Al N.

Rob- Welcome. Someone had linked to your Ebay listing a while back. -Al

Mark- Welcome to the forum. Jank Banker of the CHILL group (and USA7s member!) has been updating us. Soo many events, not enough vacation time.... -Al

Sounds like a nice motor... I'd post pix anyway, just so we can ooh and aah.

John- the nice thing about blogs is that you can add "tags" to classify various posts. See my site: hairshirt motoring! Mine isn't build related, so the categories on the right side aren't build-related...but you should be able to see how you could set up these "tags" to correspond to various stages of build/parts of the car. -Al

Alright, alright, alright people. As the former Acting President of the club I'm stepping in to ask for a truce/moratorium/etc. on the whole "clone" thing. Please? Happy New Year to all!

Gary- Welcome and congrats. When you have a sec, please cut and paste your first & last (so far) post in this thread to the "Tell us a little about yourselves" thread...that way it can stay as part of that "sticky" thread: http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=168

I think Brian A. of WCM would be interested too...since he's apparently looking into other body types.

John- I personally think the easiest way to do a build site these days is via blog. There are lots of great templates and it requires very little technical knowledge. You can easily post pix and the posts go in reverse chrono order....so the latest news is on the first page. Just a thought. For blogging, there are the usual suspects: blogger, blogspot, wordpress, etc. I use wordpress on a self-hosted blog, with kula-ecto as my desktop client (allowing me to compose offline and then upload when ready). -Al

Gwar- Sweet design. I do see it as an modern evolution. Hopefully one of the manufacturers will find out about this design (a few drop in here from time to time, and plenty of forum members have "direct lines" of communication with nearly all of them) and work with you to get it produced. Or perhaps one of the DIY guys would try it. I really like the lines, thanks for posting it! -Al

I bet Tom McClintock (Manik/Westfield) would know.

Gert- Interesting. Can you post up the info for the oil lab? I re-oiled my ITG once (after my epic rain drive to Skyline East in 2006)...it wasn't so bad! -Al

Roman-I was a nut for the Inital D and GTO series. I even bought the grey market versions of Initial D because Tokyo Pop was releasing the US versions too slowly for me. TAKUMIIIII!

Damn Brad, you are catching all the bad breaks! As people have noted, this has happened to several people, including Tom & Louise out west...on their drive home from the dealership! Tom & Louise Forsyth's Trip Home I'm pretty sure it also happened to the guy who bought the Yellow car from Rex at Speed Classics. I'm happy to report that my exhaust seems to be holding together okay after 3000+ miles. I have a side exit (converted from rear) and my headers were Jet Hot coated pretty early on (I mention this because perhaps the taking on and off of things helped settle/reduce strain on the pipes).

Yes, yes....may your stockings be filled with engine/suspension/brake upgrades, 10 inch slicks, and lots of carbon fiber. Thanks again to Mazda for setting this whole thing up, and for all the forum members and club members who've contributed over the years. -Al

Racetech (Caterham Factory issue) in (I think) 10.25 inch size w/ detachable hub. http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/upload/2116005322_RaceTech.jpg

If you're not careful, it could turn into a Se7en rock crawler. BTW, be sure to get your work done by Spring. I think we have another photo shoot to do....

Dave-I second hiring a flatbed to get this done....if you go to the UHaul site, you'll see it recommends a specific procedure for low cars. The UHaul trailers I think have an open deck, so you will probably be fine in terms of sump clearance. I considered renting to get to the Dragon meet, but the price for my number of days of rental was over $1000. Check also about their policy about renting and dropping off at the same location (which is what I'm assuming you'd be doing). My local place couldn't find a place in the UHaul software to figure that out. -Al

I'm telling you, fairy dust. All the cool kids are using that for fender adhesive these days.

Dude, my fenders are attached with magic fairy dust!

Worth every penny! Thanks for sharing.

It's generally just a matter of time...I have an email I sent to the Se7ens.net list in July of 2003 entitled "An impatient newbie asks for help..." and took delivery of my Superlight in June 2005. Some of the first people to email me are members of this forum!

I think the VIR thing is supposed to be in May, but this sounds like fun...

The only issue with Run 'n Gun is that the October timing kind of eliminates the possibility of going for those of us with kids. Not that there were many people with kids down at the Dragon, but we are trying to shoot for a summer timeframe. Not unlike the annual LOG gathering.

That is HAWT!

Where were his recollections of running out of gas, losing coolant/oil, and his bonnet flying off? Totally unrealistic memoir...:jester: