I did multiple burnouts in the school parking lot during dismissal today. It's pretty funny what you can get away with in the far end of the lot. I'll keep pushing it until I get caught and have my parking privileges revoked indefinitely. I won't be happy until I pull a rockford right in the middle of it. Speaking of, I calculated my mpg in the '06 when i filled up a week or two ago. 12.3 mpg. I'm proud. I'm driving conservatively, aside from a few burnouts that took minimal throttle, on this tank. I'll see what kind of mileage I can squeeze out of it.
Found my winter beater I think. Going to check it out on Saturday. 120k 5-Speed manual. Seller is asking $900 so don't expect anything amazing.
what's the betting though that he hasn't lowered the naturally aspirated compression ratio to turbo safe levels or gotten the engine management sorted leaving it wrongly fueled.
I doubt the 110 horse 2.2 has enough compression to frag itself with a bargain turbo setup, but he might end up having to run premium gas, and if he doesn't figure that out, or if 90 octane Alaskan "premium" (whoever thought that was a good idea needs to be slapped) turns out to not be enough, that'll be pretty funny. Now that I think about it, though, computer doofiness might be fairly likely.
I found some data to indicate that the stock compression ratio for this engine is 8.6:1, though it may be a different variant. See for yourself: http://www.mazdabg.com/ftp-uploads/Mazda/626/AdjustmentData/mazda62622iF2.pdf
thats interesting because other data I have speaks of it being 9.2:1 in N/A applications and 7.8:1 in turbo. Either way, stock ECU is not going to be setup to handle boost. Even best case scenario is probably it leaning out massively.
9.2 to 1 is fine for turbo. He can run a basemap on some crap chipped ecu and blow up pretty quick, or he can get dyno tuned and last a while. 7.8 is crazy low. He won't make more than another 50whp safely either way. God knows you can do research to figure out what the bottom end will take on that engine. Sounds like an amateur I'm sure he blows up and still talks shit. Don't beat up on your daily to prove it to him.
I won't be doing anything to the old 'Bird that it hasn't already repeatedly survived. Remember that I know from personal experience that it's triple-digit capable and one of our esteemed boys in blue can back me up on that. Though the transmission is a major question mark if I start chucking upgrades at it; V6/MT models specifically had a limiter set to 100 MPH to protect some weaksauce drivetrain part. Also the clutch, since my two main launch techniques so far are "5000RPM clutch bomb with possibilty of brutal wheelhop" and "use the clutch as ersatz traction control".
Ended up getting my winter beater for $700. Hopefully will have it by tonight. Pics when I get it home.
I was just contacted by the owner of my first car saying he wants transfer papers because it's still in my name. Is he the the person who bought it from me? Nope, he's two owners down the line and the car is still in my name. I'm not even the one who screwed up, I'm just the one who has to deal with it because it's apparently still my car. How did this happen? I bought the car in the adjacent province, then brought it to this one. I couldn't afford to do the work it needed to pass inspection, so it sat (I literally only drove it once) for ages until my mom and step dad separated. I obviously couldn't take it with me since it was broken and I already had another car by this point (I had been trying to sell the broken car for months), so I reluctantly told my step dad to scrap it but I heard through the pipeline a few months later that he had sold it instead. I didn't hear anything after that so I assumed everything was fine and had been dealt with properly (my only mistake), but now I've got to basically sell (just the paperwork, not the getting paid part) a car I thought I had already gotten rid of. To top it off, the guy was never told it was an out-of-province vehicle so now he's got to deal with a surprise $200+ inspection, and someone along the line lost the ownership papers so I don't even know how the f*ck this is going to be fixed. On the plus side, the car is apparently fixed and roadworthy for the first time in 5+ years.
Yeah, best-case scenario I send the bill of sale from the province it's registered in and the new owner can take it from there. Hopefully that's all I have to do, but every province has a different system and I've got a car with no ownership papers hovering in lala land between them.
If the car isn't in your possession I would give only a limited amount of effort to fix this. Not my car not my problem.
