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You're joking, that's unreal mate.

Yup some of the Land Rover Transmissions - LT77 - R380 (Defender) etc. the norm is to use ATF. GL3 GL4 GL5 conventional oils make it hard to shift.

According to several sources the make is supposedly registered as Ferrari

Oh may be after spotting the horse badge, DMT might have thought that the car is from the Morris family, the famous Morris bull cross with a Phoney or got modernised, so the Country of origin might say UK 😁

I'm curious what it's registered as in Sri Lanka - I tried to run the plates in the DMT website but the service is down 90% of the time. If it did arrive as an Eva - that would have resulted in a confused individual at DMT sitting in his wood-and rattan chair. Remember this was the mid 90's when Opels, Kias and Daewoos were registered as made in Japan. So they at least probably go the country of origin right in the book.

YES ! It is an EVA ME-22. Over to you ! Yes..the yellow one has been making its rounds on SL socials. It is quite disheartening to see how people are bashing that car without knowing what it it. Most seem to think that someone took a Miata and ruined it with some weird kit....well..it is...sort of. Eva motors bought base cars from Mazda (the NA roadster) and did up the entire car. The modern-day equivalent to a company doing that would be Mitsuoka with their Rock Star. Although there were no significant performance improvements, they did make cooling enhancements, and depending on the configuration, offered suspension upgrades. Now of course, if you had an actual Mazda Roadster at the time, you could send it to Eva Motors and they would do the same for your car. Apparently, not many were done up like this, therefore, almost all of these cars have been registered under the manufacturer's name Eva and not Mazda. These things are quite rare and sell for a lot more than the standard NA Roadster/Miata/MX-5. This particular one apparently came with the Ferrari badges even from Japan. Some Japanese dude was probably living out his Ferrari (Dino ?) fantasies.

this was quite exhausting. Thanks to a rather time consuming search on reddits miata sub reddit I think I may have found it. Is this Eva ME-22 ?

No...go down @matroska's path

Maybe a Nissan B310 modified by one of the Fibre guys to hide the identity 😁

Here is another picture which will help you seek out the exact variant

Thnks.

No...as a general rule of thumb do not use ATF on a manual transmission. Use ATF os Automatics, Manual gear oils on Manual Transmissions, CVT fluid on CVTs... It is mainly because the compositions are different and the oil/fluid is designed to help the mechanical/physical construct of the gearbox as defined by specific certification standards. Now..there are some manual transmissions that can use certain types of ATF and some ATFs that are compatible on manual transmissions. Check the user manual of the car to see if your car can handle ATF. If it doesn't say it can. Just don't use it. Not all oils have a SAE rating. Maybe Texamatic 1888 doesn't have one officially published.

I have a Maruti 800 cc car, can the above ATF cud be used for my manual gear box pls. Also if anyone cud advise me the SAE standard of Texamatic 1888 whether SAE 20/30 or 40..I surfed the web but cud not trace.

Replaced the battery after 6 years of maintenance-free service. The plates inside were shattered and swimming in the electrolyte, when connected to a battery analyzer it read 189 CCA (New battery read 590 despite the label saying 320), had a SOH of 14% when I swapped it - despite the readings, it still managed to start the car with no complaints. Impressive performance for a battery made in India. 10/10 recommend, would buy again. Part # : Amaron ESL-GO-0BH55D23L Total cost : 30,400LKR exclusive of used battery trade in. 27,000LKR If the old battery is returned. Back in 2019 the cost was 16,000 LKR with the trade in of the old battery. Installed it myself because why not

@matroska would be the closest....

Saw this on a local instagram handle. Had 19- plates. Kit car on a Miata?

Feels like a Lotus to me.

No idea what this is 😅

Oops..sorry didn't realise... Okay..so this car is not what it seems to be. A car that is built on a car that is much loved for its throwback to what British sports cars used to be. Needless to say expecting the actual built model. Yes..the car is in Sri Lanka and is getting a lot of slack for what people seem to think "has been done to it". However, if this is what it was like when imported to SL then it is actually quite a rare car now and is pricier than the car it was based on.

So that leaves open the possibility of the throttle body itself (getting stuck) or the accelerator and throttle position sensors going bad. Depending on what is wrong with the sensor it might not have been logged in the ECU as well.

@iRage I am sure the turn is yours

No. Tune-up not done. It's an E throttle. No mechanical linkage.

But you haven't fully answer my questions. When was a complete tune-up done and have you checked the throttle body or the accelerator linkage? None of these would necessarily show up in a scan.

Thanks. No errors on scanning. No other issues as well. Services done on time.