I remember now-- when I couldn't cut through them I hit them REALLY HARD WITH A HAMMER for a long time but they didn't even move then. Mazda really engineered a great car.

I've tried to remove them too. I ground the welds off the tops and tried a hammer from the bottom and couldn't get them out. I suspect it was corrosion. Just wasn't prepared to cut open the rail and see if there was more to it.

Was that cut with a butter knife!? :giggle:

Clean it up and make it proper like this!
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chassis swap.




but seriously get some help from someone with a little more patience or skill, like a body shop

Nice, I'd reccomend using a die grinder next time. It makes cutting the chassis apart a lot easier and it gives you a nice clean cut.

Man, if you have access to an air compressor, I'll come down and help you clean that up a bit, I can't do the welding, but I can cut it out cleanly so you can get some new metal in there...

That looks like a dynamite explosion, did you use dynamite? Honestly, at some point you should have realized you were over your head and stopped to take it somewhere or call a buddy. How long have you been driving it like that? lol

http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/CON1347.jpg

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I've been had...

Take up some of the offers for help in this thread, weather or not they want to admit it or weather or not they remember their first project, every one here has hacked something up like that at one point or another. You will learn from this and do better next time, I'm in for the fix to see how nicely you come out of that mess. You cant learn if you don't try so I think its cool that you at least tried instead of writing a check and having someone else do it all for you.

I've been driving it that way for two years actually. I really did hammer the fuck out of te pipes and the rail. That's how I finally got it to fit. The sawzall blade didn't really fit in that well so the final hammering is what let the turbo slide in. Final actual space between the compressor housing and the rail is now about 6 inches.

I know what I am capable of doing, and I know when I should pay someone else to achieve the results I want. No offense, but without a welder, a grinder, and some experience, you should strongly consider paying someone. A good fabricator can turn just about anything into a work of art - there's a reason I have good relationships with two different high-end fabricators (one in MV, one in SLO).

Tell ya what. Agile Auto in fallston maryland can take care of the for you no problem. The owner is a great fabricator, and I certainly trust him with MY cars.