Thank you for the kind words everyone!
I haven't been doing too much lately but i recently got a whole bunch of motivation to get the body work and paint done on at LEAST the rolling chassis part but probably a few more pieces as well so i can have the engine in before I go back to school.
Also picked up a few more parts for it, Banzai-Racing diff brace and tranny brace, an abs delete kit, and a Blitz sbc i-Color spec-R which I impulse bought very very late one night when I got home from the bar. Looked at what I paid for it the next morning and I think I actually got a pretty good deal.
So last night I had it towed to a friends place (prodigy and drifd3s might remember him from the last drift west event) where i continued stripping out the engine bay. All the abs stuff is out now, Ill take out the brake booster today, and then hopefully build the brackets that i drew up for the fuse boxes. Oh, and PROPERLY delete the power steering as per Prodigy's spec since i will have access to a welder
. Then next weekend I can sand it and hopefully the weekend after, have it sprayed! Thats the plan at least lol
Oh and I also picked up what I thought was going to be just an unbroken passenger door handle, but it actually came with both full door panels! Black though, so now I have to pick. And when i dissasembles the passenger door handle to see what I could do to reinforce it, I was appalled at the quality of the piece. How mazda engineers thought it
wouldn't break is beyond me. Just a piss poor design. However, it shouldn't be too hard to re-inforce and ill post up pictures when I do it so those of you who still have yours in tact came give it a bit more durability.
I will try to take a few pictures today too!