For the love of all things holy, install good brake pads. Hawk HPS at a minimum and bring the pads you took out with you.

I raged and I don’t even have any internally competing designers

That is the Engineer’s definition of Hell

Complete with convincing artist's renderings. The only actual thing we've gotten from Mazda is the 16X demo units

I share my (heated and cooled) garage with my dad and brother. I’ve got my wife’s baby mobile, her fiat that I daily, my turbo miata that’s been relegated to weekend/fun duty, my 323 GTX restoration (current project), rotary miata (next project), turbo volvo (was winter beater, now broken so next next project), The…

I was honestly expecting a picture of my driveway. That's about the number of cars that are visible from the street

Can confirm. Ended up in the non-commercial marine industry when automotive jobs were a lot more scarce 4-5 years ago. It’s been great.

Self burn?

Ford does not yell, Ford types loudly enough so everyone can hear. That way we all learn from each other’s mistakes

You were actually going to drive it, as if it were a real review of a real car that wasn’t real terrible.

With a dyno sheet showing over 300HP to back up the mods done, I'd call it NP. Anything less is deep into CP territory

On one hand, I don’t care what someone does with their car. Drive it, store it, stance it, track it, wreck it, fuck it, whatever.

Don't worry

This shit goes in stages. In the late 90s it was shitty appearance mods (rice). Then the needle slowly swung the other way into the shitty “time attack” “catch me in the twisties dawg” mods of the late 00s. Now we’re swinging back into shitty appearance mods (stance).

#7 is true if your car is fancy enough to have active anti-swampass seats.

Tokyo drift brought me back. I saw it about 5 times in theatres that summer. A different person each time and how we got there was basically this:

The plot arc of this franchise’s fandom is basically hate it, love to hate it, guilty pleasure (I just want to slap his stupid pretty face), and then complete love.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who does “unreasonable” maintenance to shitboxes.

Life pro tip: you don’t NEED a clutch.

NP. You’re paying about 3-4k premium over a lightly modded, decent shape 323 GTX. What you get for that price bump is an engine that would cost $10-20K to have built, a $1-2k bundle of snakes manifold and exhaust piping, $500 turbo, and a shed-load of spares that are rapidly becoming unobtanium.