Originally Posted by soot
(Post 1618732)
Oh man I need to put that on my rotrex car, it's non turbo, makes turbo noises and it does its "best" at keeping up with the turbo guys :rofl:
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I had a janky old Lenovo laptop with Ubuntu installed and went through the same BS that you did. I only wanted to use the Lenovo because it was small, light, and the battery in it lasted longer than my regular laptop battery. Getting it to run TunerStudio was a chore. Getting it to connect to the USB was even worse (and required entering mysterious Unix incantations). I did get it to work but that was 2 years ago and I've forgotten the incantations, so...fuck Ubuntu.
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Don't mind me, just buying parts for a car I never drive :giggle: |
Originally Posted by EO2K
(Post 1619147)
Don't mind me, just buying parts for a car I never drive :giggle:
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Originally Posted by Houleo
(Post 1619303)
Looking forward to more antics
Honestly, there probably won't be too many shenanigans until I start screwing things up and raging about it. For example: https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...85ccc43bfd.jpg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2efc2b8af2.jpg This weekend marked the 2nd and 3rd failed attempts to install the oil pan on my other engine. As it turns out, Mazda changed the rubber end seals from NA6/NA8/NB1 engines and NB2 engines. Being the moron that I am, I assumed "it's a BP that shits all the same" so I pulled the OE end seals out of my BP6D rebuild kit and tried to used them with a BP4W block and pan. As it turns out, that doesn't work. Like, at all. For reference: B6F410428 & B6F410427 are 90-00 B54110428 & B54110427 are 01-05 ...and they don't interchange. /sadtrombone The 01-05 seals are probably double the thiccness of the 90-00 seals. I'll take some pics when proper seals arrive and you'll see what I mean. Remember, I fail so you don't have to! I have owned this car since I think 2008 or 2009 and I've been hoarding little updates and upgrades ever since. After years of reckless and frivolous spending I'm trying to cut that down dramatically, so I'll be blowing the dust off quite a few boxes. Lots of backlogged stuff to screw up in the future. :bigtu: |
Holy shit, is that the oil pan that I gave you?
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For a "while I'm in there" and since you are waiting for seals, have you considered adding a sump baffle plate?
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Originally Posted by Scaxx
(Post 1619311)
Holy shit, is that the oil pan that I gave you?
Originally Posted by msmola2002
(Post 1619312)
For a "while I'm in there" and since you are waiting for seals, have you considered adding a sump baffle plate?
You'll probably see some of those things in this thread in the (far) future, but they won't be in this motor. :firedevil |
THE TIME HAS COME
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...28f7e7d2b3.jpg This fuckery has been making doing anything with this car absolutely miserable. It's gotten to the point where I have to hold the key in the crank position and then reach under the dash and tweak this harness until the car cranks. Something needed to be done. Thanks to @Mobius I've got this pigtail off an NB2, and its going to be a donor fix this mess. https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...39ff4cb90e.jpg The white/black wire is the worst offender, obviously, so it got cut out and replaced with the donor harness end and a single, self-sealing butt connector. The yellow and blue vampire taps had done damage to the white/red and red/black wire, so those will be cut out and patched as well. Connector was de-pinned with an eyeglass screwdriver, because easy. lol. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...58894e6361.jpg So that's exactly what I did. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c6de2860c9.jpg Red/black wire now identifies as blue wire. I probably could have done the repair for the vampire tap damage without the additional donor harness ends, but that would have shortened the wire enough to put additional stress on one of the terminals, so I just changed out the color. It seems to have worked out well. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d7c6bd43d3.jpg Ta-Daa! And this shit works. The car started 7/7 times directly after hooking it back up. I walked out to the driveway this morning and started it just because I could. It's glorious having a car that starts reliably. This has only been a problem for what, almost 10 years? Big thanks to @afm for the advice and use of proper tools and @Mobius for the donor harness. I love you all. |
You know what? It wasn't until I posted that last pic that I noticed the red vampire tap in the dash harness. SIGH
I don't know what that red/black wire is or why its tapped but I'll fix it later. I'm sure its something to do with the Circuit Shitty alarm, probably a tap on the door switch illumination circuit. Right now I managed to fix what I set out to do so I'm still happy. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...8fefa1fea1.gif |
I was told my car started for the first time in a long time. But then @curly dove in to take things apart again. He's been all up in my engine bay. I suppose I should make an update. |
I’m proud of you Gordon! It took me till a week or two to remove the sketchy audiovox alarm box from under my dash. (To be honest, it was my friend Kevin who did it).
I was always afraid of poking at it, assuming it would just kill my car and I’d be left with a 4 wheeled brick. Turns out it was mostly disconnected anyway, except for the part that was draining the battery:facepalm: Its been like that for the 11 or 12 years I’ve had the car and occasionally would fall down and get tangled with the pedals until I zip tied it back up under the dash. So finally when I’m getting the car ready to sell I get it extracted. Then I proceeded to fail SMOG miserably so now I have to pull off the header and figure out WTF. |
Originally Posted by Mobius
(Post 1620272)
But then @curly dove in to take things apart again. He's been all up in my engine bay.
Also: https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...8abae7126f.jpg It's like layer after stinky layer with this fucking onion. Fuck! :squint: |
Im convinced Gordon and Richard have the best, most entertaining writing styles in this forum. :party:
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Originally Posted by Cxracer
(Post 1620287)
I’m proud of you Gordon! It took me till a week or two to remove the sketchy audiovox alarm box from under my dash. (To be honest, it was my friend Kevin who did it).
I was always afraid of poking at it, assuming it would just kill my car and I’d be left with a 4 wheeled brick. Turns out it was mostly disconnected anyway, except for the part that was draining the battery:facepalm: Its been like that for the 11 or 12 years I’ve had the car and occasionally would fall down and get tangled with the pedals until I zip tied it back up under the dash. So finally when I’m getting the car ready to sell I get it extracted. I'm glad its repaired too, its been giving me trouble for a while but its only been the last 3-4 years that its become a serious issue.
Originally Posted by Cxracer
(Post 1620287)
Then I proceeded to fail SMOG miserably so now I have to pull off the header and figure out WTF.
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Originally Posted by icantlearn
(Post 1620289)
Im convinced Gordon and Richard have the best, most entertaining writing styles in this forum. :party:
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Truf
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Originally Posted by EO2K
(Post 1620288)
Gotta watch out for that @curly guy, I hear he's shady as fuck. Check to make sure you still have a cat when he's done
Cats' in my garage. I should sell it. And the rest of the exhaust associated with it. |
Originally Posted by turbofan
(Post 1620296)
I think the only other guy who gives them a run is Joe P.
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Ballin' out of control. Apparently. I'm tired of that shitass flaky Optima, time to get a real battery in this car. Funny enough, this Odyssey Extreme PC680 + "billet" mount cost less than a replacement Optima. I'm saving whole dollars here mang! Trackday this Sunday :party: |
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