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info on where you acquired said sway bar setup?

mr20turbo

https://smallfortuneracing.com/

Crarrs

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You're very far past this point, but it's a similar level of frustration with the stock MSM piping with the big 1.25" Racing Beat bar. It takes some additional work to get the piping to clear the bolt heads on the bushing clamps because those larger cast parts take up so much more space than the light-duty "straps" that clamp the stock (and other smaller) bars.

mr20turbo

I've had the radium fuel hanger sitting in the box for a while. The 104! step instructions they came with didn't really motivate me to get into it quickly. Come to find out the unit is made for every year miata and you really needed to pay attention to 1/3rd of them. Which, do pay attention to them due to this. We had a hell of a time getting the pump into the proper location. There is flexibility in various mounting points and they need to be adjusted to allow the hanger to be positioned properly. It took some adjusting, but it is in, I have fuel pressure, and the gauge works. So win. TBD on if it solves the fuel starve issue.

It is a nice piece



It comes with MANY parts and step 1 is "disassemble everything"


Single pump configuration. Which, now that I look at this picture, I might have wanted to put the pump on the other side. Guess I will see if it is an issue.



...and in its home
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mr20turbo

...and the final piece came to finish the install off. Serves no real purpose, other than looking good.

mr20turbo

Should have done this one a while back. Added a back brace to the Kirkey. Major improvement in the rigidity.

mr20turbo

I had some non car projects the past couple months and got an chance to focus attention towards the miata. By focus attention I mean I hauled it back over the Nick at Precision Welding.

Before i took it over I pulled the driveshaft and it looks like it picked up some damage I missed. I noticed both clips were missing and closer inspection shows it got into the flange mount.





Rerouted IC pipes.





...and the 8.8 is hanging in its spot.



It looks like the previous driveshaft is going to work once I get the new ears and flange on it. After that throw the axles in, add fluid, and make the offseason projects done.

mr20turbo

Got lucky, the previous driveshaft fit with limited modification. Repaired the damaged end, a new ujoint, and swapped to the 8.8 flange. Soup.





Another picture of the 8.8 hangers




8.8 swap axle next to the insane shaft units that came out



Cleaned up and back on the ground. I have plans to take it to a shakedown event this Sunday if the weather holds up.

mr20turbo

Nut and bolt on the car prior to the Charlotte Tour I noticed the 8.8 was throwing quite a bit of gear oil out of the breather. I threw a quick catch can setup together. I'll clean up the install, but for this event it did it's purpose. No oils from a FP miata this year.



I picked up Ray as a codriver which came with a set of Hoosier wets, so that was nice. Being able to attend a couple locals before this event we had a pretty good idea of some setup changes we wanted to make and took some steps in the right direction. There is still some work to be done, mainly around the brakes. We nailed the wet setup. The problems in the dry really were beneficial in the day 2 conditions. The ability to have traction control as an assist and the ability to pull some power out of the car was nice. Really composed and confidence inspiring. Also the rain-x application prior to heading out seemed to do its job. No wipers after all. We split days on fastest in class and stacked up nicely to some good competition.

The solostorm seems to like to drop communication at times between the racecapture. It connects but has no GPS. Closing and reopening seems to get it back on track. I am sure it has something to do with the powering of the car off and on between runs. Annoying thing to stay on top of. Only got our first runs on Saturday. Managed to capture them all on Sunday.



Honestly, I needed a weekend like this. After a couple years of being off pace, chasing issues, solving issues, and having more issues quite frankly I was getting worn out. I was dreading another season of the same and it was nice to focus on making the car better/faster. I believe there is some course dependency in the results. Wes/Jesse had a lot of limiter on day 1 and I believe we were on the better tire day 2, but i'll take it.

doward

Saw the car on SoloMatters and was like "Hey I "know" that guy!"

Nice job. I bet that kind of weekend feels great after the long new-build teething process.

mr20turbo

Oh, forgot to mention this. The radium fuel hanger is not the solution to a fuel starve issue when making turns. Don't buy it for that. Somehow worse than the stock configuration that was giving me problems. Looks cool though.

Padlock

so pardon my ignorance, but what is the functional use of the radium fuel hanger solution other than looking fancy?

mr20turbo

hang 2 pumps. I thought it would be a step towards solving a fuel starve issue that definitely exists when running the fuel demands this car has. It was not.