Icedawg

Today the miataturbo robot wished me a happy Birthday! Anticipating this happy event, I fell victim to Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales pressure, and ordered an FM turbo kit, and a MS3 PnP Megasquirt. I have to say, the sales at both sites were quite good, and helped me bite the bullet to go ahead. I look forward to eventually receiving all this stuff, (some is on backorder) and working toward getting it all running. Installing the turbo kit does not seem like too big a deal, given all the race car builds I have done, but I am very apprehensive of the task of learning to program an ECU . Having viewed several of the videos on this site on getting started with a Megasquirt, I remain intimidated, but hope I will keep learning.
I figure I will install the Megasquirt in the street car in stock form, learn a bit about tuning it, add the upgraded injectors and do the same thing, and then add the turbo kit and tune again. I plan to spend 6 to 12 months doing this, given everything else I have to work on.

I expect I will be back seeking advice many times over the next year.

Silver NB

iTrader: (1)

Happy birthday! Mine's next week, and my wife let me get in on the MKTurbo sale last month as an early present. Can't wait to get started on the build once all my parts get here.

sixshooter

iTrader: (12)

One of you paid half as much for the same performance.

Icedawg

Certainly true, although the substantial Cyber Monday savings FM was offering made the choice a lot easier. I am putting this in a car that will become a NASA ST 4 race car, perhaps eventually ST3, and in the end reliability under the extreme conditions of racing was the dominant deciding factor. After reading ever so many posts on this site I concluded the FM or TSE unit was going to be the best bet for durability at extended time periods of WOT. That may not be entirely true, but it is what I concluded after a lot of reading on this site. And I knew I was not going to try for over 250 hp at the wheels. If I was going for more HP then I conclude I should have selected the TSE solution. But at a target of 170 to 200 initially, the Garret turbo looks to work out well enough, and so far as I can tell the FM unit will have the durability I will need in a race car.
In any event, I am committed to it now.