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    2,000 rpm - light wheelspin, no bog here! Satisaii's Avatar
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    I wanted all the locks in the car to match. The trunk is easy, it is a direct swap. The door locks proved to be more difficult. The NB lock body is larger than the NA.

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    NB on the right.

    Popped the trim rings off. The NA ring set inside the NB ring.

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    Totally disassembled.

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    The internals look to be close enough to the same.

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    Reassembled. NB key in NA lock.

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    The internals of the NA key. These have different sizes and the assembly order matches the key shape.

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    3,000 rpm - starting to feel the power MLambert19's Avatar
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    Will the keyless electronics work when all done? Please continue, good sir!

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    2,000 rpm - light wheelspin, no bog here! Satisaii's Avatar
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    I doubt it. That would require more wiring since I had never intended to use remote locks and deleted that wiring from my harness. The ECU and key set did come with the receiver, so it would be possible.

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    Just to clarify...you swapped the tumblers from the NB lock barrel to the NA lock barrel and they fit no issues?

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    The tumbler assembly from the NB fits inside the NA barrel. I did not mess with the individual tumblers. The reverse would not be true... the NB tumblers have a groove in them and the NB barrel has a slot for the groove.

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    And here I am looking for motivation/inspiration...any updates on this?

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    I suck at taking pictures of my works in progress. There is way more orange in the interior and under the hood now.

    It is now running as a USDM 2005 Miata. I am waiting on all the readiness indicators to reset before I can get it inspected and registered as such. CARB is so much fun. Once it passes the BAR, it will get a FM turbo kit.

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    5,000 rpm - there be torque here! Greasemonkey2000's Avatar
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    What a long road this was. I took it to the ref for the first time in late December. I was completely unprepared. It turns out that you have to document everything. They wanted me to prove that the PCM was completely OEM. They wanted to know why it would not return a VIN number. They wanted the engine VIN to be the same year as the PCM. The hood sticker on my car states it is a CA car, so I needed a CA PCM.

    So I went to a dealer. Turns out my car is a federal car. Bullet dodged since I have a federal PCM. We tested 3 different PCMs before the tech came out and stated that these PCMs would not return a VIN code for anti-theft reasons. They did state that the PCM appeared to unmodified and OEM.

    I had borrowed a 2003 engine from work in order to get this project moving. So I needed to buy my own engine anyways.

    I bought a low mileage 2005 engine from LKQ. Supposed to be from a good running donor car. It had super low compression numbers and massive amount of leakage from the exhaust valves. Pulled the valve cover and found chunks of oil. Looked like it had never had an oil change. But it did have a 2005 VIN plate.

    Next I bought a remanfactured engine. After giving it a once over and finding it had the absolute cheapest Chinese parts used in the rebuild, I used it to replace the borrowed 2003 engine and then had the head on the 2003 one rebuilt. Swapped oil pans, and now it looks like it came from 2005. Put it all back together and get it ready for testing in early January.

    Test day #2. Cancelled since I did not want to drive it in the rain. I can wait until the weather is better, right? And then everything gets shut down.

    Test day #3. Virtual appointment. Mid April and things are opening back up but you have to be approved for an in person appointment. This goes well, all of the paperwork gets approved and I get an appointment slot.

    Test day #4. The day before the test, on my drive home from work, the ABS light comes on. I decide to trouble shoot it that night. In the process I pull every fuse out of the car... which resets the PCM to not ready. It fails the test.

    Test day #5. Everything is good to go as I left my house. I arrived at the test station to discover a pending code. We did not bother to test it.

    Test day #6. Cancelled the day before since the test equipment was not working.

    Test day #7. Success. Finally passed and is now considered a 2005 Miata for emissions controls. Only took 7 months. Don't know how many phone calls where they wanted me to do another virtual appointment. And then only a supervisor could schedule it. Half the time it took multiple calls to get the supervisor.

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    Can I get a WOOT!

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    Good night of America! What a process but kudos on hanging in there and getting it done, John! I could never live in Nazifornia for this reason. I am jelly of the car culture and tracks though.
    Last edited by Greasemonkey2000; 07-23-2020 at 04:57 PM. Reason: John or Sonny...I'm not sure....its the former :)
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    w00t!

    That is amazing perseverance, John, color me impressed! Congratulations!

    I don't recall anyone who had BAR'd their Miata this way ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satisaii View Post

    For the uninitiated, seeing this decal is akin to actually seeing this


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    2,000 rpm - light wheelspin, no bog here! Satisaii's Avatar
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    Now that I have done it once, I am fairly confident that I could do it again on the first try. OTH, I replaced every part of the emissions system with new parts from Mazda (hooray for racer pricing.) The PCM was tough. I had to wait for a 2005 manual to pop up on Ebay with immobilizer and keys. I really found it amazing that they did not care about the wire tuck, engine bay clean up, or that everything under the hood had been powder coated.

    Now the car is going to sit for a while until my finances recover a bit. A couple years ago I purchased a 3.6 Fuji from the UK breakers that turned out to be bad. I did not catch it for more than a year since the car was not being driven. Dropped the fluid on it last week and discovered big chunks of stuff attached to the drain plug and the nearly new fluid was black. That diff is so loud that the car is quieter with the windows down at 70 mph.

    Once I figure out what to do with the diff, I have the CARB legal FM turbo kit to install. Some more parts to powder coat. Rattles to track down. The hard top does not seal well against the windshield header. There are some wiring issues that came up recently. Maybe do an EV conversion.

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    6,000 rpm - mere mortals would shift oldgrayleather's Avatar
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    Amazing!! Thrilled to hear you've finally got this done. Never doubted your perseverence or capabilities, more just a question of how much red tape you'd have to go through and how many hoops. Bravo, very well done John!

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