scannon

Just and FYI if someone is looking for a highly modified Miata that has been very well cared for and maintained. http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/5485664467.html

Update: The problem turned out to be a spade type connector that somehow came undone under the dash. It supplied the 12v to the sensor to produce the pulse to the speedometer. I had thought the speedometer supplied that voltage and therefore the problem was with the speedometer. Its been about 9 years since I wired up the speedometer and I had forgotten that I had to provide an external switched 12v to the sensor. I think a passenger's foot must have caught the wire as the connection was tight when I reconnected it. There is quite a rats nest of wires under the cowl on the passenger side resulting from the addition of the Hydra Nemesis ECU, the Hydramist water and ethanol injection brain and an aftermarket electronic cruise control. I had it all tucked up as best I could but several times passengers have caught the toe of their shoe getting in or out of the car. I had decided to order the Speedhut GPS speedometer but spent one more session with the car and found the problem.

Is that tall lever with the red knob a rear wheel hand brake? Are you building this as a drift car, rally car or? Was there a previous incarnation of the Bomb Girl? Inquiring mind(s) wants to know.

I have the Stage 8 lock nuts on two of my turbo cars between the exhaust manifold and turbo. I also have inconel studs in the manifold. You need to spend time fitting them so the eccentric is fully against the manifold or other stop otherwise they can loosen a bit until they do hit something solid. This will likely involve grinding a bit off the eccentrics to get a tight fit.

Check the head and manifold surfaces for flatness. Have them surface ground if not very flat. You probably know this but you torque manifolds from the center out in several steps. Miss-torquing them will cause warping. Excessive heat will warp them. BTDT with turbo manifolds many times.

Probably not. The legal cannabis doesn't smell anything like it did in the past, the smoke or unsmoked pot. Its all buds that are quite green and wet with resin. The grow operations throw away the leaves which has caused a problem with dogs getting into the dumpsters and ODing on the leaves.

And they make scented versions of it. Your exhaust can smell like strawberry or cannabis.

I don't think he would fit in the car. What I really think happened was Shane gave that guy a ride in his Se7en and that's what flattened the frame, not some trumped up agricultural expedition at the track. :jester:

Arrrrrg, what has been seen cannot be unseen. :puke:

When I put it in as a URL I got Blatchat but no info on bicycle speedometers so I searched Blatchat for bicycle speedometer and got no hits.

When I first put the car on the road I did just that. I couldn't get the original speedometer to work with the Miata transmission's electronic sensor so I put a bike speedo on it. The big problem with that was it stopped registering at 50 mph. I am close to pulling the trigger on the Speedhut GPS speedometer.

The description doesn't say it works with GPS. I looked under sensors and found the GPS unit. It costs more than the speedometer. It also says you can attach the sensor to the back side of the speedometer but I doubt it could pick up signals through the aluminum cowl. Its biggest advantage is the 80mm size, no cutting of my dash panel. The Speedhut unit has more features and costs nearly $100 less including the antenna and you can customize the bezel, pointer, back ground and text colors. http://www.speedhut.com/customizer.i?sku=GR338-GPS-01 The downside is it needs an 85mm hole and the hole in my dash is 82mm.

My Garmin can't come close to keeping up with the car's acceleration. It pauses then jumps 10 or so mph then repeats until speed stabilizes. Its always a few seconds behind. In the Caterham with the top down and the sun shining its almost impossible to use it as there is no place in the cockpit to get it out of the direct sun and still be able to see it from the driver's seat. It doesn't have enough volume to be heard over wind and engine noise when its giving directions.

That and the other 20 speedometers they list are all electronic. I'm going with GPS this time.

I'm done with the Caterham Caerbont speedometers. Looking at GPS speedometers but I can't find one to fit the 3.25" hole in the dash. Closest I've found so far is 3 3/8". Anyone know of one that will fit the hole? I'd rather not enlarge the hole in the dash and can't think of an easy way to do it other than a file. If I do enlarge the hole I'm liking this one: http://www.speedhut.com/gauge/GR338-GPS-01/1/GPS-Speedometer-Gauge-120mph

This car was at the British Conclave last year. It looked to be well done with lots of power and track mods. I took pictures but couldn't find them on my hard drive. It sounded really wicked when he started it up to leave.

Looks like an SOHC Pinto motor to me. http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Ford/73-Ford-Pinto-DV-08-AACA_e02.jpg

I cringed when they showed a shot of the front bonnet latch improperly attached while driving fast. Someone did that to my car and I nearly lost the bonnet. Now I always do it myself and stop people who are trying to be helpful when I'm putting it back on the car. They cleared about 2K GBP but no mention of any labor cost for Edd to do the work, if they paid him a reasonable wage their profit margin was much smaller or maybe Edd gets a share of the margin. I LOL'd when Mike said the power change from 125 to 140 HP made a big difference. That would have been swallowed up by having a passenger as big as Edd in the car vs. Mike by himself. I find these kind of car shows to be more fantasy than reality shows. About as real as Top Gear but much less entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdTII_unZSA

Brown salt? That looks more like the dry lake they used to run on in California than the salt flats.

As the title says I need one front hub. It is the aluminum style used from 2003 and up. If you have one for sale please PM or EM me with price and condition. Thanks, Skip

Driving over those passes was planned, going over them in the snow was not planned. It was an early Fall drive with LOCO (Lotus Colorado club). It was sunny and warm for most of the 3 day trip. We started up both of those passes in sunshine, it was only near the top that we drove into an early snow storm. Monarch Pass is a major highway (US 50) with a summit of 11,312'. Driving over Slumgullion Pass (11,531') was surreal. There was about 4" of fresh snow as we neared the top. We broke out of the clouds a couple of miles before the top. The sky was bright blue but very large snow flakes were still falling and the sun turned the aspen leave brilliant gold. I wanted to take a picture but was afraid to take a hand off the steering wheel to take a picture and I didn't want to risk stopping.

Snow tires? What a wuss. I've driven my Caterham up, over and down two 11k'+ passes on Dunlop Direzza summer tires. I did have the half hood on it but it was snowing much harder than that. I could barely see the tail lights of the Lotus S4 I was following.

I heard it as he drove into the parking lot and again when I requested he move it out of the shade into the sun for photos. It wasn't all that loud probably because the stacks are pointing straight up. I didn't get to hear it on the street. There were other louder cars at the event. There are a lot of rat rods with similar exhausts, none of them have seemed as loud as open 4 into 1 headers exiting to the sides of the car.

This is the first one I've seen other than online pictures. A father and son project over the last 2 years and 8 months. I was impressed with the quality of the kit and the workmanship of the build. He invited me to sit in it and it is almost as difficult to get into as a Seven. Suicide doors help but once I got my butt in the seat and lifted my feet over the door sill I found I couldn't get my feet on the pedals without tilting the legs sideways and helping with my hands. Then my knees were jammed against the steering wheel, even with it tilted up all the way. No way I could have driven it even if he had offered. The top is removable with a few clamps to make it into a roadster. The black paint has red metallic in it but not everywhere. It is an excellent paint job and the only thing he farmed out. BTW, it was 14F when I left home and 17F at the C&C. Turnout was about 75 - 100 cars, a nice day will hit over 300 cars. I did drive home in my Miata with the top down as the temp was all the way up to 21F by then.