[Shredcheddar]

1. Cleaned and detailed the interior today. Took about 15 minutes.
2. Some paint damage on the driver's side door. I may just take some filling compound and a can of red Krylon to it, thoughts on that?
3. A little chipping on the hood as well.
4. The front of the car looks the best in my opinion. I don't like the look with the headlights up. If there was a way to squeeze some tiny xenon low beams into those indicators, I just might do it.
5. The paint on the rear fascia and bumper is quite faded and is chipped and peeling in some places. Do I care enough to go beyond a $5 can of spray paint? No.

More to come...

[Shredcheddar]

1. I love finally getting into a car with three pedals! The brake and accelerator are set up for easy heel-and-toe, at least in the Piloti shoes.
2. A shot of the engine compartment. So much room under there, and the way the intake snakes all away around near the exhaust manifold almost begs for a turbocharger. I can tell you that project won't be happening in this Miata (if any Miata at all... I like a spritely natrually-aspirated engine). That shiny black hose coming immediately off the airbox was polished up with a rag and some power steering fluid. It takes the dust and gunk off very nicely and I may eventually treat all the rubber under the hood with a good polish. I think it looks great and the fluid should be harmless (its job is to maintain rubber seals in the power steering system, right?).
3. I think I fixed part of the engine idle problem today, and there is the culprit. The idle speed screw. I had to bypass the ECU idle setting (see picture 4), and when I did that I got a rough idle which I smoothed out with the screw. Will it solve the cold-idle stalling? We'll see tomorrow morning.
4. That's the diagnostic box. I bypassed the ECU by connecting the BRG and TEN leads with a piece of copper wire.
5. The long-nose crankshaft. 1990 and early 1991 Miatas had a poor crankshaft design which was succeptible to catastrophic failure, and Mazda fixed the design for mid-1991 cars and shipped 1992's with an improved long-nose crankshaft design. Short-nose cranks will have four slots in the crank pulled, while long-nose cranks have eight slots. As you can see I'm proudly displaying my eight.

Miatas have a common gremlin: warm idle droop. I think it was affecting my car slightly as the calibration today has resulted in a much smoother throttle response and a smooth-as-butter idle.

Yesterday I fixed the slack in the throttle cable and that didn't fix the strange throttle response, but hopefully it's fine when cold. If not, I'll have to clean the valve and throttle body tomorrow, which I'd really rather not do.

Happy motoring.

[Relientk101]

sorry i don't know cars very well but it all sounds very impressive