Miataroadster.com sell an M10 inconel stud kit (complete with a small bottle of Resbond). One of my TSE M10 studs occasionally still unwinds through the nut and double-nutting it back on is a real PITA. These seem to be a better solution since the stud allows torquing with a hex wrench. Note: My turbo is a Garret and my understanding is that the M10s don't fit well with the EFR kits.

 

I dont see M10s working on an EFR. The 300zx studs + copper flange washers barely fit on that 1 spot. You might be able to do 3 of them with M10 but no way for the hard one.

 

I agree, no way in hell M10 will fit. It's almost impossible just to fit the locking hardware on m8's. The flange of the M8 nut almost overruns the clearance cuts in the casting, so by that alone M10 stage 8's ain't working. There's no room to increase most of the cuts, either.

 

Thanks everyone. I ordered some spare M8 studs and a spare set of locking hardware, should hopefully be alright.

 

You must be the one that bought Zack's car. Congrats, lovely car.

 

Indeed, I am. Timing just lined up really well with where I was with my S2000, I was about to dump another $10k into it for a cage / K24.

By going this route I have a far, far more competitive TT4 car and can run some ST locally. Chuckwalla is about as far as I normally get into California, hopefully that'll change.

 

Hope so, would be good to see the car again.

 

Looking to see if anyone has heard anything from Andrew at TSE in regards to this kit. I have not heard any real information from him since late June (his last email was August 12th saying he would give me an update in a week). Just trying to cancel the kit now, but have been unable to get a reply to any of my emails. Mainly speaking to anyone that has also ordered a kit within the past year and a half or so, or anyone that would have other contact information other than the TSE email. I really gave TSE and the kit a chance, and I understand that there can be many issues on the manufacturing side of things, but at this point, with the lack of communication and false timelines for receiving parts, I am just feeling a bit burned and am just looking for my money back so I can go in another direction.

 

You can try to reach out on his FB Andrew Kidd but at this point might be worth just going through your bank directly.

 

I have not heard anything since I was promised a refund

 

Update: still waiting on refund, no word in 2 months

 

Update, same feeling particularly burned in this one

 

Back in August I finally got a response about the remaining parts of the kit that are owed to me. Andrew said he would try to get an update to me the following week. Nine weeks later, still waiting for that update...

I thought about going the refund route as well, but figured it was the same rabbit hole.

 

This is getting ridiculous. I'm owed quite a bit of money and can't even get a response since August. Not sure what to do at this point since I'm not going to write the money off, but I'd rather not escalate to legally trying to get reimbursed.

 

@Savington

Yo dawg, this looks bigly bad, especially since you've consistently been online and not responding.

 

Hmm, the only item on the website is the unavailable turbo kit. I also found this...

"Our goal is to provide the best products and world-class support to our customers"

 

Why not just initiate a chargeback with your CC/Bank at this point? Clearly products/services paid for are not being rendered in the agreed upon timeframe, I wouldn't chock that up to malice or anything sinister, but it is what it is.

 

FYI paypal has a pretty strict 180day refund policy. After that, you will be out of luck to reverse transaction.

Initiating an external chargeback through your creditor/bank is the best bet, but don't wait forever and read up on their policy for duration.

I recently battled a shop (Nissan/Datsun community) that lead me on for 11 months. PayPal rejected my claim twice without considering the circumstances. Credit card revoked request but I appealed since there was a definite delivery date in our correspondence. I consider myself lucky... But also had already initiated FTC, BBB and local branch of consumer protections (office of Attorney General) to start kicking up dust.

That being said it's been over a year and half since I had a miata, but Trackspeed always had quality products. I'm hopeful that this can be resolved, but you gotta do what you can to protect your assets.

 

And if the above doesn't work, you can try small claims court.

 

Ok so I got in to contact with Andrew for you guys. He has been swamped/traveling with work which has been preventing him from communicating.

All of this is not intentional. His supply chain for manufacturing has basically cut him off (probably COVID related) and he is not able to get his hands on anything to ship out.

For those of you who would like a refund, he asks that you send him a new email. Id suggest making the subject line eye catching (e.g. *URGENT* ) as to get his attention.