Hello,
I'm Alwin, I'm 21 years old, i live in Sneek in the Netherlands. I'm working as a chemical analyst at the moment but i plan to go back to school next year. This wil also mean less money for the car for the next 4 years. I have several friends that own miata's and my brother got an ep3 civic type R. My dad is a mechanic so i have an garage with lift next to my house There are a lot of nice curvy roads close to my house. All of this allows for some pretty fun times ******* around with cars.
I guess i start with some history on the car. I bought it like this:


It's a 10th anniversary edition so a 1999. It had 164.000 km (100k miles) on it. These cars came standard with the 1.8l, (in europe most nb's are 1.6l) torsen 3.9 diff, 6 speed, chrome wheels and the blue paint/interior. Furthermore this particular car is equipped with abs, p/s and no a/c.
This is my first car so before modifying something i first had to learn how to drive it properly
In the first year i mostly just drove it and did some basic maintenance.

Over the last year i did the nbfl headlights and front bumper, added Coilovers, wheels, tires, exhaust, aluminum radiator, frame rails & some Tupperware so basically the miata starter package


After that i proceeded to basically destroy the car. Long story short i drove it into a guardrail, and spun a rod bearing(not at the same time). The car was not bent in the accident, an was fixed with a new fender, door and rear quartel panel. I then put a new (used) engine in, this engine started knocking on the first startup. (**** the guy that sold it to me) so i decided to rebuild the old engine.




So now the car was a car again. Since then I've added swaybars r888r tires and got it aligned. Couldn't get more front camber then - 2° so I've bought extended lower ball joints. These still have to be installed.

This is how the car sits as of right now.
Stuff that i ordered but has not yet been delivered or has been laying around not yet installed on my car:
-Cybul x rollbar & doorbars and dual durometer padding.
-extended lower ball joints
-new front lip & sideskirts
-10/6k springs for my coilovers (currently 8/5k)
- motamec brake proportioning valve

I also have a little list of things im planning to buy for the turbo system. I still haven't ordered most things of this list and it will still take a while for me to do so. I first want the car completely dialed in before i add turbo stuff, so if you have any suggestions for changes to this list i would like to hear them.

-Garrett gt2560r
-MSlabs MS3 mini pnp ecu & aem xseries wideband
-Kraken manifold & downpipe with iconel studs
-Bosch ev14 640cc injectors
-Bofiracing clutch kit
-Bofiracing oil & water line solution
-Bofiracing intercooler kit with blow off valve
-MAC electronic boost controller

Small things:
-NGK BKR7E spark plugs
-skidnation coolant reroute
-skidnation egr block off plate
-moroso catch can
-323 gtx pcv valve
-NTC2 motorsport spec air temperature sensor


So since this is my first post i think i'm gonna add a complete list off all of the parts currently on the car to this post and keep it updated by editing this post later.

 

Yesterday i got the fresh alignment bolts and the extended lower ball joints in. I think the old ones were due for replacement...


And today i got the car aligned, i drove it very slowly to the alignment shop because as expected the alignment was all over the place.
I ended up with these numbers:

............................... left - right
Front Camber:.. - 2.57° - 2.56°
Front toe:..... .... - 0.01° - 0.01°
Front caster:.... +5.06° +5.01°
Rear camber:... - 2.11° - 2.08°
Rear toe:.......... +0.08° +0.06°

The car drives alot better now than it did before. I currently have both swaybars on full soft but i might play with that some more.
Tire pressure in the r888rs is 27psi cold, I'm gonna get a pyrometer to help fine-tune the car more.

 

Nice 10AE. Cool to see you fixed the body damage properly. I own 10AE number 3770.

 

Got the rollbar in.


The rollbar weights about 45 lbs. I still have to put the doorbars in.
I have removed quite some weight from the car, i wonder how much it weighs now. There is a scale for trucks etc near my city, i don't know how accurate it is but i'm going to weigh my car there soon.

 

So turbo stuff is starting now. I bought a new ms3 mini ecu from someone who deciced not to use it. That same day i ordered an aem wideband, iat sensor and 3mm vacuum hose for the MAP.

And then a day later i found a good deal on a used turbo kit.
It is a kit from Revent with a gt2554r. It contains:
Turbo/manifold and downpipe/gaskets
intercooler+piping
oil and water lines
rx8 injectors (might upgrade to ev14)

So i only need to add a clutch and a blow off valve




I will pick this stuff up later this week.

 

ms3 mini ecu

installing the wideband

rx8 vs stock injectors

Installing the injectors

Now i will tune the car on the rx8 injectors. After everything is running smoothly i'm planning to take the engine out. With the engine out i need to fix an oil leak, do the clutch and get the oil return done.

 

Great to see the build coming along. To bad all meetings are canceled because of the Corona crisis.It
would be nice to meet another AE10 user!

 

Yeah i hope we get it under control soon, but it looks like it's still going to take a long time..

I made some more progress:


Davefab coolant overflow tank & catch can installed.


And the engine is now out of the car.


I got this oil pan with the turbo kit, saves me some time making an oil drain.


I guess this looks okay right?

 

Little interior update


My door cards were cutted up like this because the doorbars wouldn't fit otherwise.


Time for some LRBspeed door panels!


Painted them black and throwed them on the car. Notice there are no speaker holes.


When i want music i use this JBL flip 5, great sound for such a small speaker!


The radio head unit and speakers are now removed, i also removed the heavy power antenna and capped the hole off, no pic of that now.

 

I'm planning to use these tables, and then autotune the VE table. I hope this will be safe enough untill i get the car proffesionally tuned. that might take a while because of the corona virus tho.

 

Seems like a good time for remote tuning then!

 

The AFR table looks like a good start, for the ignition you can add some ignition timing in the cruise area to get some better mileage later on. I know at least one dutch tuner that is still active in the Rotterdam environment, if you need his contact details let me know.

 

Timing is conservative map. More conservative than my self-tune for a similar sized turbo using USA 93 Octane gas.

I would make both both stop at 220 kPa and AFR at 220 would be 11.6 and scale evenly back to the 12.5 at 100.

DNM

 

I'd rather have the car on a dyno tho.

Thanks i think i will leave the timing alone for now, i'l pm you if i need the tuner's details.

I made the 200 kpa row the 220 kpa row. I think i will keep it at 11 because 220kpa is above my boost target.

 

So everything is ready to go back in the car but i'm waiting on my iconel studs & locking nuts to arrive. The kit came with normal studs but i have read to many stories about the nuts coming off. In the meantime i played around with heat reflective tape, maybe it will help protect things.





Heat reflective tape



Painted the turbo heatshield with heat resistant paint.