I've awaken the BEAST!!!!
 

Holy fuck.....

My motor sounds BADASSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

I just started it for the first time, and the 260deg cams are pretty damn loppy, I can't stop laughing. I am gonna try to get a camera with a decent sound so you all can hear it.

For those of you that aren't familiar with the build......go fuck yourselves :P
Seriously though, it has the following:

-MiataRoadster.com billet oil pump gears
-8.5:1 wiseco pistons
-Belfab (949Racing, take your pick...) Rods
-My own custom headwork (see results in braineacks dyno thread)
-Coated pistons, coated chambers, coated exhaust ports
-Custom ground cams from Integral cams, 263dur/9.8mm lift
-Shim under bucket solid lifter conversion
-Complete supertech valvetrain
and a bunch of other shit I'm sure I spent a fortune on...


Anyways, I also got a new job recently that pays like 3x what I'm currently making. For those also familiar with my inability to decide and keep what turbo I want to run will be happy to know that I will finally be able to afford to get the gt2871r or gt3071r that I really want!


Someone smack this smile off my face!

Brian

I want to hear it already. Congratulations.

nice
needs more pics tho ;)

Also, question....

Would a loppy idle cause the oil pressure gauge to wiggle very slightly, constantly? I hear no ping at all, I'm getting 13.3afr, and the motor runs great otherwise. Actually all the needles are vibrating a little.....ground maybe?

EDIT: I also have mmr mounts installed.

OOOHhhhhh YEEEEAAAaa...........


BowChika WowWow

nice. i could see a lopey idle affecting oil pressure. you might need a vac can for your brake booster and other vac fed items.

Is that basically just an air tank in line to act as a reservoir?

Yes.
My dad's 442 had no brakes at idle after he put the custom cam in. The vac canister did the trick. :)

In for video, I want to hear this beast!

videos or ban....or I just steal it..up to you.

Congrats on the build, awaiting sound clips

its just the motor mounts. i have the MMR ones too, and my tach alone jumps like 300rpm, and all of the other guages wiggle, just not as much

You can't start a thread with the first sentence and then not post a vid or sound clip. Come on now your kill'n us.

+1, need vids now

lookin good NEO

Looks sweet! I bet it will SCREAM!!!!

he sent me a vid VIA cell phone, but i cant resend it to my email cause it says its too large :(

schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet brian. i want this kind of awesome in my car fast.

one of you guys send me the phone vid and i'll upload it to youtube.

edit: did you get my email about the gasket? I can paypal whenever.

I was working on the car all day yesterday and then once Igot off work today. I totally forgot to go to the stealership. I'll go tomorrow.

pics plz

Just to let you Aholes know, I'll be picking up a new digicam when I get off work today. It will sadly be one of my last purcahses on my employee discount before the new job starts on monday :(

you should get the discount through the end of the pay period :)

ps, hook me up with some hd dvds :):)

shoot, hook me up with dslr!

dude at triple the pay, we're gonna get some high def vid of this beast...right?! :cool:

Sounds wicked awesome. I'm in for some vids too!

duh i forgot i can download the video off my phone straight to my cpu.....brb

I don tknow if the cam phone will put out a good sound... mine sounded all distorted

no it sounds like shit

it's like the default engine audio for mobiles - my 2.3 sounded the same when I did mobile video for it on the first start.

oh noes...:(

Get a Canon HV20 and upload the vid to vimeo.com

Please delete that video, it makes this thread worse.

+1 i think my dick crawled back inside

Someone should just ban brian for prolonging this. +bump.

Here you go you bunch of flamers!

and of course I can fucking get it to work....i fail

wait it works now.

I had forgotten to plug in the map line when I took the vid, so the motor was running mad rich. Thats basically what it sounds like right now. I cant get it to idle below 1200rpm, and I'm pretty sure my wb o2 sensor is done for. So I'm ordering a new sensor and it will stay on jack stands until it gets here.

i fix i fix.

Mind telling me what you changed? I followed the writeup....

Sounds awesome, i'm liking it.

you dont need all the wwwwwww. crap, just video id, like the 0324sdaff24lx2

aight, scotteeeeeeeeeee. You should drive down here on sunday and bring your o2 sensor and help a brotha out. I'll help you work on your car next week in return :)

How about a vid/sound clip from the opposite end of the car? You know, the head turning, on the street, hood ain't up exhaust note...


- L

How about you ship me a bosch wideband o2 sensor nextday so that I can tune it then??? :)

Believe me, I want to hear/see/drive it on the street much worse than you want to. Alot of the loudness and reverb in the vid is because it is mounted on mmr mounts and the car is on jack stands. So the shocks are absorbing 0 vibrations. The car is just vibrating making all kinds of noise. But the video gives you a general idea of what it sounds like.

Anywhere as much as I want to hear/see/drive mine?

Yet, even un-tuned, the potential exists to bypass some of the clatter, rush and general mayhem overheard in front of an open engine bay and stand at the rear of the car with a digital camera for a couple of seconds. - Call it an A/V appetizer...

- L

(And before you ask, no I don't (yet) have a YouTube account...)

Well, I figured out today that my wb is infact reading correctly. The wild afrs at idle are due to the unburnt fuel leaving the cylinders at idle because of the larger overlap. Unburnt fuel = wb reading lean for those not in the know.

So I tuned the idle by smell and plugs, I got it down to ~900rpm, but it surges to 1100rpm every few seconds and then dies back down again. I'm gonna mess with it more tomorrow night and hopefully get a more proper vid like Senor Bader requires :P

If your trying to get it to idle smoothly with larger cams, open the throttle a little more and retard timing to slow it back down, that will smooth it out and take the lumpiness away, though that's the wicked awesome part about it. Sounds good.

Every time I read about "hot" miata cams, I run into the issue of not knowing what the stockers are like... :-)

thread delivers. Get a big turbo on there so we can see what those cams will really do.

Someone had better figure out a hot cam setup soon, since I need someone to copy later this year ;)

Brian, do you need just the WB sensor or the whole thing? I have a TechEdge languishing in my garage. But I want to keep it complete.

i gave him my sensor yesterday to try, same result. unless his controller somehow died in the meantime.

Its def not the sensor. I'm gonna bleed the clutch and take it around the block a couple times tonight.

I'm bleeding the clutch now and I've got a question. With an open diff, would the drive wheels turn with the tranny in gear and the clutch engaged, turning the wheels manually?

My thought is No, but I've just adjusted the lever all the way out and it has tons of free play. So the lever is not pushing it open and keeping it disengaged. I also know 100% that the clutch is installed correctly!

Ok, so I figured out that it was just doing it because its an open diff. So I got my mom to come out there and we both turned the wheel toward the front of the car and it holds solid.

Now the problem is that the clutch doesnt seem to disengage all the way. I have blead the clutch a solid 15 minutes and yet it still has a ton of free play. I'd say it only has like 2" from engagement to hiting the floor. Yes, they clutch lever is all the way out.

what kinda clutch?

you may have resistance at the wheels if you turn them by hand but not enough engagement to move the car.

I know you say it's 100% correct, so take this as you wish. I've seen people install the clutch fork wrong before and it causes problems. Sometimes they are in backwards, sometimes it's not holding the TO bearing properly. There could be a problem there. Also are you SURE it's not disengauging, as in the car takes off if you crank it in 1st gear with the clutch in?

I'm doing these tests with it on jack stands... Its a clutchnet clutch. 3x PP and 6 puck disc

The clutch is installed 100% correctly! I'm not lying, I've installed bunches of clutches. It is not rocket science. I'll leave that at that.

Both the master and slave were brand new during the install. Is there anything special I need to do the make sure that all the air is bled out of both?

Did you bench bleed the new master cylinder? You know you have to do that, right?

That I did not know. What is the procedure for that?

Push cylinder in all the way, dunk fitting end into brake fluid, let cylinder come out?

You put it in a vise, fill it up with fluid, dunk the out line into the reservior and SLOWLY push the clylinder in, hold it for 10 seconds, slowly release it. Repeat several times till no air comes out. THen do it a few more times. That's it.