My next car to sale thread
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Also, FRT: didn't you have a mr2 spyder for a while? I've always had a thing for those, I was wondering what you thought of it and why you got rid of it (if you did) for a miata.
did it ever get boooooosted?
did it ever get boooooosted?
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I still miss driving that car a lot. If I ever make a lot of money one day I will own about 10 cars under 10k instead of one 100k car.
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My buddy had a car (miata) shipped from Chicago to Houston with no rash at all. The car ended up having a dying motor (different issue alltogether), but no "rash" or noticeable damage to the car.
YMMV. Good luck!
YMMV. Good luck!
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BTW, I've never had a car successfully transported without some rash. Make sure you really check it over when you get it. Personally, I would have flown out and driven it back. Would have been less time, probably less cost and damage, and you would have gotten a nice road trip with it!
And trust me I will be going over the car pretty well. I should have had koto put a SUPER conservative tune on it prior haha.
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Good luck on the new acquisition.
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I'm not really to worried about damage, just don't like it sitting in some shipping yard for 4 weeks.
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I haven't changed man, I just bought my dream car since I could finally afford to (bonus money).
I actually drove that car from DLI to Florida and up to NC (with a several-month stop in Texas on the way). Then from Bragg to TX and back again for BNCOC... when the daily Civic I bought blew its engine. Ironic...
My post-dyno .msq is floating around here somewhere, but beware loading my old .msqs.. they aren't all done with the COPs on, so double-check those dwell settings!
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Well.. it was tuned on 93 by Jerry at DIY. He tuned the spark table to 247 and then took out 7hp worth of timing to arrive at 240. And then, after the dyno session I put the WI fuse back in. I think even with 91 you should be perfectly fine with some distilled water in the reservoir. Or you could pull some out of the spark table to be doubly sure.
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Or when I have ALL the parts to swap and the engine is built. Earliest I see this happening is Spring 2014.
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sorry i'm late to the party but from research and now my own experience can say that the begi sg downsy pipe suffers from not enough space from the internal wastegate to the wastegate gas dump. basically the wastegate arm/washer opens into the dump section and in turn blocks the wastegate dump. I fixed the creep issue by welding a second flange against theirs. the only real problem this generated from me is my inconel screws weren't long enough and I had to use studs not as good.
hope that's helpful. Since I added that spacer in i've had no creep.
hope that's helpful. Since I added that spacer in i've had no creep.