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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #150 on: April 01, 2016, 08:05:58 am »
What's the bike's name?

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #151 on: April 01, 2016, 08:11:20 am »
If the sea was vodka, and I was a duck.
I would swim to the bottom, and drink my way up.
But the sea isn't vodka, and I'm not a duck.
So give me the vodka, and stfu.
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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #152 on: April 01, 2016, 08:12:58 am »
Which one?
The one that you love enough to store specially next to the S2K.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #153 on: April 01, 2016, 08:14:59 am »
The one that you love enough to store specially next to the S2K.

Oh. Naomi.
If the sea was vodka, and I was a duck.
I would swim to the bottom, and drink my way up.
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So give me the vodka, and stfu.
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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #154 on: May 22, 2016, 10:53:14 am »
Welcome back, thread.

Yesterday's job was to replace the power steering belt, it was cracked and dicky and made a little squeal when I cranked the wheel on a cold engine.

Off comes the intake plumbing. Mazda must have added this thing on the 1.8L air flow meter to try and smooth out turbulence that comes from the metering plate. Since replacing the 80s-style overcomplicated metering-plate AFM with a straight pipe, cone filter and MAP produces way more horsepower maybe they should have just done that instead.

At first I thought the PO might have jammed one of those eBay turbonators on this thing.


New Gates belt...


Nope, I got the wrong belt from RockAuto! (old above, new below)


This one (Gates K040340) appears to be for a 90-93 with PS but not AC, based on a forum post. RockAuto listed it under 97 which is totally wrong. :(

I of course did not notice that the new belt was so much longer until I bent the already-questionable tensioner bolt. Luckily I know people who have backyards full of de-power-steering-pumped Miatas, so it was only a matter of waiting until they were free to scoop up their long-assay cheese bolt gold.

Quick trip to Can Tire netted me the correct belt, just at a large integer multiple of what I paid for the Gates..


While I was waiting on a new tensioner bolt, I decided to put in the GarageStar rad cover I bought last winter:


And that's how you turn a 45 minute power steering belt change into a four plus hour ordeal.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #155 on: May 22, 2016, 11:03:58 am »
Quick trip to Can Tire netted me the correct belt, just at a large integer multiple of what I paid for the Gates..

Look at all the extra adjectives you've gained though.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #156 on: May 22, 2016, 11:12:00 am »
It's even got that cool Gatorback-But-Not-Gatorback-Don't-Sue-Us Continental technology, because v-ribs are so 1990s.

No idea how you're supposed to tell when those start cracking.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #157 on: May 22, 2016, 11:16:07 am »
No idea how you're supposed to tell when those start cracking.
Your steering will suddenly become heavier.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #158 on: May 22, 2016, 11:31:26 am »
Your steering will suddenly become heavier.
At five and a half degrees of caster I'm pretty sure that comes when my tiny girly wrists snap like dry twigs.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #159 on: May 22, 2016, 11:35:20 am »
At five and a half degrees of caster I'm pretty sure that comes when my tiny girly wrists snap like dry twigs.
Just think of them as sheer bolts.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #160 on: January 13, 2017, 11:49:47 pm »
Amazingly, this thing will drive on Rivals in the snow.

Not well, but it'll get where it's going.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #161 on: June 13, 2017, 10:35:01 pm »
I sold it today! Got an okay price, now I just need to clean my basement out of Miata parts.

Onto the next project car.

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #162 on: June 13, 2017, 10:41:03 pm »
Really cleaning up shop :'(

I hope your next project is awesome! Like, '97 OBS with stripped interior awesome!!

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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #163 on: June 13, 2017, 11:34:28 pm »
Crap, I wanted that car :(
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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #164 on: June 14, 2017, 07:16:14 am »
Congrats on selling it. Have you even decided what direction to go in next?

Maybe a rebuilt title 06 WRX wagon?
If the sea was vodka, and I was a duck.
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Re: My Second Miata
« Reply #165 on: June 14, 2017, 07:28:39 am »
Congrats on selling it. Have you even decided what direction to go in next?

Maybe a rebuilt title 06 WRX wagon?
Imma get me a Renault Alliance with a spun rod bearing.