Drove my RX-3 to WHIV, met 13X and had a good time chatting with twinkytoes and other locals. Sweet ride twinky, keep the sleeper look. You cant go wrong with your plans

 

"...Day ain't over yet..."

 

And????

 

Removed the bad portion of my engine wiring harness out yesterday. Going to spend some point today dissecting it and deciding the routing for my new from scratch one.

 

Always a great time seeing and hanging out with you Mel! Nice meeting your friends also. Thanks for coming down! Very much appreciated coming from you!

 

Helped a friend install coilovers on his NB and then took my SA along for pictures afterwards.

 

Still trying to chase the last air bubbles out the cooling system.

 

Bought the 80 total ft. of various colored 14 & 16 ga auto wire I'm using for my new harness routing & tuck project (pics will follow only months down the road when I finally do a build thread).

 

Got the car down to Rotary Performance and got the gasket/o-rings replaced.
It didn't cost as much as the estimate was, ran me at $300.04.
Great way to celebrate my Birthday.

 

I finished a little mock-up work on the fiberglass dash blank. Now for some dirty work!

 

Looking forward to this this weekend on my buddies 82 widebody with 16x10.5 old school compomotive, doing engine changout and upgrading his ignition system to dlidfis

 

Ordered some parts from Mazdatrix and a roll of header wrap from ebay, now we wait. . . .

 

I got my engine running again after sucking rags in it.

 

Interesting method of increasing compression, that.

 

Dropped the front bumper & left headlight off in prep for pulling the driver's fender and realized its a beautiful car even without a jaw.

 

Did my thermostat today, I have a feeling I'll be doing this for a while too.

 

put in a new clutch master and slave. as well as a stainless line. holy crap what a difference.

 

Mistakes happen. Im just glad I didnt have to rebuild my 84k mi motor.

 

That they do; I once left a paper towel stuffed in the bottom water pump inlet of my 73 Satellite when finishing an engine swap, to prevent dripping. Forgot it was there, put the hose on, finished the install and started up...

You can imagine the effect of all that wood pulp dissolved in the antifreeze, after it was sucked into the pump and pureed nicely. stuff in the rad looked like homestyle orange juice.


I spent part of last night reading through section 1A of the FSM, plotting out my test procedures for this weekend.

 

Last night I:
disassembled my carb
cleaned it out with aerosol carb cleaner
blew out all the passages with compressed air
cut a new gasket out of cork (waiting for my order of new gaskets to come in from Racing Beat)
Re-assembled everything
Drove her 60 miles and put a tank of fuel in her.

I need a new water pump (it's leaking a bit from the weep hole) and I need to change out my intake manifold. Tonight the intake manifold will happen.

 

Ordered a complete set of suspension bushings from re-speed! Now that she's idling much better after the TPS adjustment...it's time to make her ride better too.

 

Finally getting an hour to continue getting the my front fender massaged out.

 

well this was a couple days before WHiV5 ... needed to get things squared away
for the cruises we would be going on




Today got a few things done
used some of the Killer Waxx Metal Polish I picked up Saturday
also started routing some blue silecone vacuum hoses
did the "wasted spark mod"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=War_tSltIrk

 

Still fumbling about with my emissions, trying to convince myself I've crossed all the i's and dotted all the t's.