The force is strong with this one.


It is starting to look like it's migraine related vertigo. Possibly easily treatable.

Edit : Nope.

One hundred percent loss of inner ear function on left side due to vestibular neuritis. Likely due to a virus. Small outside chance it is from shingles due to having chicken pox in 9th grade but more likely just a local virus contracted recently. 60 percent chance of zero recovery on that side, 40ish percent virus is defeated and recovery occurs. I get to relearn how to do everything with half the inner ear balance inputs from here forward. Congrats.

Fucking hell man I'm sorry. Did it come on all at once and surprise you?

Ugh.

Sitting on the sofa having a beverage about 9pm and within a couple of minutes feel like I had several beverages more than I did. It feel a lot like being stumbling drunk all the time, minus the slow reaction times part. And it makes me fatigued because of the extra work my brain is putting in.

Shit six, I'm sorry to hear it. I must've missed where this was mentioned elsewhere. Hope that 40% chance works out.

RTC, your current goals will be fine with the stock returnless system. When you're ready for over 300 whp, look at doing a return system.

Thanks, buddy.

Good health is a gift. My issue is an inconvenience. I know a 10yr old girl with bone cancer. Perspectives change as you draw the curtain back wider.

But sincere thanks for sure.

Oh, I hear you there. My brother had bone cancer (and survived) when he was 2 years old. But it still sucks.

Bookmarking this here for future reference re: return fuel system for nb1.

https://www.miataturbo.net/showpost.php?p=1364807&postcount=78

Before coming to med school, I used to do research in a spine surgery and orthopedic oncology clinic. Anddd today I saw a little girl that had cancer at age 2 and has probably spent a good chunk of her life getting cut open and recovering from various surgeries and treatments.

That said, I think it's great to keep things in perspective, but you can still do that while being cognizant that your situation sucks too. Then again, I'm constantly puzzled by stoics because I've seen patients like this guy who had a history of cancer show up because he couldn't do his job anymore since he couldn't raise his arm. This was the first time he came back to see us. Turns out it had been going on for months. At the point of time that he showed up tumor had metastasized all over the damn place...

I'll cross my fingers for you man. Hopefully you end up having the best possible recovery.

On a more thread related note: parts have been trickling in. I got a TB/WP kit with all the fixins from ebay. The seller that usually deals in pretty high volume stuff actually took the time out to customize everything for me and added a few parts here and there that I wanted that wasn't included in the kit. Price was still fantastic. I didn't get the gates racing kit because I didn't think it was worth the extra cost given that I'd still change the TB at the same time interval and because I've heard mixed things. The radiator hoses etc also came in from Treasure Coast Miata. I decided to swap them out because pressing the front hose led to all sorts of nice 'crunch' noises. I showed the car to a mechanic friend and he said that the vacuum lines looked fine so I'm leaving them the hell alone for now.

I think my friend Chris (96morbst on here) and Forrest are heading over on weds next week to help get the car prepped. Goal is to tear down stuff on tuesday night/weds AM, then do the TB/WP/Radiator/Hoses/Coolant reroute.... Hopefully that's not going overboard with everything! I'm also hoping that we can install the wideband and megasquirt if the car starts up okay and everything checks out. I think that's unlikely, but hopefully we'll be able to do that the following week. If I can have that all done sometime in early jan, I can start learning to tune for a few months on the NA application and get the bigger injectors etc working. We'll probably end up swapping clutches at some point, but I'm okay waiting on that until after we install the turbo because the plan is to keep things running on low boost for a bit and tune and take care of issues as they come up instead of jumping from NA to 10 psi or what have you. I didn't really want to drive the car out in the winter, but I can probably play it by ear and pick a few nice days when it's not wet out even if there's some salt on the road. I definitely don't want to mess this car up with rust etc!

I haven't been doing too much research or reading too much right now because I'm in the middle of finals. Had a gnarly exam yesterday morning and I have an exam on tuesday that covers about 6 months worth of material. I honestly didn't think I was capable of working this hard. I wake up every morning wondering if my brain is going to be too damn full to do anything, but it somehow keeps absorbing school stuff. I definitely think I'm becoming dumber in every other facet of life though!

Started the maintenance part of this project with a metric ton of assistance. Thanks again Chris (aka 96morbst).

Wanted to get the tb, wp, radiator, and coolant reroute done today, but we ran out of time. Got the TB/WP done and put the valve cover back on in order to finish things up on tuesday when we have more time.

Some pictures:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...6ec9378139.jpgValve cover is off and away we go!
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...e8aa87cbd2.jpgNeeded to get the undertray off. Turns out that the previous owner or a shop she took the car to cut off a panel under the undertray to get the fogs out. In order to reach the undertray bolts, I did a favor to the other side and evened it out.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...efb44da5a7.jpgTDC bitches.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...bacc1feab4.jpgChris teaching me how to do shit.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7f43a0154a.jpgChris cursing at the timing belt
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...321bb5b5bd.jpgYes, that is a desk lamp being used to light my engine bay.

So I have the fm exhaust and downpipe. A downpipe would be really expensive to have made, but I'm curious what it would run to have a local shop make a 3 inch exhaust using the muffler that folks on here love.

I wonder if it would be worth it to sell the exhaust I have and have the 3 inch one made up. I don't care about power as much as spool. I wonder how big of a difference it would make.

It was worth a decent amount on my setup. like 400rpm or something crazy.

Guess who has a mig welder :party:

I would imagine a lot of people do, including myself.

For some wheely big decisions:

What do folks think of the ND sport wheels (16x6.5) on an NB1? I found some locally for a reasonable price (~300-350 with tires). Other alternative would be avids for a similar amount in 15x8. Both sets of wheels weigh about 16lbs per wheel.

Here are the avids. Probably have about 2k miles on the direzzas:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...42e83ca5fc.jpg

ND Sport wheels and probably have about 500 miles on the stock ND tires.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d22b2aa07e.jpg

One of the reasons I'm trying to get new wheels is because the tires on my current wheels are pretty shot. I don't want to have to buy new tires for the wheels at this point because I'll be committing to the wheels for a bit longer. I doubt they'd sell for anything and I see that as a bit of a waste of money when I could spend about a 100 bucks more and get lighter wheels and decent tires. I'm actually not even sure what the tire size is on the wheels I have now. I should probably price out tires. I can't see it being less than like 200 bucks to buy the tires and have them installed though.


I meant only the exhaust though, not the midpipe or downpipe. Local shop quoted like 1200 bucks for the midpipe and exhaust which is way too much. Price was about 300 for the exhaust. If I can get just the 3 inch magnaflow and exhaust setup was that worth 400 rpm or are you saying that it was 3 inch from downpipe back that was worth 400rpm? For a street car that sounds really awesome. I don't usually wrangle the car too much on the street, so hitting a solid amount of boost by 3-3.5k would be really nice. I guess this is also something I can do in the future, i.e. run this setup for a while and then do stuff later. Since it's not getting installed for a bit, I figured I might as well list the exhaust on craigslist and see if anyone bites. If the cost evens out then, hey... why not.

DON'T GET GROUNDED DAMMIT!

But I'm intrigued...

I went from 3" dp with 2.5(ish)" exhaust. to full 3". Gained a lot of spool

Don't put 16's on your car, especially 16's that are only 6.5" wide.
15x8's minimum is what you need. Run a 205/50 tire.

Maybe don't get boat anchor 15x8's? You have many, many affordable choices in ~12 lb 15x8's. Konigs (dial in, flatout, hypergram, wideopen, helix... probably others...), 6UL, advanti storms, Tirerack has wheels that are in that range for cheap...

The ND sport wheels would look and work fine, but it's not exactly a performance setup.

What's that tire rack wheel that some people run? That's his style, and they're on the cheap side.

c3m. Or Kosei K8.

oh never mind, C3m is 15x9 only. C1m is 15x7. K8r is 15x9, under 13 lbs, and on sale on tirerack at $105/wheel.