I dunno what you're talking about... I never once had those problems playing in the mountains. If you're a good little boy I'll let you play too ;)

Piece of cake man, when it's time, lemme know.... very easy to do

guess you were going too slow and are too low in your RPMs to have it be an issue =]

Will do. Hopefully the haltech will have enough input spots for all this...and don't even say go Motec a 5k ecu is not an option :lol:
OH SNAP!

Do an M84... its only a $2500 ecu :rofl:

Pffffft.... maybe I just didn't need boost to keep up with you :p

i was on bald tires... and doing the speed limit because i dont like giving $$ to TN...

Bald tires yes... speed limit? No ;)

Anyone help out with this?

Took my passenger door apart. Took the window out and the window motor to see if i could fix it. The window would always go down but only sometimes go back up so i cleaned all the nasty grease out of the old track. Got it all clean new grease and bolted it back up.

Now it goes down with the quickness but will not go back up. I had to wire 2 9v batteries together and jump the system to get the window up. I'm confused though both switches will make the window go down but neither one will get it to go back up. Gahhh i hate wiring. When i put a test light on it down got a light but up got no light wtf.

Contacts in the switches. Jump the wires from the battery through a fuse... 15A and verify that the biotch rolls up. Now you've eliminated the motor/track/anything mechanical. If the motor is good, it's the wiring/switches. Start with the switch, make sure it projects the voltage from the wires that it should, if it doesn't, crack it open and clean it up, adjust the contacts. If that's not it, it's the wiring, but I doubt it.

It rolls up i used 2 9v batteries and she was working fine. I hope it just the switch i hate wiring.

Sounds like the switch to me. Most switches are DPDT so the reversing of the polarities is done in the switch and the two same wires are run to the window from the switch so if it goes up, it'll go down. Even if they use relays or a control box, it's usually the same 2 wires...... Are there 2 or three wires dedicated to the PW coming out of the door?

2 wires, 1 green 1 red.

So those reverse depending on the switch. If the wiring was bad, there would be no movement, I say switch

Yeah a friend of mine said the same thing. Good thing is it can be taken apart and fixed. From what i've heard it's kind of like a fucked up rube goldberg experiment.

I also picked up my suspension stuff bushing all pressed ready to go
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^SuperPro? That's what I have. Love them.

Yep. Where you front upper arms a bitch to put back in? It's almost like the bushings are to wide to fit back in. I know the right bushing is in the arm i checked like 6 times to make sure.

I honestly don't remember too well, I replaced them about 5 or 6 years ago. I don't think I had too much of a problem other than getting the diff bushings in. Those were a PITA.

Wait, are you talking about reinstalling the upper arms onto the car or putting the bushings in the arm?

I didn't have too many problems with installing the bushings. I used sockets and a vise. When I tried to use the press on the rear lower arms I bent one of the arms. So I bent it back and then had it x-ray'd for cracks haha.

+1 to the diff bushings. I did those a couple years ago i used Noltec rear diff bushings.


Reinstalling them the bushings are in as you can see from the pic ;). I'll have to take a pic of what i'm talking about. I was hopping everything would just slide back in place so far that is not the case. Everything seems to fit tighter then a glove.

I don't remember having too much trouble getting the bushings into the suspension pieces, other than the Diff of course. The only problem with that was making sure the other side didn't pop out when you get one side in.

Hmm they are in now. Thanks to my new "mazda tool"
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Oh, yeah OK I gotcha. Yeah I think I had some issues too and also had to use a mallet...er uh Mazda Specialty Tool lol.

It should be listed in the ST section of your shop manual :lol:

I just swear and talk dirty to it. Works for me....

Oh no, yeah, totally. I've seen it myself. LOL

Is that how it, ahem, "goes in", Brian? LOL

Yeah.... when I'm trying to stuff something where it's supposed to go but just won't fit.... yeah... pretty much :rofl:

I like where this thread is going!

Got my new brackets for my splitter the old ones set it to far forward. Also got a toe hook that is off by like 1/2 inch so i need to bend that and get it re-powder coated. I would like to give a big THANK YOU to Adam (afgmoto1978 on the other boards) for all the support with making, testing, and building this monstrosity.
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All the suspension linage is back in except for my sway bar links. Apparently Improved Racing got a bad batch of spacers for their links. I didn't even get 10ft.lbs on them before this happened. After contacting them they are sending me new spacers at no charge and stood behind their product 100%. Can't say anything bad about that.
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Splitter looks really nice.... you're giving me ideas for my belly pan... I like it.. thanks ;)

Let me know if you need more pics of the brackets.

Tow hook mock up. It was off by about a half inch so i had to heat it up and beat it like a red headed step child. Now just needs to be re pouder coated.
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Cool shit Tyler. No need fofr more bracketry pics, that one gave me plenty of ideas. So listen, are you going to drive down to Palm Springs or am I going to have to beat you like a red headed step child, tie you up like a 5'0 100lb blonde, throw you in the back of your FD like a pedobear victim and drive you down here yourself?

:smilielol5:

You pick the worst times to come out here. Rainy, cold and i have 0 free time.

Dude, it's cali, it's always rainy and cold here. I don't care what you say, i know about your conspiracy to keep tourism up. The weather here sucks, there's no other explanation. I've been here in Jan, Feb, , March, soon April, May, Jun, July, Aug, Sept and Dec, and it ALWAYS RAINS.... you're like Seatles elitist bitch younger brother.

Haven't been keeping this up to date. But this is how my garage looks right now
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Helping a friend with his rats nest and finding all kinds of shit that needs to be fixed/replaced and OMG is this thing nasty. Pleas see caked on shit around turbo never mind the JB weld FAIL
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But but but but.... JB weld fixes EVERYTHING! hell, the great HC says you can use JB weld to plug holes in the TB!! :smilielol5:

:lol: i just read that shit. There was so much nasty built up on the elbow you couldn't see the JB weld. I barlly touched the vac line and it snapped off.

I need to post pics up of his exhaust someone used red gasket sealer, you know the shit you get from autozone :lol:

Wait, they used the gasket sealer instead of an exhaust gasket, or in addition to?

I fixed my inlet pipe nipple several years ago with JB Weld but mine held haha, never had any problems with it. It was the same nipple on the same pipe too haha.

There seems to be an exhaust gasket in there but also a butt load of gasket sealer oozing out of it. I'm planning on pulling it tonight i'll take lots of pics.

I cleaned the pipe off and did the "Is that JB weld *poke*" and the nipple fell off. I found another 1 for 20$

Why would anyone even use gasket sealant on the exhaust anyway? LOL I mean, I guess if it's leaking...but then that would be time for a new gasket I believe? I'm just spitballing here haha.

Actually now that I think about it, we used a brass nipple and threaded it down into the plastic and then JB Welded to make sure it sealed, so I can't give JB all the credit haha.

And I think the technical term for that "poke" is "poke of disbelief" LOL.

I have no idea. When his car gets up to temp it smells like burnt popcorn coming out of the tail pipe. :lol:

That's a bit different but a good idea, would have been cheaper then 20$ for a new pipe.
Noted in my technical term dictionary. :lol:

Now see, I would just get hungry all the time smelling that haha.

Yeah it was nice not having to buy and wait for one to ship too.