power steering dileama...

[grinder]

yeah it was - please treat her right ! LOL

been a good few years since i have owned her though ( 3 ish i think )

she was a great car when i had her - few little annoying issues but she was great !!

i could never get the central locking to work correctly - but it did for about 3 weeks of ownership

the guy i bought it off had it for about 9 years aswell - so not tooo many owners - i think he said he paid about £9k for it !! shocking !! LOL

if you have a search thru the forums - you will see the fun i had with her ( like fitting a sodding decat pipe - that turned into a big job )

you can see the welding that i did to it ( on my website ) - aswell as all the parts i fitted etc..

me and my dad hand made the guage holders aswell - non of this off the shelf stuff

if you want to know anything about the car - just ask away ( and im sure brett knows it quite well aswell .. just dont mention spark plugs to him !! LOL )

and would you believe it took about 4 hrs to get the sticker in the back window !! LOL ( if its still there ! )

[Adam fc]

Yeah Brett certainly helped with the sale.It was nice to buy a car from the MRC community as i knew it would have been looked after in all the right ways.

One thing though,when was the rebuild done? just i can\'t seem to find any info on it all in the service history.I know Brett said mazda had put a new short block in at 91,000 miles,but can\'t find any info on it anywhere.
Its just for my peice of mind to be honest.Id eventually like some sort of mild porting but thats for another day:)

I called my local mazda dealership and they qouted me £217.00 for a new power steering cooler pipe!!
 I thought sod that and marched over to my old egi to see what sort of state the cooller was in on that one....
On closer inspection it seems some one has allready by-passed the cooller on that one with a length on pipe and i had been driving that car for over a year with now problems.
So i thought as a tempory measure id do the same for the t2,so i cut the the end off the cooller that had the tapered connection so it would connect to the origional pipe and the found a length of high pressure hose and routed it back up to the power steering reservoir.

[Adam fc]

I love it when a bodge works lol

[grinder]

I love it when a bodge works lol

dont we all !!

to be honest i couldnt find the paper work for the engine - the garage that did some of the servicing closed so i couldnt get the print off

did you get the rest of the printed history ( green and white paper ) - you will see that no expense was spared

the thing about the engine - the only thing that i could find was the s/history shows some milage adjustment figure ( something like a 70K service but with hand written milage ) i think thats when the engine went in

the chap said it was a fresh engine out of a crate

basically cause he bought it from mazda and had it serviced there - for £100 a year he got a full warranty on all parts - so he got a free engine ( ish )

[Adam fc]

yeah the service history is exstensive which is nice too see,did u ever have her on the dyno??

[Adam fc]

Like i say i just wanted to know when the engine was rebuilt or swapped for my own piece of mind and when to start saving for a rebuild lol.
The car still pulls well so she feels like she has retained some power.

[grinder]

i never dyno\'d her to be honest - couldnt see the point ! LOL

she wasnt running massive power - so i would have only expected about 230 ish at the fly ?

i ran her down the strip a few times at RS1 - but that was still with the precat fitted - and she ran 15.03 i think

by the time i was going to do it again the clutch master cylinder was on its way out so didnt run

i always hoped i could have gotten the 100mph term speed - but never really had the chance !

you will have to post up how you got on at the strip !! - like i said my best time was on stock boost aswell - so you should easy make the 14\'s and i think my best term speed was about 93.xx - so you only need another 7mph

[Adam fc]

yeah il hopefully get a few vids aswell,can\'t wait as it will be my first time up the strip..any tips?

[Brett]

Unless I\'m totally loosing it, Im sure there was a bit in the big print out about the car being collected and brought back to the Mazda dealer due to engine failure?!?
I remember compression testing it about 1000miles ago and getting even numbers in the 7\'s so no way can it be the origional lump. (there\'s pics on here and on flickr of me doing the test etc)

:wave

[Adam fc]

yeah theres something in the history regarding that,i haven\'t really had much of a chance to have a good read of it all yet.
One other thing does she have any boost adjustement at all anywhere?

[grinder]

good point brett !! - im sure i read that somewhere

and there isnt any adjustment for boost in the car .. its just running a full decat and FCD - hence the .9 bar of boost

[Adam fc]

you lot might have to bear with me when it comes to the whole turbo thing as my experience with them is minimal.
What boost are these cars running as stock just out of interest?
Also i found an invoice for an upgraded fuel pump in the history..any ideas what it is?

[grinder]

errrrrrr prob is a stock replacement pump - thats all !!

and as stock - they only run .5 bar

[Adam fc]

well we\'ll see what she does sunday lol..