Bonnet venting and no more wet floors

[Mathew]

The leak has been discovered!. There are several drain holes in the door sills and these had become blocked. I had a look on www.miata.net and sure enough there is a Mazda bulletin recommending that these holes be enlarged to prevent blockages occuring.

Ray, which model Celica GT4 did the vents come from, and do you remember roughly what they cost. I am not having any problems with the engine itself overheating. The temperature gauge never gets over halfway. Its just that I have been playing around with a temperature probe whilst building my new cold air intake setup and once the area from the radiator back heats up it stays heated up. For example, if I go from home to work via my normal route (mainly open road at 50-100k's) the temperature at the air intake rises about 10 degrees above ambient. But if I take the route through town (first half crawling at 20-50k's) the temperature rises 20-30 degrees above ambient and stays there even if I get on to open roads and travel at 100ks for 20mins afterwards. I'm hoping that by installing some vents I can reduce this build up of heat and reduce my intake temperatures. I still haven't got around to swapping my injectors (next on the list) , or getting some form of knock protection !
as I recently got engaged and I'm finding that spare time and spare money are both in very short supply at the moment. I also noticed at miata.net that there is a Mazda Bulletin warning against intalling fog/driving lights at either side of the bumper 'mouth' as it hinders the flow of air.

Matt Avery
Deep Video Imaging Ltd
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I'm looking at using a small turbo (VS10) running 4-6psi on a stock engine.
The question I have is regarding the computer/timing issues. From what I've
been told you don't have to worry about it if you are running such low
boost. I'd be interested to see what others think/have done themselves Thanks
Sean