41mpg downhill with a tail-wind?

That's what most use, yes. Just make sure you get a legit OEM one, and not a vatozone special. If you go to autozone/oriellys/etc they will actually give you the exact same PCV valve as they do for a miata when you ask for it.

Dunno, it got 41mpg average going from Indy to Gainesville. And that was in not-so-fresh condition. I think i can improve on it.


Ok cool, thanks! I believe the factory 95 valve cover is on this car, so it should work fine.

Fun fact: MX6 GT PCV is the same as 323 GTX apparently.


Normally i'd just go up to the garage and grab one out of the 10-15 valve covers i have laying around, but that sounds like a lot of work.


Where's the best/cheapest place to get one of these? I'd like to buy from one of the vendors that supports the community, but so far the cheapest i can find is $25 to my door from Arlington, which is fine.... but i'm surprised that Trackspeed, 5X, Moss, 949, Begi, etc, don't carry them.

mazda comp? Well if you're ordering other stuff, because shipping charges.

I'm not a member, and don't have other stuff to order anyways.

Came out to $25 shipped from Arlington, i'm ok with that.

Shit's going to go DOWN, now! Once VICS is active, we're going to see some serious shit! This 2554r was entirely too laggy before. This should help that.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1395406948


Have some cat.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1395406948

You have cute hands. I love your nails.

Where did you get that vics connector? It looks brand new. Wait isnt one of the egr connectors the same as the vics connector?

Thanks! They're only like that if i haven't worked on a car in a few days.


It is a brand new connector. Got it from Ballenger.

Oh so they bit the bullet and ordered like 1000 of them or whatever they said they needed to do because the connector was NLA.

I don't know any of these things. I just wanted the connector, searched the googles, found the connector, ordered it, and it arrived in my mailbox 3 days later.

I just bought a VICS connector from them too. Arrived yesterday.

Do me a favor and make a quick writeup when you guys wire in the VICS (either one of you), i know the gist of it.. use a MS output, enable it as an on/off switch in MS, etc. I'm sure i could figure it out, but I've yet to set mine up.

Also, in for MOAR SPOOL. Plz get us a on/off datalog so we can see the diff.

Sorry, I failed again on getting the logs up, I was busy getting my truck back from the impound.

It doesn't even have a goddamn engine and I've spent more than I paid for it a few times over now :(

vics isn't going to improve your spool.
it might improve lowend grunt, but that is not the same as spool.

fixing a pre-turbo leak should definitely improve spool

Gist, wire one wire to 12v the other to a switched output on the MS. You're done. I used the A/C relay wires.

I guess it depends on the MS then. On my 1st gen MSPNP, the A/C relay wires are just a direct pass-through on the daughter board from the A/C pushbutton. They aren't controlled by the processor in any way.

I have an EMS4, its not as sophisticated an an MS1.

THIS, i'm on a MS1 as well. I assumed I could use one of the random outputs on the MS harness, and there is a way to enable that output as a simple on/off switch activated via RPM (like a window switch?). Still have not researched this enough though.

Yay! VICS buddies!

Sure, i just need to figure out which way to trigger it. Should be easy.

:(

I haz a motor for you, though. So that's good.


I suppose if i take off the turbo and manifold to have them leveled/resurfaced, that would be the ideal time to also install the 3" downpipe, yes?

I don't understand how this leak started. It's a damn cast iron manifold.

I've poked around a bit in TS but haven't setup the VICS yet. Red car is still on jackstands with engine, suspension and interior pulled. When I do, I'll post a quick write-up. "Should" be straightforward (famous last words).

I'm just not sure what to tap into. This is a Brain built DIYPNP in this car.

But... guy who had Brain build it said that it was already set up for VICS switching, so i wonder if one of those orange clusterfuck wires is what i need to use.

I need to PM Brain and see if he has the pinout for this thing.


Once i get the pinout, i'll have it wired up pretty quick. I'll activate it when i have the time to do some driving and let autotune handle the differences.