So I cut a miata in half
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How many blades did it take? The one I helped cut up a couple years ago ate like 4-5 blades. Not worth the effort unless you are stuffing it into a dumpster, IMO. A junkyard or scrap guy will pick it up for free if you call around.
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Took 1 new blade and one very used blade.
I did it becasue it was fun and it will be thrown into the back of a pickup and taken to the scrap yard. It's very interesting to see how the structure comes together and where the strong/weak points are. Helps in deciding what kind of stiffening should be effective. Also interesting the amount of room in the side sills, there's enough room to easily hide a few gallons of gas if you were building an endurance racer.
Gave me a great excuse to rockout with the sawzall.
I did it becasue it was fun and it will be thrown into the back of a pickup and taken to the scrap yard. It's very interesting to see how the structure comes together and where the strong/weak points are. Helps in deciding what kind of stiffening should be effective. Also interesting the amount of room in the side sills, there's enough room to easily hide a few gallons of gas if you were building an endurance racer.
Gave me a great excuse to rockout with the sawzall.
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At one point it was an option for mounting a subframe by replacing that short stud with a longer one. I went a different route- but never satisfied my curiosity. It was welded up top, which I ground off. But it wouldn't come out, so I didn't know if it had a tack weld, or adhesive in a sleeve inside the frame rail or if it was just corrosion.
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