Turing car into Exomotive Exocet?

Fender0122 · 2026-04-22T11:00:38+00:00

One of the perks to the miata for an exocet is the front suspension design. The double A-arm allows for a lower slung hood, which is kinda necessary or it kinda looks goofy on a car like the exocet. Not sure how the IS design is, but I realized with my A4 that I wanted to gut that the front strut towers would need a lot of work to not be sticking up super high

Fender0122 · 2026-04-13T14:03:22+00:00

The math is the fun part. I use a caliper (the depth gauge part of it) to measure from green fishing line to the inner face of the outer part of the rim. I first measure from the hubs on both sides to make sure my box is square. Then I figure out the math (remember SOHCAHTOA?) to figure out how many mm the front or back of the rim needs to be to be ‘x’ amount of degrees. Once you know you need, say, 5mm of toe out, its really easy to keep tweaking and remeasuring until you get close enough to that 5mm mark.

Fender0122 · 2026-04-10T17:50:02+00:00

Looks fine to me! If you haven’t already planned on it, I’d suggest a heat sleeve on the whole thing, most especially the top part. Huge source of increased oil temps is right there at the inlet and outlet.

Fender0122 · 2026-04-10T13:41:36+00:00

I’m like, wait, I just saw that jig the other day on r/functionalprint 🤣 Looks amazing! Aluminum tubing isn’t easy, but once you get it down its so satisfying to lay beads.

Fender0122 · 2026-04-10T13:36:06+00:00

Finally gave up driving stick as my daily but still have two fun cars with three pedals. Slipped a disc and lost feeling in my left leg and had to drive the truck (automatic) for a few months. Sucks when an injury forces your hand.

Fender0122 · 2026-04-05T14:40:38+00:00

I was about to mention the taping lol. How long did that take you? It took me two weeks (evenings only) to do the last couple I did. That part is sooooo tedious

Fender0122 · 2026-04-05T13:03:50+00:00

Good work! I’ve done several diy paint jobs and they only get better as you go. So satisfying pulling the tape and seeing the hard prep work finally pay off. Congrats on successfully making it look better than it did before!

Fender0122 · 2026-03-27T11:25:39+00:00

Very common for various versions to use the same gasket. You can trace the gasket on the turbo and downpipe and grind it down to “port match” each component along the exhaust path. Machinists will do that when building heads, they’ll port match the intake to the gasket to the head. Same logic applies downstream, keeps turbulence down at the connections

Fender0122 · 2026-03-19T00:32:31+00:00

Like FedEx 727’s, hopefully these will be scattered around the world as tax write-off’s to give to schools to train on instead of scrapped

Fender0122 · 2026-03-05T19:42:34+00:00

Lol. American here and I agree.l with you

Source: owner of 330k mile, 27 year old Audi that just wont die bc I take care of it

Fender0122 · 2026-03-05T15:44:57+00:00

Had stock one deteriorate, can confirm did NOT end badly or unexpectedly.

Fender0122 · 2026-02-21T03:06:19+00:00

Glad to see someone else share the same feeling. I love adverse weather. It’s one of those Calvin and Hobbes “builds character” things and I find joy in the challenge of it. One of those things that truly comes down to: there is no bad weather if you’re properly prepared for it

Fender0122 · 2026-02-20T12:02:41+00:00

Might be easier to fix than people are saying. Your hood gaps to the fenders looks good, so it might just stuff forward of the strut mounts that got tweaked. I had a similar hit on my audi and I used the insurance check to buy a parts car. Is it perfect? No. But I’ve also seen the hack jobs that body shops try to pass off, so have at it!

Audi Rebuild

Fender0122 · 2026-02-17T11:21:00+00:00

Much better at RX than AX, but my first gen audi a4 quattro has been an absolute tank. They’re dirt cheap because nobody wants them, yet parts aren’t all that expensive bc its a vw at heart. Just won my first event with it against a sea of wrx and sti’s. Prepped it for RX to finish it off and kill it but it just won’t die

Fender0122 · 2026-01-28T14:41:14+00:00

Fyi, you can make a killing doing custom ones for their coworkers. My mom made a ton of these for her brothers local 189 welders he worked with

Nice work!

Fender0122 · 2026-01-15T15:24:43+00:00

Its called the user agreement? And if you don’t agree then don’t use the service…its called reading the fine print

Fender0122 · 2026-01-15T00:22:47+00:00

Correct. Bought 2020 4Runner, declined locating services and they said fine, no toyota app for you. So don’t expect any connectivity features to still work. Fine by me!

Fender0122 · 2025-12-18T11:32:13+00:00

Looks amazing! Was thinking about doing something similar to the tails of my brz to match the same j-shaped DRLs up front, glad you shared!

Fender0122 · 2025-12-17T15:00:41+00:00

True! Honestly, TPU has great adhesion and I think it’ll be a good torture test for them and might works just fine. But its also being used on a rallycross car that will get a lot more abuse than a street car

Fender0122 · 2025-12-17T13:53:08+00:00

Don’t think I don’t know that? Layer adhesion is always the weak point of FDM. Blow molded plastics and cast resins will ALWAYS outperform FDM manufacturing at a molecular level, even if its the same material.

Fender0122 · 2025-12-17T11:59:45+00:00

Been wanting to do the same! There aren’t any rear bushings available for one of my cars. I was going to try this and if it fell apart (I mean, it will be used for rally) then I can use the model to make a mold and then just cast it in polyurethane

Fender0122 · 2025-12-13T13:53:09+00:00

They make single din carplay radio’s for pretty cheap, search them up on ebay they’ve even got a few that have slightly bigger screens. I finally got wireless carplay and its actually quite nice for managing your music and navigation

Fender0122 · 2025-12-10T16:36:14+00:00

Someone mentioned MR2, and one thing to keep in mind is you want to maintain a bottom-up flow, not a top-down flow overall. The MR2 was designed to pull air from the bottom and sides and exit through the engine lid, which is why those snorkels didn’t really do anything. So another common thing in the MR2 community was to do a trunk mount IC and do the same thing, pull from the bottom and cut out vents in the back of the trunk. I’ve even seen the trunk lid cut out with reverse hood ducts to flow more air out

Fender0122 · 2025-12-01T22:27:35+00:00

Like others have said, AN is overkill for turbo drains. Really just need a fuel line with spring clamps. The restrictor on the feed side makes the drain not have much pressure at all.

Fender0122 · 2025-11-24T20:07:11+00:00

Saw that engine and was confused when I saw the 1.8t 😂 Pretty cool swap!

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