It's alive! ALIVE! OMG BOOST, DO ME HARD
 

Tune sucks ass, but it drives. Feels like accel is kicking in, but i have it off, now it seems when the fans kick on it stalls when i press the clutch in ;) At least I can drive it.

http://www.boostedmiata.com/new_miat...inished001.jpg


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Sweet deal man. Must feel good to be (sorta) back.
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Good to see it back on the road. I am sure your are (somewhat) relieved to get it (sort of) running.

it even looks as if it settled a bit, congrats, i know the feeling (sort of)

To the casual observer, you haven't changed cars!

Looking good!

Awesome. I like the wheels and the exhaust.
Exhaust questions:
1. Did you fabricate it yourself?
2. Reason I ask is I am thinking about doing the same. It looks like you used the following:
- 2.5"(ish) to 3" adapter at the DP flange
- 3" straight run to the diff
- 45 deg 3" mandrel elbow at the diff
- 90 deg 3" mandrel bend to the muffler
- something like a 10-15" Magnaflow
- can't see it in the picture but presumably another 90 deg 3" from muffler to bumper
Is this about right?

It's an Enthuza exhaust, I had to get rewelded since I smashed it up.

the midpipe has two mandrel bends on either end, the axle back is simply two 90° bends.

Scott, I thought you sold your car? :dunno:

Go look at that thread and see what the date was.

Looks great, not sure how its so clean, guess that is another benefit of having a garage. Mine is a disaster right now due to pollen, leaves, and other crap in the air. They did a good job on the exhaust repair as well.

Thats bad ass man!

That car looks like it just came of the lot. The paint is amazing for a car in it's teens.

I thought you got rid of the Miata and bought an Altima or some shit. :giggle:

Needs more hood vent.

really like the exhaust

three more....

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http://www.boostedmiata.com/new_miat...inished006.jpg


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it's been repainted...it's not so hot up close, at least 50 door dings have been painted over....it's a beautiful 20 footer.

no i didnt sell it, that was an april fools joke....i even posted that :)

although i do miss my coushy leather seats and smooth mounts and p/s and motor windows....

Dude, I know ;)

Well this new car definitely looks hot from the distance at which you took the photos. Congrats on getting back in the saddle!

Scott, what size are your wheels/tires?
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16x7.5 +38 205/45/16

Has the car been lowered from stock?

koni shocks on top perch and FM springs....it used to be much lower but with all the shaved weight it sits much higher. oh well.

I thought they were 16's.
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Looks great! From the back view it looks a lot like mine! (same color, same wheel style, same exhaust, hardtop, etc.)

:confused:

Just wondering if those tires and wheels would fit a NB that had been lowered about 1" (Tein Basics) with no fender rolling.

As in oh I thought so.
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should be fine:)

haha, actually I just went out with a ruler and they seem to be 16x8.5 +37

:jerkit:

dunno exactly where to measure from, but when i line it up to the inside of the inner lip (where the tire mounts against), and then to about the same spot on the other end, it's 8.5" give or take....hard to tell might be 8" but from what i can research they came in 16x8.5 not 16x8. also at 16x7 205s, from what ive been seeing online, look like the bubble out more, not a slight stretch to them. this is news to me, i really wanna know.



http://www.boostedmiata.com/new_miat...re_outside.jpg

http://www.boostedmiata.com/new_miat...ure_inside.jpg


the 4 stickers that would end the debate were painted...ill try to remove and scrape off the paint tomorrow.

6ULs will.

6ULs will also run you 1k vs those cost me 250 with new tires :)

hey me too ;)

I like the car in sig thing too, Brain. Would you mind if I copied you?

k confirmed, 7.5" they still measure like 8.2" inner lip to lip... but this concludes the debate:

http://www.boostedmiata.com/new_miat...wheel_size.jpg

so...clean...

Wheels always measure wider from lip to lip that what the are specified as.

awesome, one more picture!

http://www.boostedmiata.com/new_miat...inished008.jpg

http://www.boostedmiata.com/new_miat...inished009.jpg

I like that front lip, looks good.
The mt.n sticker is a nice touch. Though, now that I think about it, we should make you print out a HUGE version of the one at the top of the page and make you install it on the rear window :giggle: Your penance for making us suffer with that ghey logo. Funny, but ghey.

OMG i love boost. seeing 8.2psi on my log so far. Porting the wastegate helped with creep now i just need to grow some balls and take it wot. Tune is much better, changed a few settings and it's almost as good as it was.


funny note: New IC is working great, barely seeing a rise in temps; only 3°F on that 8psi pull to 6k, however, my CLT temps are higher :rofl:

wouuu . the car look so pretty.! no scratch at all.!
congratulations scott .! well, now I have to say, all last for the moment I CAN BEAT YOU.!!. haha .!

you're basing the IC effectiveness on air temp at idle vs temps seen during the 8psi pull, right? no before/after air temp guages, etc?

I think he's comparing the rise in temp to his older, smaller intercooler.

Two questions.

1. Do you have pictures of your wastegate port? I know you did it yourself.
2. What kinda CLT temp difference are you seeing and when, cruise or boost?




Probably between cruise and boost.

on my last car i was seeing more like 170-180 cruise, now im seeing around 190 cruise and the fans are coming on more often. i did block about 75% of the radiator, where before it was more like 40%. plus i still have my license plate in the way

based on my old logs, the IC does a better job, but as i suspected at the cost of the cooling system, hence why I'm making an extractor hood.

pics of wastegate port:

http://www.boostedmiata.com/turbo/wa...e/CIMG1365.JPG

http://www.boostedmiata.com/turbo/wa...e/CIMG1366.JPG

http://www.boostedmiata.com/turbo/wa...e/CIMG1367.JPG

enlarged it 15%, .88" to .92" IIRC, and added a small channel to help the flow.

well since i know the temp just before i boost it, it's kinda like that. 82° before boost, 86° at 6k and 8.2psi....never saw such a low rise before. FWIW, I used to see a 17-20°F delta with my old IC at 12-13psi....so i just need to man up and start tuning boost and taking more logs.

Pretty cool. Im curious to see the delta at that boost level though.

I dont remember, but you had to sac your AC to fit that IC right?

Also, did you do the port with a die grinder on the inside? What did you drill the hole with? Press?

You just need to build a motor and stop worrying about blowing things up...;)

At least your shit is in the car though.

Extractor will fix that temp rise :D

Get that scoop installed already. Im curiuos as to how much a difference you see.
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Nope, still have a/c. see my build thread. or check my site under new_miata/intercooler

Dremel with die grinder bit. maybe 20 minutes worth of working, checking with a digital caliper as the work progressed.

built motors are bandaids for not knowing how to tune. :noob:

May I just say again, I love that site of yours. Could use better navigation but its still pretty awesome. I couldnt find the IC in there first time around.

You got the hole that round with a die grinder, impressive.

If my shit creeps, I may just have to follow in your footsteps.

you don't have a coolant reroute, do you, brain? i need to do something either in that department or an extractor hood soon. cruising on the highway last weekend, after about 30min at 4krpm, my temp guage needle was sitting probably 2/3 of the way up. i wasn't logging at the time, so i don't know exactly what it was, but i didn't like seeing the guage there, since i'm used to seeing it between 1/3 and 1/2 mark, as far as sweep is concerned...

once the fans kick on, im fine. and yes i have an extractor hood in the works. no coolant reroute bullshit :) im not overheating, just normals operating temps seem higher than my previous setup, which is fine.

I seriously have to figure out this CLT sensor stuff on my car, im still letting it peg at 215. Thats def not gonna be good with a turbo on the engine.

:bowrofl:

Were you fixing boost creep with the port job? did it work? notice any difference?

Damn, my water temps peg 220 with turbo and thats only if im sitting still for too long. The hood deff helps but I think my fans are the weak point.
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No No, you dont get it papi.

My MS reads the temp off the sensor wrong because the resistance values or bias resistance value is incorrect. There seems to be some confusion with the 96/97 cars in terms of that.

yeah, wastegate was hitting 10psi at 3600rpm before and rising to something like 14psi at redline. I haven't made any WOT pulls, but from what i can tell the creep is gone....EBC map will be the best test. I was dropping the 0% DC at redline :rofl:

LOL so true... (Says the guy who is running stock management while building his MSII:crx:).

levnubhin those temps seem high...I never see above 212 on my Scangauge even when beating on it. This is with stock cooling as well, should drop even more with the oil cooler installed.