Restoring Faded Bumper on a Red Miata

[@phonphanit5884]

Awesome content keep up the good work 👍

[@alansims4344]

Take some advice from an old import shop owner and dealership tech. NEVER screw any oil filter on that car that does not come from Mazda or maybe a Denso brand. Just checked RockAuto and noticed the Beck/Arnley is an actual Asian manufactured filter re-boxed so that works. Beck/Arnley is a strange company that sells parts but does not make any. Their business model is build around re-boxing parts from other suppliers and the pricing is often very high. But also very often the parts come from the OEM and are as close to dealer parts as you can get... but sometimes it's garbage. Anyway the point is you don't want to mess around with this issue, it's not the quality of the "filtering" that is the problem either. The problem is filter opening pressure or how hard is it to pump through it at startup... when the oil pump has to pump a slug of air past the drain back flap and through the filter. A typical Japanese factory filter opens with 4oz. of pressure, a new US made filter will take 4 POUNDS! The oil pump at idle is going slow, while not designed to pump air, and now it takes longer to oil the engine. Now the real problem... the timing chain is tensioned via oil pressure so it's loose and beating up the guides. This happens every cold start to some degree the thing is to minimize it and having a filter that is easy to pump through matters a great deal. I worked for Mitsubishi in the 80's and worked with their engineers to trouble shoot balance shaft failures and after testing and dissecting every kind of filter in the US this is what we found. Then we were not allowed to tell the customers for legal reasons. I benefit from your other channel so thought I would take time to pass this on. I will try to keep up with this project. Oh and watercooled VW's and their brethren are unfit for human ownership.

[@Matt_Pie]

I used a wix filter with my oil change. My oil pressure seems to be very good

[@alansims4344]

@@Matt_Pie Pressure would be the same no matter what you used. The problem is that filter causes the engine to suffer longer without oil on every cold start.... slow death. There is no reason at all not to use a filter that for sure helps it build pressure as quick as possible on cold starts, this is where 80% of engine wear happens.

[@BeJankins-b4n]

Why not just use a K and N filter? I use it for older Toyotas and oil pressure and oil level seem to do great, infact first oil change using k and n, I saw no contamination on the filter, it still looked brand new covered in oil

[@BeJankins-b4n]

I have a two piece bumper on my mk3 supra, color is wine red pearl, problem is sun damage is the worst on the hood and the bumper pieces, they are now almost salmon like color, can polishing possibly restore my paint? Or should i just repaint