Let me teach you n00bs how to enter a highway
 

watch from :19.....




now, with that said, I dont wanna see none of this merging at 35mph onto a 55mph highway.


the end.

Car sounds fucking awesome man! Makes me want mine back on the road 10 times more....

Type S BOV?

P.S. I generally enter on-ramps much faster. :)

Vash-

and thats with 250 whp correct? i should REALLY dyno mine.

omg i hate youtube's compression

hi-res here: http://www.boostedmiata.com/videos/d...n%20hi-res.wmv

yeah im very happy with the way it sounds now, before i added the resonator, you couldn't hear the intake at all in boost.
sure is.

bout as fast as i can at that boost level.... :)


something around that.

much better. car sounds great

nice...i also like your steering wheel....btw, the hi-res clip is SOOOOOOOOOOO much better hahahahahah.....it makes the first one look ugly as hel

i need positive manifold pressure in my life.

also notice how my hands go back on the wheel after i shift....none of that gansta shit. and the bending of my elbows..and the overall fucking awesomeness that i am.

shit fool, you need to floss when you drive. By tha year 2000, I'm-a gut out my bus.

You'd love my favorite on-ramp. I use it for my 4th gear pulls, and there is NO traffic to merge into, so hitting the rev limiter in 4th is fair game. Merging at 90+ is common :D

We do not allow street racing on this forum, now I'm going to inform the moderators. What you did was irresponsible and dangerous. You're going straight to hell for endangering the lives of others with your childish irresponsibility. Think of the children.

lol! :bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

was that a driver's ed video....?

Your suspension looks fairly uncomfortable. :P

MS motor mounts and solid diff mounts ftw!

You got nothing on this guy..

http://maddox.xmission.com/

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse....ar_genius5.gif

i bought his book..that's gotta count for something.

whats the phone number for your local chp?

no chp in va!

there's the state police ;)


and whatever, out of a 30 minutes video, that's the worst damage i could do.

I really need to fab up a roll bar mount for my camera.

Sweet, compairing that vid to my car, I should have similar HP numbers. Woot lol, I also need to dyno my car.

lol, California Highway Patrol in Virginia.

Genius Urban, genius.

I bet eric estrada could use the work though.

Noice. Yep thats the only way to merge....the only difference is that I get to merge from the other side.

I noticed that your oil pressure gauge doesn't move much (if at all), whats up with that?

J

yeah, it doesnt work very well it seems.

Car (exhaust and INTAKE) sounds great. In ATL we're starting to get traffic lights at the entrance ramp start to help those that are merge-impaired.

Oh they have installed them, but in the 2 yrs i've been seeing them, i have yet to see one in action lol.

Dammit, i'm just going to have to jump on the bandwagon and do some accel. run in my car today:giggle:

if you watch the wmv version closely, you can see i blow right by one. luckily the are typically only active when it's rush hour and the HOV restrictions are in effect.

all in all im very happy with the car right now. The resonator did add a small restriction in the exhaust so im down 1.5psi according to my logs, and since I've upgraded to hi-res i lost the ability to log Boost Duty Cycle (damn you B&G). So getting it back to perfectly flat again at 12 took more pulls than im used to.

I had a huge list of positives this weekend:


I finally washed the car since I frst got it running sorta in april/may, no more black soot has accrued on the bumper. That had me worried, but it seems that was solely due to the first in the tuning process.

No more smells or puffs of smoke, the smaller .040" oil inlet worked. The turbo was getting too much oil in high rpms and leaking some past it's seals into the exhaust and burning. i never saw smoke in boost, but I could always smell a "burning" smell after some boosted pulls. If I held 2nd or 3rd gear in high rpms without boost, and then left off and pulled high vacuum, I could get a puff of blue smoke out of the tailpipe. I cannot replicate anymore.

Like I said previously, I upgraded the firmware on the Megasquirt. The transitions when driving are much smoother. starting from a dead stop seems effortless now, even with the 6-puck clutch. It idles smoother.

Removal of the rear sway bar makes it feel much more planted around corners. VERY neutral, not a hint of oversteer. Makes my LSD happy to have both wheels on the ground.

Brake hardware eliminated the rattles.

Sanded and repainted my rear mudflap that hit the guardrail, reinstalled, makes the rear end good again. Yet to install the fronts from sheer laziness.

Resonator makes the exhaust sound SO much more livable. It doesn't drone you out anymore, you can drive around town without being noticed. But as you can hear, in boost it sounds pretty nice.

I fixed the airbag light you can see flashing, I somehow pulled the contact out of the connector for the airbag sensor in the engine bay.

I added a 10,000uF capacitor to the coils. I actually had to remove a lot of fuel from the table. Which means I am getting a more complete burn and don't need to inject as much fuel in the same condition, so better mileage and more power!



the only issues!!!!!!! :vash:


the TPS seems to have messed up again, making for odd enrichments and actually activated launch control when driving once. For now i have disabled anythign dealing with the tps. I'm not sure why, but something in my wiring must be amiss. I'm not positive it had to do with the upgrade to 10g, but now I get odd figures when I calibrate the TPS. every few seconds the car is on the number increases by 1. so after a log drive i had hit my launch control trigger value. oh well. With all the positives, I can deal with one little thing to figure out.

CLT is reading about 30°F too high when I looked at it in MT this morning. AIT was dead on. I might have plugged in the incorrect bias, but im going to have to check my files. When i still had 029v at 70°F, they both read the exact same. this morning i saw 70°F AIT and 100°F CLT. oh wellz.

Well guess what. They're starting to turn them on TODAY!!! :jerkit:

Dude, you freaking just left us on Sat evening when you accelerated down the on ramp to I-285E. I think our truck is probably good for like 16-17's and your car is good for the 12's or low 13's. :giggle:

yep, blasted dyslexia. typed in 86 instead of 68 on my resistance scale.

wow, I'm amazed that the glasspack killed flow by that much! :eek:

Damned TPS reports...

http://images.thinkgeek.com/action/large/20ffdfe.jpg

When you figure this one out, let us know. Same problem here.

I've turned the gauge back on in MegaTune, but it doesn't log it still :vash:

edit: found it

Find that line in msns-extra.ini, and remove the ";". Good to go to add back in boost control DC capabilities.

You can easily add BDC back in--there was just a typo in the code. Foundsoul posted the fix a few months back.

<edit> just saw Ben's post. didn't realize the gauge would display but it wouldn't log. There must be a 2nd place where the typo exists.

So, you guys have to lift once you merged?

Just messing. Wish my Miata was that fast!

looks like it's commented out here as well

ill see if that does it.

I like the way it sound with the resonator...very nice.

love the massive amounts of turbo noise. :D

That is the commenting that FoundSoul pointed out in Chad's thread from a while ago. It'll fix the mising bcDCgauge in MegaTune. The code I posted will fix the logging of bcDC.

ok gotcha thanks!

bduty3 is logging again, thanks!

scott, you bounce like a $10 hooker.

20+ mpg?

Anyone can do that while on jack stands. :jerkit:

L/100km dude.

Which year/model BMW cluster is that? Looks really close to the E36 I have been driving around in, but the fuel economy gauge is in a different place.

not to go off the subject... but about that video, when you go through that underpass ooooh sounds amazing.

Thatt vid looks like fun lol. You would be accepted by cali drivers me thinks :D

That's a good thing? :jerkit:

I drive like grandma when im not off impressing my e-friends.

Haha. I knew I'd like this guy... Gotta love the Johnson County Jerkoffs in their ------y Hybrids around here... Lets merge onto a 70mph freeway at 30!!!

If you're not doing 100 at the onset of merge, get the fuck out of my way!

Most of us aren't that bad. But its 10over the speed limit or :fawk:

Even our grandmas don't like the speed limits. Mine once told me "Why are you only going 40? The speed limits just a suggestion." lol

I take exit 237 on 75 faster than that. ;)

Well, if you checked my sign and location you would see that I am located in Germany. The picture is taken on the Autobahn east of Frankfurt on the way to Nurnberg. The "econometer" is showing MAX consumption (over 2L/100km) for the very basic reason that I am maxing out the car. Jackstands? Don't think so.

The car is the -99 320i in my sign.

OOOOOOOH. I had no idea it was a consumption meter. Sorry.

bimmer :noob:


ftw, my dad's 330i ZHP has nothing on the miata.....

Yeah, and my daily is slow compared to my non-boosted Miata. Anyway. Back to thread.

So brain, so you like the black interior instead of your old beige interior. I prefer black over beige any day.

I hate the cloth seats. The leather ones actually sat you lower and were more comfortable....it's all the same to me otherwise.

Sorry for the bump, but I have been up Spout run parkway just like you did in my boosted 96 lol.....

and???????

It's just hilarious seeing the same roads I run on the regular and he passed a buddy of mine's shop in Arlington....lame bump I know :)