mercilessltd
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I'm brand new here, as of today.
I've got a 1987 Mazda B2000 2bbl. I would say stock but someone has monkeyed with the poor thing before I received it.
My father bought it six years ago, and drove it for four. It sat for two years, driven maybe twice. Unfortunately I had no running vehicles about 9 months ago, so he gave me the truck.
The good: it ran.
The bad: an electronic fuel pump added under the hood directly behind the old-style mechanical. On the same electric line is also the electric choke they installed. The alternator is a GM 2-wire (from an '85 Chevy Cavalier 2.0L). Why? Ask them, I haven't the foggiest idea. The emissions has been cut and welded shut (except one pipe rusted and snapped off). When re-doing the exhaust, the geniuses burned the speedometer cable in two. The fuel level works such that showing half = full tank.
The temp gauge only has one wire hanging from it, even though there should be two. This is why I didn't know it overheated a few months ago, and now I'm doing a head gasket.
It even came with cruise control (which won't work without the speedometer cable) and AC (which I've completed removed to save gas. I'm about to scrap the parts unless somebody wants them. They're all original).
Oh, and the bed is now made from steel panels of that fake diamond plating pattern.
My plans are simple. I plan on making this my daily driver by trying a few tricks to increase the gas mileage. I know it won't be a lot, but even if I can squeeze it to 24 or 25 on the highway, that's fine.
1. Head gasket. Get it running.
2. Timing belt/tensior, water pump, oil pump.
3. Re-do front end joints. All of 'em.
4. Weber conversion to 32/36.
Any ideas on how to increase gas mileage? It's already a manual.
But man is this a fun truck!