I didn't want the car up on jack stands for 2-3 weeks, especially now that it's the middle of summer.
What have you done to your Miata today?
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I didn't want the car up on jack stands for 2-3 weeks, especially now that it's the middle of summer.
The drill/extractors I bought were useless, at least on 10.9 grade bolts. After working on things all morning (removing the radiator and intercooler and moving the A/C condenser out of the way) I checked the manual and found the piece the pulley bolts into (called a pulley boss) is not part of the cam belt pulley and it slides right off. I went ahead and ordered a new one from the local dealer, when I got home having nothing to lose I decided to work on the original one. Using a drill on the back side, the first two bolt stubs came out easily. The third one was stuck and I had to drill it all the way through and use an eazy-out. Happily all the threads in the holes are fine, so I can reuse this boss. I'll wait until the spacer shows up so I can put it all together and measure to make sure the 35mm bolt length is the correct one. I'll be cancelling my order from the dealer too.
There is such a thing as good weight. Something that'll prevent rust? Good weight.
Managed to break my thermostat cover while putting everything back together (don't ask me how, I haven't a clue). So now I have to wait until Monday (hopefully) for the new one to show up at the dealer. And I was so close to getting it back running too!
New thermo cover is on and everything else buttoned up. Took a test drive, everything looked/sounded great. Only got the flashing CEL sequence twice, then it didn't do it again when I romped on it. So maybe that issue is ok now too. Now to connect up the laptop and get back to tuning.
Yesterday I removed my stock exhaust and catalytic converter in preparation for the Enthuza Car NA Racer and high flow cat that shipped out today. Also put in a new battery from Advance Auto Parts that weights 6.3lbs vs the 21+lb stocker.
Sent a query to ProSport last night about my non-functioning boost gauge. Per their response I checked the wiring connector from the pressure transducer into the back of the gauge, I hadn't seated it all the way (you really have to push it in there). Once that was done, I took a drive to let Tuner Studio do some tuning on the MS. Even though I have it set to automatically send the corrections to the MS, when I shut the car off the program told me they weren't saved. I have to make sure I manually save them the next time.
Started the process of finally having some light in my damn shop:
Current lighting is a couple of flourescent tubes over the work shop that have a bad ballast, so the light they put out is pretty much useless unless you're on the workbench. Useless for working on the car at least. This will be a LOT better once complete. Six 3-tube 4' enclosures. Yeah buddy!
Current lighting is a couple of flourescent tubes over the work shop that have a bad ballast, so the light they put out is pretty much useless unless you're on the workbench. Useless for working on the car at least. This will be a LOT better once complete. Six 3-tube 4' enclosures. Yeah buddy!
Did that a couple years ago. I put up 4, 8' 4 bulb fixtures and 1, 4' 4 bulb fixture over the work bench with with T8 fluorescent bulbs. It's like daylight in the garage now, might have been over kill but I didn't want to have any trouble being able to see anything in there. 
Plus, I love T8 bulbs. No hum or flicker when cold like the ones in my barn.
Plus, I love T8 bulbs. No hum or flicker when cold like the ones in my barn.
