I've been on a mission on cleaning up my car and making it a little bit nicer/cleaner. I'm finally gonna start screwing around with my engine bay. I searched around but I couldn't really find much...

I have a 1985 GSL-SE and I was wondering which stuff I can pitch out and what stuff I actually should keep. I don't have to worry about emissions and I'm gonna ditch the air pump once I buy some new headers and delete the cats. My Car doesn't have power steering. My AC has been fried since before I got the car so that's coming out. I'm going to relocate my battery some where else. I'm have my hands on an e fan so my clutch fan is coming out. I seen a few threads about the charcoal canister and I'm still on the fence about pitching that. After I get those Items removed I'm going to replace all the hoses, washers, etc since I have a leak somewhere... Then I'm going to go to town with degreaser and paint my radiator shroud.

Is there anything else worth pitching (I'm doing this for the sake of simplicity and the clean look)? Or Any vacuum lines I can delete?

 

Degrease first, then keep all that cool stuff you got under the grease.

 

Those clam looking bits that hang off the dizzy, I've always been suspect about them.... can they go?

 

When you remove the air pump, ACV can go too, block it off. Thus the split air solenoids that control ACV on the passenger side firewall can be removed. You can remove your oil metering pump and start premixing, if you want, but it's hardly worth it unless your OMP is bad. If you do remove it, you can pull the oil injectors, plug the holes, and remove the vacuum spider that runs to the oil injectors. You can also remove the BAC and adjust your TB to have a gap, else your car won't idle right, especially with electrical load on, but that's not really a good idea.

Overall, there's not much more that can be removed. It's already fairly simple and basic, and aside from the emissions stuff, everything else is pretty much used to make the car run.

@ Jimbo

Are you talking about the vacuum advance diaphragms? I wouldn't touch them, they're used to advance ignition with RPM.

 

nope. those r for vac advanced.

 

Thanks whisper. I'm gonna leave the OMP alone until i start having problems with it.

Is there anyways I can make the 5th and 6th ports open without my cats?

 

you can wire them open, which will make it full time 6 port... it might bog a little on the low end but it works pretty good

 

BAC?

TB?

Normally I would PM but this has some relevance to the thread.

Sounds like a problem I have. Could you elaborate a bit?

 

If you get an RB pre-silencer, it has a bung for the air pipe hook up, just like a cat would, so your secondary ports will hook up and function fine. No need to wire them open.

 

Bypass Air Control valve. It's what ECU uses to keep your idle at 800 RPM when you have an electrical load, by controlling the two solenoids under it. If you have air conditioning, your BAC will also have an air supply valve that opens when A/C is used, to provide even more air at idle.

Throttle Body, or Throttle Chamber as Mazda calls it, is the contraption with all the springs and cams and shafts on it, that your throttle cable hooks up to. It has butterfly valves inside that open when you press the gas pedal and pull on the throttle cable and let air into the engine.

These apply to the fuel injected engines only. Carbed setup is different.

 

Ah, I see. Well good news is I don't have that problem. Bad news is that I don't know what my problem is. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

 

Yeh sweet as. My mate told me they were important. Just wondering if he was right. Does it matter if the dizzys electronic or mechanical or nah? I'm running an elec dizzy

 

nope. doesn't matter.

 

cleaning up the engine bay and hacking the wires are two different things. Im against hacking the wires as some day (yeah some day), your FBs will be a classic and someone out there will want to put it back to stock which will increase its value.

 

so the charcoal canister can go?
so far i eliminated the air pump, acv, cruise control diaphragm, the reservoir under the cruise control.
and will eliminate the solenoids that used to control the ACV . I might remove the A/C next and if i don't need it i want to remove the charcoal canister with all the unnecessary emissions stuff. what can i take out and what do i need to plug?

 

just add engine, nothing else. clean enough

 

Tell me what you think I removed.

 

The AC?

 

Sub-zero tank and lines can go I just did this a few days ago