My NA 1.8 NA made 110/102. Input?
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They got me by the ballzzzzz. My only other option is to pack it up and take it to AZ and have it professionally tuned, which I realize is my best option but money is tight (7mo old baby and a stay at home mom, I'm the income) and this is essentially just a toy car to me. I was hoping to put that off until next year.
There is a Mustang dyno in El Paso but the owner genuinely and deeply dislikes me... I'll look into it anyways.
There is a Mustang dyno in El Paso but the owner genuinely and deeply dislikes me... I'll look into it anyways.
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You can't street drive this car? A bunch of tuning (especially fuel) can be done on the street.
Also, it is important that there be a way to circulate coolant in the block while the car is warming up. That's what the permanently open side-route through the Miata heater core is for. If you're planning to do a reroute with only the Kia waterneck, what are your plans for this? No thermostat? Enlarged hole in thermostat? Never thought about it?
Also, it is important that there be a way to circulate coolant in the block while the car is warming up. That's what the permanently open side-route through the Miata heater core is for. If you're planning to do a reroute with only the Kia waterneck, what are your plans for this? No thermostat? Enlarged hole in thermostat? Never thought about it?
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You can't street drive this car? A bunch of tuning (especially fuel) can be done on the street.
Also, it is important that there be a way to circulate coolant in the block while the car is warming up. That's what the permanently open side-route through the Miata heater core is for. If you're planning to do a reroute with only the Kia waterneck, what are your plans for this? No thermostat? Enlarged hole in thermostat? Never thought about it?
Also, it is important that there be a way to circulate coolant in the block while the car is warming up. That's what the permanently open side-route through the Miata heater core is for. If you're planning to do a reroute with only the Kia waterneck, what are your plans for this? No thermostat? Enlarged hole in thermostat? Never thought about it?
Never thought (knew) about that layout. I purchased this car as a 95% complete SM that I have since just turned into a lapping toy, it never had a heater core and the only coolant setup this thing has ever had is the stock upper setup and an altered lower which consists of only the rad hose, nothing else on the housing, IIRCC... I'll snap some pics this evening...
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You are going to seriously cook your rear cylinders running you coolant system out of balance like that. Search for "Miata coolant flow" or something like that to see a picture of how coolant flows through the engine. Pretty sure Joe Perez has posted a clip out of the OEM FSM that shows it.
Given that you've blocked off the rear coolant outlet from the head, I'd say that a proper reroute needs to be moved way up in priority.
Given that you've blocked off the rear coolant outlet from the head, I'd say that a proper reroute needs to be moved way up in priority.
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You are going to seriously cook your rear cylinders running you coolant system out of balance like that. Search for "Miata coolant flow" or something like that to see a picture of how coolant flows through the engine. Pretty sure Joe Perez has posted a clip out of the OEM FSM that shows it.
Given that you've blocked off the rear coolant outlet from the head, I'd say that a proper reroute needs to be moved way up in priority.
Given that you've blocked off the rear coolant outlet from the head, I'd say that a proper reroute needs to be moved way up in priority.
Yeah, I'll fix it right. :(
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Hello.
So we had our annual night event on 7/16 and I made had some changes. Adjusted the MAT correction table per Brain's example, worked on my BARO correction table, trying to zero it out even thought it looked like it already should have been and got my CLT sensor seeing actual honest to God values. Obviously, this threw my VE table for a loop...
Ari and I did a few laps while he did some adjusting, looking for 12.5:1 - 13:1 to redline. Got it dialed in and the car felt good, not like a "holy ****, that's incredible!" but it just felt better. I made the comment that it still kinda felt like it was "choking", like it had more in it and we both agreed that that was probably the timing.
So we did some logs and that was that. I turned laps for about 6 hours and drove it home. When I looked at the logs I was surprised to see that it was showing 10.5 - 12:1 by redline so I thought about the AEM calibration thread I saw a while back and went ahead so I went ahead and followed the modification shown here and it seems like the laptop and gauge matched up for the short time I let it idle today. I'll take it to work tomorrow afternoon and see if it really helped.
I'll attach the last log so you guys can tell me I'm a moron.
So we had our annual night event on 7/16 and I made had some changes. Adjusted the MAT correction table per Brain's example, worked on my BARO correction table, trying to zero it out even thought it looked like it already should have been and got my CLT sensor seeing actual honest to God values. Obviously, this threw my VE table for a loop...
Ari and I did a few laps while he did some adjusting, looking for 12.5:1 - 13:1 to redline. Got it dialed in and the car felt good, not like a "holy ****, that's incredible!" but it just felt better. I made the comment that it still kinda felt like it was "choking", like it had more in it and we both agreed that that was probably the timing.
So we did some logs and that was that. I turned laps for about 6 hours and drove it home. When I looked at the logs I was surprised to see that it was showing 10.5 - 12:1 by redline so I thought about the AEM calibration thread I saw a while back and went ahead so I went ahead and followed the modification shown here and it seems like the laptop and gauge matched up for the short time I let it idle today. I'll take it to work tomorrow afternoon and see if it really helped.
I'll attach the last log so you guys can tell me I'm a moron.
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