I'm always serious about buying miatas. It sucks. I really need a different hobby.

 

Where you located?

 

Portland. But have access to a truck and flatbed.

 

Looks like the oil bandits have moved and struck again...

 

 

Have you put new oil in the car and see what happens when you run it?

 

No I don't have extra oil atm. When I tried cranking it I was definitely getting oil pressure. I'm not really going to mess with it until insurance comes out and looks at it.

 

You just made my day.

 

he comes back after 3 years of silence to post this.

and it's a flawless victory is what it is



you sir get a couple cats. welcome back

 

That is fantastic.

OP, talk to Aidan or me. We're both in Portland. I might not have money but can help facilitate stuff. Get your stuff sorted and your buyback amount and we can all figure something out.

 

That's pretty sweet, most trackers used to have a yearly or monthly subscription, this one is good for 5 years. I wasn't aware of this. All the thing really needs for tracking is a power and ground, so you can make it work with any car just need to pin 2 wires.



So pin 4 would be ground and pin 16 would be 12V. Might need to ground 5 too but most likely not.

 

This seems like a really solid tracking unit, but my biggest concern would be if a theif is under the dash trying to hot wire, they'll notice it in the OBDII port and most likely take it.

 

Yeah it's super obvious and would probably get removed, but you can pop the obd2 out and buy an obd2 extension and hide it. Or could even splice into it to make a t harness and keep all the obd2 features. Just for tracking I would probably just hide it somewhere deep and run a power and ground to it and forget about the engine code monitoring and other stuff.

Can buy one of these https://www.amazon.com/Docooler-Obd-.../dp/B000SBCHCA to make it easier and just cut off one end so you don't have to pin any wires, and wire up whatever you need.

 

They sell units such as the Spark Nano that are completely separate from obd and you could hide it anywhere you want. I think it's battery powered and runs for ~two weeks. And it will only track while the car is in motion.

 

So I went to try and start it. Filled it up with gas and oil. Crank and no start for multiple trys. Check megasquirt and I guess the guy unpluged part of the harness. It fired up but wanted to die and idled rough. A big thing I notice was the lifters are REALLY loud. I drove it around my neiborhood and I can hear it over the engine and exhaust. What do you think could be damaged or what would I need to fix it? Motor toast? It seems like this guy drove it without oil for a while because I think I put 2 to 2.5 quarts of oil in.

 

That's not low on oil. That's normal. I can't count t the amount of times my car had less than 2 quarts on the stocker. Lifters are empty. Drive it. Or let it idle. They will pump back up.

 

I also filled it up to the half mark and just driving it around my neiborhood it dropped to to a quater

 

Nothing on the ground? Maybe oil coming out of turbo?

 

I can see a little line in the gravel but it's hard to tell. And no, turbo and lines seem drip free.

 

Er, I meant leaking into the exhaust.

I would be under the car already trying to look for wet spots lol