Recent content by chiefmg

You are a man who planned well. Two homes and a Miata in each. Good job!

Got the Advan Fleva V701s (such a long name!) mounted today. Installer dinged up the lip of one valve stem not allowing me to put the metal cap on, I showed it to them and they are going to make it right once I get the new stem from 949 Racing. Drove them for about 50 miles, didn’t get too crazy...

Had to drive her in the snow yesterday, she’s a dirty girl now! Had an interesting moment on the way home, turning onto the road heading to my house and there was some slush piled up from the plows. Was going slow but not slow enough, she did not want to turn. I didn’t really want to kiss the...

Glad she's back, good as new!

I have been thinking about getting a pair of 3D printed visor blanking plates to replace the metal ones I have (don’t recall where I bought them without digging into my records). The machine screws that were used were just a little too small in diameter to hold properly so I wrapped them in...

Went to two C&C this morning. She's running much better after my most recent changes to the VE table. Spoke to a few people at both places. Attendance was pretty low for some reason.

Benn having a clunking noise from the front end since I got home. Replace the outer tie rod ends (right one was loose) but that wasn't it. I suspected it was the sway bar end links even though they showed no movement no matter how I tugged on them. Ordered some beefy Moog pieces from Rock Auto...

Switched to my silver Flatouts with the S-Drives yesterday since it’s getting colder, turns out two of them are right on the wear bars. After some research I discovered that Yokohama has discontinued that tire. Time to figure out a replacement. I also did some more autotuning, need to work on...

Been a bit since I could do anything due to weather and other obligations. I did do some more adjusting of my VE table to smooth things at the lower end. I loaded that in today and went for a drive to do some auto-tuning. After I did that she seemed to run better although I still need to drop my...

In this case we just use life jackets and immersion suits, except for when we have to tread water for a couple of minutes.

Deleted some older pictures to free up some space, so here you go. Here’s some pictures of the new sensor I got from Rock Auto: As you can see all the numbers agree. It reads as it should when plugged in to the wideband (no free air calibration necessary) as it is supposed to. Much better...

Calm down you! Home after my training. To start, I plugged in the new O2 sensor to see if the error cleared. It did which confirmed that was my problem. Next step was to decide how I was going to access things. After cogitating I decide to go ahead and lift her up on the QuickJack to minimize...

Back at home (sort of) for about three weeks. Day after I got home I washed her and did some driving. That was it for a week due to rain. I did do some adjusting of my tune in Tuner Studio based on reading I had done while gone in the hopes of smoothing things for better operation. I got her...

Dania Beach. I have some job related training to do, small arms quals done now. Next week I have to prove I can fight a fire, and prove my ass will float in water.

Check in my so-called build thread later, I have been home nearly three weeks and did manage to do some things which I will be documenting here in a bit.