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Each spring is more or less held in place at each end, but free to articulate in the middle. As you hit bumps, each main spring will win one battle at a time, until the war on its helper spring is won. Those couplers will look awfully inexpensive, as you gaze upon the remains of 4 mangled helper springs.
So, just for you, there's a free set of wide open couplers.
Sold!
Originally Posted by patsmx5
I like build threads with boost and wining and track results and cool fab work and vids. This thread needs more of these things.
Fab work? Jesus man. I couldn't fab my way out of a tin can. Like, if you put me in a tin can and gave me tools. I'd probably come on miata turbo and post about being stuck in a tin can instead of fabbing my way out.
Also, I thought miatas made us all fab?
Originally Posted by aidandj
Jump into a field. thats how i tested mine.
I think there are more fields where you are. Post vids plz.
Originally Posted by Steve Dallas
Each spring is more or less held in place at each end, but free to articulate in the middle. As you hit bumps, each main spring will win one battle at a time, until the war on its helper spring is won. Those couplers will look awfully inexpensive, as you gaze upon the remains of 4 mangled helper springs.
Here Vladamir, be happy.
Just noticed that my poor fender liner is fubared. :/
Did a pull tonight.
I always get a bit nervous when I hit 6k so I tend to pull the plug there-abouts. I really should do one out to redline, but that sounds scary and would be pretty damn fast on the roads I tend to test on.
In any event, looking at the log, I punched it at about 2100 and was making 6psi by 3000rpm. It crept up to 7psi over the next 500-1000 rpm or so. I think the ewg spring is between 4.5-5ish psi, so its just gingerly creeping up. There was a knock spike at ~6.3k that jumped to 27.1% or so. From what I've read on here (written by aidan and brain), that's barely anything and could just be noise. I'm going to pull a degree or two of timing at that load and see if it changes things. The weird thing is that I saw a few values in the low 20's after I took my foot off the gas. I'm guessing that was definitely noise because it wouldn't make sense otherwise!
I haven't really changed anything in the setup other than fueling and the tune a bit, ie no changes in boost. The following is a log from a month ago.
All in all, I'm very happy with how things are right now. I want to install EBC, but it's going to be a little bit. I need to check off a few things first: install undertray after cutting for piping, get some heat shielding together for the engine bay, coolant reroute, and figure out if my turbo is actually leaking at the seals. That last one I don't know if I want to do anytime soon because I'm not sure I want to know the answer. I don't know what else I'd do except for trying to figure out a larger drain. I've talked to the previous owner and he never had this issue, so I'm not quite sure what's up!
Ah, forgot to mention that I sucked it up and paid to have the clutch done. I'm still a bit bummed about it because that would have been half the price of a 6 speed, but I honestly couldn't say when I'd have the time to get the car up on jacks for a few days. GF has my subaru for now, so working on the miata for the few days I'd need to do the clutch would have meant not having a car. Womp.
Originally Posted by Lexzar
Aye almost 200whp, maybe if you held it to 7k! Congrats on that, torque looks nice and flat.
Gives me hope as we both probably have the same knowledge that I'll be able to enjoy boost soon.
Unless you sell the car and get your neighbors!
And yeah. I think my rev limiter is 6.8k or thereabouts. I don't really want to bang into it. The car is a lot of fun as it is. The nut behind the wheel just needs more experience. In an ideal scenario, id get everything done to tune it and have it running well at like 10-12 psi and run autocross with it at like 7-8psi. So basically... Why bother going up anytime soon lol.
Actually, you can see where I hit cutoff in the old chart. I think I still had 500rpm left in the run I did. Might have to try again soon!
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