Heading to Phils after DMV. Love long waits

 

Whats cracking at Phils?

 

Sorry I didn't make it last night, my leg was hurting bad, among other issues.

 

Dang, Hope your leg feels better

 

Sorry about your leg AJ, feel better dude. I didn't got to Phil's today. DMV took forever but I am finally fully legal in NV and I even got personal plates. Going tomorrow. I want that coil and compression test.

 

The coil will be easy - The compression test requires someone to crawl under the car and disable a sensor. If Easy is here he can show you how and where.

Sorry to hear about your leg. I hope it was not from over dueing it at last weeks mod meet. The fuel pump is easily fixed. Remember to get a new lid and gaskets for the new pump.

Erick is coming in to install the rest of the bling over the intake. He is also installing a new fuel pump. If anyone wants to stop by, your welcome. Erick should be here about 11am.

 

damn.. just got another ticket =/
need to buy a radar.. so i can stop spend money with tickets and spend with some mods

 

So now I'm installing a fuel pump too? Fine. I might be doing a brake pad swap on Phils car too.

 

does anyone know any link that i can get this midpipe cheaper than this?
http://www.assaultech.com/agency_pow.../i-291069.aspx

 

Dude I have the ap mid pip and exhaust its freaking loud as hell (shoots flames like hell too) anyway if you get it you might be getting more tickets too let me know if you want to hear it before you buy it

 

AJ found my cell phone wot wot!!! ^_^ now I dont have to buy a new ($300.) phone! I'm going to call T- Mobile and have them turn my phone back on. Hope I get the same number >_< now I can buy some tires lol

 

Gil's phone was in my car after all. Good thing you came over tonight or it would still be there!

Thanks guys, Phil I may take you up on that offer for the fuel pump after all. Just til the new one gets here.

Chun I thought we checked your coils last week. What do your plates say? Chun's8?

ffmieres that midpipe is loud people sell that thing in the for sale section all the time.
Here is a used one for $175
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ght=ap+midpipe
Reply to this guy https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ght=ap+midpipe and tell him to lower his price. I'll do it.

 

My plates say "KASUMI". heading to Phil's soon :-)

Can you make today AJ? I still need to figure out second gear.

 

AJ, your welcome to the fuel pump. I talked to Erick and he is about a hour out - road construction is holding him up. I think he forgot he was supposed to install the new fuel pump. I have Jeff's tool and one I had made to copy it.

Chun never installed the one I gave him - we can do it today as it's easy.

AJ, I have that pedal ready to go if you want to change it out - but don't reinjure your leg in the process. Armin was thinking about coming back over today.

 

Felipe, sorry about the ticket man. I feel you.

 

What is wrong with second gear?
Thanks Phil, I ordered one but it wasn't the 09, I think I will return it and upgrade but I will need yours for the time being.

Let me see if I can get Armin...I don't know if I want to take my car over there and it stall somewhere in the middle.

EDIT: Has anyone seen my wheel lock from the last meet at Phils? I took it out and I think I accidently left it there! HELP!

 

Holy **** is that how fast my car is supposed to be??? For as long as I have owned her I don't think she has ever driven this well. I wasn't the original owner. I wonder how long my coil was bad.

I ended up defogging the airbox, cleaning the throttle body out a little, cleaned the air mass flow sensor, clean the airbox screens, changed the bad coil and ran a compression test. Kasumi was just the slightest bit below min spec. So a new engine will probably have to wait until she gets worse.

Thanks to Phil for the garage, tools and coil. Thanks to Eric, AJ and Ray from Sin City Rotary for the advice and instructions. I'm glad Ray got to meet a few of the fellas and got to see Phil's stealth bomber.

Phil, I found the vacuum hose the was loose, check engine light is gone

 

Hey Chun, let me ask you something? it feels good to work on your car and know you can troubleshoot and fix stuff yeah?

 

I gotta say Gil, it is pretty damn bad ***. I still gotta do the throttle body coolant bypass and the pressure blast the **** out of my engine bay. Still need to do the tranny fluid too and maybe remove the snorkel. Plan to do it myself with a little help from the guys.

Once she's kind of caught up then I'll start thinking a few mods again. Probably have to leave it at some new coils and an AP.

 

I would hold off from doing the throttle body coolant bypass till after winter you can ask AJ about that one lol
Car will take a lot longer to warm up haha!

 

Yeah the plan for the bypass wasn't going to happen until this spring. Coils and AP would probably happen this summer.

 

Bah! work again tomorrow... so not looking forward to it.. i'm tired and family be coming this week too...

 

Thank you to Phil for the clutch pedal fuel pump and the tool to get it out! I will get my pump and clutch pedal back to you. I still haven't done the clutch, yet. Thank you Phil!

Thanks Eric for the advice and info on getting in removed and replaced. It was a bitch just like you said, I modded Phil's tool with duct tape after trying to chisel it out and it work like a dream.

Well I took a look at both filters and they were both pretty clean and actually Phil's had a little more debris than mine. I hope this fixes it.

Chun you can probably beat that FD now instead of just keeping up with it.

Gil it was never the throttle body bypass, it was the fuel pump...I hope. I'm beat and smell like fuel.

Phil my buddy has a hook up for the Tshirts just get me the design! Did I say thanks?

 

going to mazda tomorrow morning
wish me luck please =]

 

Good luck and get that new engine.