I found a great way to save some weight by removing some unnessesary things. Here are the pictures that I took to help explain.

First of all, peel back the passenger side carpet and take off the kick panel for your ECU.
Remove insulation that has been piled up into a nest.


Remove any mice and or other once living creatures.


Inspect insulation nest for other once living creatures.

 

dude thats ****** sick
but good tip

 

OMFG! LOL , wow man ....could you ever hear them doing their work?

James

 

Holy *$@&, thats sick, but at least they didn't eat the ECU wires...

 

I'm pretty sure they were dead when I bought the car in April, cause I also found the mouse treasury of stockpiled acorns under where my storage bins would be if i had storage bins.
I'm guessing at one point during my car's lifetime it sat for a long time, cause my mechanical lever in the rear calipers are basically frozen shut with rust and/or inactivity. By the way, does anyone have any rear brake calipers for an '86 n/a for sale?

 

Wow, thats almost as good as the "bees in my FC thread." That makes me wanna pull up my carpet now...

 

Once upon a time, my little bro was trying to fix up one of his Merkur pieces of crap that had been sitting out in the weeds awhile so he could sell it. He was working under the dash trying to get his electricals working. There were some loose wires that he was going to twist together to get the blower or something working. He grabs one wire, and reaches up under the dash and grabs the other bare wire and gives it a tug. Turns out it was a dead mouse's tail and the whole thing came following down out of the dash. He still hasn't stopped running and screaming to this day. I think he has made it to Mexico by now. Could you imagine if he hooked it up without giving it a tug? The new owner would have had Franken-mouse to deal with..."Fire bad, cheese good!"

Brian

 

damn dude tahts nasty ,but funny too. I just cleaned my FC that was sitting for 2 years. I should have ataken pics. I had had fulls of dead bugs under my seats and in the bin

 

new meaning to removing the rat's nest.

 

nice

 

skelators distant cousins......

 

didnt that smell???damn!

 

Ah, the dead mouse removal mod. I too have performed this, mostly on parts cars. Weight savings is low, but drivability is increased greatly.

Might also want to check the heater blower, because they like to nest in the round space...

 

lol disgusting, how the hell did u ever decide to check for mice?

 

i found i dead chipmunk when i was replacing my carpet, in the same place too... but thats what you get with a car that sat for 4 years

 

Rotary777
I guess I wasn't looking specifically for mice. I intended to do some ECU Resistance/Voltage checks on some wires to diagnose my 3800 hesitation, (fixed it by the way). I came across the mouse treat totally by accident.

 

don't forget to feed hamsters in your engine :

http://rx7cz.net/photos/workshop122/IMG_4679.JPG

 

When I was cleaning out my old VW I found a ******* cat under the seat. It was probably the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

 

I was working on a fellow forum member's car, and I found a rats nest IN the "rats nest" :p

 

you know what im glad i found bee's in my 7 as opposed to rats
that crap is sick
at least the bees that were in my car were'nt known for carrying the plauge

 

Where's Cody? Figured he would have piped in by now...

 

after my motor blew, the car sat for awhile...when i finally got it fired up again, a family of opossoms dropped down from on top of my tranny!!!

those things are ugly!!

 

... and my first thought was, "Damn. I wish I could find live mice in my car... my ferrets would love them."

-=Russ=-

 

Ah, I should list the "Dead mouse removal" under my mods too.



Mine was pretty fresh... and as soon as I cracked the airbox my cat came running.

-Twofer