How to Turbo your Miata Over the Weekend
02-09-2016, 09:22 AM
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The market for turbo setups on miata is reasonably small and all the makers short of FM tend to be small shops or individuals. There has always been a wait for turbo setups. It is just part of the game.
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02-09-2016, 10:55 AM
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Just so you know the only 2 vendors out there with known quality setups will be able to ship within a week. They would be FM or possibly Fab9. All others will have waits. Begi tend to be 2-8 weeks, Abe@Artech is 3-8 weeks, TSE is sometime in March at the soonest. Who knows if CXRacing actually has them in stock, or what their eta would be.
The market for turbo setups on miata is reasonably small and all the makers short of FM tend to be small shops or individuals. There has always been a wait for turbo setups. It is just part of the game.
The market for turbo setups on miata is reasonably small and all the makers short of FM tend to be small shops or individuals. There has always been a wait for turbo setups. It is just part of the game.
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02-09-2016, 10:59 AM
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Post up about it when you get it. I am very interested in getting a real review from someone.
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02-10-2016, 12:39 AM
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No intercooler? PVC piping? LITERAL 90° downpipe bend with some sketch *** welding? Boost gauge powered by shoving the wires into a USB plug? Dude got lucky the only the turbo seized instead of blowing the engine itself...
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02-10-2016, 07:06 AM
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Have you guys seen this yet? How To Turbo Your Miata DIRT CHEAP - YouTube
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02-10-2016, 08:30 AM
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MKTurbo, ARTECH, TSR, all except FM, build each kit to order, so obviously this takes time to build.
with a good amount of investment ~15K its very possible to send a good quality manifold/DP/Exhaust sample to China and have them make 100 copies, and ship back in a container. but this requires a large investment and the skills to micromanage the china factory, as they LOVE to cut corners and make a crappy product.
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02-10-2016, 08:50 AM
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02-10-2016, 09:01 AM
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cxracing orders their stuff from China by the container load, so each turbo kit they sell they order 100's of pieces at a time.
MKTurbo, ARTECH, TSR, all except FM, build each kit to order, so obviously this takes time to build.
with a good amount of investment ~15K its very possible to send a good quality manifold/DP/Exhaust sample to China and have them make 100 copies, and ship back in a container. but this requires a large investment and the skills to micromanage the china factory, as they LOVE to cut corners and make a crappy product.
MKTurbo, ARTECH, TSR, all except FM, build each kit to order, so obviously this takes time to build.
with a good amount of investment ~15K its very possible to send a good quality manifold/DP/Exhaust sample to China and have them make 100 copies, and ship back in a container. but this requires a large investment and the skills to micromanage the china factory, as they LOVE to cut corners and make a crappy product.
Corky@BEGI tried the China route and he could not get anything acceptable out of them. Then they started flooding eBay with knockoffs that are made out of stupid thin metal that cracks.
I can guarantee that 15k would not get anywhere near the material cost of getting 100 of my setups built. Hell buying 100 mufflers even with a discount from magnaflow I bet would cost 10k itself.
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