Grassroots Motorsports challenge car
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Hello, I'm new here and I just picked up a 1991 Miata. I plan on entering it in the Grassroots Motorsports challenge. Now i've been searching this forum and a few others this past week but i could use a little help. (ok, a lot of help!) I've been shopping around for parts and I've found a turbo manifold and downpipe for $200 shipped and a T25 turbo off a DSM with 50K for $50. Is this a step in the right direction? I realize that I'm going to have to upgrade a bunch of other parts when doing this project (diff, clutch, injectors, fuel pump, etc) and i want to know where to spend the money.
Now if you were building a cheap Miata, what would you do? I'm just curious.
Now if you were building a cheap Miata, what would you do? I'm just curious.
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Learn to weld and fab up the intercooler piping and run a cheapo junkyard piece or an ebay special, then fab up your downpipe too. If it leaks, who cares as long as most of its going down the pipe. You might be able to put all of that together for just a few hundred more on top of the turbo/manifold if youre really good and the simpler the better.
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T-25 is a good turbo...could go with a used clutch...build your OWN MS for about ~300 all said and done and wont have to upgrade your fuel pump or AFPR...um? if you can fab, it can be cheap.
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ACT HD clutch, or whatever is cheapest....
**** the rear, unless you can find a cheap open or something and do the swap, but it will be around $500-600 bucks minus whatever you recoup.
turbo, dp, manifold, oil lines, cheap IC or WI. most of the budget.
MS $400-500 (with injectors $600) or Bipes/FMU $300 or so (1.8l injectors $50 or supra injectors so $350 or so)
the rest id throw into better shocks, or cut the oem springs....beef the sway bar, weld in some braces all over, and some tires.
**** the rear, unless you can find a cheap open or something and do the swap, but it will be around $500-600 bucks minus whatever you recoup.
turbo, dp, manifold, oil lines, cheap IC or WI. most of the budget.
MS $400-500 (with injectors $600) or Bipes/FMU $300 or so (1.8l injectors $50 or supra injectors so $350 or so)
the rest id throw into better shocks, or cut the oem springs....beef the sway bar, weld in some braces all over, and some tires.
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Someone else on this board has some of these that he made. Said they helped alot.
Someone else on this board has some of these that he made. Said they helped alot.
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Someone else on this board has some of these that he made. Said they helped alot.
Someone else on this board has some of these that he made. Said they helped alot.
FM has been selling bolt in ones for over a year...supossed to be badass.