We've finished up for this weekend. The engine side of the harness is all extended, repinned, and wired. Still have a couple small connectors that we don't know exactly what they go to. But i'm sure they'll be apparent once it's got power again.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1373819082


Owner sold his hard top. Money for buying rear deck carpet, soft top, and newish NA8 seats, hopefully trunk carpet and a few other minor detail things will come with.

Next couple updates should be fun. Will have more parts coming in for the manifold build. Stainless piping and what not. Hopefully we can get it on the road soon after. As long as i don't drag ass with building the turbo setup.
Oh and we still need a megasquirt. So if anyone has one to sell, that would be great.

What the fuck Florida?

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374276794
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374276794

Every time i dig into this car, i find more bad news.
Looks to be just that plate that covers the ECU. The floor board looks bad, but from what i can see it does not look rusted, if anything it's more than savable.
Well and the hole(that someone obviously drilled) in the floor i'll have to weld shut.

I go through all of this, and only found $0.40. What the serious fuck Florida? The driver side better produce.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374353289

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374353289

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Got the ECU plate off, that looks to be the only thing that was seriously rusted. The rest is all plenty savable. Only now we'll have to find a new way to mount and protect the Megasquirt.

Debating weather or not i want to do any more. Can't quite bring myself to prep and paint all this crap right now.
Maybe i should go buy some beer. It's way to late in the day for me to be sober.

hi, im the owner.
i cant thank dillon enough for his help and all the work he is putting in.

I have no idea what i'm doing.

drink beer, then magic happens

Some of that Taiwanese 316l came in today.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374704575

They forgot to ship the straight part. :(

316. you high roller you.

It wasn't that much. Then again i'm not paying, i was just told to get the best i could get.

For shits and giggles i called the local metal place asking about a section of 316 pipe 1' long. The guy said it was like $75. Screw that, i can get some online for a quarter of that price.

Yeah the 316 pipe is only a couple bucks more than the 304, its the 316 flanges that cost a fortune.

Ordered 2 two bolt 2 1/2" 304 exhaust flanges and it was 25 bucks.

I'll be putting gussets between the pipe and header flange, because that's 304.

The beautiful clean soft top is on. Glass rear window.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374924683

Oh you know. Just welding up holes in the floor.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374924683

Top.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374955272

Ohhhh wannahhh ride in my topdowncar baby?
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374955272

Before
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After
Gotta admit, you'd never think this was an NA6. Other than cockpit brace which we have. Need to get a weldnut, or rig something up. It should be easy to make it work.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374955272

Then we started doing this. Until we broke it.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1374955272

So we made a beer run.


Never work on your cars sober, kids.

another interior pic

Nice progress! It's going to be a good time when the Detroit area NA gang is all up and running.

So we decided not to do any drinking this weekend and we hardly got anything anything done.
But we did end up doing a few things.

Started out by doing some work to the 1.8 coil bracket so we could fit the 1.6 coils.
Plasma cutter. mmmmmmm
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

Something like this.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

Bottom holes needed to be widened, and i had to make a plate for the top bolts.
Easy enough.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

The coils are fatter than the 1.8 ones and hit the back of the head, so we had to put some spacers in, and extended bolts.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983
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Then we started fucking around.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

Welding and shit.
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https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

So we could mount this here.
You can hardly see it after it was painted with the Brainiac high efficiency-high strength-high temp-ultra protective black intercooler paint®.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

Made sure it worked. It will have a bottom cooling plate that will also help keep it in place.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

Painted.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375037983

while he was fucking around with a coil bracket, i was making provisions to keep me out of jail in the near future.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375038476

Lookie what just showed up...

No aids in here.


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375392598

Sexual ECU. I see this is all moving along nicely.

I know if i hype it up, everything will fall flat on it's face. But f it.

This weekend is shaping up to be a big weekend as far as this car goes. Maybe even mine too.

This just showed up in the mail, maybe i'll do something with it. Owner didn't want the fancy polished stuff. :(
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1375827622