The Ohio Random Thread... aka We Should Probably Be Working
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Well, finally got caught up on reading. lol
Wish you and Lauri luck Marlon with whatever life may have in store for you next. As others have said, you gotta do what is right for you. Very happy now that I bought those tix for LRP so I can see you guys again.
Looks like Phen's party was another success. I thought about coming out again but had to work.
Wish you and Lauri luck Marlon with whatever life may have in store for you next. As others have said, you gotta do what is right for you. Very happy now that I bought those tix for LRP so I can see you guys again.
Looks like Phen's party was another success. I thought about coming out again but had to work.
That's a bad dream haha.
Man, screw water in the spark plug tubes. Miatas are really good at not sealing the wires to the valve cover. There's about no way to properly clean the valve cover short of taking it off or taking the wires out and making a really good seal with some rubber stoppers.
I fought that issue for WEEKS on the green car. It would come and go as the car heated up and cooled down. Blew air in the tubes, stuffed rags down there, massive PITA!!!!
I fought that issue for WEEKS on the green car. It would come and go as the car heated up and cooled down. Blew air in the tubes, stuffed rags down there, massive PITA!!!!
No I haven't. I'll have to ask her about it.
Thats actually one of the places I was thinking about when I said that. There are also some cool abandoned places in Akron and Cleveland. Another option is out at summit racing but we would have to be careful to not get in the way. I just figure we need something with a little more going on than just Menchies as much as we all like out ice cream, lol.
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makes sense about the bad gas, but at the same time the car was running pretty hot so I would expect that most of it should have evaporated. I also suppose they "cleaned" the other cylinders?
Karting meet is in 2 weeks, its not too late to get in on the amazing fun!!! you all love track days and autocrossing and this is another fun way to improve your driver mod in a different type of vehicle! PLUS the price is silly cheap! originally told it would be around 100 a person, but just got word that its going to be ~$55 a person now!!! seriously thats a freaking steal!! only a few spots left
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123828931-PA-OH-Karting-Enduro-September-14
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123828931-PA-OH-Karting-Enduro-September-14
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I got the car back last night and I've put about 50 miles on the car so far without any issues. No CEL and no misfires.
Ya I was out on-track when it drizzled for like 2 minutes.
It didn't rain at all after you left. And I agree, it barely drizzled, but just enough to get turn 1 slightly slippery.
Thanks, I'll have to stop over so we can do that. The issue is finding the time to do it since I'm packing tonight and tomorrow, then moving this weekend. Do you think I should do it ASAP? Or is it safe to wait until next week?
Is it possible the water has been there for a while and my issue only happened from something due to racing? On the Mazda tech sheet, it only mentions water in cylinder 1 plug hole. I swear the service manager said they found it in cylinders 1 and 4 when I talked to him over the phone, but maybe I misheard him. Why would water be in 1 and not any of the others??
Which cylinder would be considered #1? My guess is that's 1st cylinder starting at the left side of the motor right? Now that I think about it, I do remember something odd I saw when I replaced my spark plugs a little over 1 year ago. The first cylinder spark plug and spark plug hole on the left had some corrosion on it (no standing water though). I'm glad I save all of my phone pics, found the ones I took of it. This was back when I still had a TMIC at 70k miles. I noticed the TMIC core covered all of the cylinders, except the far left one.
Here's what cylinder 1 looked like on 4/2012:
The other 3 looked perfectly clean like this:
I never experienced any misfires back then so I just cleaned it out and went on my way.
Ya I was out on-track when it drizzled for like 2 minutes.
It didn't rain at all after you left. And I agree, it barely drizzled, but just enough to get turn 1 slightly slippery.
Thanks, I'll have to stop over so we can do that. The issue is finding the time to do it since I'm packing tonight and tomorrow, then moving this weekend. Do you think I should do it ASAP? Or is it safe to wait until next week?
Is it possible the water has been there for a while and my issue only happened from something due to racing? On the Mazda tech sheet, it only mentions water in cylinder 1 plug hole. I swear the service manager said they found it in cylinders 1 and 4 when I talked to him over the phone, but maybe I misheard him. Why would water be in 1 and not any of the others??
Which cylinder would be considered #1? My guess is that's 1st cylinder starting at the left side of the motor right? Now that I think about it, I do remember something odd I saw when I replaced my spark plugs a little over 1 year ago. The first cylinder spark plug and spark plug hole on the left had some corrosion on it (no standing water though). I'm glad I save all of my phone pics, found the ones I took of it. This was back when I still had a TMIC at 70k miles. I noticed the TMIC core covered all of the cylinders, except the far left one.
Here's what cylinder 1 looked like on 4/2012:
The other 3 looked perfectly clean like this:
I never experienced any misfires back then so I just cleaned it out and went on my way.
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Ya I suspect a bad seal. I'm probably going to look into replacing all 4 coil packs and spark plugs in the near future. The coil packs have 109k miles and the plugs have 38k miles. I believe the maintenance schedule says to replace the plugs every 60k or 75k miles. I figure I might as well replace them in case the water issue did anything to the plug.
Just a heads up if anyone else wants to come to the auto-x at Lakeland (Kirtland) next sunday the 15th.
https://www.motorsportreg.com/index...9CF6F-A200-0DC8-86CF464F8223FC5A#.UiiYNtKOSSo
https://www.motorsportreg.com/index...9CF6F-A200-0DC8-86CF464F8223FC5A#.UiiYNtKOSSo
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