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No. 113588
ID: 3efc75
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Well done sir.
I suppose I haven't updated in a while, cause, well nothing much happens. I've been working from home since March, which has been pretty awesome. I work at HQ and the test cells I support are in another state and in another country, so except for not seeing my coworkers, it doesn't matter where I am. I do meetings and spreadsheets. Just delivered a big training presentation I've been working on for months and it went pretty well.
Absolutely nothing happened on Monday and Tuesday, so I watched Donut Media car videos on youtube and shopped for Miata parts. Tuesday at 16:30 one of the engineers asks me to help him research some running data, then at 17:00 the test cells call up with an issue. So that's how it goes with a salary job.
Haven't been shooting since I left Maryland. With as fucked as ammo is now and COVID protocols, I don't even care to try.
Been doing Track Days with the Miata. That's been going great. Just put in a couple of racing seats and harnesses. I've been teaching my nephew how to work on cars and he rode along for the last event. He's having a good ol' time. (He was going to ride along for the autocross, but that track wasn't allowing passengers, for any reason, due to the 'rona.)
In the video, the run was going extremely well, until the money shift. Was at the top of 2nd gear and I went for 3rd. A couple of times that day the shifter kinda jammed up, but managed to get it into 3rd. This time it went into 1st. As soon as I started to let the clutch out we started to spin. Fortunately, as soon as we started to spin, I pushed the clutch back in, and we *only* revved to 7000 rpm, which is the normal redline for this engine. I figured at 55 mph that would have been 10,000 rpm in 1st, if I'd have let the clutch out all of the way.
For the whole day I couldn't figure out what happened. We're driving, everything is great, then some kinda shifting problem, then we're spinning. The next day, watching the video, is when I figured it out. No damage to the car or gearbox.
So I still couldn't figure out why it happened. I've got a good 8 years of daily driving manual cars. I did a bit of research on the miata forums and apparently this was pretty common due to worn out engine mounts. Under heavy loads, the engine can move around enough to where the gearbox and 3rd gear weren't where my right hand thought they should be.
I ordered some new, stiffer, engine mounts which we'll slap in this weekend.
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