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finished transmission, installed block-off plates, fuel rails, and alternator. The Alternator is from my 97 1.8L, it fits right on with the miata tensioner hardware. I can't switch the alternator's belt pulley until I can get an impact gun on it.
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Everything fits, I'm just waiting on a pressure plate to show up in the mail, then it's go-time.
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99 miata tailshaft, 99 miata gearbox, 91 rx7 bellhousing.

Very nice place to put an engine! Ahahah, Subscribed for end result!

No bac or omp? I guess you aren't daily driving it lol

Why not? I daily drove mine just fine with BAC blocked off and a non functioning OMP. Just have to run some premix gas. I actually preferred my engine stripped with almost everything non essential blocked off. Stock there is just WAY too much shit to clutter the bay, and to go bad/break.

My S5 rx7 would always randomly quit when i didn't have my bac And was a pain to start and keep running when it was cold, Premix thats some stinky stuff lol hopefully you dont have emissions testing down there its an instant sign for a cop to pull ya over

lol, I didn't even know what BAC was I had to google it just now. I just knew that whatever was supposed to be on that big hole was surely some stock antiquity and would be disregarded by my megasquirt anyway. I also removed and blocked off the secondary port sleeves and just jb-welded the pineapple racing radiused port inserts into the ports. :giggle:

the megasquirt can control a bac valve im just building a MS2 right now for my rx7 in all honesty its a nice thing to have on a cold start and for cranking

can't wait to see that in the miata

In for updates on how you mount it.

+1 on the BAC, it's nice during cold weather.

Also, good job on the FD alt, that was the best upgrade I think I ever did on my FC in terms of reliability.

I had no idle control on my 1.8 either. I'll just rig the idle to be sorta high all the time like I did on the miata. cold it would purr like a kitten at 6-800, hot it would work it's way up to 1400 or so. hopefully it's that easy on the 1.3

edit: oh and yeah i'm dailying this thing. premixing isn't too bad. i'll just keep some two stroke oil in my trunk

Edit2: that's not an FD alternator; it's a miata alternator. it fits up just fine with the miata long bolt that goes all the way through the alt.

Build looks good thus far...looking forward to seeing it getting installed.

day one's progress:
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nice

that is one tiny ass engine. with it that far back you have like 2 feet of empty space in the front lulz

Will there be a turbo strapped on this?

Either way, awesome!

seeing that the title says non turbo I'm going to guess no.

no turbos at least right now. believe me I want to, but it would be more cost and more things blowing up.

The car's layout will definitely end up being pretty much FMR. only the front cover and pullies go over the steering rack.

Definitely going to need to corner weight that bitch when your done. It looks co cute in there. More pics please!

boi i tell u wha, tha thing guna be like brap brap brap poof VVVRRROOOOMMM VRROOOOOMMM ka-pow VROOOOOM