MrFatBooty gets in a REAL car
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Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
That Supra may not necessarily be yall guys' style, but it supposedly has 921 rwhp. 
It's also got LCD monitors in the steering wheel, rearview mirror, one that pops out from the passenger airbag cubby, a whole buncha stuff.
Definitely a "show" car, but well, who cares? Cars is cars. At least it gets driven. And courtesy of its owner my car now has a fresh new coil pack in it.
Oh, and Mazda designers are a bunch of sonsabitches for putting the coil pack on the back of the valve cover right next to the firewall. It took forever to get the damn thing out. Mostly Josh placing a particular wrench on a particular bolt because I couldn't rearch, and then me muscling it out. After finally getting the old one out it took maybe 5 minutes to put the new one in and get everything around it put back together.
And yeah the garage was pretty nice. Plenty of room, fluorescent shop lights that pull down from the ceiling, lots of Snap-On tools.
It's also got LCD monitors in the steering wheel, rearview mirror, one that pops out from the passenger airbag cubby, a whole buncha stuff.
Definitely a "show" car, but well, who cares? Cars is cars. At least it gets driven. And courtesy of its owner my car now has a fresh new coil pack in it.
Oh, and Mazda designers are a bunch of sonsabitches for putting the coil pack on the back of the valve cover right next to the firewall. It took forever to get the damn thing out. Mostly Josh placing a particular wrench on a particular bolt because I couldn't rearch, and then me muscling it out. After finally getting the old one out it took maybe 5 minutes to put the new one in and get everything around it put back together.
And yeah the garage was pretty nice. Plenty of room, fluorescent shop lights that pull down from the ceiling, lots of Snap-On tools.
Don't forget about my all favorite impacts and air hammers
Was a good learning experience, I've never really worked on a Mazda before......mostly Chevy or Toyota..........so was fun to do, even if I did get my nice soft banker hands dirty
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Originally Posted by xsentrixsupra
Mike......SUPPOSEDLY??? Did u see that big snail shell in the engine bay? or were u blinded by the bling?
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Coil seems to be doing fine, at least I haven't gotten any random misfires on startup like I was with the old coil. More importantly, my CEL did finally come back on today with a code P0421 (pre-cat not functioning) and no P0300 (random misfire) so I can get my cat(s) replaced at the dealer free of charge. Unless of course someone wants to buy me a Racing Beat header and Flyin' Miata midpipe, but well, that ain't happenin.
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