Kompresshun wrote:All this sports talk is confusing. I honestly have kept up with zero sports in the past few years. Even coming from a diehard UGA football family, I haven't even watched a single game this season. I guess I need to make some time to catch up.
I do enjoy some hockey, but I haven't watched a single game since we moved from Atlanta.
Ray - Did you de-turbo the Miata yet? If you decide to sell the setup let me know. I'd like to go ahead and start working on the wife about letting me spend the money if I think I can swing it

Sports is a commitment. You should see Lindsey pour over her fantasy team. I just kinda wing it. It shows since my team sucks.
The head is going back on the car on Wednesday. The Navy guy is still interested in the car with the turbo, but there is no guarantee that he'll buy it. If he isn't interested in it when I talk to him this weekend, I will definitely de-mod it and the goodies are all yours. Just checking since you didn't make any further mention earlier- have you had a chance to read the last full disclosure post a page back?
Gist of it:
I'd sell the "dumb parts," as Brian calls them, (manifold, down pipe, j pipe, turbo) for much less than market since they're not the highest quality pieces. The manifold has fine cracks that were welded and has a slight leak, the turbo works perfectly fine and has no problems aside from having a hose clamp holding the waste gate pin from falling down and making it open all the time(though it does function 100% correctly with the fix), and the down pipe is actually perfectly fine.
The rest of the parts- intercooler & piping, Wideband, BOV, Mesagquirt, injectors, etc are where I didn't go cheap on the car.
Either way, it couldn't hurt to start talking to the wifey- it'll never hurt to get her thinking about it if you catch her in the right mood!