Not sure why you have put this amongst wheels & shocks, I'll just tidy that up for you.

You could start by looking at our Timeslips feature http://www.mx5nutz.com/forum/index.php?app=times

 

0-60 for 190bhp turbo or sc seemed to be low 6`s in a nutz Japanese mag feature a
few years ago

 

You mean this one

Full article scans HERE, pages 2+3

 

Sorry it was in the wrong section cos I've never been in a forum b4 and don't know what I'm doing lol I've checked out those times but don't really understand what's a good time over a quarter mile or what it feels like. Plus I'm not looking for the fastest times, I wana get an idea of what the average Joe achieves on a budget of 2.5k. If anyone could put some info on in real laymans terms I would much appreciate it. Thanks for sorting my thread Andy!

 

Recon I have spent about 2.5 k give or take a little (just on supercharger parts and accessories). 6 -7 seconds sounds about right. Although I have never really timed. Don't see the point in trying to do it myself as I would be miles out.

 

Loving the car matey, so does it feel like money well spent? Would you do it again?

 

Erm, hard to say really. I'd like to say I'd buy one ready charged with a sorted ecu. I have done this from a complete novice point of view in terms of any forced induction but then again I would be worried about buying a modified car and not knowing it's ins and outs. In hindsite it's probably worth buying a full kit with everything know. To be working eg ecu and appropriate add ons. The biggest head ache for me was setting the dual throttle bodies up properly and the megasquirt ecu which people from the forum helped out with and did in some cases (very grateful guys).

In the end I just opted for the ecu to be tuned proffesionally to save time as my car is my daily. The standard m45 jrsc is great. I should have probably stopped there. It's true driver training counts for so much more but the ability to overtake is fantastic!

 

Thanks too btw

 

Yea that's the one.

To the op, no one can tell you based on a price such as £2.5k, if you buy second hand you can get bigger hp and quicker times, likewise if you buy cheap unbranded parts like some ebay items, or go for the very nice but expensive FM stuff. Like wise if you install it yourself, if you map it yourself you can save money and possibly get better results too (as many of us have found out on here), and then you can spend more money on better hardware. It is also worth considering how driveable you want it, ecu's are cheap and the better you buy the closer to oem idle and driveability you can get, but again this takes money away from other hardware. In general though I would say that Turbo power is probably cheaper than s/c power.

For example you could get a secondhand 250bhp MP62 charger for less than a new 200bhp M45 setup, if you fitted and tuned the MP62 compared to handing the car over to someone else to have a '45 fitted and tuned.

I would advise going to a local Nutz or OC club meet and trying to get a ride in a s/c and a turbo car, the 0-60's are not too different for similar power but the feel is. Which you prefer the feel of is more important than the odd 10th of a second unless your down santa pod every week and then your probably better off spending money on a different car anyway as the drag coef of the mx5 is famously worse than a VW Beetle!

 

mate i was in this same boat, too many variant due to LSD/no LSD, different drive ratios etc.

I reacon (roughly here) that im just under 6 seconds .

Only on the basis my old time slip pre supercharger, the car was 7.4 seconds to 0-60 (on the drag strip)

Now when i raced my mates VX200 (claimed 5.5 seconds 0-60 (and his is not standard (stage 2 tune)) we are all be it neck and neck of the line and all the way to 80 where i start to pull ahead.

Im running a M45 JRSC with standard set up and its plenty of power for me at the moment.

 

If you put in the bhp and unsprung weight (940kg for a 1.6) into a online calculator you end up with something silly like 5.2 seconds fora 200bhp car. Rwd helps apparently.

Dunno if I believe- anyone got a Ferrari I can race?

 

I timed mine at just under 5.5, need to do it on a datalog to get a properly accurate time.

A lot of it comes down to tyres, clutch and mechanical sympathy (or lack there of). Moving to my posh clutch and lightened flywheel setup the car launched much better, and warm federal 595rs-r's mean you don't get anywhere near as much wheelspin in the dry as I got with road tyres.

I certainly wont be doing too many hard launches on purpose, my clutch was expensive, and I like my gbox and torsen! I'll stick with track days instead of the drag strip.

 

What gear are you hitting 60 in oaksey?

 

Unless he has really large wheels, or a 3.6/3.9 diff it'll be 3rd.

 

3rd. 0-52 or whatever 2nd is is pretty rapid! (hence why 0-60 is a pretty rubbish way of measuring a cars performance!)

 

Cheers guys. Lots of food for thought! I think a teat drive is a great idea

 

Mine was one of the cars in that article. I got 0-60 in 6.6, but I only had 2 runs because I broke it

First run I hit the limiter and the second run I missed 2nd gear so neither were as quick as they could have been. I'd expect I'd have got low 6's if I'd managed a faultless attempt. The car was dyno'd at 188 at the flywheel.

Daz

 

so what you're saying Daz, is that it's not so much what the car is capable of, but what the driver is capable of?

OP, it's all very well having a rapid 0-60 time, but there's so much more to it than that, carrying cornerspeed is worth its weight in gold, having a sorted tyre & suspension package, a driver who know what they're doing etc...

but to answer your original question, I'd guesstimate between 6-7secs for a 0-60 time, assuming it's a "perfect" run.

 

I do have to add that it is the overall driveability that is the key, yes the traffic light grand Prix is fun but with any FI 5 it is the A/B road and overtaking ability that is the biggest gain