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well, i fiddled with the 7 today a fair bit. picked up a trailing coil set and some misc parts for $50 at a J-yard (had 2 89+ GXLs). pulled the plugs, pulled the car in gear to de-flood the motor and actually got it to start while flooring it, it was running like crap though, still seemed to be drowning out. once i let it stall out after 30-50 seconds, i couldn't get it to start at all and the plugs were constantly wet with fuel.
picked up 6 qts castrol GTX 20w50 and an oil filter and ordered plug wires, plugs and a fuel filter as well. going to do a coolant drain flush and fill as well.
Decided to drain the tank and got about 7 gallons of varnished fuel out of the car. I think the varnished fuel has gunked up the primary injectors causing it to flood but i don't know if the intermediate intake gasket is reusable. the parts place list the "intake manifold" gasket at $50+ and 2 "plenum" gaskets around $9-$11. Also i forgot to ask about a pulsation damper.
I tried replacing the worn out shifter with one i got from the 89+ but i still have vertical play in the shifter and the motion isn't great, and its picky about going into reverse. Im thinking about getting an ebay short shifter with all new hardware to see if that fixes the issue (can't afford a mazdatrix one)
I also re-did the battery connections and bled the clutch system as it was dry. i still feel like there should be more travel for the clutch but i think that is going to be found in adjusting the clutch pedal.
If there is any other advice, im open to anything about now. One good thing is i dont have any dead faces as i got "pissh"s from all rotor faces when i was de-flooding the motor.
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