been working on cleaning out the interior of my 85 GS. some mice decided to make my car their new home over the last month or so.. vermin..

 

Updated my car-show book. Cleaned some stuff. Checked some other stuff. Tonight will load up for the show tomorrow.

 

Repainted my Door Panels which had faded to an unpleasant shade of Poop Brown LOL



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awesome, what did you use to paint them??

 

Clean.

 

Rust-Oleum Burgundy Fabric and Vinyl Spray.



Cleaned first with SEM Vinyl Prep Aerosol Spray



I used the same paint to respray the shift **** and Steering Wheel horn Cap

 

Go kick butt buddy!!!

 

Today I checked my trailing coil to find that it had corroded completely through the terminal! There was nothing but blue crust inside where the plug wire is supposed to clip. I had noticed a slightly lumpy idle and lack of power and MPG drop. The tach started to bounce erratically at idle too which was my sign to investigate. I got a new MSD Blaster 2 coil on my way to work today to go on leading and I'll swap the good Diamond over to trailing tomorrow.

 

Today, what I did to my FB was... MISS IT... and regret selling it (and an FC) before moving back East for a couple of years...

Since moving back to SoCal, I've picked up an FC and an RX-8... but I still have that FB-shaped hole (it's kind of triangular... lol) in my soul.

Guess it's time to start looking.

 

Drove to JCDS & back;100-mile roundtrip, car ran great. I do need an alignment, though.

Many compliments and photographs taken, but did not finish in the money. No worries, as I had a great time hanging with friends.

Got a great parking spot; also picked up a few lil gems:

 

On the GSL-EV I was going to go for a drive and since I still don't have the equivalent of an alternator I am removing the 13.6 volt 8 amp hour lithium and charging it every night. When I plugged it in this morning I managed to do something that isn't supposed to be possible. I wiggled it just wrong with the connector backwards and applied -13.6 to the car, just like if you connected the lead acid battery backwards. This is not a good idea! I spent a couple of hours disconnecting everything behind the fuse labeled HAZARD to figure out what was shorted and popping the fuse. Turned out I had two things. The CPU module and the Oscillator. Looking carefully at the diagrams I realized that I don't use the oscillator for anything anymore. So all I had to do was fix the CPU. This turned out to be easier to fix than it was to get out of the car. D5 in the first picture is the offending part. D5 is a diode whose only purpose is to blow the fuse in the event that power is connected backwards. Fortunately it succeeded but failed in the process. The second image is the top of the assembly. The third photo is the bottom of the assembly. The final one shows the cover on the left and the board on the right. The piece of tape is holding the blown diode.

Once this was repaired and back in the car I figured out how to disable the STOP LAMP which was coming on when I step on the brake. This was because I had replaced all the brake bulbs with LED's, not because I have a bad bulb. There is a relay between the fuse panel and the CPU. You can pull the blue wire with a green stripe to disable this function. I will go update my LED thread with this information.

Finally I hooked the motor controller tach output to the tach in the instrument cluster. This is not a 100% successful connection. During hard acceleration the tach behaves poorly. I will have to look at the output signal from my motor control. For the moment, what I have is better than the nothing which I had before.

Changed the motor current limit to 700 amps which equates to a torque limit of 194 ft-lbs. Previously it was limiting to 600 amps which should be about 166 so a fairly significant increase. HP peak should have increase from about 131 to about 153 at the same time. Wheel horsepower should be about 70% of that or 92 up to 107. This is limiting to 70% of maximum power available. I may work it up more than this but honestly for a daily driver it is a very pleasant car to drive as is. Adding more power just makes it likely that I will break something.

After all that I took it on a 20 mile drive to see how all the changes worked. Feels somewhere between a GSL and a GSL-SE but better off the line than either.

 

Changed distributor cap and wire set. Tomorrow I will be changing the distributor rotor and hopefully talk the wife into letting me get a new battery.

 

Today I got my confirmation for my membership for the "MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development Team Support Program" !

 

Did some more to put the new-to-me rear-end in, pulled out the old trailing arms, still have to swap out pinion flanges the new one is a small flange, the old one and drive-shaft are big flange.

Sent using RX7Club for Android.

 

Do tell, for those of us who do not know, what does that do for you????
Sounds good.

 

^ beyond redunculous price discounts on all Mazda factory and MAZDASPEED parts. In a nutshell, Mazda wants us to race our cars, and they want to make it easy on the pocket book of racers to do this


I love Mazda at a whole new level

 

^^ I thought about applying for this program as well, but I don't think Mazda counts once a month auto-x runs. :/

fm

 

Yeah I thought about it too but I'm still building and haven't gotten my scca stuff taken care of yet....still got a long way to gi before its ready to compete

 

I welded up PercentSevenC's 2" collected exhaust which will tied him over until he can get some components for a proper long primary. We'll swap it on tomorrow. Yay exhaust work!

 

Polished up a gilmer drive setup, started messing with it and realing I've got some issues. Anyone know where to get gilmer belts? Looking like I need at least a 31".



And this arrived

 

^Nice! Glad it's approved by T.U.V in West Germany.

We swapped the exhaust on today. It sounds really good. Maybe he'll feel like posting a video or something.

I test fired the freshly rebuilt S5 turbo in the GSL-SE today. It didn't smoke so I must have assembled it correctly. It's loud with just a down pipe though. I think my future plans are to install a lot of 3" mufflers. Yay more exhaust work!

 

where did you get that front lip from?

 

Central High Performance
https://www.rx7club.com/1st-gen-non-...today-1047189/

 

Weather today is high winds and blowing dirt (and worse - -there are dairies upwind from here ! )

Car is staying covered, garage is staying closed!

 

what i did on my fb today:
i installed my stripped wiring harness today and plugged everything in the engine bay..wired in my msd 6a and now i have the main/interior harness to install and i should finally be able to start the car after 2 years!

check out my build thread for more updates : Revival of TheCookieMonster