hello all!
 

new owner, as of sept! 1990 5sp silver. 175k

Well..new headgasket, tbelt, struts and a g or so later its back on the road! The headgasket pood out two days after i bought it, so the past month has been a joyous 101 on all things miata.

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Welcome, douginjenison!

Figured I would add my observations

1. Even with the water pump vanes gone, the vehicle did not overheat.
2. My timing was a initially 10* atdc after timing belt replacement. (W scribed CAS)
So have your timing lite ready!
3. Uh

welome!

This is probably a good time for me to chime in with a Public Service Announcement;

Miata Brethren who reside in Northern Climes, do yourselves a favor and buy Southern Cars. It's worth the extra hassle/cost in the long run to transport one of our beautiful, solid and plentiful Miatae to your frigid, road salt encrusted Purgatory.

I grew up in The North, and just sort of accepted that cars would eventually just become crunchy and disappear into piles of flaky rust. Then I moved to Florida, where I found that I was wrong. (Well, unless one lives directly on the beach, but if that's the case, Fuck You, you can afford to replace it.)

I've owned MANY a Miata down here in the land of Golden Sunshine, and have never seen ANY rust on ANY of them, including a leaky beater. It smelled a little funky, but when we re-did the carpets the only corrosion was on that flimsy gas tank cover plate.

Oh, and welcome to the forum. I admire your tenacity, looks like you're doing good work.

Looking good.

Did you find any sigs of the water pump vains getting lodged anywhere?

Any future plans ?

Plans are to buy an older version megasquirt and get my geek on

And to stop post whoring. But now I can PM.

i almost bought a silver NB myself

Hello! Im a new member here:) Im glad to be a part of this community. I really want to know about related topics here:)