I'm terrible at maintaining build logs, fair warning.
A few months ago I bought an 88 323 GTX from a racing buddy who bought it off Brody, a forum member here. I've had plenty of idle daydreams about owning one of these, but had never seen one in real life, much less one for sale. A few days after I got back from my honeymoon my buddy calls me up and asks if I'd be willing to help him out and get this thing going. It had a MS2 install that got screwed up somewhere and wouldn't crank. I gushed a bit about my irrational love of a car I hadn't even seen. He told me I could have it for a rediculously low price just to get it out of his yard.
I got it and played with the MS2 for a day, verifying the build options and pinouts. Got my hopes up when I found a connector had been built backwards. Still no start. Swapped the miata cas for an unverified spare i had lying around. No love. Traced every wire and found everything good.
Ordered a new CAS that apparently got stolen off my porch while I was out of town for a timetrial. A month later a neighbor knocked on my door with a weather-beaten box that he found under his woodpile. My CAS! I could barely stop myself from hugging my new best friend.
Installed my known good CAS and nothing. I decided that the connection HAD to be flakely and ghetto ran a new wire over the fender, through the door, and into the MS. Hit the key and boom. Cranks and idles in less than a second. After 5 minutes of maniacal laughter I realize the HLAs still sound like gravel in a dryer. Oil change and a victory lap around the neighborhood.
Last night I got time to start ripping out the unused emissions stuff and start opening up the wiring harness for a rebuild. This is how it currently sits.
Annd crap the site is complaining about uploading pics on mobile. I'll have to add them tonight. I warned you I suck at build logs.
Edit:hosted on imgur, but the forum is fighting me on filesize for embedding. I'll fix it tonight.
Edit2:got a brain and remembered how to embed. Added pic I found of CAS diagnostics.
A few months ago I bought an 88 323 GTX from a racing buddy who bought it off Brody, a forum member here. I've had plenty of idle daydreams about owning one of these, but had never seen one in real life, much less one for sale. A few days after I got back from my honeymoon my buddy calls me up and asks if I'd be willing to help him out and get this thing going. It had a MS2 install that got screwed up somewhere and wouldn't crank. I gushed a bit about my irrational love of a car I hadn't even seen. He told me I could have it for a rediculously low price just to get it out of his yard.
I got it and played with the MS2 for a day, verifying the build options and pinouts. Got my hopes up when I found a connector had been built backwards. Still no start. Swapped the miata cas for an unverified spare i had lying around. No love. Traced every wire and found everything good.
Ordered a new CAS that apparently got stolen off my porch while I was out of town for a timetrial. A month later a neighbor knocked on my door with a weather-beaten box that he found under his woodpile. My CAS! I could barely stop myself from hugging my new best friend.
Installed my known good CAS and nothing. I decided that the connection HAD to be flakely and ghetto ran a new wire over the fender, through the door, and into the MS. Hit the key and boom. Cranks and idles in less than a second. After 5 minutes of maniacal laughter I realize the HLAs still sound like gravel in a dryer. Oil change and a victory lap around the neighborhood.
Last night I got time to start ripping out the unused emissions stuff and start opening up the wiring harness for a rebuild. This is how it currently sits.
Annd crap the site is complaining about uploading pics on mobile. I'll have to add them tonight. I warned you I suck at build logs.
Edit:hosted on imgur, but the forum is fighting me on filesize for embedding. I'll fix it tonight.
Edit2:got a brain and remembered how to embed. Added pic I found of CAS diagnostics.
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