Greg in PA build

[greg]

Common up.

Actually, I was just down your way last weekend to pick up the hard top for my DD Miata. Should have given you a shout.

[ashneyder]

Perfect weather too. Just got snow tires for my GTI.

[greg]

Got the steering rack seals out today. Not sure why I was so intimidated by the project. It was actually quite easy and straight forward.

Start off with this.



The lines are held on by 12mm flare ends and a 14mm banjo bolt.

The shaft guide is just a 17mm bolt.

The steering gear is just held on by 2 12mm bolts. Unlike the NA rack, it just lifts out once these bolts are undone.

The end of the rack came off using a 1 3/8 socket. I'm sorry I don't know the metric equivalent.




After the rack is disassembled the shaft pulls out effortlessly. Removing the seals is the same as an NA rack. Cut two slits, stop before touching the shaft. Use a chisel to break it off.

Easy.






Don't forget to grease the pinion to prevent it from wearing out.

I'm so glad I did this. Turning the rack even by hand is effortless now. Special thanks to Improbable Construct for your rack instructions from your build thread.



It was at this point I realize I could have powder coated this piece yellow... Maybe I will later. :/

[greg]

Nothing too exciting today. Rebuilt the shifter. Did both the Exocet and the DD miata.

[montgom]

Did you notice any improvemt??

[greg]

Absolutely. This should be done on every car.

[greg]

Think I've come up with a good solution to eliminating/relocating the coils. FAB9 seems to have one of the best COP setups I could find.

fab9tuning.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=153&virtuemart_category_id=45&lang=en

Would need to run two more wires to the hydra ECU for a sequential spark setup, but that's not a problem. The whole setup seems much cleaner than running huge GM coils mounted somewhere on the firewall.

[greg]

Little side track. So I bought a hard top for the DD miata and it was blue. I decided to try my hands with vinyl wrap. Picked up a 5x6' sheet of gloss black metalic from 3M. Didn't turn out bad!!

Original color



Wrapped!

[montgom]

Nice work

[greg]

Special thanks to Maximal Performance for the deal on the 5 point corbeau harnesses!

[JIDiesel]

Greg,

I hope this will help with fitting your seats. Kevin sent these to me when I was having trouble trying to order my seats. 

John

[greg]

Perfect. Thank you so much!

[greg]

Headlights came today. They are bigger than I thought. Not sure if I like that.




They look nice other wise. The only issue is I can't find a wiring diagram for them anywhere. The model number is TL007-BS.

If they follow the rules of some other generic headlight setup that bikes have, my best guess is:

Brown is battery
Green is ground (earth)
White is high beam
Blue is low beam

There are 3x 2 pin connectors with green and brown wires coming in/out so my guess is that's power and ground. There's another 2 pin connector with a blue and white so that's probably high/low beam but then there is an individual blue wire too so I'm a bit baffled....

[gwnwar]

Have you opened up the housing to see were they go inside..

[greg]

Didn't want to risk breaking it but yes that's an option vs setting up a test rig and randomly hooking up wires to see what is what.