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If you really want to be slick, wire the clutch safety switch into where the NSS would have gone.
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Yeah, that's correct. The manifold on the BP in the Miata does the same thing.
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Randi Challenger posted:Hell yeah this looks like its taking a turn for the awesome I never knew unemployment could be so 
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Looks like you missed a few resizes there. Otherwise, I wish I could make as much progress as you do in a day, ha.
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Mar 15, 2009 02:27
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You mean it doesn't now? The world's best-lit pick-and-pull but still...
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Apr 27, 2009 23:00
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IsaacNewton posted:What about something like this? My god that's amazing. Plus, if you ever move, it's easy to take with you and you're just out the cost of the concrete inserts.
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deviant. posted:So will it be an actual Dryflow™ filter? I like mine because I don't have to gently caress with oil (not that I've washed it yet Keep this in mind - whenever you do get to washing it, it takes for-goddamn-ever to dry.
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Aug 30, 2009 18:23
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Sponge! posted:Why does it have to be dry? Whats a few CCs of water pulled through the intake gonna do? Call me excessively paranoid but I don't like the idea of sucking any more water into a turbocharged engine than I absolutely have to.
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Sockington posted:I'm still thinking the machine shop is the way to go, but I wouldn't mind taking a quick scrub to the top of the block to see how bad the gunk is. Isn't that the same thing we were telling you in IRC?
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Mar 28, 2010 06:34
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What is it with the amount of cars turning AI posters  lately?
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Sockington posted:Yup. 7 days or so left. Had a bitch of a time getting a car seat in the Focus (wife bought some huge monstrosity that I had to exchange). What bodystyle is the Focus? My sister has an '05 three-door hatch and has the same problem trying to get the carseat in and out of the back. Also, congrats on the forthcoming little rustling.
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Jul 27, 2010 20:38
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Congrats! Does he still need a tetanus shot, though?
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MonkeyNutZ posted:A 9 month turnaround has got to be a record on one of your projects, congratulations! I laughed. It does say something about the age of AI these days, though, when "I'm having a kid" is followed up with congratulations instead of "give her a falcon punch". 
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Aug 15, 2010 05:59
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It would solve that pesky issue of the 323GTX gearbox being uselessly weak 
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Jan 2, 2011 07:15
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Sockington posted:Have I become this predictable? We'll also get some intermediary shots of building more cool stuff for your house - maybe for the little Sock instead of the garage, but hey, all the same.
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Jan 28, 2011 01:57
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I've never heard of an insurance company not offering a buy-back price on a totalled car; they probably take a small hit over the best they could get for it at auction, without having to take it to auction.
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Apr 11, 2011 23:25
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Wait...what the hell is going on here? You got a NB and a Malibu that doesn't appaer to be a rental? 
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Oh, I've never seen a bumper sticker on a rental before. Crazy Canadians. Good idea on the Mazda5 by the way. Had one as a rental while my MS3 was getting worked on and it keeps pretty much everything good about the Mazda3. I do wish they'd make a Mazdaspeed version, though. It'd sell like 5 copies but I would buy one.
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Apr 12, 2011 18:32
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Tanz-Kommandant posted:Yay! Good ole' FIREWEED the NB is back! Sliding doors, and your choice of either another row of seats or a shitload more cargo compared to the 3.
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Apr 13, 2011 05:19
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For the record, I have always done my NB filter replacements from up top reaching around the intake plenum, enough of them that I have a small scar on my left forearm from constantly burning it on said plenum.
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Sockington posted:Big stupid tray comes down. I don't mind the tray. The PO busted the gently caress out of the plastic clips at the front (you don't really need them) so it's just seven 10mm bolts that, at this point, I can do in my sleep. I do admit I'm not a huge fan of the cartridge filter, but at the same time, I also don't feel like spending the pain-in-the-rear end money or time to swap my MS3 over. Also - convince my wife that RX8 wheels look good on the MS3 and buy me some, and you can have my wheels
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Jul 13, 2011 04:39
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Can Little Sock hold a wrench yet? Start the kid off right, he needs to learn to drive in an eight-cylinder four-wheel-drive Mazda hatchback.
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Driveshaft fabrication is honestly a very easy and cheap thing to have done, doubly so if you already have the appropriate ends and a length measurement. I would never let driveshaft length define the rest of the vehicle.
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Bucephalus posted:Driveshafts are hollow. Cut off yoke, shorten tube, weld yoke back on (in a jig to keep it true), Bob's your uncle. A good shop will balance it while they're at it too. Granted, my truck's driveshaft is the most common / simple thing ever, but I think the brand new one I put in with the TH400 (to get rid of the two-piece) only cost a few hundred bucks, and then the two progressive cut-and-rebuild jobs (including fresh bearings on the U-joints) for the 700R4 swap and the LS1 swap were well under $200 each. Kimbo, you're dead on. Get the engine and transmission where they need to be, get the rearend of your choice where it needs to be. Put a driveshaft in between that has the right yoke for the transmission and the right U-joint / whatever for your rear end on the other end. No need to stick with the AE86 live axle if there's another RWD setup you could fit back there with less effort.
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It's probably too wide, but I bet even the none-too-well-liked 7.5" 10-bolt from the F-body would be well up to the task of a hopped up four cylinder and could probably be had for cheap from someone replacing it with an 8.8" / 9" / 12-bolt.
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Guy Random posted:Gotta be honest I'm kind of bummed to see a rust free 323 shell being cut up. You do realize this is Sockington's thread, right?
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Kaptainballistik posted:Your biggest issue ill be finding a diff that Isnt 4-4.9! Since the 4AGE is more well equipped with revs than torque, I fail to see how this is an issue. 
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Oct 6, 2011 05:54
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For you to be who you are, your old man must've been something else. Condolences indeed, but I'll also second the idea of hooning that Miata in his honor.
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My MS3 has that same inspection hole and a cartridge filter, but it's not sideways. Still, no way I could get the filter assembly through (and more importantly, back in). It's only seven 10mm bolts holding it on and it takes about five minutes to do, anyway. IOwnCalculus fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jan 24, 2012 |
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The filter on that thing is so tiny and cute. The scar on my left forearm from the intake manifold burning me every time I changed it...not so much.
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Jan 27, 2012 01:31
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You can run the NB to the left side of E. Ask me how I know.
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Feb 16, 2012 23:13
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I think later NBs do want 91+, but '99-'00s only need 87.
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Rhyno posted:You keep this up and the kids will outnumber the cars. Maybe that's why his wife lets him have this many projects. Congrats!
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Looks like either some sort of long-rear end scraper, or yeah, a "gently caress you I'm prying you out" sort of prybar.
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Sockington posted:The shocks and springs are stiffer than a Mazda3, but that's it. Koni uses the same part for shocks for the Mazda5 and the Mazdaspeed3.
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Do it, no reason not to.
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Supposedly NBs are notorious coil pack killers. I don't know, my NB (now owned by my mother-in-law) is ~110k on what I believe to be the original pack. Edit: Did you ever change the timing belt on it?
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leica posted:My point was it's not easy finding a BP car that isn't a Miata these days, but the FS Proteges are all over the loving place No poo poo, the one thing I wanted more than anything else when I bought my Volvo (and to a lesser extent, my Ranger) was something with the BP, except also with a backseat. An Escort GT wouldn't be bad but I'm going to bet that a '96 is rare as hen's teeth (OBDII emissions are much easier than road-test emissions in AZ), and I bet my wife would nix it on account of her sister's second car being a '91ish Escort LX that blew up two of the piece of poo poo Ford engines they used.
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zundfolge posted:That probably came as a rude shock, then, if you're talking about a Volvo with a redblock. Yep, '88 240. Slower than balls, but at least it was cheap to keep on the road (until it started running too lean with no other symptoms, and failed emissions repeatedly) </derail>
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Marry 8ender then.
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