Belt slippage, and there was something else there like a misfire. I've ordered a replacement O2 sensor for my wideband as I suspect it may be contaminated and causing incorrect readings. I don't even want to consider that I have another head problem. I'll be diving into things when I get back from London.

We went to look at a Tribute. For me it would be perfect, but she looks at cars as fashion accessories. This has not fared well for her (witness the Cabrio debacle) but she won't listen to me. Speaking of, the Cabrio is finally out of our lives. Hooray!

 

Anyone hitting fuel Saturday? Just got back from LA tonight. I'm going to try and make it.

 

Robyn and I will be there in the Speed.

 

Mike, safe travels to the UK. Good to see you again.

Kevin, save me some of your brew.

 

Thanks Steve. It was great seeing and catching up with you too.

Got good news yesterday, my extra training after the conference has been condensed into one day. I get to fly home Saturday. Hoping the weather next week will be conducive to working on the Miata. I need some warm weather to take care of the rust emerging on the third brake light on the 8 as well.

 

I'll be at a Fuel in the 8 Saturday. Big old For Sale sign on it. If I had a bigger garage, I'd keep it. It looks so sad that it's not being driven.

 

Wish there was a event or cars and coffee closer to Louisville or fort Knox.

 

Just got home a little earlier, after one hell of a trip home. First time I've been on a flight that turned back partway into the flight. Don't know if I'll be at Fuel next week or not, waiting on the boss to tell me if we're doing a road trip.

 

What happened? They change planes after you landed?

In 36 years and a few million miles of flying, that only happened to me once when we lost compression. I know how those yellow pig snouts work.

I'll probably be there with the 8. I had a couple people look at it. Nothing serious.

 

No, they just looked at it. Never found out the actual problem (pilot said fuel pump/valve/gauge at various times). They just topped up the fuel and sent us on our way. Lost four hours so missed my original flight. I will say this for American, they had already made new flights for those of us who were moving on (although they didn't do a good job of telling us the new tickets would be taped to the wall as we left the place, had to see that for myself), and they used orange ticket jackets so we got head of the line privileges. Of course they offset that by having the gate changed from what it said on my ticket, but that's par for them.

 

As of Monday the 8 is in someone else's hands. Made a deal with Kings and got what I wanted. Gonna miss it a little but time to move on with the Bimmer.

 

Congrats Steve. The sadness wears off after the feeling of torque wears in.

 

That and 300/300. I took a couple of pulls to 9k on the 8 on the way to kings for old time's sake.

Pricing out the performance exhaust. May be next purchase. I plan at being at Fuel on Saturday if the rain passes.

 

Sad to hear, but glad you were able to sell it for what you wanted.

I'll be at Fuel, not sure which car I'll be in though.

 

Weather forecast looks OK. I'll be at Fuel.

Ordered the BMW performance exhaust today off eBay. Found out it's interesting how much markup the stealerships have on parts. It lists at $1447.15 (from the BMW Store). They have their own on-line store called TheBMWPartstore.com. There they sell it for $1059. I go onto eBay and a BMW dealer in NJ will sell it for $859, free shipping and no sales tax. Guess what I did.

Should arrive by April 1.

 

damn. that's not a very cheap exhaust. It does sound pretty good though.

 

No Fuel for me today, don't feel like messing with driving in this weather. Instead, I'll go get contorted in the back of the Miata and finish my top install. Much easier than the Cabrio, except for the trim pieces that attach the rear of the top to the body.

 

Anyone going to fuel this Saturday? Hopefully the weather holds out... planning on going since I haven't been in a while.

BTW - if anyone is looking for a good daily I'm trying to sell my CX-7 so I can buy something easier on gas. If interested... 2007 Mazda CX-7 Sport - 2.3 Turbo

 

Might be at Fuel, depends upon the weather.

Test drove a CX-5 today, might be selling the Speed6 now.

 

Anyone have a fuel pump removal tool they can rent me? I'm trying to get my fuel pump swapped out before deals gap. I will pay $10 plus some free pizza cards (Papa John's GM lol). Thanks guys

 

They're pretty nice. Once our CX7 needs replacement I'll give it some thought.

New exhaust is on. Sounds really good. Might show it off at Fuel Saturday.

Where has James been? Hanging out with the Porsche latte crowd?

 

Not sure you can view this but here is the new exhaust.

 

Sounds good

I haven't heard from James forever you'd think he'd be at fuel more, being part of the latte crowd and all.

 

Sorry I didn't make Fuel last weekend, was trying to get the Miata clutch job finished up. Had to deflood the 8 today, this time was my fault (and it will be the last time I do that). Headed for Singapore for a couple of weeks so I won't be able to be at Fuel until the end of April.

 

We were taking about you Mike. We figured it was a Miata issue.

See ya in a couple weeks. I'm headed to Europe the last week of April.