tristanlee85

The differential pin is welded to the house, not the spider gears themselves. It's still an open differential except there isn't a 5mm screw holding the pin in place. There are also welds too so it doesn't fly out. http://biggerbids.com/members/images/4708/public/159178_diff3.jpg

We should move to Canada.

I've never heard that anywhere. I've just read something to clean up the mess is good to have though.

Awesome. Looks nice and clean too. You'll have to let me know next time you plan on driving it over to my apartment complex so I can check it out.

I guess in spending $1000 on coilovers they cheaped out and put in weak studs in the strut mount. I tightened the nuts to stock spec, but when I loosened them 4 of the 6 studs snapped in half. I just used the studs from the my stock mounts that are thicker so that seemed to work. I took it out for the first time tonight and it was pretty fun. I was focused on tuning fuel only while I broke the engine is so I set the timing to a fixed 20*. The exhaust was popping pretty loud on decel, but I guess open downpipe will do that. I'm going to wire up the fans tonight, change the oil, and hit the freeway for some more tuning and hope for the best.

Well, I drove it tonight for the first time breaking the engine in. I didn't get pulled over, but wow. 3" open downpipe is a lot louder than my previous 2.5" open downpipe. Plus the cams didn't help much. Now it's time to fix the coolant leak, wire up the fans, get an alignment, then go blow it up.

I didn't see one on Ohio's site, but you never know...

Oh maybe I can take my timing chain cover off, paint the cam gears so everyone can see them spin while driving.

Yeh, not for attention. I would just like to break the engine in sometime this year.

Is it illegal? I was installing my hood last night and I managed to let it fall off the car with 1 bolt half-way installed so the bracket is toast and the threads are stripped out. I don't be able to get it fixed until Saturday so...

Engine dynos are expensive too. Obviously rates will change from place to place, but it was a little over $2000 for my friend. He decided to go this route because his cars would run about about 2 days then die. If you have the money though there isn't much to worry about.

http://www.miatapower.com/engine-break-in.htm

You don't have to drive at a consistent speed. There's plenty of room and lanes to do pulls and hard decels. That's just personal preference though. At least on the interstate you'll be able to get the RPMs up high with a load on the engine rather than in the city unless of course the police are your friends and let you slide.

What if we can't make it for 20 minutes???

I-270 will.

I have that too, but at the time I had the bare minimum in my savings ($300) and it wiped that out and then started charging me $60 per transaction after that.

Chase rapes you on fees like that. I accidentally deposited a chunk of money into one account, but withdrew from the other because I though I deposited it there. Wrong. I over-drafted and it wiped out my savings account too. In the end I had about $30 that I needed to pay back plus their fees. Just my luck on that very day, FedEx charged me for all my shipments for that month as 7 individual transactions. I had 7 more ~$5 transactions that cost me $60 a piece. I talked with them about it since I had never had any issues before and they agreed that I would only need to pay half. Even though it was 100% my fault, those fees are recockulous.

Well I know how to tune and I have the equipment necessary to do so. I turned off the afterstart enrichments since that was my issue and now it runs fine. Now some road tuning needs done. It's just that it's much easier for me to drive and someone else tune or vice-versa instead of not looking at the road.

Well that may be a little easier then. I tried to utilize wiring from my stock wiring harness so there were less wires that need to be ran. Anyway, let me know about when you are ready to install this and I'll give you a hand.

Oh but it is.

Do you plan on running everything from the MS such as fuel pump, ignition, TPS, Fidle or do you plan on splicing into the stock ECU? I'm using mine as a full standalone (fuel and spark), but I still let me stock ECU control the fuel pump and TPS. I just spliced into the signal wire for the MS. I don't have idle set up though. I just adjust it by the throttle body for now.

It's pretty easy to wire up if you have a schematic for your car. Are you using the relay board or not? I've never wired up a relay board before, but it can't be that hard to do.

What time are you free? I have to do some junkyard work sometime and probably some girlfriend stuff on Saturday.

That's why I said it.

Damn you bitches.