the new ride (MX-6)

[htchbck]

My new '89 Mazda MX-6









I wish the BPs had a "1.8L Fuel Injection" like the "2.2L Fuel Injection" label on the F2s





There are a couple of festiva swapable items on this car as well

Power mirror switch



Intermittent wiper switch



Here is the twenty year old AM/FM/cassette stereo with 9 (yep 9) channel EQ... how cool is that?



And in case anyone caught my earlier post complaining about the 3 speed auto in the festiva... this thing has a 4-speed OD auto with an electronic lock-up torque converter... basically means that at 70 on the highway instead of 3500RPMs the festiva turns, the MX-6 looks like this



And my favorite feature



The middle vents have an on/off button that makes them oscillate via and electric motor... yeah, like a desk fan... no idea what the point of it is, but, yeah, I love it

Love this car, can't wait to get it firing on all four cylinders lol

[91blufestiva]

Another white car:p Looks nice!

[FestYboy]

flush and fill your brake system (light is on)

[htchbck]

its the switch on the e-brake that is setting off the light

[FestYboy]

i'd flush and fill anyway, no telling how old and water laden that stuff is...

[htchbck]

haha I have all the service records for it just about since it was new... including one from 7/12/08 flush and fill brakes, radiator, and transmission complete with new trans filter and rad cap Someone loved this car till the timing belt snapped

[Damkid]

looks like a nice purchase :thumbright:

[htchbck]

Thanks damkid I think so too Found some of the original papers in the glovebox. When it was bought new in January of '89 the owner paid a little over $16,000 for it, and with inflation figured in that comes up to about $26,000. I just payed $260 for it on tuesday with the only issue being a broken timing belt. 158K on the ticker. Hows that for depreciation of value over a 20 year period? Lol got it for 1% of the original price

BTW got it firing on all cylinders today so no rebuilding the head Changed the spark plugs and found that one of the plugs had broken off where the tower part goes to the screw-in part (no clue on spark plug lingo lol) but it was snapped off. Replaced that and now its running like a champ just need to put in a thermostat before we get our snow tonight