"daender" (daender)
10/28/2013 at 10:12 • Filed to: Miata
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"daender" (daender)
10/28/2013 at 10:12 • Filed to: Miata | 0
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It feels so good driving my own manual car again. So here's what the dealer did to it over the three months of trouble shooting, as typed out by poppaEnder.
Here goes: The invoice says: R&R fuel sending unit and cleaned rust from tank, replaced intake runner solenoid valve, R&I crank pulley, was told by the service manager they think was in the crank pulley, the sensor was either not mated correctly or had some dirt on it...The mazda engineer made them go in there and look at it...Had regional engineers from Mazda involved....
Aka, I don't care because it's running wonderfully again. Infact, I think Mazda also took the time to repair a broken interior panel beneath the steering wheel for free, sweet!
Bad news, I didn't have a camera to take pictures of it as it is now. The wheels were redone in hammer black along with factory rear mudguards and aftermarket rubber front mudguards, both painted in the same color as the wheels. It looks great.
Right now, the plan for the Miata is to keep it at my parents' house so pops can continue to drive it and make sure it runs correctly. I might see Panic Motorsports in Columbia later in the year about replacing the gas tank because the original appears to have some rust developing on the inside.
Anyway, here's a GoPro video of my during my first run at yesterday's autocross in Laurens, SC. I took it easy in the beginning because of how slippery the surface was with dust and dirt but stepped it up after that. I was in my friend's Miata NB which has a Racing Beat front sway bar, Saturn 16's with heat-cycled used Hoosiers slicks, Hard Dog rollbar, aftermarket axle-back muffler, and a Rspeed intake tube. I was only a second behind the veteran (he's in his 60's at the very least) class leader who was on dedicated autocross slicks (better quality and not heat-cycled).