Leaving Front sway bar off
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Wow, im happy i read this thread. LMFAO
SO, did you bring the car in with the sway bar off? Or did the shop take it off and forget about it? Either way refabbing the sway bar over fabbing new intercooler pipes sounds backasswards.
SO, did you bring the car in with the sway bar off? Or did the shop take it off and forget about it? Either way refabbing the sway bar over fabbing new intercooler pipes sounds backasswards.
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+1 on them not being able to route it. I think this is the most retarded thing I have seen in awhile, not you, but the shop. You should print out pictures of all of the NA DIY intercooler setups here (there are several) as well as the FM and BEGI routings, take them with you to the shop, and shove the pictures down their throats. Do not turn around the swaybar. That is retarded. You can put it on spacer blocks if that will help, but seriously they need to fix the intercooler setup before doing that. A Miata without a front swaybar is like a hot female nympho without a vagina.
Seriously that shop gets a big fail. You should share the name so it can be posted in a sticky to keep others well away from them.
Seriously that shop gets a big fail. You should share the name so it can be posted in a sticky to keep others well away from them.
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Ok, FINALLY got the miata back, had a ton of trouble getting her to fire on all cylinders. Finally replaced the ingnitor. I officially think i need to bitch slap the shop i had her at, they drove her across the parking lot everyday for a week while i was out of town running on two cylinders and when i went crazy bitch on them they had no idea why. ANYWAYS
Car is safely back in the garage. Need an alignment and still need to find a shop to fix intercooler system and one to fix the top [they tore a whole where the back window connects to the top because they didnt know you had to UNZIP the back window before putting the top down, they are paying to fix it] Finally got pics, they're probably impossible to see where things route since i have no lift and the IC piping is in the way of the motor mounts.
[ignore the 4x4 look, that will be fixed next]
this is the side that has the bent sway bar mount and they just put the IC pipping right under it
Thats all i could get, sorry if they suck :/
Car is safely back in the garage. Need an alignment and still need to find a shop to fix intercooler system and one to fix the top [they tore a whole where the back window connects to the top because they didnt know you had to UNZIP the back window before putting the top down, they are paying to fix it] Finally got pics, they're probably impossible to see where things route since i have no lift and the IC piping is in the way of the motor mounts.
[ignore the 4x4 look, that will be fixed next]
this is the side that has the bent sway bar mount and they just put the IC pipping right under it
Thats all i could get, sorry if they suck :/
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All in all i'll admit, this build has been a learning experience. But I'm young, what can I say? We're doing an oil change and putting 20w50 in it to help with the bushing style turbo instead of the 10w30 thats currently in it. Future builds will be planned out a little better, and I'll definantely look for a shop that has played with miatas alot more than the one I chose.
If it makes anyone feel better, someone got fired from the shop because of my build and someone else is on probation maybe next time they'll do **** right
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There were some differences with the JDM BP4w and BPZ3.
But yah, most likely its not a JDM engine at all, or if it is someone wasted a bunch of money importing an engine they could have gotten here.