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I just saw a KLZE-swapped BG 323 in the junkyard. I was in awe that someone would actually perform my life-goal swap. Now I will be doubly blessed.
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I've seen some good KLZE MX-3 swaps, but it still strikes me as vaguely insaner than the 323 swap, even though the cars are near as dammit identical.
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Nov 21, 2017 23:01
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I thought the Island had Pick N Pull. I know I've seen at least one car that was marked as having come from there when it transferred into our yards. I make the occasional trip out there: we should talk.
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Dec 11, 2017 20:21
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Sgt Fox posted:No, not that I know of. We have a couple yards on the south island, but none are you-pull anymore and are quite expensive. Mostly newer cars too. Sgt Fox posted:I keep watching the Pick-a-Part for one of the rear hatch spoilers which came factory on the 323. No luck yet.
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Dec 11, 2017 23:16
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Oh, a normal hatch spoiler. I bet we can find that. I kinda like how it looks without one, though.
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Dec 12, 2017 04:09
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Sgt Fox posted:On a side note, visited a local junkyard today looking for a bracket and the spark plug wire clips which were broken on the klze. Guy behind the counter basically told me that they weren't interested in looking if they even had anything, even after I asked him about specific parts they had listed on car-part.com. That is now the second yard that has told me to gently caress off when I told them what I was putting in and what I was looking for. I have never gotten anything but an angry reply back from a car-part phone call. I don't know if I just don't seem like the right kind of person on the phone, or what. By spark plug wire clips, do you mean wire separators? Use zipties.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:47
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Doesn't the Probe use some kind of inline "upper" tank like a turbo Subaru does, except it has its own overflow nipple? I didn't think it puked solely off the main rad cap, because the rad was so low. Would it work with the heater core return hose?
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Dec 13, 2017 23:41
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Astonishing Wang posted:I don't get why people are always bragging about stealing small things from pick n pull like it's not still stealing I've tried to pay for bolts before (expensive bolts, too) and the clerks are just like "stop wasting my time." Their core business is crushing and selling car slabs of varying purity to the Chinese, if anything stealing bolts off the car improves the quality yield. The parts sale is kind of a bonus. IMO they should put one of those plastic guide dogs at the door so you can at least put a few bucks in to charity if you feel bad about it. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Dec 16, 2017 17:28
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The KLZE swap we saw in the junkyard had a hobbyhacked bolt-in rad support and they had also gutted the headlights and just kept the plastic lenses. The rad fan was a front-mounted pusher fan like yours, though I think it was bigger so the grille insert had also gotten trimmed. Yours looks much better than theirs.
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Dec 28, 2017 18:56
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Surely some car must have a bolt-in rad support from the factory?
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Jan 3, 2018 04:11
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I'm at least a little convinced the CBSA is stealing RockAuto magnets. I've gotten a few RockAuto packages with RockAuto tape on the top and brown tape on the bottom and no magnets.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:26
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Huh, that's a better method for dismantling HLAs than I've seen from the Miata community.
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Jan 27, 2018 19:36
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Probably all NAs are cable speedo: my '97 Miata was definitely a cable-driven speedometer, but the speedometer also fed the ECU vehicle speed for some reason I will never understand. I know this because it threw a code when the cable seized since the previous owner greased the outside of the cable when it started making noise on the highway.
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Mar 16, 2018 04:02
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Love that reverse-engineering. This is the best thread.
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Apr 27, 2018 20:06
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McTinkerson posted:Could it be cold start fuel enrichment? This would be my guess. Modern ECUs have a huge pile of tables just for cold start enrichment (atmospheric pressure, cat pre-warming, etc.) but something KLZE-aged would likely only have a scalar table. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Apr 28, 2018 03:32
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Nice abuse of a paint program.
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Jul 12, 2018 21:24
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I wish I had those kind of fancy chemical coatings that I could borrow from work. 
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Aug 14, 2018 05:45
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I'm surprised you haven't dumped the ROM off the ECU, disassembled it, and hacked out the EGR control logic yet. Love the manifold label.
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Aug 28, 2018 02:04
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It's a little rusty, yeah. If only we had some kind of pipeline to deliver rusty, mechanically-sound beaters to you for parts cars in exchange for mint 1990s economy cars.
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Oct 26, 2018 04:49
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That's a nice setup. The V6 323 I saw in the Pick N Pull lot was clearly a Taurus electric fan that they had to trim chunks out of the front of the car (including headlight housings) to fit. That hood latch is something else.
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Jan 25, 2019 19:49
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Mazda Canada did some oddball poo poo around that time period (e.g. dealer-installed Miata DRL module made by drunken hobos) so it wouldn't surprise me at all.
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May 24, 2019 00:34
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Sockington was the BG savant, he was a mod for Club Protege too. Rust got him. He's fine.
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May 24, 2019 03:21
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Good repair! I would imagine the Pick N Pull near you has never seen rust before, and so replacing a quarter panel is a concept that is largely unfamiliar to them.
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Nov 9, 2019 00:38
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Looking great. Nice find on the wing!
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Mar 31, 2020 02:36
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That looks great!
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Jun 13, 2020 01:35
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Looks great! Still one of my favourite AI cars. Miata wheels look like Escort GT wheels. I had those on my '91 Miata for awhile.
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Nov 28, 2020 06:32
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More Masseys in AI is a good thing.
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Outstanding update. I think Sockington did a similar setup for his giant compressor as well.
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