Posting just because I like the new title.

:burncash:

Hopefully not. The only barrier to getting it running and tuned (so far) is the O2 sensor which gets here today. torsen/axles/dshaft came with the car uninstalled. And I'm planning on spraying the Z in my garage so it might be useful to get a little practice on this thing.

Can't fix miata so moves to different platform. Because it will be super easy.

Wait me? I already have a running driving turbo na8. Just bought this from Tim for kicks/parts/price I couldn't say no to.

he means OP

My bad. This car has me on the defensive.

make a thread already!

All in due time.

In other news:

gaiz how importnt r des bolts

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fa7d837ccc.jpg


AKA does anyone have a spare PPF to trans bolt? (The big one, I've got a spare one that goes to the L-bracket.

Wideband works. Was ready to button everything up and attempt a start, when I decided I should probably bend the heater pipe away from the downpipe a bit. That was successful, but the turbo-to-downpipe vband looked like this:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...1f56b767b8.jpg
Not sure if it was due to the non-MKTurbo TacoTaco manifold sitting the turbo a hair further back or something, but the vband had been clamped down with the two flanges not actually being flush, and there was some soot from an exhaust leak. Despite my best efforts at bending the clamp back into shape, a combination of metal fatigue and bent up threads caused the bolt to snap at low torque. I couldn't find a 2.5" clamp anywhere so I grabbed one on Amazon. One step closer to just parting it out.

I'm guessing you're in the market for some 1.6 turbo junk?

The saga continues here: https://www.miataturbo.net/build-thr...-garage-97076/