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As far as I know nothing else was changed beyond standard rebuild parts. Same compressor and turbine housing, just bored out for a bigger compressor wheel.
And this was Oregon 92 pump gas. No plans for e85, its a pain to get around here.
Just a comp wheel upgrade, nothing else. I'd love to try e85 but really this is more power than I ever wanted and frankly more power than this Miata really needs. First track event should be in a couple weeks assuming my new suspension shows up.
Can't help but compare dyno graphs as I get more and more files from cars I've tuned.
Now that Laz is making ~310hp, I can compare it to Ed's 10ae/msm/vvt/absurdflow car that makes 320.
This graph basically illustrates the trade off of big turbo vs. small turbo. Ed's bigger turbo spools slower, which can be seen in the 3200-3700 range. But after that he's stays 10-25kpa lower and has a 30-45ft/lb advantage from 4000-5700, where I think the Honda manifold on Laz just barely starts to claw back some of the tiny turbo's disadvantage.
A few updates, shocks are on, resevoirs are mounted, corner weighted and aligned. -4 up front -2.8 out back.
Passenger seat back in, axis power hood has been mounted, just waiting to mount my gv canards and a splitter once Henry makes the bracket for it. Also has risers for the wing to put on as well.
Traction mainly, and the rear has the wing to keep it glued down at higher speeds but I want it to rotate at lower speeds. I'm going to do some testing and see, might go to 3 degrees in the back.
Car will get a full respray, but for now I kinda dig the ridiculous yellow hood
Keeping with the name, we're lighting a fire under Laz to bring it back from the dead with a simple VVT N/A build, Link G4X pnp ecu, MCS singles, 1.8 brakes and Cobalt Racing pads, 15x9 Konig with 245 RS4s, the cheapest radiator we could find, couple of hopes, lots of dreams. Plan is LDRL enduro. More to come if anyone shows interest.
For you sir, have a photo. We have a very skilled fabricator working with us, he’s tackling the floor drop, modding the door bar, angled the radiator inlet to clear the intake, capped off the mixing manifold, list goes on. And after ~12 years we finally replaced the quarter panel!
You guys are making me feel pressured to show up more updates, I'll try! Slight stall in progress as our fabricator has been to Sebring and back, but hopefully some progress will happen this week on the floor drop, then we can sit in it to bleed brakes/clutch, and once exhaust is built, we can dyno. MCS should be assembled this week, Whiteline bushing kit is almost completely installed, fronts and rear uppers are done, just have the x8 in the two rear lower control arms to install, then it's alignable.
Current interior is...a work in progress:
Wheels were originally going to be some black 15x8 dekagrams, but a co-worker snatched those from me for cheap cause 225 daily tire choices are dumb, and another co-worker was selling these for some SBC RPF1s, I'd rather have these x9s anyways for our current 245s. Plan for the future is 225s, but we had these on hand.
I'd like to announce Motec as a sponsor of this build! Jk, we had an old C125 laying on the shelf, all we needed was a $500 harness.
I've also been "restoring" the old Revlimiter cluster. It's seen better days, but since it's a secondary cluster to the Motec, I'm not going to spend too much time on it. I did get all 5 gauges working, and swapped some bulbs to get all the back lighting working. When I first plugged it in I had a working batt light, but no CEL. As you can see in the video, I now have a working CEL but no batt light...
Rest of the car hasn't changed too much. Full whiteline bushing kit is installed, MCS singles installed, rough alignment is done, hardtop had ~5 layers of paint stripped, and we've been whittling away at the fab list. Floor drop and seat mounts are ~90% complete, kill switch is mostly wired (pictured above), just need to finish the door bar, paint, and go racing.
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