Bought a Miata Because Exocar

[J-Groove]

Damn, you're making me feel like a slacker!!

Awesome progress Greg!

[Monochrome]

It would be done outside. What I was considering is mounting some kind of soap dispensing container on the end of a pressure washer and filling it with a diluted mixture of simple green or some other degreaser.

[DCIV]

Eh 3 cans of carb cleaner and be done with it.


Coop

[ChargerX3]

Would have been simple with everything in the car and buttoned up. Pressure washer and engine degreaser go a long way.

[Boostaddict]

[quote=""Monochrome""]Yeah. Absolutely everything is covered in oil. Trying to come up with an easy way to clean it.[/quote]

Have a home depot nearby? Rent their utility truck ($20 for 90 minutes or whatever). Cherry picker/hoist that entire thing into the bed and take it to a DIY car wash to hose it down. Spray liberally with foaming engine degreaser before you head to the car wash.

[Monochrome]

[quote=""ChargerX3""]Would have been simple with everything in the car and buttoned up. Pressure washer and engine degreaser go a long way.[/quote]

Weak alternator and dying battery preventing me from doing any such thing.

Edit: now that I think about it, there's no way I'm going to lay on the ground and try to spray the underside of the car.

[mjannusch]

[quote=""Boostaddict""]Have a home depot nearby? Rent their utility truck ($20 for 90 minutes or whatever). Cherry picker/hoist that entire thing into the bed and take it to a DIY car wash to hose it down. Spray liberally with foaming engine degreaser before you head to the car wash.[/quote]
Filing that away in the "great ideas" folder...

[Monochrome]

Pressure washer idea is out. My garage landlord informed me he couldn't afford the water bill so he stopped paying. I don't have water at the garage now.

So... Trunk rental or $100 worth of carb cleaner cans and paper towel... Hmm...

[green-lantern]

How much is the bill? Since you use the garage it might be best to pay it for him so you have water when you need it.

[Monochrome]

[quote=""green-lantern""]How much is the bill? Since you use the garage it might be best to pay it for him so you have water when you need it.[/quote]

Almost a grand...

[green-lantern]

Fuck! Does it spit gold chunks out? WTF? I hope you are talking about for a year.

[DCIV]

To get water turned on and run for 5 years I don't think I've spent 1k.....screw the north.


Coop

[ChargerX3]

Thats a good truck rental.

[Monochrome]

There's two sides to the story on the water bill. On the one hand, they charge too much. On the other, its more expensive to not pay your bills than to pay them.

I will never forget the $460 water bill we got the first quarter I lived there.

[Monochrome]

Some more progress tonight. Engine is off the now disassembled front subframe.



Tomorrow is round 1 for powder coating.




This made me happy. Previous owners changed the oil on a regular basis. .



Oh, I came up with a solution for cleaning everything. Bought a case of WD40 for $20.

[Monochrome]

Didn't get as much done today as I was hoping but progress was made never the less.



Valve cover and intake plenum holder bead blasted.





Powder applied




Baked!

The color is Prismatic Shocker Yellow. Changes colors in the sun. This will be the color of my Exocet frame.



Reassembled.



Cleaning and degreasing the rear subframe. Just a paper towel and Simple Green.



This is a rubberized coating in matte black. Was hoping it would match the stock color but stock is more satin. Not sure if I like it or not.



Nasty front subframe.



Shows the difference in colors.



Ugly PPF (which was a pain to remove from the rear diff)




It cleaned up really well though!



Primer.

Normally I don't paint things but my boss wouldn't let me use the large oven at work. Otherwise I would have powder coated this part.




Painted! I'm happy with this color! Definitely doing the transmission in this color.

That's it for today.

[tabasco122]

That's the same color as aatifs brake calipers

[ChargerX3]

The Hulk would approve of that valve cover.

[Chris GTO TT]

Looks great, I'd love to do some clean up work to mine, but I fear it would lead to much disappointment.

[Monochrome]

Apologies for the lack of updates. Been traveling for work and had little time for the car. Got the dash pulled and started labeling and removing the wiring. Tonight I will probably pull the gas tank.

While I was gone, the first batch of parts from FM showed up.



This is every hose, gasket, belt and well... Everything you need to completely rebuild a miata engine, trans and chassy. The little big brake kit and V-Maxx are back ordered but without the Exocet frame, that doesn't matter anyway

I will probably order the FM II around tax return time.

The FM Exocet fuel line kit is here too but it didn't come with any instructions to set it up. Might have to call them for help if I can't figure it out. I like how everything is organized and labeled. Made sorting thru it all 20x easier.