TOO BUSY TO DO STUFF! :P

Yeh, the Mazda FSMs suck for wiring.


Tuesday I'm going back to the garage, for whoever wants to come.

 

I went to MIR.

 

I spent an hour yesterday teaching my wife how to drive stick. she already finds it fun and wants to steal my car from me.

 

you are lucky. my wife won't like 7, period. she wants to have a miata or something smaller.

did you check your clutch after the stick trainning?

 

my girlfriend's crx is manual. that's all she drives, she loves it. I've let her drive my corolla too. I think I drive her 99 accord more than she does

 

I taught my wife, and her sister how to drive stick in the seven. I also taught her sister how to drift in the parking lot where maxway is in Brooklyn. That also happens to be where the driving school teaches noobs how to parallel park .

 

the clutch in my car OEM is pretty beefy due to amount of torque it has to put up with. teaching her because the vert is gonna be hers when she finally learns. course i gotta fix it up a little first to get it to pass inspection.

 

my wife just complained that I never got time to teach her to drive manual, after saying that many times. well, winter is not a good time

 

sure it is....

"..and that is how you do a side drift around a turn at 50MPH without doing donuts due to the ice"

 

Auction Alert! 1990 Mazda rx7 with 64,000 miles on it will be up for sale at the Capitol Auto Auction in Temple Hills , MD tomorrow! Auction starts at 10:00 Am

 

I don't suppose there's a link to possible pictures online, are there?

 

No pics for the weekly auction just the bi-weekly online auction. Gotta come and see it in person! Dan, you looking for a 2nd gen?

 

We need to have another all Mazda meet.. where everyone comes out.. it was pretty cool last time we did it out in arundle mills..

 

Auction car was a 90 GXL With a auto in it. I left it there.

 

My brother just called me and the car sold for 1100.00! Unreal for a auto!

 

A 90 GXL is great for a turbo or LT1 swap.

 

I wouldn't think it would be that great. it has the viscous LSD, which I wouldn't think would be as good for a V8 swap, and it has an NA drivetrain which aren't as tough, and you would have to swap the tranny and add pedals to put a manual in it, unless you were going to go with some crazy dragracing auto.

 

whats wrong with viscous LSD? the one on my supra will hand anything thrown against it. you saying the RX-7 one is inferior?


Jason: Bring MS and battery tomorrow.

 

no, viscous LSDs are just slower to react and I don't think they would be as good for higher power applications. I would probably prefer a clutch type LSD for something with a lot of torque and power like that.

factories just use viscous LSDs most of the time because they last the longest. with minimal upkeep.

 

Actually, it has an open diff. if it's a 90 GXL.

Only the S4 GXL model has LSD.

 

i was asleep when i made my earlier comment. My supra has a 7 clutchpack LSD not viscous. the "upgrade" option for my car is a TRD Torsion LSD which has a habit of eating itself if you shock it too much. most just stay with the stock clutch LSD

 

When you do a V8 swap, you _usually_ replace the tranny with a T5 or a T56.

Can I have my lights back, or are you still using them?

 

yeah sure, next time I see you remind me to bring them.

are you ever going to pay me for my turbo?

 

Hey!

The deal for that turbo, IIRC, was you wanted me to biuld your wiring harness and help you tune your MS, as well as give you an IC (Did you want the FD one or the volvo one? I don't remember. I also have a Supra one if you want that).

I came over a few times and even told you how to wire the thing, then you just stopped talking to me about it, and last I heard you hadnt even wired up the fuel pump.

I don't even know what stage of the project you are at right now.

 

I'll be at the garage today, is your TII drivable?