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She's HOME!!
Man...talk about a crazy day yesterday. It took me about 6 hours just to get OUT of GA yesterday. The cranky girl kept blowing out various pipes and couplings while I was driving her on the highway, so after some rather 'scary' situations on 575 & 75, I decided to get off in Kennesaw and do some searching for parts. Kev & I agreed that a certain rubber coupling would keep slipping off due to weight from a certain pipe. So after wasting precious time at Autozone/Advance/O'Reily's...I stopped @ Wal-Mart...then made my way to Home Depot...the life saver. I ended up making a decision to get a piece of 2" PVC pipe to replace the heavy metal one that was previously installed. It definitely made a huge difference. It stayed on and only slipped off once. I decided to stay in the slow lane the entire way back and my avg speed was 65 mph. One thing I have to check out is a CEL that seemed to pop up on the trip back. Kev thinks it may be a fuel issue (bigger injectors are installed) or it could be a fouled O2....but I'm going to run the self check diagnostic today and see what comes of it.
Anywho, enough chatter, here's some pics:
You can see the suspect pipe in this pic...the long RED one closest to the radiator
Varios GRMyata shots:
Man...talk about a crazy day yesterday. It took me about 6 hours just to get OUT of GA yesterday. The cranky girl kept blowing out various pipes and couplings while I was driving her on the highway, so after some rather 'scary' situations on 575 & 75, I decided to get off in Kennesaw and do some searching for parts. Kev & I agreed that a certain rubber coupling would keep slipping off due to weight from a certain pipe. So after wasting precious time at Autozone/Advance/O'Reily's...I stopped @ Wal-Mart...then made my way to Home Depot...the life saver. I ended up making a decision to get a piece of 2" PVC pipe to replace the heavy metal one that was previously installed. It definitely made a huge difference. It stayed on and only slipped off once. I decided to stay in the slow lane the entire way back and my avg speed was 65 mph. One thing I have to check out is a CEL that seemed to pop up on the trip back. Kev thinks it may be a fuel issue (bigger injectors are installed) or it could be a fouled O2....but I'm going to run the self check diagnostic today and see what comes of it.
Anywho, enough chatter, here's some pics:
You can see the suspect pipe in this pic...the long RED one closest to the radiator
Varios GRMyata shots:
Here's the first test run w/the TurboXS BOV installed...Keving driving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGPQbk4vqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGPQbk4vqc
Heh heh...good on you then! I'll have to hit *err...touch* Gabriel w/some rubbing compound & wax like Kev suggested...it's just been raining here...boo!aMaff said:That's what that awesome sanding job on the front bumper cover'll getcha! lol
And by awesome, I mean I scuffed it up for 15 minutes, we looked at it and said 'Eh, it's ****** late, that's good enough' lol
That is a pretty nifty trick. I'll have to do that (if it pops off again)...If it ain't broke...don't fix it.MiaTurbo said:cool deal
BTW, a trick to keeping hoses on is to spray some hairspray on the end of the hose and clamp it on while the spray is still tacky
Andrew...spoke w/Mike up at Kirk Racing...here's the scoop:aMaff said:
Roll bar
$350
Intall
$65/hr (about a 3hr install) $195
$350
+$195
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$545
Just to remind you..they are throwing me a bone (free harness bar & installation of my harnesses) as a courtesy....because I'm Military.
True true.aMaff said:
Weld in I believe.
I also finished up my ECU cover as mine was missing. Cost me less than $10 for the plexiglass and a set of screws. Looks pretty dang good if I say so myself...I will post up a pic after work.
Planning to install my new boost gauge this evening after work too...the current one does not illuminate.
Also, my seats did not fit..figures. Even though I did all that drilling and mounted the stock Miata rails to the race seats...I overlooked the fact that the rails are now wider that what they were on the stock seats. So, I put the stock seats back in & I am too time pressed to try and create a bracket for them @ this time. They will go into storage w/the P5. If I see a set over there in Turkey...I'll get a set there. If not, oh well....that's life....unless someone wants a set off brand new racing seats...I'll let them go fo the cheapy.
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