4 years after retiring my old supercharged Mk1 I've gone full circle to find my self back behind the seat of a trusty miata.
My Old black one - (picture below, #attention) was built up with auto testing in mind, so close gearing, immediate power and agility was the script.
I had a pretty good idea what I wanted from my next MX, Lots of power, not black and ideally something someone else had done most of the hard work on already. Infact I knew the MX5 I wanted, only issue was it wasn't forsale, well 5 months of pestering found me up in Gloucester doing the deal on this:
Its a UK car on just about 55,000miles. Forged engine, FM2 kit, Hydra Nermisis ECU MK2 head the list goes on. I'm the 7th Owner of the car from new and the 4th that's a Nutz member so its fair to say the car's been a bit of a slut in its time and has had a rather daft amount of money thrown at it.
When I picked it up there were a few running issues, but everything else was bang on the mark, so I did the deal and took the punt on it.
From what I could tell it hadn't been on the dyno since 2012 so I took it upto Scuzzle Motorsport to see what the gig was.
Nick worked his magic and after a few hours on the Dyno and a new set of plugs and leads things were vastly improved! with 230BHP at the wheels!
That's running around 1.1bar, Nick said the A/F ratio was a little sporadic so didn't want to take it any further and suggest I get the injectors flow tested. So once I've done that I'll get back over there and crank the boost up to 1.5bar to try and get the sunny side of 300bhp.
Since then I've had the front of the car apart to try and clean up the engine bay and get off all the over spray of under seal some buffoon had caked literally everything in. I've stuck a go faster sun strip on too.
Also borrowed some mates Rotas to see what a 7J ET20 looks like in the arches, Present train of thought is to get either some 8" 6UL's in Charcoal, or some RPF01's....
Lots of future plans really, having had 3 totally different cars in the last 3 years I'm hoping to keep hold of this for the for-seable and get some decent track time in the new year!
My Old black one - (picture below, #attention) was built up with auto testing in mind, so close gearing, immediate power and agility was the script.
I had a pretty good idea what I wanted from my next MX, Lots of power, not black and ideally something someone else had done most of the hard work on already. Infact I knew the MX5 I wanted, only issue was it wasn't forsale, well 5 months of pestering found me up in Gloucester doing the deal on this:
Its a UK car on just about 55,000miles. Forged engine, FM2 kit, Hydra Nermisis ECU MK2 head the list goes on. I'm the 7th Owner of the car from new and the 4th that's a Nutz member so its fair to say the car's been a bit of a slut in its time and has had a rather daft amount of money thrown at it.
When I picked it up there were a few running issues, but everything else was bang on the mark, so I did the deal and took the punt on it.
From what I could tell it hadn't been on the dyno since 2012 so I took it upto Scuzzle Motorsport to see what the gig was.
Nick worked his magic and after a few hours on the Dyno and a new set of plugs and leads things were vastly improved! with 230BHP at the wheels!
That's running around 1.1bar, Nick said the A/F ratio was a little sporadic so didn't want to take it any further and suggest I get the injectors flow tested. So once I've done that I'll get back over there and crank the boost up to 1.5bar to try and get the sunny side of 300bhp.
Since then I've had the front of the car apart to try and clean up the engine bay and get off all the over spray of under seal some buffoon had caked literally everything in. I've stuck a go faster sun strip on too.
Also borrowed some mates Rotas to see what a 7J ET20 looks like in the arches, Present train of thought is to get either some 8" 6UL's in Charcoal, or some RPF01's....
Lots of future plans really, having had 3 totally different cars in the last 3 years I'm hoping to keep hold of this for the for-seable and get some decent track time in the new year!
