Good job on this. That car was definitely filthy. I apologize if I missed it, but what's left for it to run?

 

quite a bunch! gotta test bulbs

 

i had some cool gaming chairs for a little bit

 

meanwhile i bought a new PD and FPR, the old ones were, well old, and the gas smelled horrible, i decided better safe than sorry. unusually i did some shopping, and didn't buy these from Mazda, but on sale at Pep Boyz, took forever to get

i'm sparing everyone pics of the new parts i put in this thing, i took pics of most of them. Ye Olde PD is the bottom pic

 

these look to be nearly before the upper intake goes on... or maybe after i had tried it on once? compared to the FD there is nothing in there, but its also a tight fit...

the double clamps on the fuel line is intentional, the FD fuel recall had them do it, and it seems like a good idea. i'm sure there will be more pics, but the fuel in this thing smelled bad (everything about this car smelled bad), and i replaced the damper, FPR, filters and pump, but i wanted to run some fuel through it before i cleaned the injectors, too many unknowns, and i didn't want to clog up a new/clean injector with some F.O.D. and if it happened to the old ones it would be fine, so i made sure the injectors clicked, and put em in

 

More connector repair, i'm not sure why these connectors were so bad, its either from the sun; the car sat with the hood off for years, or rat pee

 

Then i pulled apart the drivers door, someone had pulled tint off of the side windows, which left the glue, and then the regulator was bad anyways. inside the door i found some evidence of a prior repair, it looks ok on the outside, but my 100% original paint car is turning out to be like 50%....

 

Carpet goes in, after a couple cleanings, it'll get a few more, but well look at the before and after

 

i rebuilt the air mix motor, i find that usually they are full of goop, and just a clean and re grease has them working (this one may have worked before)

 

i got to the spare tire and it was furry...

 

more cleaning, you can see the high water line... with this car i scrubbed the metal floor...

 

and for a change of pace i pulled the tail lights out and cleaned in there, and probably waxed underneath them, and cleaned out under the fuel filler.

 

i guess i didn't take pics, but i got the HVAC and dash in. it got new triangles

 

bin frame back in, its got the correct date on it, if this was a Ferrari i would be rich...

 

i think this car either had problems or got driven hard, or maybe 182hp is not enough? to wit;

new pedal pad,



old pedal,




new pedal pad on old pedal....

 

Cluster cleaned up and ready to go back in

 

got the spare and jack all cleaned up and put in

 

James Bond lives in the Logicon. i pulled basically every PCB out, and at least looked at everything, did some resoldering

 

Original Hood scoop, if this was a Ferrari i'd be rich

 

here is a before and after of the door panel, i'm not sure i took these apart, but i for sure used the wet/dry vac on them. everything else went in the sink and got scrubbed with a brush and hot water

 

car came with no starter, so i bought one, and it was dead, so i had to repair it...

 

pulled the fuel pump, the car sat from 2005 with no gas cap on it, so gas smelled bad, like death. old pump didn't run, obvs. i had a good used one i threw in, no pic, looked like a fuel pump?

 

So close to being ready to go! Great progress, I thought that carpet was not going to be saved.

 

thanks! i cleaned that carpet for weeks... its still like a C+/B-

 

so the gas smelled crappy, and i had a running fuel pump with new filters. i should have drained the tank, but the tank had an extra drain plug in it, and i had no place to drain the old stuff. so i pushed the thing out and tried to start it, and it fired right up... the video is not an accepted file type, but its like a vacuum cleaner thats on fire...