Project: 1995 Miata

[Jake]

Argh, I have an article due at work but writing this re-update is way more fun than Top Job Search Tools Of 2012.

So. Lost a bunch of updates in Forumpocalypse 2k12. Time to update what's gone on since February.

Put the Comp-Lites on the car with Evan's old Azenis. Tracked on them for a few months. Went for a spinny-time at the March VIR event, came close to nailing a wall:



Kept tracking it and driving pace car (slowly) in it. And then Joey backed it out of the garage while I was out of town so he could use the whole garage, and noticed a TON of smoke coming from the exhaust. This was back in oh, June?

I had just done an oil change, so I looked at my records (keep good ones, kids) and it had burned two quarts of oil in 100 miles. Gulp.

Did some reading and poking and prodding, and made this thread to help figure things out. Ended up replacing the PCV valve, spark plugs/wires, and valve cover gasket. SO FAR, it hasn't seemed to lose any more oil and I've put another ~70 miles on the car. It still puffs smoke when you really lay on it (at idle) -- but my theory is that there's still a bunch of unburnt oil sitting somewhere that needs to blow out, between the engine and tailpipe.

State inspection ran out in August... it needs new tires to pass, and I should probably put new tie rods on it... I think my "off track excursion almost-to-Hogwarts" kinda messed them up. So, once I do those things, you'll see her back in action. Now if only my old Civic-of-BMWs would stop leeching money from my bank account...