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DEAR Paul, My current car is a Proton Wira 1.5GLi, with modifications done on the extractor, spitfire plug cable, Bosch super 4 plugs and a HKS racing medallion exhaust pipe at the back. My questions are: 1) My car sounds like a rotary engine when I warm it up either in the morning or at night. My mechanic says it's a faulty fuel sensor. After a recent routine car service, the rotary sound disappeared but came on again a few days later. It, however, was gone after I drove a few...
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Sunday Forum
Our young men are in crisis. They haunt our malls, their faces haggard, their shoulders slumped under the deadweight of accumulated injustices. Like how, despite a favourable exchange rate, the choicest Chicago Bulls merchandise is always priced beyond their means. And how they can't get beyond level 1200 in Backblast Apocalypse 2 unless they pay for the secret code. And how prohibitively expensive it is to insure a lowered WRX with hot cams when you're on P-plates....
Hot Cams When the world goes into reverse,
The Great Divide
Whenever men and women drive together, a breakdown is inevitable, says John Naish FROM THE moment they finish potty-training, boys and girls begin growing into completely different species of driver. Women cannot easily reverse into parking spaces because, as toddlers, they never learnt to develop spatial-awareness skills.Boys, however, are great parkers because they had plenty of spatial-awareness practice learning to pee accurately into a receptacle while standing up.So goes the...
Hot Cams MODIFYING FACTORY ENGINE IS BEST,
HEAVIER ENGINE WOULD ALTER MIATA'S WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION AND DIMINISH ITS HANDLING ON CORNERS
Q: I have a '93 Mazda Miata that I like very much. I like the way it looks, and I like the way it handles. But I would like it a lot more if it had more power.It occurred to me that the 2.5-liter V-6 that Mazda uses in the 626 and MX-6 would be the ideal engine for this car. What do you think of the idea of picking up a low-mileage V-6 in a junkyard and adapting it to the Miata? A: Not a lot. It's hard for me to rain on your parade without feeling mildly...