maybeitruns

Hi! I’m Evan, but I also go by Kev.I’m a car nut that would spend all his time looking at, designing, or purchasing parts for my car if time and money allowed. When I’m not doing that, I’m rapid fire bouncing between other fixations, some repeat, some not. If it’s tech, I’ll probably find it fascinating. I also dabble in photography, music production, and video editing.I’ve been inquisitive and an inventive problem solver from a young age, growing up on a small farm with many mechanical repair opportunities. This trend continued in primary education with advanced placement and STEM track classes. I hit a major roadblock during my first college attempt, which included software development and MIS. Fresh out of motivation and also money, I dropped out to dip my toes into the industrial workforce in an equipment warehouse.After a few years of that, I decided it was time to wrap up the college portion of my story, and headed back to university to eventually graduate with a bachelors in MET (manufacturing engineering) and a minor in business. During that last college stint I also worked full time in a CNC machine shop and participated in the university’s collegiate design FSAE team, holding several team lead positions. 80 mph fancy go-karts are extremely cool.I live by the full "jack of all trades" quote. Parametric CAD is my digital playground, but it's always refreshing to go fabricate something random out in the shop. I definitely prefer metalworking to woodworking, but haven't been brave enough to get into composites like fiberglass or carbon fiber. I'm also obsessed with the rapid prototyping 3D printing allows, but extremely demotivated by an always somehow broken end-of-life Ender 3 Pro.Open to interesting and/or remote job opportunities.

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2021 FSAE Car

melty2 (SFFPC)

There's a lot to be said about names and online handles. Sometimes they are meaningful, sometimes they mean absolutely nothing.

"Maybeitruns" is the first half of a phrase that was coined thanked to my previous car: "Maybe it runs, Maybe it doesn't." The car in question was a junky 1999 NB1 Miata that surpassed all rust expectations of being a northern car. I battled that car for roadworthiness for almost 8 years before throwing in the towel, and in all that time I honestly feel like it spent more time on jack stands than on the ground.

There was always a bit of cognitive dissonance with that car. It cleaned up nice enough to be a solid 10-20 footer, and would receive compliments. But I knew what it looked like underneath, and how much of a money pit monster she really was.

Catfishing in car form

Copper Red Mica and Enkei TFR go hard

Hindsight is 20/20 as they say, because I should have ditched that car much sooner. Eventually I reached a point where I couldn't bear continuing to throw money at it and started searching for another. A friend had let me drive his mostly stock NC, and I was hooked.

After 6 months of searching I had found my next Miata, a 2008 GT. To put it shortly, it was an astronomical upgrade in every conceivable way. It was faster, more refined, and it felt more like a car and not just a tin can toy.

I promptly bolted on a Goodwin RS Race Single and some MeisterR zetaCRD coilovers. Talk about a wake up call - this entire experience really drove home to buy once cry once, as you can always make more money but not time.

Current attention grabber:

Documenting the interior LED backlighting of the NC miata.

Up next:

Custom flasher relay? RGB gauge cluster? Melty2 SFFPC case V2?

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