Ian's 99 build thread
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Jesus I hope not, I believe you meant biennial? ![](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/smile.gif)
It'll be interesting to see what happens when you move it to the feed side for the rail. I mean, obviously its doing something if your tuning issue is sorted.
Also, thanks again for letting me stop by and borrow tools last weekend. I'll see if I can get them back to you in the next couple weeks
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It'll be interesting to see what happens when you move it to the feed side for the rail. I mean, obviously its doing something if your tuning issue is sorted.
Also, thanks again for letting me stop by and borrow tools last weekend. I'll see if I can get them back to you in the next couple weeks
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Jesus I hope not, I believe you meant biennial? ![](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/smile.gif)
It'll be interesting to see what happens when you move it to the feed side for the rail. I mean, obviously its doing something if your tuning issue is sorted.
Also, thanks again for letting me stop by and borrow tools last weekend. I'll see if I can get them back to you in the next couple weeks![Biggthumpup](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/biggthumpup.gif)
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It'll be interesting to see what happens when you move it to the feed side for the rail. I mean, obviously its doing something if your tuning issue is sorted.
Also, thanks again for letting me stop by and borrow tools last weekend. I'll see if I can get them back to you in the next couple weeks
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I don't think moving it to the feed line is going to make any significant difference. I had it in there briefly when I was first testing it (to confirm that it worked before putting in the effort to mount it), and the effects at idle were the same. I couldn't drive it that way (damper was unsecured, feed line was dangling below the frame rails), but I could idle it.
Glad the tools were helpful!
--Ian
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Making a -6 return style system would've required a lot of new hose and fittings that I don't have, several hundred dollars' worth. It would also preclude the use of the stock rail, requiring a lot more parts to be swapped out for California's biannual "regulatory" reasons.
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Cool results though! It's your car not mine, but man I wish you had that regulator up front, referenced, and then did this test with and without the damper. Just for my own knowledge though.
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Also forgot, but for coils I run IGN1A Race coils and they are great. I run .030" gap on them at 28 PSI. I can run .040" gap on them but I have to crank the dwell to 5.0+ for them to do that. I just run them at .030" gap and 3ms dwell as running 5.0+ seemed like a bad idea for coil reliability. I could idle 19.0:1 AFRs with .040" gap, it will misfire in the 18.0:1 AFRs now but it's really not an issue.
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Click on them. They are full DSLR glory. (Or whatever my Dads camera takes.) Its not phone pics.
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<br />God damn it. The image reuploading breaks my links to the high quality pictures. I'll relink everything tonight.
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<br />God damn it. The image reuploading breaks my links to the high quality pictures. I'll relink everything tonight.
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This is my third Nogaro Blue car, I had a B5 S4 sedan in the same color before the B6. The paint appears to darken with age, the new car is noticeably lighter than the old one, and the same was true when I had the B6 and the B5 parked next to each other for a couple weeks while selling the B5.
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No work on the Miata this weekend, family in town. We did wander over to Levi's Stadium for some football though. Real football -- Manchester United won 3-1 over Barcelona. ![](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Also popped the dress cover/heat shield off the S6 to take a peek. Awww, cute widdle turbos!
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Also popped the dress cover/heat shield off the S6 to take a peek. Awww, cute widdle turbos!
![](http://www.codrus.com/audi/s6/s6-turbos.jpg)
--Ian