What would you do about this?
VVT engine, RB NA exhaust, OEM Mazda cat (for fitment purposes)
Hits the diff:

Hangers rub the sway bar and don't line-up with the body-hangers:

Rubs the bumper:

I bolted the cat, the midpipe, then used all the strength I had to get the v-band connection to line up. I had a similar problem on my daily, made the mid-pipe 2" longer, and it fits on both cars now.

 

when you unbolt the rear section from mid, does the muffler hang okay?

 

"Okay" as in it won't hit anything but will still probably melt the bumper. The hangers are a little tweaked, but it's livable.

 

Is that an NB "cat-back"?

It's my understanding, do to the differences in mounting angles on the headers up front, you either need to use all NA exhaust parts, or all NB exhaust parts.

 

I believe it's NA. That's what I ordered at least.

Quan Item No. Description Price Extension
---- ----------- ------------------------------- -------------- ----------------
1 61-0171 COMPLETE Cat-Back $399.00 $399.00
RoadsterSport 3 Miata Polished
Stainless Steel Exhaust for
90-97 1990-1997

 

Ahh ok, just throwing it out there. For some reason I was thinking your car was an NB.

 

Price is wrong, female K9.

 

It almost looks like it's short somewhere, cause the rubber hanger is touching the sway bar, and it should be straight downish. If it was, it looks like you'd have enough room. What's the story on your cat/test pipe?

 

Cat is OEM. It will be replaced with a resonated pipe when I get fitment figured-out.

 

Un bolt it and throw a small piece of ply wood or something I between the flanges, see if it solves your issues.

 

Next week.

I wired-up everything aside from the tach and the oil temp sender and I still have to run the new speedo-cable, then the car can go on the ground.

 

I like that pcv.

 

It's about to go bye bye.

 

Makes perfect sense to me, if you really love racing, the addiction is worse than meth.

 

It's not really about this car anymore, it's about the next one (PTE)

 

I totally understand.

Any intelligent person on this forum would...

 

that's going to be an issue.

 

Probably would have fit if you had cut that window in the firewall.

 

Remaining tasks:

1. Get valve cover welded and bolted on
2. Get water pump inlet welded and bolted
3. Purchase 99 lower rad hose
4. Plug in Greek computer
5. Corner balance
6. Align
7. Tune
8. Buy SM6s and mount them
9. Floss
10. Worship Satan, prince of immortal darkness

Today I finished all wiring, put the radiator in, made a mount and installed cruise control, wired new tach/G2X wires. This weekend I'm putting the car on the ground and cleaning the garage so I can build ducting for ShaneM's ****-heap.

 

what he really means is he is cleaning the garage so I'll come up and bring his sim racing gear. Speaking of, i need that list of parts for the oil cooler ****.