Miata LFX Swap (Singular Motorsports & Good-Win Racing)
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Most of the system is low pressure. The only high pressure line is the one from the pump to the rack. The lines I need to disconnect are from the cooler to the reservoir and rack.
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More fittings arrived, working on it this afternoon.
Regarding the exhaust note, I'm equal parts excited and apprehensive for how loud this car's going to be. I expect it's going to sound fantastic, but with the side exhaust the volume level will probably be... up there. Thankfully it won't matter for most of our tracks in SoCal out in the middle of nowhere.
Regarding the exhaust note, I'm equal parts excited and apprehensive for how loud this car's going to be. I expect it's going to sound fantastic, but with the side exhaust the volume level will probably be... up there. Thankfully it won't matter for most of our tracks in SoCal out in the middle of nowhere.
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Perhaps the one saving grace will be that I designed v-banded cats into the system from the beginning with the plan to later make short test pipes that can be swapped in. If it's absurd with the test pipes I may end up running the cats to quiet it down.
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That's a similar idea to what I was thinking for mine, but 300-400 for a 4" cat is hard to justify. On the other hand when driving it on the street at stoplights I end up breathing some nasty fumes so it might not be a bad investment depending on how many street miles it sees this year.
Currently I just have a burns muffler and it definitely quiets it down but I'm trying to quiet it down some more this year. I'm guessing the cats will do a better job seeing as you have two and they're a bit long than my 12" muffler
Currently I just have a burns muffler and it definitely quiets it down but I'm trying to quiet it down some more this year. I'm guessing the cats will do a better job seeing as you have two and they're a bit long than my 12" muffler
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looks so clean. i love and hate that lol.
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Doing some napkin math for other fun places the car may fit in.
Looking at NASA, when you move above the complicated mess of the lettered classes on up to ST/TT 1, 2, 3 things get much simpler. With a good bit of power taking the tighter-regulated TT4 out of the question it gets even simpler. Basically take a dyno and weight baseline which then applies modifiers for certain mods and you end up with an adjusted power/weight ratio and that's that. Everything in class is same adjusted ratio. Obviously this favors a wide torque curve, and this motor should be great for that.
TT2 cars have an adjusted wt/hp of 8.00:1 or more (up to 10.00:1 which is TT3)
2300 lbs with driver / 300 whp = 7.67:1
Relevant adjustments:
Comp weight over 2200, less than 2599 = -0.2
Tire size 245 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.7 or Tire size 275 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.3
Non-production vehicle = -0.4
A note on the non-production vehicle bit.. have to take that due to the tubular front subframe, but this comes with some benefits. First, I don't have to take the -0.2 for cutting the rocker for exhaust routing for production vehicles, so it's really only -0.2 more than if it was considered a production car. But more importantly, with it considered a non-production car there's no concern about the tubular/removable front nose being OK.
So, with adjustments, 7.77:1 with 245 tires or 7.37:1 with 275's
Ballasting up to 2375 lbs with 245 hoosiers puts me at an est. adjusted 8.01:1, right at the pointy end of TT2.
While RLTA and GTA are my primary focus... and yeah, TT2 is full of Vettes and Vipers, it could be fun to mix it up there and see how it stacks up. Always love a challenge!
Looking at NASA, when you move above the complicated mess of the lettered classes on up to ST/TT 1, 2, 3 things get much simpler. With a good bit of power taking the tighter-regulated TT4 out of the question it gets even simpler. Basically take a dyno and weight baseline which then applies modifiers for certain mods and you end up with an adjusted power/weight ratio and that's that. Everything in class is same adjusted ratio. Obviously this favors a wide torque curve, and this motor should be great for that.
TT2 cars have an adjusted wt/hp of 8.00:1 or more (up to 10.00:1 which is TT3)
2300 lbs with driver / 300 whp = 7.67:1
Relevant adjustments:
Comp weight over 2200, less than 2599 = -0.2
Tire size 245 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.7 or Tire size 275 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.3
Non-production vehicle = -0.4
A note on the non-production vehicle bit.. have to take that due to the tubular front subframe, but this comes with some benefits. First, I don't have to take the -0.2 for cutting the rocker for exhaust routing for production vehicles, so it's really only -0.2 more than if it was considered a production car. But more importantly, with it considered a non-production car there's no concern about the tubular/removable front nose being OK.
So, with adjustments, 7.77:1 with 245 tires or 7.37:1 with 275's
Ballasting up to 2375 lbs with 245 hoosiers puts me at an est. adjusted 8.01:1, right at the pointy end of TT2.
While RLTA and GTA are my primary focus... and yeah, TT2 is full of Vettes and Vipers, it could be fun to mix it up there and see how it stacks up. Always love a challenge!
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Doing some napkin math for other fun places the car may fit in.
Looking at NASA, when you move above the complicated mess of the lettered classes on up to ST/TT 1, 2, 3 things get much simpler. With a good bit of power taking the tighter-regulated TT4 out of the question it gets even simpler. Basically take a dyno and weight baseline which then applies modifiers for certain mods and you end up with an adjusted power/weight ratio and that's that. Everything in class is same adjusted ratio. Obviously this favors a wide torque curve, and this motor should be great for that.
TT2 cars have an adjusted wt/hp of 8.00:1 or more (up to 10.00:1 which is TT3)
2300 lbs with driver / 300 whp = 7.67:1
Relevant adjustments:
Comp weight over 2200, less than 2599 = -0.2
Tire size 245 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.7 or Tire size 275 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.3
Non-production vehicle = -0.4
A note on the non-production vehicle bit.. have to take that due to the tubular front subframe, but this comes with some benefits. First, I don't have to take the -0.2 for cutting the rocker for exhaust routing for production vehicles, so it's really only -0.2 more than if it was considered a production car. But more importantly, with it considered a non-production car there's no concern about the tubular/removable front nose being OK.
So, with adjustments, 7.77:1 with 245 tires or 7.37:1 with 275's
Ballasting up to 2375 lbs with 245 hoosiers puts me at an est. adjusted 8.01:1, right at the pointy end of TT2.
While RLTA and GTA are my primary focus... and yeah, TT2 is full of Vettes and Vipers, it could be fun to mix it up there and see how it stacks up. Always love a challenge!
Looking at NASA, when you move above the complicated mess of the lettered classes on up to ST/TT 1, 2, 3 things get much simpler. With a good bit of power taking the tighter-regulated TT4 out of the question it gets even simpler. Basically take a dyno and weight baseline which then applies modifiers for certain mods and you end up with an adjusted power/weight ratio and that's that. Everything in class is same adjusted ratio. Obviously this favors a wide torque curve, and this motor should be great for that.
TT2 cars have an adjusted wt/hp of 8.00:1 or more (up to 10.00:1 which is TT3)
2300 lbs with driver / 300 whp = 7.67:1
Relevant adjustments:
Comp weight over 2200, less than 2599 = -0.2
Tire size 245 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.7 or Tire size 275 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.3
Non-production vehicle = -0.4
A note on the non-production vehicle bit.. have to take that due to the tubular front subframe, but this comes with some benefits. First, I don't have to take the -0.2 for cutting the rocker for exhaust routing for production vehicles, so it's really only -0.2 more than if it was considered a production car. But more importantly, with it considered a non-production car there's no concern about the tubular/removable front nose being OK.
So, with adjustments, 7.77:1 with 245 tires or 7.37:1 with 275's
Ballasting up to 2375 lbs with 245 hoosiers puts me at an est. adjusted 8.01:1, right at the pointy end of TT2.
While RLTA and GTA are my primary focus... and yeah, TT2 is full of Vettes and Vipers, it could be fun to mix it up there and see how it stacks up. Always love a challenge!
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I'm not eager to do a ton of TT with NASA, my main focus will be GTA, but more options can't hurt. Also, in RLTA and GTA the class is limited to 100tw (245 RC1) whereas in NASA TT it'll need to be Hoosiers, so cost to play increases substantially.
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Continuing to wait on a few more parts to arrive, so I took some time to get some of the suspension bits assembled.
Pressed out all of the old polyurethane bushings and now installing for evaluation a spherical bearing kit for the factory control arms from a shop up in Canada.
Spherical bearings within the press-in sleeves:
I've run into a couple snags with some of the parts in the kit, shot some feedback to them to get those bits resolved instead of having to machine my own solutions, and hopefully we'll get things sorted out. Nevertheless, the majority of the kit is installed and ready to rock.
Also going into the arms are Bauer extended lower ball joints and V8Roadsters rebuildable front upper ball joints:
Finally, I'm replacing the rear upper arms with V8R's tubular Pro series arms. Feedback from Steve about what they've seen on other cars, the rear upper arms are the ones responsible for wheel hop and other funkiness when putting big power down as that factory arm twists with enough torque. The tubular arm solves this, and the pro series has spherical bearings to match the rest of my arms.
Oh, and in my recent powdercoating frenzy I had all the factory arms done.
Pressed out all of the old polyurethane bushings and now installing for evaluation a spherical bearing kit for the factory control arms from a shop up in Canada.
Spherical bearings within the press-in sleeves:
I've run into a couple snags with some of the parts in the kit, shot some feedback to them to get those bits resolved instead of having to machine my own solutions, and hopefully we'll get things sorted out. Nevertheless, the majority of the kit is installed and ready to rock.
Also going into the arms are Bauer extended lower ball joints and V8Roadsters rebuildable front upper ball joints:
Finally, I'm replacing the rear upper arms with V8R's tubular Pro series arms. Feedback from Steve about what they've seen on other cars, the rear upper arms are the ones responsible for wheel hop and other funkiness when putting big power down as that factory arm twists with enough torque. The tubular arm solves this, and the pro series has spherical bearings to match the rest of my arms.
Oh, and in my recent powdercoating frenzy I had all the factory arms done.
#419
Just curious:
why ballast up ~75lbs instead of tuning down to 287?
I might be overlooking something but since Im building my car for double duty as well - its relevant to my interests
why ballast up ~75lbs instead of tuning down to 287?
I might be overlooking something but since Im building my car for double duty as well - its relevant to my interests
Doing some napkin math for other fun places the car may fit in.
Looking at NASA, when you move above the complicated mess of the lettered classes on up to ST/TT 1, 2, 3 things get much simpler. With a good bit of power taking the tighter-regulated TT4 out of the question it gets even simpler. Basically take a dyno and weight baseline which then applies modifiers for certain mods and you end up with an adjusted power/weight ratio and that's that. Everything in class is same adjusted ratio. Obviously this favors a wide torque curve, and this motor should be great for that.
TT2 cars have an adjusted wt/hp of 8.00:1 or more (up to 10.00:1 which is TT3)
2300 lbs with driver / 300 whp = 7.67:1
Relevant adjustments:
Comp weight over 2200, less than 2599 = -0.2
Tire size 245 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.7 or Tire size 275 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.3
Non-production vehicle = -0.4
A note on the non-production vehicle bit.. have to take that due to the tubular front subframe, but this comes with some benefits. First, I don't have to take the -0.2 for cutting the rocker for exhaust routing for production vehicles, so it's really only -0.2 more than if it was considered a production car. But more importantly, with it considered a non-production car there's no concern about the tubular/removable front nose being OK.
So, with adjustments, 7.77:1 with 245 tires or 7.37:1 with 275's
Ballasting up to 2375 lbs with 245 hoosiers puts me at an est. adjusted 8.01:1, right at the pointy end of TT2.
While RLTA and GTA are my primary focus... and yeah, TT2 is full of Vettes and Vipers, it could be fun to mix it up there and see how it stacks up. Always love a challenge!
Looking at NASA, when you move above the complicated mess of the lettered classes on up to ST/TT 1, 2, 3 things get much simpler. With a good bit of power taking the tighter-regulated TT4 out of the question it gets even simpler. Basically take a dyno and weight baseline which then applies modifiers for certain mods and you end up with an adjusted power/weight ratio and that's that. Everything in class is same adjusted ratio. Obviously this favors a wide torque curve, and this motor should be great for that.
TT2 cars have an adjusted wt/hp of 8.00:1 or more (up to 10.00:1 which is TT3)
2300 lbs with driver / 300 whp = 7.67:1
Relevant adjustments:
Comp weight over 2200, less than 2599 = -0.2
Tire size 245 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.7 or Tire size 275 or smaller (DOT approved) = +0.3
Non-production vehicle = -0.4
A note on the non-production vehicle bit.. have to take that due to the tubular front subframe, but this comes with some benefits. First, I don't have to take the -0.2 for cutting the rocker for exhaust routing for production vehicles, so it's really only -0.2 more than if it was considered a production car. But more importantly, with it considered a non-production car there's no concern about the tubular/removable front nose being OK.
So, with adjustments, 7.77:1 with 245 tires or 7.37:1 with 275's
Ballasting up to 2375 lbs with 245 hoosiers puts me at an est. adjusted 8.01:1, right at the pointy end of TT2.
While RLTA and GTA are my primary focus... and yeah, TT2 is full of Vettes and Vipers, it could be fun to mix it up there and see how it stacks up. Always love a challenge!