hey all,

Owned my mx-5 for a few months now coming from a 200kw atw hawkeye wrx.
I like the 5 a lot more.

It's pretty standard bar a pod filter and some offset wheels and seems very healthy.
Just picked up a 1.8 nb8b rear end to replace my welded diff and have been reading up a heap about turbo'ing my 1.6 (and painting lol)

Car seems healthy... but going to do a compression test before I buy a pnp megasquirt and add some rx8 injectors or similar and go from there, learning as I go.

Have an alright condition t25 and an intercooler and various piping I got for cheapish...
Looking at getting a manifold made by NitroDann, decent price and will be much better than ebay.
Still a long way away from comitting to it.

Love having options so chose to go t25 in hopes if it all goes well and I feel i need more power there is more bolt on turbos available.

Will make sure I do my research before making a shitpost and getting roasted LOL

Tonnes of good info around here though, having fun learning heaps about what these miatas can do.

Thanks for viewing
-Jordan

 

Welcome! Where abouts in Ausland are you?

 

I'm from Perth, Western Australia

 

So 6 months of progress Into one reply, here it goes
Added a 1.8 Rear end from an nb8b (bolt in swap)

Bought a used adaptronic 440d and LC-1 and installed that both, learned the basics of tuning while N/A

Did an AFM delete and wired fuel pump for independent control with ECU.
Rb30 tps that I got for $20! Worked a treat and made it PnP with some wiring modification internally

Replaced my suspension with some koni units
Upgraded my clutch

Somewhere along in there I installed na8 brakes in the front
Drilled and tapped sump
Installed flowforce injectors and checked for leaks and drove on them a bit to check how my deadtimes were

Mocked up the turbo setup


Bolted everything in

Messed up the P/S inlet and removed my whole P/S system and got a manual rack (should have done this from the start lol
Waited 2 weeks for a manual rack to arrive (the only time I will hate having 4 public holidays in 2 weeks)

Started it up checked for leaks, none, all good.
Hardtop and roll bar added, paint still sh*t


And have been driving it around lightly and made my first few psi of boost on light throttle, awaiting a dyno tune as I don't think I am confident enough to get the most power out of it myself.

Very easy to drive car just very loud as I need a full exhaust!

My only concern at this point is that there are 4 connection on my intercooler piping that do NOT have bead rolls, so I think they may blow off at some point. I will get them bead rolled if they do and remove my A/C at the same time

Will hopefully be posting dyno results in the coming week or so depending on my luck.

If i were to do it again I would just gut A/C and P/S day one, that stuff is a waste of weight and space.

Thanks for reading