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[richee3]

Got the MR2 to crank last night. Hasn't fired up yet but I was out of light anyway. Tonight I'm going to let it crank for a little bit more to see if it catches, otherwise I'll have to start checking fuel and spark. Mechanical timing is spot on but I may need to rotate the dizzy 180 degrees. Once it finally fires up I'll be ready to finish adding coolant and start driving it around.

[SwissFerdi]

Got the MR2 to crank last night. Hasn't fired up yet but I was out of light anyway. Tonight I'm going to let it crank for a little bit more to see if it catches, otherwise I'll have to start checking fuel and spark. Mechanical timing is spot on but I may need to rotate the dizzy 180 degrees. Once it finally fires up I'll be ready to finish adding coolant and start driving it around.

Neat!

I replaced (or as soon as this rain lets up) a nasty heater hose and firewall grommet on the Miata. Offending pinhole leak pictured below.

[Box]

Wooo driving! Almost.

Well turns out the 16/3 is burnt to a crisp under the insulation, must've been saving to scrap. Le sigh, guess it's back to more digging but I don't recall there being much else bigger than 18 AWG...

[Bitter]

Well that sucks, good thing you didn't find it out the hard car fire way!


Fogs came today, a day early, the lens is clear an it's the reflector that's yellow, so that's a bit different. The beam pattern is a nice flat broad beam like fogs ought to be with little spill above and below. Not the current Chinese blob o light I've been using.

[Box]

Yeah, would've found out as I had everything torn apart and was thinking I'd be getting the harness made. I cut off about a four inch piece and stripped the wire on each end and tested with a multimeter and it bounced from 50-250 ohms so it's just straight up scrap at this point. I found some 18/3 that's in good shape but there's not enough to double it up so that won't work. Really thinking should just say screw it and buy that 25 foot section of 12/3 for $12.50 shipped and call it real.

I think that's how French headlamps are done or were done, the glass is clear but the reflector is yellow.

This post has been edited by Box: Aug 31, 2016 - 9:06 PM

[Bitter]

I'd just buy the new stuff and be done with it, better than getting scrap wire and find out later it's got a bad spot that didn't rear up till it was hot with power. I guarantee the effort will be worth the results as small of wire as they run to the headlights on that car you should be pretty happy.

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/relays/relays.html

[Box]

Yep that and I liked that it's all in a grey jacket so it'll look really nice too, and it'll be 12 AWG. Which with exception of the 16/3 and 18/3 most all the wiring was pulled from audio installs, but therein lies the problem is it'll all probably be 8 AWG for amp power wires or 22 AWG for speakers.

Funny I posted that very same link for someone on here the other day that their headlight wiring is borked. He's part of the reason I'm insistent on using the 12 AWG even though based on the math 16 AWG would be more than enough. Which I've thought about using some higher power bulbs but I don't want to blind others at the same time, seems like the various HELLA and PIAA bulbs are really about it.

There, just ordered the wiring and it should be here sometime next week I guess.

This post has been edited by Box: Aug 31, 2016 - 9:52 PM

[Box]

Richee and Ferdi remind me I want a SW20 MR2 or a NA8 Miata to go along with the Firebird, I like all kinds of cars and part of me misses having a smaller Japanese car.

[Bitter]

Made my fog brackets today, somehow the big holes ended up off center but it doesn't matter since they're aligned to the bumper and then the brackets are installed. Just need to hit them with a file to knock off the sharp edges and some black spray paint to keep them clean.

This post has been edited by Bitter: Sep 1, 2016 - 7:08 PM

[SwissFerdi]

Richee and Ferdi remind me I want a SW20 MR2 or a NA8 Miata to go along with the Firebird, I like all kinds of cars and part of me misses having a smaller Japanese car.

I usually shut up in regards to your car choices but no, you don't want another Miata. You didn't like your first one and primarily, you don't like convertibles, and the Miata is not a good car for top-up only. The Deuce or a Z would be a much better choice for you.

I wish this rain would let up so I can drive mine.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Sep 1, 2016 - 7:25 PM

[richee3]

Speaking of the Deuce, she started tonight. Still have a few things to sort out but she runs! Even drove it a few feet just because I could.

[Box]

Richee and Ferdi remind me I want a SW20 MR2 or a NA8 Miata to go along with the Firebird, I like all kinds of cars and part of me misses having a smaller Japanese car.

I usually shut up in regards to your car choices but no, you don't want another Miata. You didn't like your first one and primarily, you don't like convertibles, and the Miata is not a good car for top-up only. The Deuce or a Z would be a much better choice for you.

I wish this rain would let up so I can drive mine.

I think the Miata deserves a second chance though, in retrospect the bulk of my issues were with how that particular car was optioned and using it as a daily driver never dropping the top. The NA8 or a NB I know I'd like more, but yeah a MR2 or Z car would probably make for a better fit. Actually one of the Roadster Coupes would be my ideal Miata but we can't get them over here sadly.

Speaking of the Deuce, she started tonight. Still have a few things to sort out but she runs! Even drove it a few feet just because I could.

IT'S ALIVE!!!!! *lightning strikes*

This post has been edited by Box: Sep 1, 2016 - 9:46 PM

[cheela]

Speaking of the Deuce, she started tonight. Still have a few things to sort out but she runs! Even drove it a few feet just because I could.

so 1mz or 2gr swap? lol

This post has been edited by cheela: Sep 1, 2016 - 10:35 PM

[Box]

That's part of why I want a SW20 so much, it'd be a lot of fun with an 1MZ or 2GR. That or a LS swapped '88 Fiero GT, gahhhhh damn it GM stop distracting me. I wonder if you can cram a UZ series motor into the MR2.

[Box]

Apparently some have done a UZ swap, I imagine it's probably a bigger pain than LS swapping a Fiero.

Anyhow the relays and fuse holders arrived, the shifter stick is coming from Tennessee and the wiring is coming from Florida so I imagine they'll get here sometime early next week.

[richee3]

so 1mz or 2gr swap? lol

Nah, it's going to stay a 5S car. It's got some pretty nasty rust so it's limited to just being a toy. It should have already been a parts car but the new owner wanted it saved. Best case scenario, it becomes an autocross toy.

[Bitter]

Cosmetic rust only I hope? I saw a SW20 in the shop with some serious structural rust around the engine room bulkhead area near where the braces bolt to, one or two braces were totally rotten through at the rear of the car and one was just hanging in the air, the frame it was supposed to be bolted to was gone completely.

[Box]

Have to love those salted roads. Seriously though it's a miracle somebody wasn't killed by it.

Well checked tracking and the shifter stick and wiring departed the post office in Birmingham this afternoon so that means they'll get here tomorrow afternoon, woooo stuff to do. I was looking at the car again earlier and I really dread routing wiring, so much dread...

This post has been edited by Box: Sep 2, 2016 - 9:24 PM

[1994Celica]

Maybe the front half is the only part that's rusted and then you could chop the back half off and attach it to the front of a 6gc and make a twin engined all wheel drive car. Make a mk2 version of this
http://blog.caranddriver.com/lemons-goodba...ota-mr2corolla/

This post has been edited by 1994Celica: Sep 2, 2016 - 10:26 PM

[Box]

That or a 5th gen front might flow better with the SW20 MR2 rear. At first I was wondering how two gear shifters and clutches would pan out, but I see they did automatic for the MR2 portion. If anything having automatic up front and then manual in the rear would probably pan out better. That or ideally if you had two S54 transmissions with the same gear set and final, then figuring out clutch wouldn't be too bad since they're hydraulic but then it'd be a matter of the gear selectors which I'd imagine something could be fabricated so they work in sync.

This post has been edited by Box: Sep 3, 2016 - 12:21 AM