Wait wut, ripper vids? Are you guys drag racing this weekend?

 

Lol, nah, just street pulls. Because nothing says responsibility like doing pulls on the highway

Maybe tugs is more of the appropriate word for a miata, for multiple reasons.

 

Ok, some of my friends have been going up there until we have opening day. They are racing this weekend assuming it doesn't rain. Have fun and say hi to Vlad for me.

 

Unfortunately we're doing a remote tuning session, but will say hi nonetheless! Maybe one of these days I'll take it to a local test-n-tune for ***** and giggles. Would probably be a fun time

 

I should have known

 

Maybe if miataturbo.net track day is @ Speed Ventures Sonoma 5/15-16, you can come down early and do the wednesday night drags before it?

--Ian

 

We should definitely discuss another mt.net meet up, it was a bummer that last year didn't really happen (for the bulk of us). I've got my fingers crossed for things getting back to somewhat normal this summer though!

 

+1 hoping we get back to normal soon. Maybe by May we will be vaccinated and my wife will let me offer our guest room again.

 

Glad to hear you and @18psi will finally be huffing some gas together
...and my axe!
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How did the tuning go yesterday? But more importantly...

Where dem NAWZZZZZZZZ rippums vids is at?!

 

Tonight hopefully! Vlad had some family stuff to take care of, so we moved the date to tonight. I did get the nitrous system checked for leaks (found two) and plumbed the purge a little better so that it actually comes out the fender instead of dumping inside the fender well.

 

My life is a never-ending blur of nonstop work and cars and tuning and family and.........
.....thanks for bearing with me and being patient.

You'll need two big ones, overnight from japan, I don't want you unloading in third

 

Is good homie! I'm just excited for the car to actually cold start That's been by far my biggest frustration haha

I also got my hotspot working since it was giving me problems last night, so maybe it's a good thing we moved it to today!

 

Things are happening

 

Things indeed happened last night

Car feels sooooo much better than before. No nitrous pulls yet, but we're (Vlad is, I'm not doing jack **** lol) still dialing things in. It looks like I messed something up with the vvt wiring since it's completely flatlined in the log, so I've got some investigating to do on what's going on there and then after that, we can get back to some pulls and giving it some naws.

Seriously excited for the end results, the car already behaves so much better than before.

 

Worked on Brad a bit last night. Started out by verifying that I had 12v to one wire on the vvt plug. Then since that was true, I decided to pull the ecu to troubleshoot what was going on. I verified that nitrous 1 output was working. After going back and forth with @afm for a while, flipping the polarity in ignition options seemed to fix things. Albert schooled me a bit on how things work and on a general level I didn't understand how the MS was reporting vvt angle. Turns out I didn't need to actually pull the ecu, but whatever. With that fixed, I went out and did another pull for Vlad. According to Vlad, we're getting close, so that's pretty exciting! He already sent me a new tune, so as long as replacing the fuel pump in my daily tonight doesn't take too long tonight, I should get out and do a little more driving/logging. I'm hoping to test out the nitrous this weekend, but we shall see how everything else goes.

Also, driving around with the lift has been pretty pleasant. I stole the wheels/tires off of Katy's miata because I wanted to do pulls with stock height tires but it hasn't been nearly as jarring as when I had the lift on previously (and it had no droop lol). It looks a little derpy because of that, but after the tuning is all done, I'll throw the other tires back on for another month or so before track season rolls in.

 

Make sure your battery cables aren't loose before blaming the fuel pump, or something...

 

I would hope the battery terminals aren't loose with a bottle of NAWZ in the trunk

 

Let's hope not