i have plenty more pics but ill post at a later date

 

I was just in Pembroke Pines over this past weekend. I could have totally brought down a turbo setup for you. Because boost is what you are doing with the car.

 

damn dude. Lmk when if ever youre back here

 

just purged my entire food intake for the morning. thanks for that

 

Come get your turbo **** out of my garage, LOL

 

You were busy with a wedding when I was driving north. So it is all Ryan's fault.

 

If I had known I would have thrown it all out in the yard for you, LOL.

 

Damn Homie, how's that 370 treating you?

Good luck polishing that ghetto fabulous turd.

 

Been slowly working on this pile but nothing of great interest to share in pics yet. I do have a question though; with a coolant reroute and heater core delete (which that part i already did), is there any harm in removing this line all together? Im understand the car may take longer to warm up but i live in the buthole of the states; south Florida where its stupid hot. The cars never being tracked and the odds are that this one will never see a turbo on it. I mainly just want to clean up potential fail points like this stupid hose that ive already replaced twice.

 

You need the flow to keep water moving through the block for even temperatures and proper thermostat function. And it prevents pump cavitation.

I welded the inlet shut and added a threaded fitting to help avoid the manifold and turbo. My heater hose goes beneath the master cylinder and along the top of the frame rail but you probably don't need to go to that trouble if naturally aspirated. Just replace the hose and shield it from the damaging heat and it should be fine.

 

Well that sucks lol. Thanks for the input dude. Btw, do you still have that lake house for rent?

 

I sold it a few years ago. It was going to require some maintenance and I thought it had run its course for me. Onward to the next adventure.

 

Hello ladies. I was thinking of you all and decided to say hi. Blows my mind how much the worlds changed since I was here last and especially how we all used to be able to talk with impuinity lmao

 

Queue Hustler rant about pozzing up some unsuspecting negs.

You still have a miata?

 

Glad to see both of you are still here. No im about almost 3 years removed from my last Miata. I ended up in a rolling hemmeroid and I absolutely love it; a 500 Abarth. Currently just re did my tune after upping the boost to 24psi. It's got pretty much every bolt on but a larger turbo, injectors are in the cards. You still have your Miata?

 

Yeah! It's mostly resigned to track car duties (and weekend puts, occasionally to work), if you dig up my thread you can see some of the more recent updates. Semi-built bottom end, e85, 300+ WHP. I got the track bug about 3 years ago and have been doing that as much as possible. Turns out tracking a turbo miata reveals a lot of short comings and there's a lot of work to keep it reliable in that environment, even running it on wastegate pressure (~240whp) Who knew?! Working on getting it painted this season.. hopefully.

I'd rock a 500, right down my alley. I have a 323GTX that I'm DDing now.

 

Get us some pics of the Abarth!

 

Hello Leatherface! Some of us are still here.

 

LOL, Welcome back! Expected to see the old bloody face avatar again.

 

Back in the day you had to pay to have an avatar image. Wtf leather!