1badmx5 in the 1/8 mile
 

We took my miata out to the track last night (1/8 mile). Ran pump gas, street tires, and 12 pounds of boost (on the wastegate spring). We went 7.80at 95 mph with a 1.80 60ft. Still way too much wheelspin in 1st and 2nd. Im going to try and play with the launch control to get it to come out of the hole a little softer. I want it to go 7.50 the way it sits before we crank the boost up. Will post video shortly.

Warren

Uh, mods/setup?

damn that's fast!

I run a fully built FM Long block at 9.1
MoTeC M4 ecu with data logging and wide band
1000cc injectors
Full Race Spec Garrett GT3076R
Tony Palo Tuned

Here are a couple pics

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Thats such a sick fucking car!

More pics pleaseee!!!!!:bigtu:

Great Car!!
I am going turbo too (On a silver 1.8 Nb like yours!:cool: )
How long is the turbo oil feed line?

nice.

That is fast as! Nice ride!

a 1.8 60ft. with tons of wheelspin? Wow. If you put sticky tires on that thing, you're gonna be shopping for driveline parts on the next launch. :eek: Very nice Miata- glad to see it's for real and being driven. - rob

I've got your car as my background, I found the pic online but didn't know who it belonged to...you have a sweet as ride...what is your estimated 1/4 time?

Very cool.

I see the IC sticking out somewhat from the mouth in the bumper. Curious to see more pics of that if you've got some.

poor altima had no chance. take that thing to a 1/4 track!

Here are some more pics of the front mount

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Did Tony handle the fabrication work also? His work is topnotch.

Yes. He fabbed everything, and wired the car for my computer. I wont take the car to anyone else. Im completely happy with everything he did.

thats pretty interesting, never seen anyone put the IC that far forward before.

Cool

impressive.

Love the vid.

No coolant reroute though? That somewhat surprises me considering the build. Maybe its something that Tony didn't think about (last I checked, Hondas were his main business... at least he posts his fun little projects on HT from time to time and also talks turbo there).

Awesome ride!

Hey man, 1.8 60 ft time is fast. I barrowed my friend's slicks to run on my N/A soon to be turboed miata, and leaving on the rev limiter with no spin, I was turning 1.89 60 ft. times, so, just imagine if you got some slicks!!

Just outta curiosity, what size gear are you running in the rear
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Im running completely stock drivetrain. I do want to run slicks, but I dont really want to break things. This is my daily driver too, so I have to be careful (especially now that it makes about 500 hp).

I think the best way to start breaking things are to run low-pros on concrete. If you have some sidewalls on a set of slicks, it has plenty of give to ease the torque onto your drivetrain, depending on how much air you run (a reasonable amount is 10-12 psi). The only thing you need to worry about on street tires are your axles when you start wheel hopping.

when you wheel hop with a miata breaking the axles isnt what you are thinking about, its breaking the diff and tranny that you are thinking about.

So far I have not had any issues with wheel hop. I have been running bfg drag radials at 10 lbs of air.

Took it to the 1/4 mile this last weekend with race gas and lots of boost. My 1st pass, I went 12.0 at 104 mph lifting at the 1000ft mark because my clutch started slipping in third and fourth. I turned the boost back down to 12 pounds and tried again, and we went 11.90 at 126 with the clutch still slipping at the top of 4th. Time for a new clutch.

I know you've got a lot dough in it, but you gotta feel like you're getting a return- no? Daily driver running sub 12s... wow. How's it on the street? commuting? traffic? Did you post a dyno sheet?

1.8 60' time is pretty good, congrats on the time.

that had a really nice sound to it. Hopefully ill be hearing more of those sorts of sounds coming from my turbo miata more and more often in the future.

Wow... very impressive!