What are you plans for your car this winter if any?

Mine for me GSL-SE are:

Bodywork and Repaint
New Seats(Miata or those racin style ones)
New Carpet
A/f Guage and Oil Temp Guage
Fix oil leak at my Cooler
S5 Intake(if i can get it all to work)
Torque Brace


Money Depending Things:

Body Kit
Wheels
Tires

 

Just wheels and tires until the snow melts!

 

take the rally car project off the launch pad and get it moving smoothly (i hope)

 

Finish SP engine for '79

Reseal engine in convert.

RXDad

 

Bodywork and paint (white)
Replace windshield
Keep my eye out on a good deal on intake (weber, mikuni, dellorto)
Maybe white gauges
Maybe DLIDFIS

 

Hopefully by the end of winter...

Half bridgeport 13B
Holly Pro-jection
Megasquirt
Aluminum Rad
Electric Fan
Carbon fiber seats
Roll Bar
Paint Job

 

Scrub engine bay superclean.
OMP mod kit using the avation adaptor to run seperate 2 stroke oil
oil temperature guage.
replace rear carpet and padding.
suspension bushings

 

I thought of going to the trouble of adding a OTG but, I got to thinking....Wouldn't the oil temp just be the same as the water temp? If the oil is to hot, the WTG should reflect that.

 

85 GSL-SE

New Radiator
Electric Fan
New Bushings
Power Doors locks intergrated with my alarm
Shocks and Struts

John

 

do miata seats w/ stock rails bolt up to the FB??

 

True... good point. If it is mounted after the cooler.
But I will have a number, not just a spot on the factory guage that could be anything.
I am VERY VERY **** about my engines on all my vehicles. I like to have actual numbers in hand.

 

like ranger said, it depends on where you mount it. the racecar sees difference of ~40 degrees between oil and water. Water is mesured from factory location and oil is measured from oil pan. Ideally though you should mount it after oil cooler though, i'm sure the temps would be alot closer too.

 

replacing:

radiator
engine mounts
tranny
clutch
rear calipers
fender & bumper skin
interior crap that absorbs sound with fat mat

other:

clean engine bay some more

 

2nd gen front subframe swap.
Megasquirt.
Individual 38mm throttlebodies.
Some decent brake pads for above.
New struts for above hopefully.
Stainless brake lines hopefully.
Eaton M-90 (I wish).

 

Buy this 85 GSL and finish rebuilding my 79 engine and sp and then turbo it in the new 85. not much eh? Oh and my 79 now is officially for offroad purposes due to the rust.

 

Man.. I wish I had a Garage... As it is, my plans have to center around getting parts and money, and preparing for work I'll do when I un-tarp it in the spring. So here's what I've got:

Entire front steering assembly
- Inner and Outer Tie Rods
- Adjusting bolt and sleeve
- Pitman Arm and Idler Arm

And ALL the bushings on the car.

As well, I've got a small rust hole and an exhaust leak that have to be fixed.

Over the winter I'll save up the money and buy the parts to do this with, and in the spring I'll install it all and re-safety-check the car. Then I need to make a trip down to NY to get my carb tuned

All of this has to be done between April 15th and May 15th (when I can untarp the car, and when the May meet is in Ottawa)

Jon

 

i think you could get the tierods /adjusting bolt and sleeve, and arms done in the winter. Just wait for a nice day and shovel the ground off and get it done pretty quick. Bushings you could prolly do this winter also