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Thanks guys! Definitely good to be back home.
Jim, it'll hopefully be running Saturday night after we build the exhaust. On the road Sunday, I hope! But things never go as planned. But I'm hoping to get a couple months in before it goes away for winter.
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Gonna be beastly. I've been watching. I try to keep silent and stay out of the way when a man is in the middle of his work.
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Thanks!
Ran into a couple issues today with my rad hoses. First the upper hose with the reroute and the FM intercooler pipe didn't want to fit together so I did the revlimiter fix. Then I never got a lower rad hose with my kit for some unknown reason. I guess that's what I get for buying used. Bought a random rad hose that looks like it might work after some cutting but we'll see.
Also, picked up my MS today! Hopefully get that hooked up and start looking over the tune that was loaded on by Dimitris tonight as well as finish bolting up a few other things. Will likely post an actual update when I finish in the garage for the night.
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Got a bit further on the car today. Hooked up the driveshaft and all the other shit under the car as well as all the connectors other than the TPS, IAC, and IAT. Since the motor is from a '94 and I'm retarded I didn't get the connectors from the 1.8 TB for the VTPS and IAC so I'll need to find those somewhere and wire them in. Also swapped injectors and installed the IC and all the piping.
Also, since I did a coolant reroute so the coolant goes through the back of the engine now and each cylinder gets even cooling I have been using a rad hose from an Escalade for my upper rad hose but that gets in the way of my IC pipe that comes up to the TB so I had to rig something up to get it to fit. Got a rad hose from some Oldsmobile as suggested by Revlimiter and cut it up a bit to make it fit and then did some more cutting later to make it fit even better.
Then the old lower rad hose used to run right where the turbo inlet is now so that wouldnt work. Found a random hose at partsource that looked like it might work, cut it up a bit and installed it.
Still need to pick up clamps for all my rad hoses.
Before:
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps23e269ff.jpg
New hoses, the one I used for my lower rad hose was $11 rather than the $50 FlyinMiata wanted for a lower rad hose.
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps237b90b6.jpg
After, this hose was cut more later on to get it to fit a bit better since it was still a really tight fit:
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps7ef239da.jpg
Lower rad hose
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...psf00e4eaa.jpg
MS things happened, car fired up first try
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...psc2b47cbe.jpg
Need to order a new downpipe, and the connectors for TPS and IAC.
Then need to wire those in as well as the IAT, wideband, and boost gauge. Then the rest of the exhaust needs to be built. So likely looking at next weekend having it start because I have to wait on the downpipe and exhaust building stuff.
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps202ff46b.jpg
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Wait.. you have MS but no wideband!?
How are you tuning the car!?
Otherwise, great job! I'm sure you were very happy to hear it start right up :D
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I have a wideband but need a downpipe to be able to install it. We just wanted to see if the MS was communicating with the car and if everything was working well enough for it to start up. It didn't really run at all, just started up for a couple seconds and then we killed it since there are still a few things missing.
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Ahhh, well that makes sense. What happened to the Downpipe you had? Didn't fit or something?
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The guy I bought my kit off didn't include it so we were going to make one but its too tight in there to bother with that.
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Ohhhh.... That thing must have been LOUD!
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It wasn't too bad haha, but it didn't really run long enough the get a good idea of the sound. I'm excited to hear what it will sound like with a 3" exhaust
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Downpipe and the connectors I needed are in the mail :frantic:
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Guess I haven't updated this thread in a bit. Soldered connectors on and hooked up the TPS. Was getting messed up signals from the TPS fluctuating 10-20%. Checked the voltage and on a full sweep I was only getting a range of 4.3-4.8V rather than what it should have been with 0.2-4.8V. Bought a new TPS, plugged it in, had a bit of a better range and a more steady signal but it is still fluctuating between 1-3%. Could possibly be a grounding issue; not sure though.
Installed my DP as well, wired up the wideband and boost gauge, just need to T the boost gauge into the vacuum line going to the MS.
Fixed my coolant leak that has been there since doing the 1.8 swap on my copper inlet pipe for the heater core by taking a 10mm socket followed by an 11mm and hammering them into the pipe to round it out after it got crushed removing the old hoses.
Got the car idling well and finally took it out for a drive to fill up on gas. It seems to drive well other than the bucking from the TPS sending fluctuating signals. Should get some solid tuning time in on Friday and then sometime after that it'll be time to build the exhaust since I'm currently just running an open downpipe.
No pics since last time, will hopefully snap some tomorrow.
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Haven't posted in here because I've been too busy driving the car :frantic:
Drove it over to my friend's place where we would start doing a good look over of everything and hopefully start some tuning. On the way there the car died. Sure enough, I must have forgotten to fully tighten the nut for the ground on the alternator and it back off leading to a weak alternator and a dead car at the side of the road 5 blocks from my friend's place. Jump started, drove over, jacked the car up to check the alternator when I found that. Fixed it as well as a leak at the TB, set the timing, switched over to MAPdot based accel enrichments and rolled the car out of the garage.
We were both really impressed by the base tune Dimitris loaded on the MS before sending it to me. Everything looked really good, other than needing to add more fuel up top, which we figured out why we needed to do that tonight. One of the orings on my 550cc's got pinched during installation and was pouring fuel out. Progressively got worse to the point where today the car smelled horribly like pure gasoline lol. And I got 50miles out of half a tank of gas. Stole an o-ring from my oem injectors and it was all good.
Current kills include my friends built Jetta which he thought would walk me, an e39 m5, and came very close to beating a modded audi b5 s4 which ran low 13's in the quarter mile. Going to rematch now that I've fixed my boost leak from the BOV.
Boost is soo good.
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I'm so very jealous of your awesome set up. I'm glad you are enjoying it so much!
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Got my 1.6 tombstone and blanking plate, just need to drill holes for my gauges and switches before installing it all.
Also bought a manual boost controller. Will be raising the boost to about 13psi or 14psi this weekend.
Hopefully I can sell my spare turbo and the wheels that are on it right now to get some new wheels to make it out to a lapping day before the end of the season. Looking at getting these:
http://www.good-win-racing.com/miata...deopen15x8.jpg
or 6ul's but those are all sold out.