I have original worn OEM motor mounts and a stock 5 speed tranny with no bracing. Only mod is 60 dollar ebay brace.

At 17 psi, the 2-3 shift is rock solid and smooth. I tested it a bunch of times during the dry weather today. Not even close to a missed shift. It was like it was stock again.

It works.

 

Awesome. Is this the one you bought?: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Engin...spagenameZWDVW

Still need to meet up one of these days. You gonna be around this weekend?

 

post a pic of it installed!

 

yeah i gotta see this.

 

I have MS mounts and I never miss that shift either

 

I have MS mounts front and rear but still miss the shift occasionally.

 

I/O error?

 

I have stock mounts and never miss the shift

 

that's funnier than I thought :gay:

I had a stock mount tore in half and didn't miss a shift.

 

Yeah that's it. I admit it is not a perfect fit. I ended up having to install it backwards and drill out one of the holes to a wider diameter with the piston part extended slightly.

Here is a pic of it and a pic of it showing the DP clearing the engine bay a little better.

This is still the old turbo (I had trouble getting another one of those autometer threaded nipples and I still have to ceramic coat the DP) and the JGS manifold. The DP is stainless and the flange attached to the turbo is iron. I really should have the DP ceramic coated one of these days.

 

Is that a pressurized gas shock?

 

No, it's much simpler- a hollow tube with a teflon spacer and rubber dampeners mounted on the rod. It can be adjusted with the threaded end cap.

How did you make a 57 trim work on a 1.6? That is an insanely large turbo, even for a 1.8.

 

He's actually running a 2.0L FE3

 

Ah lucky basterd probably has a TII tranny as well, there go all the shifting problems.

 

Lucky? It didn't magically appear in there. No R trans yet. That'll go in with the 2.2L FE.

 

Is there rubber in that tube?
How does it handle the radiated heat from turbine housing and DP?

hrk

 

There is rubber, but it is an aluminum tube (highly conductive) and the manifold is not actually that hot thanks to the ceramic coat. No worse than a N/A car.

 

hardly insanely large. The 57 trim has been known to act just like the old 50 trim....its not really all that laggy on a 1.8L, and wouldnt even be too bad on a 1.6L w/ a .48 turbine.

 

I don't think of aluminum as being highly conductive compared to other metals.

Yeah, the 57trim is just bigger than what most stick on a Miata. It just moves the power band up in the rpm range- but it's still there. With the restrictive internal gate, full cat, resonator and big muffler I'm still getting 12psi at 4200. And I think I could move that down another 200 rpm with some tuning.