Miata Mailing List: July 1997, Message #45
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From: 	"Allan (BBB)" <pin04310@pophost.ping.be>

Subject: Minor maintenance 1 plugwires

Date: 	Wed, 2 Jul 1997 05:44:47 -0500





Weather has been cold, wet and windy for the past two weeks and the

weatherman promises more of the same. Only on my first day off and I

was already bored.... So I decided to give ol' Little Red Rooster some

attention......:-)





1) Replaced some weird NGK pug wires with new NGK plug wires

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-- For the last 6 weeks I felt LRR has lost some of it's bite,

especially the first blip of the throttle wasn't that responsive any

more. Maybe I had grown accustomed to the JCAI and the Borla cat-back

? Maybe time to move on to something more powerful ??? Well I changed

the plugs, no result. A few weeks later I cleaned my injectors, same

old same old...Then I thought about changing the plug wires. The stock

ones died and were replaced by a local Mazda garage at 40Kmiles with

blue NGK's. Now at 80K miles I though they could be the culprit. Armed

with the Shop manual and Moss-ordered plug wires I took on the job. To

my amazement the old NGK's were NOT placed in the same order as

described in the manual...Well I decided to go with the book and

attach my new ones according to the diagram, first I replaced the

shortest wire...HEY HANG ON..there was no shortest plugwire to

replace....there was one long one, one a little less long and TWO

medium ones. On closer inspection they looked a bit different from the

new ones I was holding....Aaaaaaarhg I had been driving with OTHER

NGK's than the Miata ones for over 3 years.....deep inside my engine

the ghost of a Mazda 626 lurked.... So I installed the new ones, fired

the engine up and went for a drive, the slight hesitation was

gone...lets' hope THESE NGK's last a little bit longer than 40K....



part two will feature Dri-washing the car and black-chroming the

interior...



Allan, inventing new verbs by the minute

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Allan & Little Red Rooster

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