gonna boost it... 11.3:1 in the 2jz-fse, 11.0:1 in the 1jz-fse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2JZ-GE#2JZ-GE, at the bottom there. All in all, I found one on ebay a while back, and was doing a little...