Arya Ebrahimi

Rob, shoot me a PM if you'd like to talk seriously, seriously

[Dr Evil] That will be one MILLION dollars[/Dr Evil] In all seriousness though, I could probably do another, but I'd need your car and I probably wouldn't have time until the end of this year/beginning of next. Dunno if you were serious or not, but figured I'd throw it out there.

You're not kidding, we really need to stop cutting stuff off and start putting things back together. :ack: This is how we left the car this weekend. http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1813793111_Rotus backhalf 005.jpg That was after Mazda went a little nuts with the sawzall http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/626641640_Rotus backhalf 001.jpg These are the tubes that we ended up reworking/replacing(in red) http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1740956986_Rotus backhalf 003.jpg And this pile of tube is the culmination of two days of work http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1988596526_Rotus backhalf 012.jpg All in all, it was a productive weekend, but I really wanna stop cutting more things off the car!

I can't believe you didn't post pictures of your $500 throttle pedal and bracket!

Rob, please refresh my memory on what measurements you needed again? I remembered that you needed measurements about 30 mins after I left snowshoe yesterday. I'm in NH now visiting my girlfriend, but I'll be back at snowshoe on Friday. If you just post in here, I'll be more likely to remember them, as I check this post frequently. Sorry for the delays. Ary

Generally speaking when a bolt comes with a red or blue substance pre-applied to the threads from a factory, it is loctite. The red stuff is the stronger loctite which generally requires heat to remove the fastener. Is this stuff uniformly applied? I.e. is it the same on every bolt? or does it look like something was spilled in the bag?

Any chance you can remove the panels surrounding it to get it in that way?

Steve, glad to hear we're inspiring young minds. I'm sure Mazda would be happy to give him a ride. Just tell him not to eat a real big meal before the ride I can't wait to get the car going again. It was previously physically impossible for me to drive the car. With all of these mods it should be borderline comfortable for me to drive

Thanks for the comments. The bender is made by a company called JDSquared. www.jd2.com The bender is around 300 and each die(for different radius and diameter bends) are about 300. It is a manually operated bender, but I'm planning to convert it to an electrically powered hydraulic setup soon. Ary

Got to work on the upper control arm(UCA) brackets the other night. They were a bit too wide to allow the seats to go as far back as we wanted, so I narrowed them a bit. Before http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/859434984_UCA brackets and rollbar 005 (Medium).jpg After http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1385181293_UCA brackets and rollbar 004 (Medium).jpg Now that I could move the seat back to where I needed it, I set to work on the rollbar. We decided to take the rollbar down into the chassis as far as reasonably possible. This mean the removal of a couple chassis members. Before http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1330242698_UCA brackets and rollbar 008 (Medium).jpg After http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1321658136_UCA brackets and rollbar 009 (Medium).jpg Once that was done, it was time to address where the rollbar will intersect the existing chassis. Following the basic rules of chassis fabrication we intersected it at a node (juncture of several chassis members) for ultimate stress distribution. The problem was landing a 1.75" round tube on the corner of 1" square tubes left a bit to be desired. Therefore I cut out a few gussets and welded them in. Before http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1613571769_UCA brackets and rollbar 014 (Medium).jpg After http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/910580112_UCA brackets and rollbar 016 (Medium).jpg Now the rollbar has a nice place to tie into http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/224044141_UCA brackets and rollbar 020 (Medium).jpg http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/451863525_UCA brackets and rollbar 021 (Medium).jpg And here's a nice overall shot of the "basket handle" as Mazda calls it http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/1456094792_UCA brackets and rollbar 011 (Medium).jpg I got a bit more done last night, but have to go to work now. Let me know if you guys appreciate seeing this type of stuff or if I should just stick to fabricating Ary

lol Well, Mazda thinks I'm nuts, but I wanna try all wheel drive. Probably using a WRX donor car :crazy: We shall see though. Won't necessarily be a 7, just a homebuilt sports car of some sort. I have some more detailed pics of the work I've been doing and will post them in a few. Ary

Not to worry, the ideas are already swirling in my head. Gimme a year or two

The rollbar is now completely bent into shape and all I have to do is cut the offending chassis tubes/sheetmetal out of my way so that it can be tacked into place. I also fitted the bent tube shown earlier to the chassis and tacked it in place. Lastly I narrowed up the upper control arm mounts at the chassis as they were interfering with the relocation of the seats rearward. Not bad for 4 hours work I don't think. Hopefully I will be able to knock out the rest of it tomorrow and really have some good progress shots to show of the rear. Ary

The two tubes will be plated with 1/8" and then sleeves will be drilled and welded in for the seat belt mounts. The coilovers will also be tied in to the same plate. Meanwhile the new rollcage will be welded to the top of this plate and appropriately gusseted to the frame structure.

No, he's with me via webcam and I'm living there for my winter break(a month). Hopefully it will be enough time. Ary

One of Mazda's friends came up with MOTUS Mazda Of The United States I kind of like it

Crap I've got a lot to do :ack:

Here's the proof! :ack: The whole concept of changing the orientation of the front wheels before switching from reverse to forward seems to baffle these people :banghead: http://www.break.com/index/another_horrible_woman_driver.html http://www.break.com/index/woman_cant_paralell_park.html

Funny how the Junkies number coincides with Mazdas post count and the Addicts with yours. A coincidence?? I think not

Mazda, I think Cameron has some competition.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuuJ5HnKoc

You and me both!

Something about the front of that car looks "shark like" to me. If you're really going for aerodynamics, why not do something similar to the older F1 cars. Kinda like this, but with the wings much lower to the ground, almost under the nose: http://www.oldracingcars.com/Images/brownd/T140-Amm-400x.jpg

:seeya: I think most know who I am around here, you can use my name, my signature should explain the rest :thumbs: Now I just have to wait for my exams to be over so I can get back to work on her. :toetap: A teaser pic to spice up the thread. http://www.usa7s.com/RotusRebuild/BeforeTeardown018.jpg

:lol:

I remember you showing that to me when you lived on Beall Ave. I wish he would have made it at least big enough for a kid or a midget to drive :lol: