Just another silver NB....

[darwynism]

What paint did you use to color the falken letters on the tires?

[—tsingson—]

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I used a paint pen from Walmart.

[—tsingson—]

So I was finally able to pick up the 01 manifold from Toney (AdvancedSpecV) and I went and installed it.

This is what it looked like before:






Freaking heavy son of a gun. I didn't get any pictures during the install. A lot of PB Blaster was used to avoid having a repeat of the removing the studs from the head in my previous NB. When it came to the bottom 3 bolts on the flange for the midpipe, I ended up punching the control arm when the ratchet slipped. Knuckle bruised and finger throbbing, I was able to make a call to Steven (Kung Fu Jesus) who had just finished his 01 manifold on his 10AE so everything was still fresh on his mind. Surprisingly, everything went pretty smooth from there. Steven was jelly with how easy it was compared to his.

Looks stock which is what I like:




I was supposed to get a front lip from DK but assholes went and stole all of the parts he was shipping out. Thieves suck. Next up is the fog lights and hardtop brackets.

Thanks again Steven.

[—tsingson—]

I was also able to find a slight picture of my AE92.

It's the one next to the Civic Hatch. That is a factory OEM hood and hood scoop from Japan along with the bigger front parking lights.



I really loved that car but it was worked on more than it was driven and it didn't have the comforts of AC and power windows and little things like that that you appreciate once you start getting older. I really wish I had more pictures of it.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

Wait... your parts got stolen before they even got to you? That blows...

[—tsingson—]

Yes. He was supposed to send them out but I guess he had them in a storage unit on base. Thieves broke in and stole it all. Just waiting on the refund so it can go elsewhere.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

Damn :/

That is a really shitty situation.

[—tsingson—]

Tell me about it. I have been looking for a front lip for my car since I first bought it. It was even silver. It sucks.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

You don't like the one you have?

[—tsingson—]

I need to change my avatar. That was my old NB. I want my current NB to be able to surpass what that one was.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

I just realized that. I'm sure this one will be awesome

[—tsingson—]

It's getting there. Probably not going to do the high dollar wheels that I had on the other one though.

[—tsingson—]

So long overdue update:

I was really starting to get bored with the color of my wheels, so I stripped them down.





The finished results:



Wasn't able to fully get all of the crevices of the wheels, so I hit them up with white plastidip and left the lips polished. I didn't get a picture of that but I will one of these days. Even that was a pain because of the amount of spokes. But this is all temporary until I can get the wheels from Steven (Kung Fu Jesus).

Also, replaced my tired Bose radio. Damn thing would not play my CD's all the time. It kept spitting them out. So I replaced it with a JVC KD-X50BT. Great stereo! Love not having a ton of CD's in the car.



Didn't take many pictures of the install because I was trying to locate the wires for the speakers as I installed some Kicker 6.5" coaxs in the doors. I will eventually be upgrading these to 8" components but for now they sound great. I also have an amp that I will be running to these. 65W RMS will definitely brighten up the tunes.

I also was having a problem with excessive EGR flow (CEL P0402). I need to get the car inspected and with this CEL, it won't pass. I tried to see if I could buy myself time by erasing the code, but it didn't take long for the code to pop again. I had to do the intake manifold cleaning. One of the "Other Sites" has a great walkthrough on how to do this. Took me about 40 minutes to do this. No pictures showing this because I just wanted to get it done.

http://www.miata.net/garage/manifold/index.html

I started the car and it took a bit to start. Probably because of some of the leftover carb cleaner. When it finally started, it ran pretty rough for a bit, then it smoothed out.

I drove it to work today and noticed a little bit of a smoother idle. I had erased the code and it has been roughly 5 miles that I have driven. I guess we will see if it comes back.

Fingers crossed.

[—tsingson—]

Just finished installing the GT Grant steering wheel I had in my AE92. Just wanted to pay tribute to it since that was the car that really got me into cars. That was more setup for straight line but I swapped the 4AGZE in it. I ended up using the Grant steering wheel hub 3597 if I remember correctly. I had to shave the airbag connector from the clockspring to get it to sit flush. I have a separate clockspring coming in when I want to go back to the stock wheel.

Here it is:



I also ordered the Works Bell Airbag Defeat from Miataroadster.com. Actually spoke to Bill on the phone because I thought I messed up my order. Real nice guy! Definitely will order from him again!

I just have to wire up the horn when the Airbag Defeat gets here.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

You need a wooden shift knob now!