Miata Legacy Build
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Miata Legacy Build
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
-custom turbo kit
Since i have got it i have added
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
-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)
- 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?
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Soft top delete a while ago
Engine bay as it sits now
My DIY heat shield
Had to haul some dirt from the house to a job. poor 2500 was struggling with 23k load
Had to clean the garage to make room for a 1.8 motor to build
Left sled had 240hp @ 12psi and right has 180hp na
Engine bay as it sits now
My DIY heat shield
Had to haul some dirt from the house to a job. poor 2500 was struggling with 23k load
Had to clean the garage to make room for a 1.8 motor to build
Left sled had 240hp @ 12psi and right has 180hp na
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Should get my wheels i ordered a while ago tomorrow. Got the 15x9 Advanti Storms and will order some Hankook RS4's.
Do i order 245/40r15 or 225/45r15 Keep in mine i have AK fenders on the shelf at home
Do i order 245/40r15 or 225/45r15 Keep in mine i have AK fenders on the shelf at home
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Got some advanti storms s1 wheels in 15x9 for a great deal. Should see some 245/40r15 Hankooks in a couple weeks
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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?
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https://trubokitty.com/#/ms3xassembly
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.
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.
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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)
Do these fan settings look good
Do these fan settings look good
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Got CL idle to run pretty good just now. Can anyone see any major issues?
Also pulled the trigger on some 245/40r15 Hankook RS4's today should show up Tuesday and was able to get them for $125 a tire.
Also pulled the trigger on some 245/40r15 Hankook RS4's today should show up Tuesday and was able to get them for $125 a tire.