Does he have an......ACE in the hole?!!?!?!? :laugh:


I'll see myself out....

What'd you just call me?

I feel another request for a ride along outgoing.

I was hoping to see him come smoke my ass at Sears Point.

Got my Xida ACEs a little earlier than expected, got them installed yesterday and aligned the car today. 300/200 rates, didn't have a stock front sway so the RB tubular bar will have to stay until I can get one.

So far, I am pretty impressed. I've had a few different setups on Acamas, most recently a 600/350 MSM Bilstein setup that I felt was underdamped, and a 9/6kg setup with some Taiwanese shocks we were evaluating which was better than the MSM Bilsteins but still slightly underdamped. My initial impression is that 300/200 might be too far in the other direction, especially given this car's setup (~2500lbs, 300whp/270wtq, 245 RS4s on 15x9s), but the ride quality is pretty incredible. I will give it a few weeks to adjust, but my inclination is that I would prefer something slightly stiffer, like 450/300, even if it meant a small hit in ride quality. In a 2200lb car the 300/200 would probably work better, but Acamas is very porky. Ride height was ~5.8F ~6R, I need to check where it settled to after the drive to/from alignment.

The remote has four separate adjustments, each with a range of 1 (full soft) to 5 (full stiff). It has static rebound adjustment for front and rear, a pitch adjustment which stiffens based on accel/decel inputs, and a roll adjustment which stiffens based on g-force input. Currently have the shocks set to 3F/2R static, 4 pitch, 4 roll. On flat, level highway, I can back the static settings off to 2/2 or 2/1 to let it float a little more, but it feels too soft to me around town if I go lower than 3/2. I don't think I've really experienced the full potential of the ACE valve with the driving I've done so far, but it feels much tighter in transitions and under full power than I would expect it to given the spring rates. A car which spins 2nd all the time and 3rd at night should probably feel like a sloppy mess with 200# rear springs, but it definitely doesn't.

It will be at MRLS for test rides. :party:

Working out the final details before I do my big-power E85 tune. Installed an AEM 3.5bar MAP sensor today, doing a little road tuning at current boost levels before I hit the dyno sometime next week. If I don't hit 400whp it's because something broke :party:

Can I get a title change :party:

Specs here: https://www.miataturbo.net/dynos-tim...-scared-95108/

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So ahhhh. When am I stopping by for a ride?

That looks mental.

AWW YIS!!!

name the title you want, bae

Its already changed :D

I was do something like "500hp daily driver"

:rofl:

Gotta love this place
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I don't see how the trans will handle that much power. I hope you have something in the works

You know, 1mm OS on a b6 head resulted in roughly ~7% more flow, and I think ID has a 1300cc.... just sayin

awesome power man, simply awesome.

The old 254cfm hand-ported race head from Rover's 2013 PTE motor is sitting on my shelf, zero hours after being rebuilt, +1/+1 valves. Just bolting that on with ID1700s and an EFR7163 would make 550whp+. My current shortblock probably wouldn't tolerate that for too long, but with billet mains it would. I could probably crack the 600whp mark with some small cams and a little more RPM, and with a billet crank and sleeves, there's no reason why it wouldn't be reliable, too. I have sources for all of that stuff.

The only thing I can't come up with is a logical purpose for that package to exist. :party:

Billet caps? Why no push to market?

I'm jealous of all that spool. There's something clearly flawed with my setup when looking at everyone's 6758 plots. You're making 20% more power by 4k. No slouch!!

I also don't think my car can handle more right now. But that's a beautiful climbing curve.

Uh oh...... time to plan a new build with new toys

time for a 7163? :D