Howdy, friends. FrOG week cometh, and with it, comes drunken shenanigans.

What: Cookout at my house in Copper.

Where: 502 Snowberry Lane, Harrisonburg, VA 22802. (Parking is no issue. No towing during FrOG week)

When: August 26th 2015 (Time to be determined based on what's best for everyone. I do it later if Alumni want to come.)

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Burgers and Hot dogs will be taken care of. Any extra dishes are welcome to be brought. Bring your own beverages. The more, the merrier so we can all have a great time. The cheaper, the better

As usual, we'll have ping pong in the basement, beer pong, all manner of drinking games, stump (Chan can attest to the fun of this), possibly some corn hole, and other things. The last one was an absolute blast, so I expect the same from this one! Let me know if you plan on stopping by! It'd be great to have some alumni pay a visit.

We're rolling up on 15 years since the inception of MM in April 2001 and we've managed to miss doing a 5 year anniversary at 5 and 10 years. Let's not miss this time.

I'm thinking maybe we choose one of the track weekends in March or April and do a big reunion. Get everyone out, do a catered dinner, have some events throughout the weekend, do it up big.

*Go balls out for the paddock area, get a big RV for a lounge, catered lunch or maybe some bbq grills
*Show videos pics, tell stories, recognize people at the dinner
*Have a special reunion tshirt, coffee mug, whatever souvenirs
*Have shooters with big cameras to take pics of all the proceedings (whether that means just us taking the pictures or get a pro shooter is up for discussion)

I know we have lots of Subaru around here. Anyone ever done head gaskets on a 2.5? I am getting ready to do a set this weekend and I wanted to know if there are any special tools or tricks?

Hey guys, it has been awhile since I had an active project thread so I thought what the heck! Yet another place for Mike to make fun of me. I need that in my life. So earlier this spring my wife asked me if we could get a convertible. I was like "sure, what do you want?" long story short I ended up with a 92,000 mile Chrysler Crossfire Roadster. She wanted an automatic trans so that is a bit of a bummer but hey it is what it is. The car seems to have been well cared for and had many new parts. I bought it at an auction and we went to get it in PA.




It had a terrible pin-stripe that had to go!


Cup holder and ash tray were broken, I replaced the useless cupholder with a cubby and repaired the ash tray with my own little trick. Of course I had to swap out the radio, it now has a silver faced Kenwood Marine headunit and a custom OEM amp integration that really makes it bump.


Maintenance items and common failure items I have done:
Oil change, Mobil 0W40 w/ MANN fleece filter not OEM paper
Fuel Filter, MANN
Steering Damper
Crank Sensor, Bosch
Resoldered the contacts in the Relay Control Module
Replaced water damaged Central Vac Module and waterproofed the new one
TPM Sensors
Modified ignition switch to prevent sticking

Need to do list for Maintenance stuff
Tune Up

Performance stuff done/mods
74mm V8 throttle body
Custom oil catch can
Deleted second pair of cats
OBX-R stainless cat back exhaust
SRT-6 Wheels
Honda front splitter

Parts laying in my shed
H&R Springs for a benz SLK (3 out of 4, see the next post)
Koni Yellow shocks
Custom rear camber arms
Camber bolts for the front





Here are a few more pics with the front lip and the wheels. Runs pretty good, maybe I can finally get out to an autocross with something for once!

Hey all, I was talking to Mr. Bradford about how I feel we may lose connections as the generations of MM'ers come and go. Things that happened 3 years ago may seem recent to some, but are ancient history to me and any new members. We know no one other than the people that still come around, and we don't really know the fun stories that you alumni know.

So he gave me the idea to start a thread to dump all of your fun anecdotes and pictures from the days of MM's past. What are some events that us current and future members should know about? Old threads that were amusing? (Please do not post in dead threads that are linked!) Please try to give a rough date and some context to each event. Seriously, what's up with the RJ Money Shot Thread?

In my short time in MM, I have lots of fun memories,

like that time that Giancarlo called me 5 minutes before the start of the car show and said he was stuck in some mud on the other side of town.



or when I hauled Jack's bear through campus?



or when Chris Chzan decided to turn my living room into a wrestling area and I took on Jack?

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or even when Jack and Sam locked a motorcycle lock around my bike tires one morning my freshmen year and I got so mad that I cut through them with a Dremel and bolt cutters when I got to work?





And who could forget these great threads?

Like when I wanted to have everyone vote on a new t-shirt design and that turned into 20+ pages of no progress.

or, the entire club effort to find me a cheap Miata?

Hey all, this is the rough schedule for the early fall. More changes will be made, but these dates are like 95% certain.

Focus Points for early this year:
-Member retention
-Making meeting more interesting and worthwhile (Festival rooms, pizza, maybe F&F movies after a shortened meeting)
-Better presence at student org night (Make an MM flag?)
-Having better and more worthwhile events (parties, cruises, college solo, general hangouts)
-Make a profit on apparel order
-Get students out to auto-crosses first and foremost, then work our way to the track

Rough schedule:

0. Frog week shenanigans at my house for current members
1. Student Org Night
2. Club cookout very soon after Student Org night to get some potential members out to meet current ones
3. Kline's Meet/Parking Deck meet (first formal event) - 2nd week of classes, September 9th
4. First class room meet on September 16th (collect dues)
5. College Solo in October, make club participation a focus point

It's still early to get really far into the year and we're going to convene again before school starts. Karting will probably be spring only.

I'm putting this out there for my neighbor in NJ. He has a BEAUTIFUL 944 that's been immaculately maintained. Believe it or not, it only has ~13k miles on it. I'm not positive its an '83 but I believe that's what he said.

The facts:
Red
BBS wheels
Recently replaced a few of the buttons and other plastic interior parts on it.
Its been garage kept from the beginning and has always had a car cover on as well.
Its on the originally tires from '83.

Its gorgeous. He's not really sure what to ask for it as they aren't quite collector cars right now but it is museum quality.

Thoughts? He doesn't have any pictures of it but if there are any serious buyers, I'm sure I could persuade him.

Do we have a thread for good deals on random items? I couldn't find anything after a brief search.

10W LED Work Light $45 w/ code: JBP7RD2H
Rechargable batter w/ USB port


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Alright fellas, so here's my contribution to Miata Motorsports.

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So around January I decided to sell the eclipse (while getting the transmission replaced) and put up a thread asking about good cars around 5 grand, and the resounding answer, besides some silliness, was Miata! So I put the eclipse up on craigslist and headed off to Atlanta to make enough money to actually afford one. While there, the eclipse was sold to the first person who came and looked at it for a very generous price.

When I got back, started perusing craigslist for good ones. Went and looked at two before seeing this one.
What we have here is a 1999 Mazda Miata with all the goodies. AC, Bose sound, cruise control, power everything, sport suspension, Torsen limited slip differential, and best of all, only 71,000 miles.

Overall this thing is in great shape, first owner kept it in the garage and only put 30k on it in twelve years, second owner put 40k on it in 4 and kept it under a carport and car cover. It has the original paint and original top.

As an added bonus, when the guy I bought it from pulled it out for me to test drive later that day, he heard a squeak in the brakes and decided to take it in and have it looked at. Turns out it had a bad caliper, so he got that replaced along with ALL the pads and rotors. Even though he was just gonna sell the thing. And if thats not the kind of guy you want to buy a car from I don't know who.



After seeing the car in person and driving it (in the pouring rain) I was convinced it was the right one and offered him his full asking price (which was fair) contingent on me being able to bring it to a friend of mine who is a master mechanic. Everything checked out so I purchased it the next day.



So far I have had it for two days and I'm in love with how this thing drives. The only non-stock option on it is an intake which gives it a nice growl under hard acceleration. Everything runs smooth and the trans shifts great. So far I am very pleased with my purchase!





Not planning on doing too many modifications as this is mainly for just being a fun daily, but I'll try to update with the little things I do.