New Miata Junk 2 Intake
#227
Pic of mine
Painted the runner black
Runner #1 had a piece of casting sticking up about 1/4" so I removed it and smoothed it out. Runner #2 & #3 had ones that stuck out about 1/8". Runner 4 was indented about 1/16".
Since I already did some work on fixing 3 casting errors I went ahead and smoothed out the parting line flash in the runners and removed the minor defects from the Bellmouths.
Also I enlarged and re tapped the hole on the back of the plenum to 3/8 NPT. This will allow the GM ait to be used.
Painted the runner black
Runner #1 had a piece of casting sticking up about 1/4" so I removed it and smoothed it out. Runner #2 & #3 had ones that stuck out about 1/8". Runner 4 was indented about 1/16".
Since I already did some work on fixing 3 casting errors I went ahead and smoothed out the parting line flash in the runners and removed the minor defects from the Bellmouths.
Also I enlarged and re tapped the hole on the back of the plenum to 3/8 NPT. This will allow the GM ait to be used.
#230
I'm waiting for results too, I wish my car was running already so I could at least be a part of the testing fun. It's pretty surprising to me that people have had their hands on these manifolds for 4+ weeks and there hasn't been a single Squaretop vs Skunk back-to-back test yet.
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Or maybe they did, and there were no gains, or hardly any, so they have nothing to brag about, and still decided to release the manifolds, as people often think OEM = Junk and aftermarket shiny = cool and must be better.
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Or in my case I suspected that there would be more room around the manifold. I haven't put mine on the car yet but I suspect it will do the same as the squaretop and will only do better if I had the engine set up to go above 7500rpm. Also with the plenum being able to rotate I will be able to put a BP4W in a Festiva.
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I left the video in the gang bang about 5 minutes after you posted it on Saturday for that reason. You never struck me as a guy who hands out gospel.
Thou you are the reason any time I'm driving and I see a Miata the phase " a wild Miata appears!" Pops into my head.
Keep it up man.
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