What have you done to your Miata today?
- Thread starter Antoine
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Found a problem w/ my new motor. This s*** is getting real, REAL old.
ugh! im sorry muff
Time to walk away from it for a bit.
Went to my storage this morning and swapped over to my Flatouts w/Rivals. Took about an hour drive this afternoon on the back roads to do some tuning. Car is running well, no more stutter although I do still have some excess richness under boost. Need to send in my EV14 injectors and have them checked over so I can put them back in.
Nuts to that! (rlaugh)
On to troubleshooting!
Oh. Oh my. Oh that's bad. That thing is *TRASHED*
The amount of s*** on the pistons was frightening.
made my own windshield washer bottle, car didnt have one and the relocation kit i got with the car didnt work cause of the blow off valve placement. i need to make a few minor tweaks but it works
emblems are ready for paint too!
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Painted the Emblems Black Mica with touch up paint i had leftover from my 3..
lamin-x on the bumper reflectors or whatever you want to call them haha
baked the headlights open, then blacked out the housing instead of the old black chrome that was on them.
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^ thats the best i can do with the car in the garage, hopefully i can get it out for some proper pics this week
emblems are ready for paint too!
Painted the Emblems Black Mica with touch up paint i had leftover from my 3..
lamin-x on the bumper reflectors or whatever you want to call them haha
baked the headlights open, then blacked out the housing instead of the old black chrome that was on them.
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^ thats the best i can do with the car in the garage, hopefully i can get it out for some proper pics this week
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Oh no!!!!! Sorry man!Nuts to that! (rlaugh)
On to troubleshooting!
Oh. Oh my. Oh that's bad. That thing is *TRASHED*
The amount of s*** on the pistons was frightening.
lol wtf? I just found where I typed that, and I have NO clue how that happened. I don't post here from my phone. I apparently just went full retard for a second.
I think that was supposed to say "stuck / rusted," or "stuck / jammed"? Maybe? I don't think I've ever said "jammed fastener" before, so that makes no sense either. I've got nothin'
Lulz. Amused it is then.
Update: he's buying the motor back. I'm going to buy another motor here locally, swap some parts around, and drop it in the car. Hopefully.
This is what I pulled off of the piston tops:
I also found the correct tool to pull oil filter nipples so I can swap out the long NB one for the correct NA one to delete the oil cooler. Harbor freight sells a kit w/ 4 or 5 of them for like $8
Also, a buddy sold me his parts washer + 10gal of Mineral Spirits for $25 to get it out of his garage. It's got the pump & everything. Win!
This is what I pulled off of the piston tops:
I also found the correct tool to pull oil filter nipples so I can swap out the long NB one for the correct NA one to delete the oil cooler. Harbor freight sells a kit w/ 4 or 5 of them for like $8
Also, a buddy sold me his parts washer + 10gal of Mineral Spirits for $25 to get it out of his garage. It's got the pump & everything. Win!
I took the Spec Miata out this past weekend. Had no issues other than putting a couple flat spots on the front tires on the first day. 
Best lap from Friday:
I had passengers all day Saturday and Sunday morning, but in the first afternoon session I did 4 laps in a row better than my Friday time, here are the two best ones:
Best lap from Friday:
I had passengers all day Saturday and Sunday morning, but in the first afternoon session I did 4 laps in a row better than my Friday time, here are the two best ones:
Data = AiM Solo
Video = GoPro Hero4 on a IO Port roll bar mount.
Tying it all together with Dashware. (Which is now owned by GoPro and a free piece of software!)
I had my heart set on a Traqmate for a looong time. But, I used the analysis software from both AiM and Traqmate and just liked the AiM stuff better.
Video = GoPro Hero4 on a IO Port roll bar mount.
Tying it all together with Dashware. (Which is now owned by GoPro and a free piece of software!)
I had my heart set on a Traqmate for a looong time. But, I used the analysis software from both AiM and Traqmate and just liked the AiM stuff better.
Haven't been able to get on here for a couple of days, thought the forum was having problems. I was using my old bookmark for msprotege, I guess they finally dropped the link.
Decided to finally overhaul my original clutch master as the replacement I put in didn't seem to be cutting it (some difficulty shifting, fluid going dark). Got that done today since my duty dummy was home from his school trip and could provide the pumping power. Took a short test drive and it's much better.
Decided to finally overhaul my original clutch master as the replacement I put in didn't seem to be cutting it (some difficulty shifting, fluid going dark). Got that done today since my duty dummy was home from his school trip and could provide the pumping power. Took a short test drive and it's much better.
