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Mail From: "Greg Edgar" <(email redacted)>


Bill,

I will be absent again this year. Mechanical problems are the culprit, and
parts lead times will have me down for about a week. Hope everyone has a
great time.

Enjoy,
Greg Edgar
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Mail From: Bill Cardell <(email redacted)>


Now what?? Anything we can help with? Lots of parts here ...still like to
see you here.


Bill Cardell
The Dealer Alternative, Inc
dlralt.com
200mphmiata.net
1-800-FLY-MX5S (orders only)
1-970-242-3800 (tech)


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Edgar [mailto:(email redacted)]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:02 PM
To: (email redacted)
Cc: (email redacted)
Subject: Re: Dealer Alt Open House NPC


Bill,

I will be absent again this year. Mechanical problems are the culprit, and
parts lead times will have me down for about a week. Hope everyone has a
great time.

Enjoy,
Greg Edgar
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Mail From: "Greg Edgar" <(email redacted)>


Bill,

Thanks for the most gracious offer. The problem is two-fold. I have
excessive runout (>0.050) on the trigger wheel for the mag pickup of the TEC
II. I was getting too much noise at higher RPMs, and the computer was
responding incorrectly. In the process of working this, I underestimated
the runout, and placed the mag pickup too close to the trigger wheel. You
can imagine what happened . . .

Electromotive said their mag pickups are custom made and I would need to
order one. In a heroic attempt to laugh in the face of disappointment, I
took the old OEM mag pickup from my 1.8 out of the no longer used parts box,
and milled up a bracket to mount it in the same location as the dead one. I
am now running again, but until I address the trigger wheel problem, I
cannot get the clearance low enough to avoid the noise. In it's current
state, it runs fine up to about 3.8k before the noise gets to be a problem
and the RPMs read by the ECU drop while actual RPMs are increasing. The ECU
then resets, requiring cycling of the key to resume operation. Lets see, if
I keep the RPMs <3.5k I can get there in . . . OH NEVER MIND! I will have
to pull the radiator and IC plumbing to remove the crank pulley assembly so
I can get it re-trued. I suspect this is residual damage from when the 4
bolts sheared that held the trigger wheel to the crank pulley. The odd
thing is that I ran two track events after the repair before this became a
problem. I hope the problem is not more severe.

Hope all goes smooth for you.

Thanks again for the offer of help.

Enjoy,
Greg Edgar


>From: Bill Cardell <(email redacted)>
>To: 'Greg Edgar' <(email redacted)>, Bill Cardell <(email redacted)>
>CC: (email redacted)
>Subject: RE: Dealer Alt Open House NPC
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:34:36 -0600
>
>Now what?? Anything we can help with? Lots of parts here ...still like to
>see you here.
>
>
>Bill Cardell
>The Dealer Alternative, Inc
>dlralt.com
>200mphmiata.net
>1-800-FLY-MX5S (orders only)
>1-970-242-3800 (tech)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Edgar [mailto:(email redacted)]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:02 PM
>To: (email redacted)
>Cc: (email redacted)
>Subject: Re: Dealer Alt Open House NPC
>
>
>Bill,
>
>I will be absent again this year. Mechanical problems are the culprit, and
>parts lead times will have me down for about a week. Hope everyone has a
>great time.
>
>Enjoy,
>Greg Edgar
>________________________________________________________________________
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Mail From: Bill Cardell <(email redacted)>


Well, sorry you can't make it. Hope you get it back together soon.


Bill Cardell
The Dealer Alternative, Inc
dlralt.com
200mphmiata.net
1-800-FLY-MX5S (orders only)
1-970-242-3800 (tech)


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Edgar [mailto:(email redacted)]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 12:57 PM
To: (email redacted)
Cc: (email redacted)
Subject: RE: Dealer Alt Open House NPC



Bill,

Thanks for the most gracious offer. The problem is two-fold. I have
excessive runout (>0.050) on the trigger wheel for the mag pickup of the TEC

II. I was getting too much noise at higher RPMs, and the computer was
responding incorrectly. In the process of working this, I underestimated
the runout, and placed the mag pickup too close to the trigger wheel. You
can imagine what happened . . .

Electromotive said their mag pickups are custom made and I would need to
order one. In a heroic attempt to laugh in the face of disappointment, I
took the old OEM mag pickup from my 1.8 out of the no longer used parts box,

and milled up a bracket to mount it in the same location as the dead one. I

am now running again, but until I address the trigger wheel problem, I
cannot get the clearance low enough to avoid the noise. In it's current
state, it runs fine up to about 3.8k before the noise gets to be a problem
and the RPMs read by the ECU drop while actual RPMs are increasing. The ECU

then resets, requiring cycling of the key to resume operation. Lets see, if

I keep the RPMs <3.5k I can get there in . . . OH NEVER MIND! I will have
to pull the radiator and IC plumbing to remove the crank pulley assembly so
I can get it re-trued. I suspect this is residual damage from when the 4
bolts sheared that held the trigger wheel to the crank pulley. The odd
thing is that I ran two track events after the repair before this became a
problem. I hope the problem is not more severe.

Hope all goes smooth for you.

Thanks again for the offer of help.

Enjoy,
Greg Edgar


>From: Bill Cardell <(email redacted)>
>To: 'Greg Edgar' <(email redacted)>, Bill Cardell <(email redacted)>
>CC: (email redacted)
>Subject: RE: Dealer Alt Open House NPC
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:34:36 -0600
>
>Now what?? Anything we can help with? Lots of parts here ...still like to
>see you here.
>
>
>Bill Cardell
>The Dealer Alternative, Inc
>dlralt.com
>200mphmiata.net
>1-800-FLY-MX5S (orders only)
>1-970-242-3800 (tech)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Edgar [mailto:(email redacted)]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:02 PM
>To: (email redacted)
>Cc: (email redacted)
>Subject: Re: Dealer Alt Open House NPC
>
>
>Bill,
>
>I will be absent again this year. Mechanical problems are the culprit, and
>parts lead times will have me down for about a week. Hope everyone has a
>great time.
>
>Enjoy,
>Greg Edgar
>________________________________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at hotmail.com

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