Bout that time kids.... been a busy busy winter, whole lotta work has gone on. My goal is to be as close to 500whp as possible. Please enjoy!

Old BEGI S3 GT2854 set up



Now the fun stuff






OEM Mazda Pully




Boundary oil gears next to stock





Got the block bored and machined. Crank reground, put all the crap together...




Eagle Wiseco next to stock crap







Painted and put together










K ready to go back in, didnt have anywhere to drain tranny so the drive shaft stayed on for the install. Dont ask lol....






Now for the turbo goodies, Garrett 60-1 and EDT mani care of Jtothawhat...Sorry bud, had to spruce up the parts.





White? Seriously?????? lol



Sandblasted



Primed



Final product ceramic rattle can 2500 degree



Just wanted to do a quick mock up to make sure everything fit good...It did!





And to add insult to injury.....




Couple more parts are on there way...ill keep you guys posted.

 

Been waiting for this.....bout time! We really got to get together sometime, it'd be cool to finally hang out with someone else that is into miata's. Let me know if you ever need a hand with something...

 

I may need a hand putting in my torsen next weekend, having an extra set of hands always helps!

 

I was just wondering what you had planned for a rear end.....Did you get a 6spd to put in as well or are you going to see how long the 5spd lasts? I pm'd you my contact info so you can get ahold of me.

 

500 hp out of 1.6?

 

I may need a hand putting in my torsen next weekend, having an extra set of hands always helps!

 

A quick word of advice. Unless you started with a brand new/rebuilt oil pump housing, definitely check the pressure relief valve piston and bore on the oil pump. At least a couple of us here have had failures after installing new pump gears in a used housing, myself included. It sucks having to pull the engine out again after an epic and expensive engine build for something as simple and as cheap as a stuck oil pump pressure relief valve.

My pressure relief valve stuck open resulting in no oil pressure and cam bearing damage. I ended up buying a new oil pump and swapping out the stock gears with the same Boundary Engineering set you have. I wish now I had just done that in the first place. I have a thread about it somewhere around here.

I have a set of new stock gears if anyone needs them.

 

Yeah i already did that. I would never just slap gears in and go. The housing was in good shape, relief valve and spring were perfect, cleaned it lubed it and rebuilt it. Should be good to go. Good looking out though, i read about that happening before on here, that would suck, but im 100% sure mine is ok.

 

500hp on a torsen..... I know I couldn't do that lol

 

I'm doing the torsen for now cause I got a good deal on it. Once it goes, which will probably will in 2 seconds, ill get a quaf or something a little more beefy. Maybe an rx clutch type like Jay. He rocks that thing with 450 all day long. And yes......500 on a 1.6....lets see what happens....

 

Thats whats in my car....

 

Mine aswell, I've been rocking the rx for a few years, it just keeps coming back for more.

 

Do it......

 

Considered upgrading that intake manifold?

 

Already spoke to Steph at begi this week about the 1.6 intake group buy, just waiting on her....

 

Made some prgress this week! not much but some lol. Radiator and fans came in along with my corksport gears, gates racing tbelt, and headstuds.

I was a little worried that a godspeed radiator and fans were going to require some fabrication of brackets to get it to fit right....much to my surprise, 100% easy bolt in!






Im still waiting for my supertech springs and retainers, my cams and for my head to be finished.....Hopefully ill have some confirmation on the cams this week since i shelled out a butt load of cash for something thats not even made yet lol.

 

awwwwwwe, we have the same catch-can.

 

You may want to add a ATI damper at those HP levels.

 

hot damn. coming along quite nicely man. that compressor gives me dirty thoughts

 

Thought about that....Im gonna see how the car is at first then go from there. I mean i wish it was this easy but its not like im going to turn the car on and instantly make that kind of power. Its gonna take some serious dyno time and some serious patience.