I'm not the guy asking questions, this was sent to me as a screenshot over FB

I'm at least gathering that stock rods are not being used, that was my first concern. Now that's out of the way....

In the words of the great Freddie Mercury: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

School me, please!

 

no.

 

Stock pistons and rings, untouched block, with aftermarket rods here. Twice now I've halfassed everything, no machine shop, not measured anything, torqued all bolts by feel, reused old rings/bearings and the engine has run great. Every time I try to do it the "right way" I end up blowing the motor under 1000 miles.

I'm certainly not anywhere close to 600whp, but I don't doubt that it would be possible, at least for a little while.

 

I really struggle to see where the reliability fits into those claims in the photo

And perhaps the confidence of building it "right" led to harder driving? I can see where factory parts might fair well for you, lots of margin for error when machining things out of spec.

 

 

Care to elaborate?

 

you guys wouldn't believe the BS i have to deal with on the mt FB page.

 

No, I would believe every word of it after being on pages like AWD_Army, MazdaUnderload and Mazdaspeed Owners

 

I seriously got into a debate about the existence of a 1.6 b6ze vvt...

 

That page must be where all the banned MT rejects end up.

 

he must moderate using a CRT screen so he can slap the users face before he bans them

 

Facebook brings all the tards to the yard

 

I dont think today's youth even uses forums, they go straight to FB groups.

 

And because of that I have daily arguments with slammed stancenation idiots about plasti-dip being a mod or not.

Who knows, at this point I must be the idiot for entertaining it.

 

I don't have facebook. Never have never will. You make your own decisions

 

you miss out on all my cat selfies...

 

And the gangbang placed on the ricers when the whining starts.

 

hi

 

Did anyone ever put together a ZM-DE in a Miata? I can find a few threads about it that are a few years old, but no closure.

 

This. I check my account once every six weeks just to make sure I still dislike it.
I still dislike it.