From the ashes... What did you do to your roadster today?

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Post by warrior » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:40 pm

Remove the inner guards
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Post by siren676 » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:22 pm

Ordered some mazdaspeed competition engine mounts through work today as im tired of having the car thrown about when trying to get moving.
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Post by MrGrey » Mon Sep 22, 2014 11:37 pm

warrior wrote:Remove the inner guards
how hard is this to do?

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Post by SkilletKid » Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:57 am

MrGrey wrote:
warrior wrote:Remove the inner guards
how hard is this to do?
Not very. Just need the front wheels off the car and some screwdrivers.
siren676 wrote:Ordered some mazdaspeed competition engine mounts through work today as im tired of having the car thrown about when trying to get moving.
We should do an engine mount install day somewhere. I need to install my comp mounts too lol.
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Post by Donovan » Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:45 am

warrior wrote:Remove the inner guards
Why?

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Post by Skilfil » Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:25 am

Nice, wondered how 205/50's would look on an 8 inch rim. I'm hoping to fit 215's or 225's on an 8. But I think thats a pipe dream because I refuse to run fender flares.

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Post by Donovan » Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:28 am

Skilfil wrote:Nice, wondered how 205/50's would look on an 8 inch rim. I'm hoping to fit 215's or 225's on an 8. But I think thats a pipe dream because I refuse to run fender flares.
You don't need flares, depends on what offset you are running on the wheels, I am running 225's on 8's and about to fit on some 245's on 9 for the rear.

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Post by 4A-GE » Tue Sep 23, 2014 4:02 pm

drove it the 30kms to school with the needle literally on the E line. 8) Good going, car.

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Post by Skilfil » Tue Sep 23, 2014 4:06 pm

Donovan wrote:You don't need flares, depends on what offset you are running on the wheels, I am running 225's on 8's and about to fit on some 245's on 9 for the rear.
Ah that gives me hope. Goal is to start tracking the car and ultimately take on the Superlap NZ series. Has plenty of grip at the moment, but once I turn the boost up I imagine it'll start getting hairy.

225 semi's all around should break my neck in the corners.

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Post by SKREEE » Tue Sep 23, 2014 5:53 pm

Donovan wrote:
Skilfil wrote:Nice, wondered how 205/50's would look on an 8 inch rim. I'm hoping to fit 215's or 225's on an 8. But I think thats a pipe dream because I refuse to run fender flares.
You don't need flares, depends on what offset you are running on the wheels, I am running 225's on 8's and about to fit on some 245's on 9 for the rear.
Heh 215 was the plan because I do want to run flares but went for the 205's due to not wanting to cut as of yet. You will need more than +20 for bigger I would think.

So unless I am working on Saturday it will be pulling out the inner guards and doing a Rear bumper cutout.

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Post by evel » Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:29 pm

Skilfil wrote: 225 semi's all around should break my neck in the corners.
Iv got 225/45 NT01's. They have made 3 out of the 3 people Iv had in my car scream/whimper.
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Post by mattapo » Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:53 pm

I have been busy getting my thing ready for summer with new engine management,
I have new dash mounted, the fuel flex sensor mounted, its running off the new Link G4+ ecu. Its off the the tuners on monday!!!
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Post by Angreal » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:38 am

That is super sexy!!!

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Post by evel » Thu Oct 02, 2014 4:59 pm

What sorta dash is that? Was it plug and play into the Link?
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Post by mattapo » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:51 pm

Its the race tech dash 2 pro, Link has can protocol to work with the dash 2 pro. You can get them from link, 2 wire can connection. They have everything required for a road legal dash on them.

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Post by Jesse Pinkman » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:30 pm

I picked these up from Redline the other day and just finished putting them in this afternoon. The difference in ride quality is AMAZING, in saying that I did come from a setup which bottomed out all the time and rubbed the gourds all the time so yeah, now all I need is a cert haha. As low as they can go on the rear, almost lowest on the front. Shock firmness numbers that I thought were good for the road is 22 front, 25 rear. :)
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Post by Angreal » Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:32 pm

After 6 months, production of the fastback has begun 8)

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Post by evel » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:25 pm

Angreal wrote:After 6 months, production of the fastback has begun 8)
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Post by Angreal » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:33 pm

Yeah... They have a crazy backlog

Oh and they finally posted out my seatbelt extender. Hmmm and a nice photo of what it looks like off the carbon miata website

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Post by mattapo » Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:38 pm

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152466033177198

final result, 190w, wastage is not holding so 12psi was the limit, have ordered a turbosmart wastage actuator. just need to re book it in, tune a bit more boost then tune the R85 and go for the 300hp :) Engine is getting tired though, rings letting a little oil past when it gets thrashed.......


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Post by Furai » Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:32 pm

Thats a good bit of power, Which version Link?


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Post by mattapo » Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:34 pm

g4+

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Post by Furai » Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:08 pm

How much that set you back? I have been looking at Atoms for an NA build

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Post by mattapo » Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:11 pm

I would recommend a megasquirt over an atom, I have the storm and with the extra I want to do I should have got the extreme. the cost was the put off.
I paid 1700 for storm.

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Post by Furai » Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:34 pm

I wouldnt go a Megasquirt since no one can tune them

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