It was a little more than slight it seems...
I redid the rear brake adjustment procedure and that seemed to fix things right up! And the last couple items I had to get installed were new spark plugs and new coil packs.
The now 20k mile old spark plugs being a little oily indicated a bad valve cover gasket, as the gasket integrates the spark plug tube seals. No matter, it gives me an excuse to take the valve cover off and wrinkle paint it!
And new (2) coils on the Flyin' Miata 1.8L swap bracket.
The original coils. They lived a wonderful 225k mile life.
However, yesterday, disaster struck. I developed a small exhaust leak over the past few days and thought it was a blown gasket or loose flange bolts. While driving home, I accelerated from a right turn at a red light since there was traffic coming, and like hitting VTEC, my exhaust very suddenly got LOUD. Like, bbbvvvvvvBWAAAAAA. I thought the pipe had actually fallen off, but I heard no scraping. Today, I get under the car to tighten up the suspect flange, but found something far worse...
The weld at the pipe to the cat body had sheared off. Lovely. Thankfully, my local exhaust shop can take the car in tomorrow for a quick repair.
