​​​​​​Hello to all the a**holes of Miata Turbo, my name is Karl. I've lurked here long enough so I figured it was time to actually join and make a post. I bought a sh*tbox 02 crystal blue with 132k on it 7 months ago. It look rough, didn't run because squirrels chewed the plug wires in half and the fuel pump was literally siezed due to corrosion.

In short order had it running, but after months of fuel pump failure after another, I ended up swapping out the gas tank because I simply couldn't get all the rust out of it; since then, no more fuel pump failures. Maybe a month after I got it I swapped out to a set of bilstein coilovers with Hks tophats that I snagged off of ebay; they work great with 12k/10k rates but I couldn't find anything on the part numbers from the shocks so if anyone has a clue as to what they are feel free to let me know.



Since getting the car I've done just about every bit of maintenance to it, timing belt, waterpump, O2 sensor, plugs, wires, coils, cam sensor, every engine seal except oil pan, clutch, rebuilt shifter with 5x brass bushing, resealed the trans and diff (and swapped a T1 Torsen in), fuel filter, bumped timing to 16 degrees advanced, etc... Swapped in the sport brakes with powerstop pads, stainless hoses, and a wilwood adjustable proportioning valve. Tossed around the idea of turbo but refused to spend the money on a ms3 pnp for it. Finally I have decided to go turbo with with a better ecu, though not in the traditional route. Got an 07 LE5 2.4 ecotec, harness, pcm, driveshaft, and AR5 from a Pontiac solstice, pairing that up with a gt3076r 0.82 AR turbo from cxracing and a ford 8.8 (I have the tendency to overbuild things to make sure I don't have to redo **** every time I want more). Not gonna run the ecotec miata swap kit since I'm not too fond of how they have things setup (mainly the starter/motor mount interference and the oil pan), so I'll just build my own "kit". Well I guess this is sufficient for an intro and I probably should make a build thread at some point soon.

Facebook ad photo of the car


Bringing it home


Replacing the passenger that had a rust hole in it (it was a south Florida Beach car)


My "custom exhaust".... Cut the stock muffler off, welded a 90, a 6th gen camaro exhaust tip, and some factory hangers on.


After I pulled some fu*kery off on the hood with my buffer and some sandpaper


When I first put my advanti storm s1 15x8s with continental ecs 205/50s on. (had 15x7 s1s with 205 neogens before... It was aweful)


Momo team 300mm (before I swapped out the horn button to get rid of the crap nrg button)


With my silver hood on instead ( gonna be doing some diy hood vents and want to practice on the silver lol)


My "custom cold air intake", I was tired of having to move the stock air box so I made this with some cheap sh*t and an aem dry flow filter... Yes, I know it loses power under the curve on these cars...

 

Another one saved! Remove and sell that tupperware; looks odd and will fetch decent money to be budgeted elsewhere.

 

I have something a bit different in mind for the Tupperware.