Damn that looks great!!!! You know it will be asked, what is the timeline?
Also I see that the hood and nosecone are one unit!!!!!
Damn that looks great!!!! You know it will be asked, what is the timeline?
Also I see that the hood and nosecone are one unit!!!!!
^^^^^^^ THIS! ^^^^^^^
I get to join in the conversation now, just placed my order!
SteadFast wrote: Damn that looks great!!!! You know it will be asked, what is the timeline? Also I see that the hood and nosecone are one unit!!!!!
Heh, you're not done. Keep lookin'. There's a huge frame surprise that I left in that picture. The change itself is mostly hidden, but the eagle-eyed might spy what the change affects and allows.
Timeline on the windshield is Soon™. Gotta finalize the glass mounting system and a couple manufacturing things with vendors. FM gets the first one, and they've got a hard deadline we need to help them meet.
Top hat spacers?
Oh yeah, those too. 
Looks like some sort of ls motor mount?
Notched transmission tunnel for wider seats? Maybe thats just wishful thinking.it would be nice addition. The windshield looks great. I also like the one peice front. Keep these improvements coming. My chassis is probably being built within the next month or two. (#102)
Started playing today.
I hate to see a 95M torn down.... my favorite version of the NA.
no worries, it's a 94, didn't see anything about m on it. It's a very sun baked car that sat for a long time. Not many body panels are perfect.
I don't really want to use this thread to "advertise", but I figured you guys would like the heads-up:
If you guys haven't been following our normal channels, we're throwing a trackday event on Nov 22-23 at Roebling Road down near Savannah, GA. It's called Exofest, and it's a lot of tracktime. Bring your Exocet, bring your donor, bring your rental Corolla. Convertibles need a rollbar. It's a very good track for chassis setup; lots of steady-state high-speed cornering.
$225 for two full days. There are still spots left. Here's the official info page: http://exomotive.com/2014/09/29/the-2014-exomotive-exofest-at-roebling-road-raceway/
I'd love to see some of you there.
On a similar note, expect Exomotive's communication issues to steadily disappear. Kevin has hired a full-time sales and marketing guru.
Meet Taylor. She may drive a Honda Del Slow, but she's the real deal.
She doesn't know it yet, but she's going to get very good at launches and acceleration runs. #CheaterAccelTimes
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$225 is a tremendous deal for a 2-day event! I'll still be out of country when this one hits 
going to laugh if the first thing the marketing person does is tell you to stop posting updates here... :D
Mad_Ratel wrote: going to laugh if the first thing the marketing person does is tell you to stop posting updates here... :D
If that happens, let her know that you made at least one sale (me) on this thread. And probably others.
linuxd00d wrote:Mad_Ratel wrote: going to laugh if the first thing the marketing person does is tell you to stop posting updates here... :DIf that happens, let her know that you made at least one sale (me) on this thread. And probably others.
+1
+1
I was planning on a F5 818 until this thread
I'm seriously thinking of purchasing myself. Don't ever leave, man!
thestig wrote: Notched transmission tunnel for wider seats? Maybe thats just wishful thinking.it would be nice addition. The windshield looks great. I also like the one peice front. Keep these improvements coming. My chassis is probably being built within the next month or two. (#102)
This is a must for cars built to race (as the current setup you want to center the driver / gravity to the middle of the car for better handling but also safety). For owners it's not that hard for an experienced shop to do as I've had seat notch panels installed in both a normal Miata and my Exocet as well (in my blog).
XP-4 spent a couple days at DIY Autotune. Ben and Russ are wizards and got 305whp out of our FM2 setup. Along with the Megasquirt PNP2, we threw more wiring at the LS3 coils (still wasted spark) and added an electronic boost controller. Apparently breaking the 300 mark is a big deal, and we're reportedly going to piss off a lot of MiataTurbo guys. Ben is going to replicate the system on his street turbo car. Cheap '99 JDM motor, so I assume it has the BP5A cam, which has slightly more lift than the USDM intake cam. .349/251° vs .326/248°. It has a US intake manifold, and the ports were not smoothed over.
For ST2 classing, we are limited to 220whp. I had an idea, DIY made it happen:
#OperationFreightTrain
We've also got a conservative everyday tune at a nice 260whp. They also dialed in the launch control and anti-lag. How does 7psi at launch sound? 
Never seen a plateau like that - That is Awesome.
Wow. Any concern about rods at 305whp? When/how often are you running in that state?
Piss off the MiataTurbo guys! Do it!
IIRC the cam has the part number cast into it. Easy to check. I don't know my JDM juju numbers, but in our testing the stock US cam did better in a turbo application.
In reply to Keith Tanner:
Oh really? More peak power or just better midrange?
It'll probably still be more reliable than the 818s
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