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Wait, what? Why is your turbo setup gone. I read through all this and now I'm lost.

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Originally Posted by dgmorr (Post 697065)

Wait, what? Why is your turbo setup gone. I read through all this and now I'm lost.

Money. I left my full time job to go back to full time school with no job. Living at home is nice!

The current setup is for breaking in the motor/ quickly getting it up to daily driver status. I will most likely buy an ebay turbo in the meantime, then upgrade when I can afford it. I guess you could say the whole turbo thing has been delayed.

As far as the ebay turbo goes, I'm looking at a 2860 or 2871-sized turbo with a T2 flange. I can get it as soon as I sell my old greddy setup, which I need to get off my ass and make a FS thread for. I already have all the pieces for the turbo, except for oil lines.

AWESOME!

Congrats dude...now get a job and turbo that puppy.

I told you I was off all next week to help you finish your car. Now I guess I'll just have to come over and drive it.

I will be going to the casino this weekend. Luck is on my side. At mile marker 20, I noticed I was getting a little drip of oil under the motor after being parked for awhile. I went in to investigate and the only source was the oil drain plug. I go to tighten it and.... IT WAS FINGER LOOSE! I can just imagine this coming all the way out, dumping my oil, frying the engine, and resulting in me selling the Miata out of frustration and resorting to driving a Fiesta. Crisis averted. PHEW!

I am now proud to announce, that after almost 3 years, I am officially oil leak free!

Yesterday I got to use my Millermatic 180 for the second time. The first time it was a couple tacks on a TV wall mount. Ok, holding up $1K worth of TV is alright. This time it was my first experience in exhaust work. Universal Magnaflow cat. It was pretty easy once I got to the actual welding part. It's an SS cat so I had to get some 308L wire. I think I had so much slag because I didn't bother to wire brush the mild steel pipe ends.
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Today I passed emissions. My inspection sticker expired in 2009, and I was getting nervous driving around tuning the car. Last time, I was able to plug in to megasquirt while on the dyno so I could tweak my AFRs to 14.7. This time I had a different laptop that I hadn't used Tunerstudio on before. Turns out Windows 7 lacks native support for the Belkin serial to USB adapter. Sadly, I wasn't able to take a log of the dyno runs because of this. I'm running the untouched base spark map.

I passed the 15mph test without a hitch. AFRs hovered around 14.3 on the gauge.
HC was 82ppm, limit at 141ppm
CO was .24%, limit at .79%
NOx was 469ppm, limit at 1088ppm
Dilution was 15.2%, limit at >6%

The 25mph test was a different story. It failed the first time, running ~15.3 AFRs in 3rd gear. The guy suggested we try it in 4th gear (6 speed 3.909 diff). AFRs were ~14.4 at this load point. I likely failed the first chance due to the CO emissions.
HC was 121ppm, limit at 136ppm
CO was .76%, limit at .76% CLOSE! :)
NOx was 658ppm, limit at 984ppm
Dilution was 15.3, limit at >6

It's got 70 miles on this motor now and I've yet to go over 5k rpms. It reminds me of my greddy kit when I first installed it, minus the boost lag.

Stan, that sounds like a good option! :)
Damon, I should be able to fund whats left of the turbo parts with the money from selling my old greddy kit. Fingers are crossed.

Well, my JB-welded coolant reroute spacer bung held up well, until I decided it was time to make a few visits to Mr. Redline. I suppose the extra vibration is what made it fail. It's just a good thing it decided to fall off when I turned onto the GF's street.

Instead of finding someone with a TIG welder (closest friend is 1.5 hours away), I decided to retap the spacer for 1/4" NPT. Then I bought a M-M 1/4" coupler, and a 1/4 to 3/8" M-F reducer. I cut the reducer in half till so that I was left with a flat surface for the CLT sensor to mate with, and tapped the now-beefier fitting for the CLT sensor. This should hold up indefinitely.

Just hit the 100 mile marker. It's oil change time.

I'll leave you with a little acceleration video I took tonight. It's still rich as hell, but it's getting there. I'm glad that I don't have the urge to buy any N/A power adders.

Time for an update!

Due to the lack of funding, I've decided to become the one and only 2 liter with a Greddy kit. It should manage 270whp or so. I bought an ETD racing Greddy manifold and it just came in. Here are some pictars:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/ETDMani1.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/ETDMani2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/ETDMani3.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/ETDMani4.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/ETDMani5.jpg

There's a lot of things about that turbo I'm liking. Probably one of the best functioning IWGs you'll ever use.

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Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 755514)

There's a lot of things about that turbo I'm liking. Probably one of the best functioning IWGs you'll ever use.

Yes, I was about to say the same thing. According to Borg Warner the internal waste gates on the smaller frame turbos are larger than the external I have on my car.

Full Race did back to back tests using the large frame EFR's internal waste gate vs. a large tial external. The EFR's internal was identical in performance. I read some where that the internals are 44mm or 46MM, gigantic internal systems and they work flawlessly.

Ready for a surprise? The iwg port is actually only 31mm in diameter with a 36 mm valve head. On the larger models they upped that to a 36mm port with 42mm valve head. This is according to the BW EFR brief.

Why don't you weld up a setup? What's the deal with the Greddy? Isn't every part of that kit *besides* the turbo asking to be replaced?

I guess it would make a good stepping stone...but after having a too small/too many bends intercooler and mani/DP setup once I swore to never short myself again. 3" exhaust, COPS & WI can only compensate so much once you want to push it a little more.

(this is NOT an attempt to score a cheap Greddy kit)

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Originally Posted by gospeed81 (Post 755901)

Lolol. Go ahead and click on the pictures of my manifold.

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Originally Posted by Bryce (Post 755918)

Lolol. Go ahead and click on the pictures of my manifold.

Doh!

God's gift to the boost tribe!

All these Borg builds are so fucking winning.
Seriously. Good job guys