Eunos Chump

I've been ill the past few days.  I thought it was hayfever initially but it grew into a fever and a splitting headache.  That was 4 days ago, I'm feeling slightly better now (I can use the PC! Look!), but I don't recall ever being that ill for that long before.  This has obviously meant no motoring-related shenanigans of late, but the Mazda continues to run without issue.  I don't much enjoy it's heavy on/off clutch in traffic queues, nor it's demand for Optimax (it runs poorly on plain unleaded), but we still get along fine.  I'd go out in it now, if it wasn't full of pollen.

It's fixed!  It didn't run very well at first, it may have been because it had sat idle for weeks but I retuned it with TunerStudio again and it seems better.  This is just as well, because I was just about at the end of my tether with it yesterday.  I'm getting very bored of chucking money at it with no result.  I've also had a bit of a mare with some fuel injectors I bought recently (which is too long and tedious to detail here, but it seems that problem isn't yet resolved).  All I want is to use the car, and not have it break or require large sums of money (or lots of small sums of money). Monkeyboy and I took it to the New Forest today.  It was like bloody winter with the wind and rain but we still had fun.  He's developing quite an eye for young ladies, I find it amusing and charming to watch him in action - he's pretty smooth, it's a trait he certainly didn't inherit from me!

I bit the bullet and ordered a new manifold from ETD Racing , it arrived within 5 days.  It's not fixed yet though as I'm on holiday* in Manchester at the mo'.  I've bought new gaskets and some socket cap bolts to cut down into studs (these being 12.9 tensile strength, better than the usual 8.8 found in automotive stuff).  Hopefully it'll be operational this weekend, then TRACKDAYZ!  I've not bothered renewing my Mazda-on-Track membership, they don't offer enough days and those they do tend to be inconvenient mid-week fixtures.  I think I'll be going with Focussed Events from now on, they have about 300 events a year and the prices are much the same. * easy IT training course with short hours and plush hotel .