"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
11/19/2016 at 22:38 • Filed to: None
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
11/19/2016 at 22:38 • Filed to: None | 6
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Engine oil and filter, trans oil, dif oil, replaced my worn out bushings with delrin ones, added some fuel additive, and finally replaced my burned out foglight. Good day. Read on for my impressions of the bushings.
First, though: If you have an NB2 changing the trans oil is a huge pain in the ass due to the massive butterfly-brace style chassis reinforcements combined with drain and fill plugs with VERY shallow heads. Swearing was very much involved.
Here’s the worn out stock bushing
Here’s the new one all installed with shiny new hardware
Pretty worn. This is also VERY soft rubber.
So after reading Revlimiter (Adam)‘s review of these he mentioned not getting them tight enough with a screwdriver and having to use a rachet. I went right to the rachet.... and promptly snapped one of the bolts. Oops. Some needlenose got that bastard right out of there and I plopped a new bolt in and was on my way.
So how are the bushings? Well I have a 2002 Miata SE, a trim level above a regular NB2 which includes such niceties as strut tower braces and upgraded underbody bracing, so it’s already more rigid than a run-of-the-mill NB2 which is leagues stiffer than an NA, so your results will be more dramatic with those chassis.
After tossing in the driver’s side I sat down in the car and cranked up the Bose audio system with my favorite bass-heavy trap music queued up with frequencies that, in the past, resulted in a plethora of rattles to come from what I assumed was the clips holding the door card in place, or possibly the bushings for the window glass. Nope. It was the latch mechanism, and that delrin bushing made all of the rattles disappear. Utter audio bliss, no frequency was making any vibrations come from the left side of the car. Toss the passenger side bushing in and same story. All of the music, none of the rattles. And the doors make a very nice noise now when closing, though they do require a tad more effort to open than usual, but that’s to be expected.
The idea behind the delrin bushings is that they turn the door of the car into more of a structural unit and reinforcing the whole car. Supposedly. Many people with NAs and NB1s report dramatic improvements in this field but I can’t say I felt much difference that couldn’t be explained by placebo effect or just “seeming” like it rode better over bumps because my doors weren’t rattling over them. I’m sure they would have made an enormous difference in my garbage flexy NA6, though.
Quick shot of the drain plug from the trans. For a car with 120k miles this is pretty good.
Hnnnng that stock-ass engine bay tho :D
Fog lights! For the first time since i got the car my fog lights both work! I still want to get some yellow vinyl film to put over them. I wanted all of my forward-facing lights to be pure white but LEDs don’t fit in the Miata’s foglight housings so I’m going to go with yellow.
Big car small car
PS9
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 22:42 |
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Make Jake’s Miata V8 Again.
What? But PS9, Miatas never came with-
YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID NOW DO IT
TheHondaBro
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 22:50 |
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TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 22:55 |
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where did you get the bushings from? i need to do them on my 03 in the spring.
Also i never had any issues with changing my tranny fluid. Maybe after 02 they changed the brace? Mine was very easy to get at
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 23:02 |
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Was your blown fog light bulb burnt up at all? The original housings tend to leak and cause bulb destruction in short order. Last time I went to swap a bulb in there, a pool of water came out behind it. So I’m gonna leave those off until I replace the housings.
I just bought a set of mazdaspeed headlights though so I’m excited to have non broken tabs and not filled with moisture. Plus they look cool during the day due to the black housings. Sometimes I’m reminded how old these cars are even though the engines seem to run forever with minimal maintenance.
daender
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 23:04 |
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I wanted all of my forward-facing lights to be pure white but LEDs don’t fit in the Miata’s foglight housings so I’m going to go with yellow.
Have you seen/read Warhammer’s tread on installing Morimoto XB LED fog lights ? It takes some minor boring to the bumper to get them to fit but the results appear to be worth it.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> daender
11/19/2016 at 23:17 |
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Well, with whole new housings anything is possible. The stock housings, however, are ludicrously restrictive.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/19/2016 at 23:19 |
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Nah, they still have the rubber condoms to keep water out.
And yeah, I saw your post in “what did you do to your car today”. I desperately need mazdaspeed lights. You should send me your stock set so I can take them apart and try painting the housing and making faux-mazdaspeeds :D
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
11/19/2016 at 23:21 |
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MossMiata has a sale on them right now.
MarquetteLa
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 23:21 |
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I swapped in Delrin door bushings into my ‘02 recently, too. Mine didn’t come with the grooves, though. The screws from the door have cut a very small groove into them. I like them overall, I can definitely feel a difference in how the car reacts to bumps and potholes.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> PS9
11/19/2016 at 23:22 |
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No. V8 swaps are dumb. If someone wants to donate an SR20DET, though...
V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me!
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 23:43 |
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You made a puppet angry.
Most V8s are probably too heavy to keep good handling on one of those though...
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me!
11/19/2016 at 23:50 |
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An LS doesn’t add much weight at all, but it kills the purpose of the Miata. 300hp is the upper end of what I’d want in a Miata because any more than that and you can’t enjoy WOT without killing yourself or roasting tires.
AestheticsInMotion
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/20/2016 at 02:54 |
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Well, that’s the push I needed to try those out. I also read Adams review on revlimiter.net
That nb is looking good
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/20/2016 at 07:40 |
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My stock set is really terrible lol. The passenger side has the tabs broken and the drivers side has a bad moisture seal. I don’t think I posted there haha. My miata.net username is Duncanator24.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/20/2016 at 11:46 |
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Ok well shit maybe that wasn’t you then, lol. Any reason you couldn’t bake your stockers, take them apart, clean off the old seal and re-seal them with silicone? Or are you referring to the tabs that actually hold it in the car?
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> TheHondaBro
11/20/2016 at 11:50 |
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wat
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daender
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/20/2016 at 12:17 |
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This is true. Also, I’ve tried covering up the foglight housings with tape for lolscience purposes. I averaged 1.5 mpg improvement with them covered up after 2 weeks of commuting 100 miles a day on highways and interstates.
If you do decide on wrapping them in yellow tint, then I’d like to see how they look and if there’s any actual benefit. Believe it or not, there’s been heavy fog for the past week here in SC and yellow fogs could actually have a legitimate purpose for me.
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/20/2016 at 18:40 |
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The tabs that hold the passenger side light in to the car are broken and shoddily glued together. The drivers side probably is repairable like you said though. Don’t really have an interest in putting headlights in my oven though haha.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> daender
11/20/2016 at 19:40 |
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I’ve heard good things from people using yellow fog lights in actual fog. Mostly I just wanted some color in the front of my car since I run lights-on all the time to make my road-colored tiny-ass car a bit more visible.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/20/2016 at 19:41 |
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Put cookies in at the same time to make one thing better and another thing worse.
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/20/2016 at 19:52 |
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Does that mean my car will smell like cookies every time I turn the lights on? And my cookies will taste like cancer?
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/20/2016 at 20:12 |
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Yes