someone buy them

 

alright fine .. i'll buy one.. but only cause I want my FMIC to be as cool as braineack's.

 

The air filter is in the stock Greddy location and uses the Greddy elbow. I'm sure with a little ingenuity you could mount the filter elsewhere. I designed this kit to be PNP with a stock miata and Greddy kit. It this kit is succussful, I'll consider adding more opitions.

-stripes

 

:gay: I just noticed your signature "stripes pipes". Not bad I'm up for any suggestions if anyone else wants to throw out a name for this kit.

 

how about "not j-i-m-b pipes"

 

hehe maybe. too much association though.

 

I used Jim's pipes for years, they are for the budget person. I know you guys dont look at them too highly, but Jim is a busy man and for what they are they work. I do agree that Stripes makes a super nice IC pipe set that is 100% nicer though.

 

I'd say the majority of us here have used them. doesn't mean they're not shitty

 

Back from the dead! Began work on the kit tonight and in the interest of not starting a new thread I thought this might be the most pertinent to my install questions.
So here's my kit and it looks great. My only issue is I wish I could have gotten bead rolling. Other than that the welds are great, as good as mine

So I took my haynes manual out and gave it a go. I got most of what I need off. I guess I'll finally break down and jack the car up so I can get the last undertray off. This leads me to my first question. Completely removed or trimmed to accomodate the pipes. Here is a picture of the shroud wrapping around the radiator and heat exchanger for the ac. So it definitely won't accomodate a 2.5" pipe. So those who've installed it cut or remove. I'm hesitant to remove due to loss of cooling efficiency.

Now take a look at this. I have two horns. I ******* hate with a passion the alarm system that is on the car and I've disengaged it. I see no OEM-like horn and thats really all i'm interested in keeping. I have a bullhorn type and a spiral style horn. Both are aftermarket and take up a ton of space in the area the core will occupy.

So which is the one to keep?

I also noticed something not pictured in the hayned manual which was a black odd shaped part just under the hood latch with a wire running to the blue and orange connector near the top of the drives side shock tower.

What is it?


Thanks Goodnight

 

I say cut the shroud, keep all the cooling efficiency you can. While you're in there, maybe look for more ways to prevent air from escaping around the rad? I haven't installed an IC on a Miata *yet* but that's what I'm going to do.

The black box sounds like the airbag sensor. Tap it with a hammer to find out for sure.

 

you really didn't have to pull the bumper....but you have to trim the undertray to fit the pipes. You just gotta do it. As long as you do a good job triming, then you won't suffer any loss around the pipes.

something nice like this:

 

Yeah I guess I didn't have to pull the bumper but isn't that why it always takes longer to do a job the first time? Braneack I see that you don't have the bottom bracket that Stripes has templates for on mx5 projects. Do you notice any virbrations or noise?

 

That's not a Stripes kit, and actually, I don't think it is even Brain's car. Looks like an FM kit to me.

 

not my car, that's a FM kit.

But no. I installed this kit on Newbsauces' car and we did not use the lower brackets....for one the top bracket does a hell of a job, but allows for some movement, and two the charge pipes do a good job a securing it in place and it's snug enough...

my personal intercooler is the same and I only have (1) S bracket holding it in place, worked fine for about two years now....

 

I sent Stripes an email today to see about getting one of these. I'm going intercooled right from the beginning. Good to see this thread pop up.

 

Nice choice of beer That stuff flows like water here, they sell it with a local discount. How about $5.00 a sixer! I may just have to get on myself

 

I've made my own "no-weld" IC pipes out of steel tube/bends and various couplers in the past. With the cost of good couplers it's still pretty pricey, takes some trial/error and you have many more points of failure. The more I look at it the more I want a Stripes Pipes kit.

 

this is the best non-welded writeup we have here: https://www.miataturbo.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4904

then decide what's easier for you...

 

Yeah, that's a really good setup, and I'd originally planned to copy it. But after Joe's own comments about whether it was worth it and thinking of how little time I have as it is, I think Stripes is a good way for me to go.

 

when I go to http://www.mx5projects.com the price is like 240 then here its 550 http://www.mx5projects.com/Greddy%20Intercooler.asp Why? Is there a diff.? Thanks guys