Eric Risinger

Put the engine back in today and it did really well. Started quickly and idles nicely. AFRs and oil pressure look great.
Problems- It leaks oil from the turbo lines. Will be a pain to fix but I'll get it done. It has a small coolant leak, not a problem. It has horrible lifter tick now. Maybe that's just from sitting for a long time? The manifold started smoking. I'm hoping that's just grime and fingerprints and oil and crap burning off... I hope.
Anyways I think it went pretty well, let me know what you think of it.

Video of the car-
Thanks everyone who's helped me along the way so far and answered my dumb questions

tshea113

Congrats, I like the color on it. What setup do you have on it? Flyin miata?

Eric Risinger

FM custom spec kit and MSPNP2

aju41046

Bravo!!!
Good old lifter tick! If it's a brand new manifold I'd expect it to smoke a bit, just oils and contaminants burning off as it gets hot. Same goes for a used manifold I guess.