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For those of you who didnt see my meet & greet post on the back story to my miata, it was my best friends car who passed away from brain cancer. He had plans of adding a turbo and doing autoX but never had time to do it. About a year after his passing his dad gifted the car to me because it didnt mean much to him and we had a lot of good times in the miata. I enjoy building cars and plan to track this car and have a fun toy for the nice days in the NW
When i got the car it had the following installed
1.8 torsen diff
Jackson intake
Brain built MS3X
2.5 exhaust
Bride Lowmax
Hardog rollbar
Tien Flex
14x7 RPF1 set
15x7 BBS knock offs
Braided brake lines
Front strut brace
Engine roll brace/damper thing
Nardi wood grain steering wheel
Included but not installed
-custom turbo kit
Since i have got it i have added
installed gt2860rs turbo
full 3" stainless exhaust w/ magnaflow
1.125 RB Hollow front swaybar with 949 endling
Singular hood vents
Custom heat shield
Catch can setup
Bunch of heat shield and heat management stuff
Good turbo hardware from arp turbo (i know its not inconel)
Front Splitter w/ tire spats (broke this last weekend though)
And like any other gearhead i have lots of future plans as follows
Diff bushings
Suspension Bushings
Flyin Miata BBK
15x9 Advanti Storms wraped in 225/45-15 RS4
Meth Injection
Blackbird fabworx spoiler
1.8 Engine Build
1.8 off CL for 300
1.8 bare block and supertech 83.5 pistons with wiseco xx rings of here
02 VVT head from local junkyard
Boundary Engineering oil pump
949 oil baffle
Manley H Beam Rods
ARP head studs and main studs
ACL bearings
Supertech Light Double spring kit
Gates timing belt kit from 949
Water pump from 949
Supermiata comp mounts
Walbro 255LPH Fuel Pump
Absurd flow manifold and downpipe
Possibly new turbo gt2871rs?
And finally Pictures to come tonight
Last edited by matrussell122; 07-26-2017 at 07:36 PM.
Coolant hit 215 today in driveway and turns out fans didnt kick on. shouldnt the thermo switch kick in at 200ish? If its bad should i run the fans to a manual switch or just replace the thermo switch?
Coolant hit 215 today in driveway and turns out fans didnt kick on. shouldnt the thermo switch kick in at 200ish? If its bad should i run the fans to a manual switch or just replace the thermo switch?
Replace the sensor. If you run manual fans, at some point you will forget them and overheat. I've done it in previous cars.
On a Brain built MS3 it looks like the fan output for a 90 should be INJ G. Should be able to use test mode to turn on that output which should turn on the fan. If it doesn't you'll need a DMM to measure the output at the ECU.
Got the MS3X to contorol the fans and was super easy, cant believe it took me this long to set it up. SpartanSV it was ING G. Viperormiata- the speakers are alright and like everything it is all relative. The speakers are clear but i have to crank it up to hear anything over the exhaust but race car not luxury car. The truck speakers sound way way better but i actually put a good system in it (amps proper build sub box, good speakers, good deck, quality wires)
From Brain's 97 base map. Looks like he sets it so the fan turns off over 90% throttle which is genius.
Are you using a vTPS?
With your hysteresis setting you will never see your fan turn off. With brain's it will shut off at 190.
Copied your settings and fan works good. Also had to drive at night yesterday and tuned the PWM voltage compensation to account for the headlight draw and if i turn the heater fan on.