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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 09:21 AM
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Very cool. Gotta admire a guy who's not afraid to cut up his car. And take lots of pictures. You're IC routing is perfect for a giant intercooler when you upgrade that cute IC and turbo.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 09:53 AM
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when did you place your order for a zoom3 man? seems like it takes them years to get something out to people..

Might be going in another direction. Details later today.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by m2cupcar
Very cool. Gotta admire a guy who's not afraid to cut up his car. And take lots of pictures. You're IC routing is perfect for a giant intercooler when you upgrade that cute IC and turbo.

The cutting wasn't bad. Only the two holes in the fenders. Nothing structural.

Yeah, that IC and turbo was going to be perfect for the 8 PSI that the Zoom3 would run. Might be changing directions soon. They still haven't released it. After I did this routing, I saw how EASY it would have been to fit a 20x4x3 or so. This IC was a nice package, though. The brackets that they had on it bolted straight up to the tow hook bracket holes.
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Originally Posted by stein
might be going in another direction. Details later today.
ms ftw!
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by patsmx5
ms ftw!
Nope.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 10:07 AM
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aww, c'mon ya gotta tell me asap

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The plastic IAT in the airbox on the NB's--is it "good enough" to use with most EMU's? The new EMU that I am looking at requires the use of an IAT. Do I need to/want to upgrade to the GM IAT?
hmmmmmm..

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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Stein
Nope.
There is no reason to use any other piggyback.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 11:56 AM
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aside from it not being available pnp for our cars?
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 18psi
aside from it not being available pnp for our cars?

Wrong again. Looking at going with the Adaptronic from Travis. Someone in the US has to try this thing.


https://www.miataturbo.net/forum/t25299/

Waiting for a phone call to discuss some details and then probably order one up. PnP for an NB FTW.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 01:04 PM
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who the hell needs pnp? whiners.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 01:25 PM
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wanna build me a parallel ms2 wise guy?
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 02:00 PM
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i mean, not really, but theres no reason you can't do it.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 02:02 PM
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Lookin good Stein, your almost there with only 10 posts left. lol
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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by levnubhin
Lookin good Stein, your almost there with only 10 posts left. lol
Well, it looks like I won't make it. I just ordered an Adaptronic ECU, so I can't get it here, get it installed and running before I go over that limit. I hope that it works as well as it appears to. Guinea pig, FTW.

Time to start looking through the MS threads to steal some target AFR, fuel and spark tables.
Old Jan 22, 2009 | 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Stein
Well, it looks like I won't make it. I just ordered an Adaptronic ECU, so I can't get it here, get it installed and running before I go over that limit. I hope that it works as well as it appears to. Guinea pig, FTW.

Time to start looking through the MS threads to steal some target AFR, fuel and spark tables.
There's a fair few Miata, MX5. Roadster users knocking around now.

The Adaptronic forum is a great source, there's also a few guys on mx5nutz running the Adap in the UK.


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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by eunos1800
There's a fair few Miata, MX5. Roadster users knocking around now.

The Adaptronic forum is a great source, there's also a few guys on mx5nutz running the Adap in the UK.


Cheers
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Looks like another forum or two that I need to start frequenting.
Old Jan 24, 2009 | 09:44 PM
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Hey Stein guess what? I'm not going to pass up the group buy deal he's doing, sooo....










































I'm getting one too

I'm talking with TravisR about ordering mine sometime next week. Guinea pig buddies FTW hahaha
Old Jan 24, 2009 | 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by 18psi
Guinea pig buddies FTW hahaha

That is a nice ECU though
Old Jan 25, 2009 | 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by mazda/nissan

Hey, at least he didn't say gerbil buddies.
Old Feb 1, 2009 | 11:10 PM
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Well, other than two hose clamps for the turbo water lines, a radiator overflow line and filling the radiator, I'm done. I guess done is a loaded word, as I have no ECU. So, this thing will sit until I figure out what I am going to do on that. Piddled around and wrapped the heater core lines, built a heat shield and some other little odds and ends, got the IC charge pipes in for good.
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