Bought a Miata Because Exocar

[Monochrome]

[quote=""alienviking""]Sounds like they are using near field readers and non-powered RFID chips if you have to get that close.[/quote]

Ah yeah. That's what they look like. No battery to die and leave you stranded.

[alienviking]

Powered one would probably have a lifespan of 6 months to 2-3 years depending on the strength of the radio and transmittance frequency. Quite unreliable to be honest.. We dropped them for a reason

[Monochrome]

Yeah that's why I prefer the manual mode of the DGD system. It'll only use power when you press it on the remote. Like a normal keyless remote.

[Monochrome]

Coop/Creaper/anyone drooling over a V8 Exocet.

http://www.flyinmiata.com/projects/XXXo ... x.php?UID=

Looks like the guys are already tackling the issues with fitting a super charged V8 from a CTS-V into the Exocet. Check out the latest entery with the exhaust!

[DCIV]

Very cool build! Love the engine choice too.


Coop

[green-lantern]

That's just insane

[tabasco122]

Hah that was the engine I posted in the other thread, the 556hp LSA

[Monochrome]

Have to check the specs to see which car is actually bigger, but this goes to show how much more efficiently the Mazda 2 uses the space.

[DCIV]

You can't compare them when one has 4 doors. It's gone be set up WAY different.


Coop

[Monochrome]

What do you mean I can't compare a FWD 4 door car to a RWD 2 door convertible?

[ChargerX3]

I see your mad green love. Precious.

[Monochrome]

Drove the car to work yesterday to try and gauge if there were any issues I needed to be concerned about. Noticed an issue where the engine would stumble on/off the throttle. Did a little research suspecting maybe bad throttle body seals but someone on the Exocet forums suggested I look at the EGR.

Found out at the end of the day that the battery was almost dead.... Walked home after setting up the battery on a slow tender.

This afternoon, I pulled the egr valve and tube. Both were corroded but not clogged. Vac tested the valve and it opened with only 5in/mc. However when under atmosphere pressure,the valve wasn't shutting all the way. Cleaned the valve with some carb cleaner, reinstalled it and the throttle issue seems to have gone away.

The over night trickle charge brought renewed life to the battery and the motor fired back up. Using a volt meter on the battery I found the alternator is only charging 12.9 volts at idle and it only goes down when revving. Looks like the alternator is almost done which explains the battery issue.

Let the motor run a good 15 minutes and found a significant amount of smoke coming from the front main seal. Head gasket seems fine. Compression tested the motor and its still almost perfect.

Reassembled again and went out for a more thorough test drive. Tie rod ends look new and there are no rattles in the suspension or steering at high speed or going over bumps. No whines in the drive terrain either. Front drivers wheel bearing is going out though. It failed the "shake" test.

Setting up a real oil pressure gauge now. Just want to make sure the previous owner didn't run the motor too low on oil. After that its disassembly time.

[J-Groove]

[quote=""Monochrome""]. After that its disassembly time.[/quote]

I want pics of this build!

[Chris GTO TT]

[quote=""Monochrome""]Drove the car to work yesterday to try and gauge if there were any issues I needed to be concerned about. Noticed an issue where the engine would stumble on/off the throttle. Did a little research suspecting maybe bad throttle body seals but someone on the Exocet forums suggested I look at the EGR.

Found out at the end of the day that the battery was almost dead.... Walked home after setting up the battery on a slow tender.

This afternoon, I pulled the egr valve and tube. Both were corroded but not clogged. Vac tested the valve and it opened with only 5in/mc. However when under atmosphere pressure,the valve wasn't shutting all the way. Cleaned the valve with some carb cleaner, reinstalled it and the throttle issue seems to have gone away.

The over night trickle charge brought renewed life to the battery and the motor fired back up. Using a volt meter on the battery I found the alternator is only charging 12.9 volts at idle and it only goes down when revving. Looks like the alternator is almost done which explains the battery issue.

Let the motor run a good 15 minutes and found a significant amount of smoke coming from the front main seal. Head gasket seems fine. Compression tested the motor and its still almost perfect.

Reassembled again and went out for a more thorough test drive. Tie rod ends look new and there are no rattles in the suspension or steering at high speed or going over bumps. No whines in the drive terrain either. Front drivers wheel bearing is going out though. It failed the "shake" test.

Setting up a real oil pressure gauge now. Just want to make sure the previous owner didn't run the motor too low on oil. After that its disassembly time.[/quote]

Sounds like a pretty successful test... also mine came with a real oil pressure gauge

[Monochrome]

[quote=""Chris GTO TT""]Sounds like a pretty successful test... also mine came with a real oil pressure gauge [/quote]

The 3/S came with a real oil pressure gauge too.

[Monochrome]

More cool shit:

I know there's been a lot of focus on bodywork and wings, but I just took a couple frame photos that I'd love to share with you guys. These cars are all going together very smoothly. I'm sure some of you have experience with tube notching, and, well, try not to pitch a tent.









You're not looking at a ringer, this just happens to be the car on table 1 right now. The last 30 or so have been this seamless with nearly zero grinding to make things fit. It's almost a shame that this level of fitment gets covered up with welds.

Big shout out to the team at Industrial Laser Solutions / Tie Down Engineering for their part consistency. It's great to see all that crazy engineering in real life, working in a repeatable process instead of just my computer screen.

Thank you team Exomotive,

To date, it's been a pleasure working with you all and having the opportunity to utilize the best manufacturing technologies available and materials generally reserved for the defense and other niche industries to ultimately yield a product vastly superior to anything currently being fabricated for the 'kit' car industry.
With that said, It's certainly been a challenge giving everything you've engineered for production with the 11 some odd unique tube profiles, 'robbing' from our high tensile material inventory we're supposed to hold for our 'classified' customers, the 150+ unique part numbers and 700+ total parts per chassis... But you convinced us that they were all required to make something never done before. Plus, at least you worked with our current tube tooling inventory that we used for making parts meant for stopping RPG's shot at our GI's in current theaters of conflict.

GRM community, if you have not yet realized, you truly have something special here with the Exocet and future plans from the Exomotive team. And to all the kit car producers still stuck in mid 20th century mindset, it is time to step up your game.

[green-lantern]

That's pretty sweet

[Chris GTO TT]

I'll just leave these here.

[green-lantern]

Have fun at the gay pride rally?

[Chris GTO TT]

Yep :ick: