What next? A couple of unrelated topics.
03-22-03, 12:39 AM
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What next? A couple of unrelated topics.
Much help has been lended to me by this forum, now I need to ask for a little more.
First, a little about me. I bought my first car in August of 1995, a tight and clean '84 GSL with luvers. The Luvers were promptly removed.
Since then, I've blown two engines, a radio, killed the steering, and stripped out the A/C, PS, and seriously f*d the sheetmetal.
During that time I also managed to pick up a parts car that netted me lots of goodies, including an antenna to replace the one I broke in the car wash.
Now, what to do. . .
I have Tokico non-adjust shocks and struts. I'm going to get springs soon. A K&N air filter. A freshly rebuilt carb by Sterling with larger primaries, modified AP, and mechanical secondaries. A cat replacement pipe from Racing Beat. The car runs great!
However, I have "wonder-steering", no tunes, slow power windows, and a few bulges where the metal has been stressed from trying to hammer out the dents.
My questions:
First, a little about me. I bought my first car in August of 1995, a tight and clean '84 GSL with luvers. The Luvers were promptly removed.
Since then, I've blown two engines, a radio, killed the steering, and stripped out the A/C, PS, and seriously f*d the sheetmetal.
During that time I also managed to pick up a parts car that netted me lots of goodies, including an antenna to replace the one I broke in the car wash.
Now, what to do. . .
I have Tokico non-adjust shocks and struts. I'm going to get springs soon. A K&N air filter. A freshly rebuilt carb by Sterling with larger primaries, modified AP, and mechanical secondaries. A cat replacement pipe from Racing Beat. The car runs great!
However, I have "wonder-steering", no tunes, slow power windows, and a few bulges where the metal has been stressed from trying to hammer out the dents.
My questions:
- The differentail. What can I do to improve the smoothness of the car. Its jerky and clunky coming off of stops, and during decelleration. I've seen a few threads on replacing the gear oil/swapping in a Miata diff/ replacing the tranny fluid. What do I need and where can I get it?
- What is a good headunit for the FB? I want something to match the redish dash lights. And speakers.
- I played with the power windows many times but they still get off track. Should I glue the weather stripping to the tracks?
- The body. Is there anyway to repair body panels that have been stressed? Probably not.
- What, besides an alignment, can I do to tighten up the steering? I want to tighten the steering box, but I'm not sure I know how.
03-22-03, 08:36 AM
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Theres a tutorial on the mazspeed's website on the steering box. Works pretty good unless it was like mine, it was juts plain wore out, I rebuilt the entire steering box with new parts, upon taking it apart I notice that the gear on the sector shaft was completely shot, cracks and **** in it... Well anyways, try the mazspeeds site for the steering box. The clinking and stuff, sure you know how to drive a stick? LOL just joking
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