Saturday, June 8, 2013

More progress - no pictures

So I made some more progress, but did not take pictures.  I will once I put it back together again...

This business travel is really eating into my car building time - but, it pays the bills...  Travel again next week - Ugh!


  • I mounted the engine again and moved the radiator mounts forward to accommodate.
  • Installed the new Mishimoto Radiator, with dual fans in a puller setup (mock up only at this point).
  • Moved the A/C condenser mounting tabs forward (mock up).
  • Ordered a FM sway bar - we'll see what adjustments I need to make when it arrives
  • Removed the engine again
  • Fabbed up a shift lever for the stock T56 to mount the Miata shift ball
    • Used a piece of 3/16x1 bar stock, 3 1/2 inches long, drilled holes and welded a metric stud to it - painted it (all scrap stuff that I had laying around), so if it doesn't work out - nothing lost...
  • Stripped the Miata ECU wiring from the chassis wiring (praying I didn't totally screw something up).
  • Drilled hole in Firewall for the PCM wires to traverse - I am going to mount the PCM in the passenger floor (up front).  I will use a seals-it split firewall grommet to finish and protect the wires.




I am going to try a home-made lizzard skin.  1 gallon kool seal roofing elastomeric, with 1 QT ceramic spheres from these folks http://www.hytechceramics.com/

Back at it next week...  Pictures promised.

1 comment:

  1. "Back at it next week... Pictures promised."

    Oh really?? :-)

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