Bobby, let me know when you get the other thread up as a for sale/group buy thread as well. Still interested in this.

Not sure if you're referring to me or not in your post 95REGF150, but I have driven plenty of vehicles without power steering. Hell, the first vehicle that I drove was an '82 Toyota Pickup with 33" tires and no power steering when I was a sophomore in high school. That thing was truly a bear to...

I think what Bobby was trying to get at when he says easier to steer is that a true manual rack would be easier to steer than a comparable de-powered rack would be, which is generally true. Having driven several different Miatas with varying setups I can attest to the difference being quite...

I've only ever broken one door handle, albeit this one may have actually been my fault and not the crappy plastic; door handle and door were frozen shut from a blizzard and yanking on it hard snapped the handle right off. Door could barely even be pushed open from the inside once I did finally...

When I sent the original panel is to be used for a mold, it weighed 18.5# (give or a take 1/4#). And yes, I would say that to use this EXACT panel you would want a full cage. The cage is the main reason that I will not be installing mine any time soon.

New roof looks good on there John. Glad I could help with that project. :hellyeah:Quick question for you on the install though. I see that the edges of your roof are black after being installed. Did you have that part of the roof painted? I know Dave said that the roof would need some kind of...

You COULD do exactly what you're saying. Except that the bellhousing mounting is a bit different. 2 of the bolts wouldn't line up if you used a DSM block with an Evo 4-9 trans. The Evo guys use a Sirius II 4G64, usually sourced from a 3G Eclipse or equivalent year Galant.

I agree with that. The other advantage to eliminating the countershaft was adding overall strength to the transaxle as well.Perhaps I should have said rotated the engine rather than spin. Either way, Evo 6-Speed is garbage. That's why most 6-Speed owners ditch it in favor of the 5-Speed...

This is wrong. All 4G engines spin the same direction. You could make custom mounts to spin the engine 180* to use an Evo 4-9 transmission and transfer case. It's not remotely worth it to a Turbo DSM, but it is possible. That's basically what the NA 2G guys do when they do an "Evo" swap.

I doubt they would want to do that because the Evo 6-Speed is known to be a bit of a grenade. Lots of stories of them not holding much for power, and constantly fragging 3rd/4th even under just Bolt-On power.

That right there was my excuse. Not on here as much as I am during the warmer months. It's snowmobile season dammit!

I second this opinion. I planned on going to an electrohydraulic PS setup anyway. Having driven a couple of Autocross cars with full manual racks I can say from experience that they would be miserable to use if you only had a manual option with real sticky tires (ie what we all wish we could run...

Deposit sent. Somehow I feel like I am late to the party on all of this. Haha.

Bobby, I'm in and you know it. Just say the word on when you're ready to go.

I also received mine today. Packaging looked great overall. Very impressed. I also second the taping of the ends of the bolt bags in the future. Mine was rubbed through and dropped two of the washers into the bottom of the package. Had there been any kind of hole there, they may very well have...