Cars

The fun of an engine swap…

Posted by Mike on July 22, 2010 at 12:40 pm

So in the months leading up to May 2010 I had been experiencing an odd loss of coolant.  It would pull a Houdini and out right be gone, so I tried some Barr’s Radiator sealant.  This kept the car running pretty well for a good while, in fact I estimate it worked for more then [...]

On Fuel Pump Replacement….

Posted by Mike on April 26, 2010 at 12:15 pm

So in a kind of continuation of a previous post about my fuel pump failing I did order and proceed to replace my stock fuel pump with a hi-flow Walbro pump.  First I would like to compliment Mazda and their engineers for such a wonderful placement of the access panel from which you work with [...]

Ah, the feel of new shoes…

Posted by Mike on April 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Well the time has come, the temperatures are rising, sun is staying out longer and the roads have cleared, time for new shoes.  Since I wasn’t going to repair and reuse the stock wheels which all turned out to be damaged in the end, I started a quest to find the right wheel to fit [...]

Stupid Fuel Pump

Posted by Mike on April 14, 2010 at 11:56 am

So for the last few months I’ve been running around like crazy trying to figure out why the car has had an issue starting.  At first I was even fearing the worst and thought I may need to rebuild the engine, esp after getting a bad tank of gas that left the car blowing some [...]

Mmm Exhaust…

Posted by Mike on March 24, 2010 at 3:43 pm

So I had it in last week and got the new exhaust built for the car over at Lou’s Custom Exhaust here in Manchester and I am quite pleased.  The car has a beautiful purr now.  In the low RPM’s and when just taking it easy she puts out a deep tone, with nice grumbles [...]