What’s up y’all? I’m from the Austin area (yes we say y’all) and I’ve been into miatas for a few years now and finally got my own ‘99 with 79k miles. Very clean and very stock. I plan to change one of those things.

I’m currently in the Texas army national guard (almost the same thing as the reserves) as a helicopter mechanic. My full time job is a federal technician job as a civilian helicopter maintainer (for some reason we still wear army uniforms idk) doing pretty much the same thing I do for the guard. Just with a whole lot less sitting around and wasting time. I deploy this summer, so when I get back I should have plenty of money for car parts. Or, you know, a house. But I’m 22 and single. Not 34 with kids. So screw that. If i want a Miata with 220+ hp I’m gonna have a Miata with 220+ Hp. Hopefully then I blow it up and decide on a V8. Or get a house anyways and start a project miata to cram an LS3 into. So many options.

But for now I’m just doing a lot of studying and planning about my build. There are tons of things I hope to learn, and others I hope that some of y’all can teach me (specifically welding, never done it, but would love/need to learn). I love seeing videos and blogs of other people’s builds because it gives me real world testimony about the whole process. I’ve watched project thunderbolt and carpassion channel videos on YouTube probably 2-3 times each haha.

If there’s anything y’all would like to know, or some stupid piece of info I forgot to include, ask away.

Okay, obligatory first post complete. Can I ask questions now?

 

You can ask one question, oh wait you already asked it in your last post. So yes, but no more.

Welcome.

 

 

 

Ah crap, here I am mid 30's who wanted as much power as I could manage to squeeze out. Looks like I have to go wife someone and buys some kids.