Infraction for posting useless drivel in the "INSERT BS HERE" section?
 

So here's the question... say some random noob want's to buy some injectors for their shitty miata build but they cant send a PM to seller of said injectors because their post count isn't 15 or higher, so they post a bunch of nonsense in the "insert BS here" section of the forum to raise their post count to 15. Now logic would dictate that the section of the forum labeled "insert BS here" would be tolerant to the insertion of bullshit...well...there. Now this random newb, (being a courteous young chap) to make very sure he or she wasn't taking a dump in anyones backyard decides to post a response to a video, in a thread called "crappy music video thread" to which they receive an infraction for at 3 in the morning. Good call, bad call, you be the umpire...

Please be detailed in your response explaining how you would have handled this situation had you been this noob, and whether you would have been douchey enough to create and entire thread about it after the fact in an attempt to tactfully raise your post count realizing you've already made one very sleepy mod mad at 3am. Oh also this newb is back the hell down to 1 post count now that our tired (and obviously humor-less) cop on the beat decided to erase the rest of his or her posts.

Sleepless in Seattle.

Easy, noobs can't post in the "insert BS here" section.

knock, knock....
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You have been a member since March. That means you have had 2 months to lurk and figure out how the site operates. You also have yet to make an intro thread to say who you are and what you plan on doing with your miata. So I support the warning that Curly gave you 100 percent. Since you asked what I would have done, I had a shitty day driving yesterday, so I would have probably just banned your instead of a warning.

At least you have a sense on humour. Sort of.

Dann

intro post would net you an average of 4-5 posts

a well researched thread topic related to somethiing you want to do to your car would net you the rest. sooo wheres the issue?

hell i have 15+ posts and i dont even own a miata.

I would have apologized humbly profusely for my wanton disregard for forum etiquette, become a paid subscriber to support the forum and reap all the manifest rewards of membership, offered to mail a case of my favorite locally microbrewed beer to each of the moderators and administrators as a form of penance, and posted a funny cat picture.

:D

^just one nude of girlfriend or hot mom qualifies any noob free reign around here as far as i'm concerned... all worldy issues solved in a single attachment.

I'm going to give you a serious response and hope that other, semi intelligent noobs such as yourself stumble upon this later and get with the program.

If you're here to buy crap we don't care about you. We don't want you. This is a community, you gotta actually contribute and be part of the community. If you spam in our threads, even the pointless ones made specifically for spamming, we will hunt you down for it. Because you're not part of us. You're not part of the community. Its like a family see: you're having dinner and some random jackhole off the street walks into your house and sits down at the dinner table, then starts rambling about some stupid nonsense just to eat your food. We don't like people like you. We hope they die in a fiery crash. This is not ebay or craigslist: if you're not part of the community, GTFO.

(its early and I haven't had coffee yet so if this doesn't make sense, suck my dick)

Here is a tip you winner you.

Stop doing the cocaine. You are in seattle so it is probably meth.

Apparently he's into FD's. I told him we like them and to make a build thread with a couple pics and we'd be happy.

I mean if he came in here and responded to his own thread he'd have a couple posts already.

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I like Dann, the rest of you pretentious ass beeeeitches can S a D (though I mean that in the best way possible, like Too Short)


I should have just introduced myself like this straight away without all the hoopla

All I got out of that is the OP's black. Black AND sleepless in Seattle apparently.

Oh, yes, and butthurt. I forgot butthurt.

Not black, from the Bay Area in CA, and not in the slightest bit hurt in mah buttholez

:makeout: Let's make up, I guess I should finally introduce myself and post----- this thread.

HELLOZ EVERYONE!

My name is Heath, I'm into crappy Mazda's and other non-macho sports cars. I like long walks on the beach, holding hands, and sushi (with obligatory sake bombs).

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sake bomb. sounds disgusting

then again i do like vodka in my beer so fine.

Pics of engine bay of the rx7s please. I expect to see turbo i can fist

Did you put er into a wall or something? I'm all ears. As long as you didn't crash it couldn't have been that bad :D



Ok a little more about my me and goals for my car:


My resume:

So in real life I'm a human factors engineer (usability and engineering psychology... basically making things easier to use for people) and did my graduate thesis on headlight glare mitigation and automobile interface design.

In car life I'm the co-founder/owner of SakeBomb Garage (we do FD stuff... oil coolers, race car brakes, HID's, and other little important bits). I've done some custom parts for my Miata but since it's a DD I never put too much thought into the Miata market for go fast/fun parts, but it's always a possibility. I've had a NA Miata since back in '00 (shes my DD), FD since 2001, second FD project car since 2005 which will never be finished (3 rotor swap). I've also got a '67 MGB, and '67 Volvo p1800s. I've basically got a car junkyard. Anyway SBG does performance parts for FD RX7's and recently I've been doing a little here and there on my daily driver ('97 Montego NA) and am parts collecting to go turbo.

As far as the SakeBomb stuff goes, one of our big items of interest within the FD community are HID headlights... I recently put together a setup for my NA pop-ups and did a few sets of projectors for friends NB's. I'm not here to sell parts for the Miata necessarily, but the thought has crossed my mind before, I'm just not sure the Miata community wants to spend big dollars on expensive parts... the Miata has always been a DIY car (for me at least).

Now that I've got the same projectors as we use in our HID builds in my miata (I build headlights every day and I'm still surprised I was able to get them to work with the popups with literally 1mm clearance) I can drive balls to the wall at night without worry of hitting deer, potholes, or uh... cops. They've already helped me from totaling my car, not hitting a deer, and not getting at least 3 tickets to date and I've only had them in for 8 months... it's amazing how being able to see everything totally changes the act of driving at night (from not only a fun perspective but a safety perspective too).

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I'm personally here to do a turbo conversion on my miata of which I've already started collecting parts for. I drive the piss out of the car daily and have try to hit the backroads every other day or so. My favorite road of choice (the "long" way home) is about a half hour of tight turns, and even with my (relatively) stock NA I can keep up with much faster cars since it's all corners and relies more on suspension more than power. I'd even wager I'm faster in the miata than in my FD on that road since it's all tight slower corners and few straights or sweepers (more like an autox). Anyhoo, the impetus for the turbo came one day when an evo-x couldn't shake me on the backroads, but 5 minutes later I got pulled on by a.............prius........... on the highway. There's a juxtaposition for ya, and the lack of power is the only thing I hate about the miata. Other than that I'll never willingly sell it and have been driving the crap out of it for 12 years now with no major mechanical issues to date.

so hello to the good peoples of miata turbo, we'll either be good friends or good enemies, but now you know me. I've been a member of m-net for years but I can't stand it over there, it's too stuffy. This forum reminds me of rx7club quite a lot (which I call home) so hopefully I'll "fit in" :fawk: :rofl:

-Heath

Yeah soz bro, this is nothin' like the 7club.

The staff here aren't batshit crazy, soz bro.

Engine bay

ENGINE BAY DAMNIT

NOT GAY ASS HIDS

That's funny, everyone here happens to know few things, and one of the things that we know is it's not how you stand by your car, it's how you race your car. You better learn that.

How much for those HID's

Thanks for helping contribute to people blinding the hell out of me jackass.

Oh ya,welcome.

Hey, Heath. Don't mind the locals, they're still just pissed that the repeal of "Don't Ask" has taken half the fun out of the job.

No car went into the wall.

I started at 4am to drive from SC to NJ. About half hour into my drive my DD miata started over heating. So I then spent about 1.5 hours getting the car home. After that I then had to wait till 8am to go to Hertz and getting a shitty Chevy Aveo. The ride up was going great till I got north of Fredricksburg VA when I came to a stop. It took me then 2 hours to go about 3 miles. After that the drive was decent until I got on 495 about a mile from the MD boarder. We came to another stop and when I finally got to the accident I got to see a dead body on the side of the road from a pick up truck that when head first into the medium. After that was just rain and slow traffic. So after 16-17 hours in a car driving I was in a rather foul mood.

You have since them come back and been a champ. So I will take back wanting to ban you. I hope you stick around and become a valuable member of the community. We tend to come off as assholes to idiots, but after that we actually do have very large amount of knowledge about turbos and kitties.

Why, you little time traveler you!

Well now that you mention it... :giggle:

. The projectors actually do an excellent job at curtailing glare unlike the oem lights that are on a miata or rx7 or many other vehicles and sure beats the people that just pnp hids into their regular headlight housings....

Don't be jelous...

Welcome op. I saw those on rx7club and thought they looked great.

Can you tell us how much, and If its really high show us how to build our own?

Projector HID's (good ones) =/= HID conversion kits where you stuff a HID bulb in a halogen housing. You get worse lighting than the halogen, you blind everyone, and you look like you drive a civic. Proper projector HID's have a sharp cutoff that does not blind other drivers. The projectors I use are mercedes level lighting, with the same bulbs mercedes uses OEM, and our own ballasts and custom wiring harness. The $50 dollar china "hid" bulbs are a joke, but at 10-20x the price a proper projector setup isn't for the faint of heart. But if you want to drive balls to the wall in the mountains or roll out at 140+ mph on the highway you kinda need to see where you're going :rofl: I get the miata up above 110 at least a few times a week, and back roads daily so I spare no expense in the vision department. I used to run hella e-codes with piaa 55w driving lights (still have them) but I cant tell if they are on or off any more so I don't even bother turning them on anymore.

Sorry I'm a little obsessed with lighting, it's kinda my thing :rofl:

01 and up Miata's have true projectors and they throw correctly with HID's installed.

Would you like To see a picture of what I am obsessed with?

You already posted it, remember?

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Sake bomb = handball bottom

This is the part where annoying newb tries to dazzle us with bullshit.

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I like being able to see at night, but not for $975. Are you going to show us how to build these?

A grand for headlights....... wow!

People at the parts store cry about the junk Silverstar prices...

I want free advertising too to screw over all the paying sponsors....



I hope you get the hint...you've been warned.

It doesn't matter how much advertising he gets when they are 975 for the pair :) For that price I'd be rocking some DIY LED headlights.

They must come with gold plated surrounds with gold from the roofs of Roman churches in Europe.

Well

All of the rest of us just die when we drive at night. Those pesky invisible potholes

$975 is incredible! I am saving pennies to buy a $300 bi-xenon kit for my outback, I can't imagine dropping more than 3 times that on headlights.

Hopefully OP turns out to be an awesome asset to the community, he seems like he could be amusing if he doesn't try too hard.

Seriously? :bowrofl: Come on duder, I'm not fresh off the boat. I'm a paying vendor over at rx7club, but WE ONLY SELL FD PARTS. Unless someone wants to cram a twin 25row oil cooler kit mated to a rotary engine into their NB (which I've always dreamed of doing) it's not free advertising for anything at all whatsoever :rofl: You can't buy what we don't sell ;)



Seriously, everyone lighten up. Jesus, what a freaking hazing for the new guy LOL... I feel like I have to eat a live goldfish or some ish.

Yes if we end up making any Miata parts I would be MORE than happy to set up a vendor account. In all honesty though, our parts wouldn't thrive with the Miata crowd as my own NA with hardtop included is worth less than a third of some of the parts we sell for the FD. It is what it is, but if we come up with any Miata goodies, by all means I'll set up a vendor account. :) There's also a TON of competition in the Miata market and I cant figure out how anyone (besides FM of course) makes a living.

-Heath

PS I see this forum features a swear filter... lemme clean up my post real quick. Is anyone here really offended by curse words? wtf Now I want to see what the filter WON'T filter out ;)

I'm not the only one with an RX7 on here, we've got quite a few RX7 fans on here.

(Edit) Cute edit there. I need to get back in the habit of quoting back to back posts.

That is like, So 1975.




Good ole' Honest George
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Welcome to the 21st Century. With PISTONS.



Really though, Welcome.

I appreciate the vote of confidence :) . No, I'm happy to share with the community and I obviously realize thousand dollar headlights would never fly with the miata which is why we've never considered trying to sell any Miata parts. What kit are you saving for? I just did a retrofit on my 97 outback (parts hauler) and if you've got the same body style I can give you a few pointers... it was a tricky install but doable. Belt sander and a ton of patience is required haha.


As far as the miata goes I have to say, it's more fun to drive every day than the FD... it's a testamant to the miata that I can't bring myself to get rid of it or replace it after owning it for over 12 years now. Any time I think about retiring her as a weekend car all I can think to replace it with is another miata! It's cheap, fun, easy to park, reliable, decent mileage, great handling, , I can drive it at the limit all day long... and its a convertible. It's a little on the feminine side but I'm secure with my masculinity so I could care less what some douchebag in a mustang has to say (and with a lip and lowered it looks much better)

ZOMFG that things a death trap!! For a second the car fills up with smoke and thought, gee it got hazy real quick. Nope that's just a half inch of tread off his tires in the cockpit! Want!

The owner is like 'I just drive it to church..' :rofl:

Yeah, a *little* over the top.

Engine pics?

You should do a writeup about the projector retro.

I bought a pair of 2010 Escalade bi-xenon projectors to retrofit into my Jeep ZJ but not really sure I like the beam pattern, or really the physical package the projector is in. Squeezing it inside the housing with space available might not be possible, which won't allow me to seal it on the rear any way.

Low beam:
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High Beam:
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Probably going to use the ole failsafe TSX projectors.

So how about them engine pics?

Fing post a write up on miata HID so we can stop hazing you like Hustlers Mom.

Where can we find legit 7" round projectors on the low!

As I said before my 13b engine bay is pretty stock aside from reworked BNR twin turbos (but they look just like standard turbos and are buried under the rest of the crap). So that's not gonna knock anyone's socks off ;)

The project car has no motor and half an interior at the moment (repainted engine bay, custom subframe to mount the 20b, a $2k carbonetics clutch, 20b short block on my engine stand, re-worked 20b twin turbos, lots and lots of j-spec goodies for the interior and exterior, yada yada).

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Unfortunately I don't get to spend as much time as I'd like working on my personal cars with the business... a few hours here and there on weekends is all I get. I need to get the motor in finally, but I'm getting close.

Then there's the SBG shop car which my partner in crime (co-owner of SBG) just got up and running again after a blown motor a couple months back
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and finally a shakedown last weekend after getting the new motor tuned. Lots o compliments from the porsche guys


Enjoy.

Yeah the high and low's really just look like a halogen projector almost... they're kinda lackluster... but if you've already got em, idk maybe just work with it. Problem with the TSX is it's low beam only right? Unless it were for fogs or something I'd never bother with a non-bi-xenon retrofit... too much work for no high beams. Personally we use FXR's for a lot of our setups, sometimes others but that's my go to projector of choice. I love em. Problem is they're pretty damn ass large, reallllly long with a bulb and connector hanging off the back, and still not a simple retro in the slightest into most housings, and the backs are all open.

For the FD housings I've got between 8-10hrs I'd guesstimate into each set (once they're all done and wiring harnesses built etc.) and I'd say that they're one of the more straight forward retrofits. I've done everything from corollas to miatas using all sorts of projectors and no two are similar, but I can say that everyone has taken WAY more time than the FD's to build, which are a nightmare in itself. Honestly retrofits are a huge pain in the ass if you're not doing them in huge assembly line batches and have spent the time to work out everything before hand. I've got all sorts of little jigs, aiming devices, patterns I've made to make the process go faster but there's a trial and error phase at the beginning of every new type of headlights and sometimes you have to change your plans mid build (hopefully the housing isnt ruined at that point haha).

AFAIK nothing good currently exists. There's a bunch of ebay fake projectors where they put a piece of glass in front of a halogen bulb in a standard housing... other than that you need custom shiz. I think part of the reason they're NOT made (at least why I don't produce them as a "product" at least) is because the market isn't there for quality projectors, bulbs, ballasts, wiring etc for cheap cars. Most people with cheap cars want cheap parts (or they'd be driving something more expensive in the first place). Even if high quality units could be made for 5-600, the Miata community would scoff at the price.

I spoke with FM about possibly retailing Miata lights for us but even though they were interested in doing it their thought was "you can get halogens for 70 bucks, so few people would spend 8-10x that for HID's, doesn't matter if they're Mercedes level lighting, they just cost too much for the average Joe"

I basically agree with them. We did FC headlights (mostly the same components as the FD units but in 6x7 rectangular universal form factor, and cheaper price... we sold 10 sets over two years, and pulled out of that market). The interest and desire is there, but the funding isn't.

I was thinking about that for a second, you're correct on the TSX- They're low beam only, FXR is what I was thinking about. Bitch of it is, I don't want to spend $100 for some clear lens housings to potentially break so I've been thinking about actually making some new lens covers out of some thick ass poly. Haven't even started on it yet, know it will seriously be a huge pain in the ass plus I just don't have time. One project at a time. :(


You're right about the market. Clearcorners.com sells LED tail lights for the Miata, they're only 1400 a pair.

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Some of the things they do though... 1200$ a pair of side windows:

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I highly highly recommend just buying the clear housings to start with. If you value your time you'll save money in the end, and not hate the project. Do you have an NB? If so good luck, the fxr is not an easy retrofit into that housing at all, I'd stick to one of the drop in mini's to be honest. You'll get about 75% of the performance for 500% less effort. Granted I retrofitted my subaru last month with the minis and while it's absolutely no comparison to stock and the lighting is quite good, I wish they were wider and threw further. They're also cheaper though which is a plus.

$1200?! That's pretty steep. We used to do custom FD tails so I know how much work and custom parts are required (we had to have all of the parts custom fabricated with something like 80 LEDs and 30 resisters hand soldered on each board x 6 boards per set, plus all the work to install, wire, there's a lot involved. I was eying my miata tails the other night and started thinking... hmmmm the hourglass design could really use a little updating! It looks really dated. My lenses aren't in great shape anyway... maybe it's time for them to go under the knife :)

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Well, one more post and you can PM ;-)

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I hope you all are happy. Now that I'm through the hazing, I'm sure I'll still gonna get harassed like a freshmen. Awesome. :D
-Heath