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Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 11/25 3,300 mile roadtr

Posted: November 25th, 2011, 8:30 pm
by racycle
Great pictures man, I'm glad you had a great time! I even got some wallpapers out of it.

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 11/25 3,300 mile roadtr

Posted: November 26th, 2011, 2:36 am
by ethand
Wow, some stunning photos! As always, you make me a little bit jealous ;)
By the way, I love that 'You Like this' thing... but it seemed to not be there in some pics... was it some crafty photoshopping, or was it a sticker that fell off or something? haha :)
Looks like you had a blast!

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 11/25 3,300 mile roadtr

Posted: November 26th, 2011, 3:15 am
by Evo_Spec
ethand wrote:Wow, some stunning photos! As always, you make me a little bit jealous ;)
By the way, I love that 'You Like this' thing... but it seemed to not be there in some pics... was it some crafty photoshopping, or was it a sticker that fell off or something? haha :)
Looks like you had a blast!
it's a magnet that he made, he can stick it on and take it off when he likes

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 11/25 3,300 mile roadtr

Posted: November 26th, 2011, 1:21 pm
by Mooneggs
Evo_Spec wrote:it's a magnet that he made, he can stick it on and take it off when he likes
:2thumbsup: Mooneggs likes this

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 11/25 3,300 mile roadtr

Posted: November 26th, 2011, 7:47 pm
by AaronTietje
My uncle does the same thing. His magnet says US Mail.

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 11/25 3,300 mile roadtr

Posted: November 28th, 2011, 6:50 am
by ethand
AaronTietje wrote:My uncle does the same thing. His magnet says US Mail.
HAHAHA thats classic, good call ;)

Lol, moon, I rate we should make a smiley for the board which is a pic of the 'you like this' thing for the forum haha (or even just the 'like' thumbs-up haha)

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 11/25 3,300 mile roadtr

Posted: November 28th, 2011, 1:46 pm
by Josh
Very Nice! looks like it was a good trip other than the minor mishap with the timing belt

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 18th, 2011, 10:46 pm
by Mooneggs
So once again I feel like an idiot... sigh. :(

I've been fighting a gremlin in my car for the past couple of months. Basically the car would stall randomly and sputter badly leaving me stranded in the middle of intersections, on the side of the road, at the parking lot at work, etc for a few moments/minutes (enough to freak me out). Then there were occasions where it wouldn't even start up.

It all started with a slightly bouncing tach that would happen intermittently (slightly higher than supposed to be) then the tach started doubling and doing all kinds of crazy stuff so I was thinking the resistor went bad in the HEI mod so I replaced it. Didn't fix it.
I tried replacing the MSD blaster coil - didn't fix it.
I tried rewiring the entire HEI mod - didn't fix it.
I tried replacing the HEI coil wire (7th nipple).
I tried replacing plugs/wires (needed new ones anyways) smoothed everything out but didn't fix it.
I tried replacing the cap/rotor - didn't fix it.

I feel like a n00b sometimes not being able to troubleshoot stuff correctly. The good news is I didn't buy most of that but swapped known working parts from the Race Car. The bad news is I should have swapped the HEI module first! Augh... the whole time, months of pain. So apparently symptoms of a going bad HEI Module are: Not starting (cold), random stalling, tach bouncing. Quick fix is to unplug everything from the module, plugging everything back up and it seems to magically work again.

Just glad to have the car back to running normal again!

Ready for winter :) :
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Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 19th, 2011, 1:37 pm
by Josh
Nice!

I hope you have many coats of wax on that hood :)

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 19th, 2011, 3:55 pm
by IMACHU2
Your not a noob, just way to honest. Most experienced car guys would have figured out their mistake and not told anybody :lol:

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 19th, 2011, 9:03 pm
by MrMazda92
Congrats!! Bet you feel good having it solved, huh? More inspiration to get my own stuff finished... Hmm.

Did you figure out the CC overpressure issue in the race car?

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 27th, 2011, 2:48 am
by bogaut
nice! youll have to bring that car by sometime

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 2:43 am
by mazda915
mooneggs !! love ur road trip pics very coool and love how u did a road trip on the mx but things always happen when parts brake grr happends to me to :shrug:

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 4:54 am
by RobMinhas
those magnets are sweet! I'm gonna look into rigging one of those up for myself. I have a very emberassing green N magnet i have to put in my car :( Kinda the same thing hahah

Re: Mooneggs 92 MX-3 Daily Driver IP 12/18 HEI problem solve

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 2:54 pm
by Mooneggs
Is the green 'N' because you are a new driver?

I made a bunch of magnets when I was working on my magnet project 6 months ago (projected images on a metal door I was able to trace onto magnet material Pg. 21 in this worklog)

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