fast13b

Well, I had purchased just for the hell of it a HKS cast manifold and a SSAC stainless manifold. Just wanted to see if either would work. Nope. Turbo goes right into the frame rail on both, and the WG flanges are just in the wrong spot. Looks like I'll have to make a custom manifold. In terms of the subframe however, this is not such a bad thing. Now I can just make the subframe in a proper manner and make a manifold to fit things once it's all done.

Goopy

Nice build!!!!
I like your clean work. ..on the oil pan issue why dont you use a gsl-se oil pan.?

fast13b

Because as I understand it does not fit up with a REW front cover, and I am not going to revert to the crank angle sensor distributor-type trigger.

Goopy

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ok..i got you ..hey i have the entire front suspension from a 91 miata,,its mostly there just in case you mess up on your cut and welds you can have this one jsut pay for shipping. ...keep me posted on developments
Jon

fast13b

Spent some time with the intake system today. Removed the secondary butterflys and ported the UIM. Cleaned up things that don't need to be there. Figured out what I need to make block off plates for and what I don't..

Nothing major over the weekend though because it was nice out and my Land Rover needed some TLC as well

13b4me

The Miata lip looks almost like a mini R1 lip too... Nice touch haha...

fast13b

Yeah, mine is a 94 R PKG Miata. Came with front and rear lip spoilers.

leatherface24

hey jeremy, jared here. as far as your engine management goes, when the cars done that is, apex i power fc and commander is your best bet imo. i had it on my fd and it worked awesome. this is too cool that your doing this conversion and being so detailed with it for us

fast13b

Hey Jared. Honestly, the Power FC is not up to my level. Thanks though..

So I stripped the interior last night. DEFINITELY need to do some serious chassis stiffening. My god.

leatherface24

will one of your butterfly braces fit? modified of course....what do mean you not up to your level? just curious thats all

fast13b

I'm using the frame rails, however I'm making my own tranny brace so I'll integrate a "butterfly" into it. Custom.

The Power FC is just to rudimentary for me. I want something more complex and powerful. I hope to make the Hydra work, that thing is awesome once it's dialed in.. Honestly there is no Rotary standalone that does it for me right now..

fast13b

Finished stripping out the cockpit tonight. Heh. Oh the possibilities for chassis stiffening.. I think I'm going to do a custom dash as well. Maybe get a Stack or something, we'll see.

fast13b

When I wash my car, I don't mess around LOL. Time to start putting things back together!

Picked up an ACT Prolite flywheel and got a Tial 44mm gate. Oh yeah and I scored a full Autopower cage Going to add a couple key gussets to tie everything together.

Decided on just running Toyo RA-1's in 225/45/15 on the 15x8 ATS Comp Lites I got. Rolled the fenders to fit.

Put a nice gash in the paint removing my soft top so it looks like I'll be adding a paint job to the list.. I LOVE that grey-ish color that Aston Martin has been using!

mycarisolderthanme

Looking good!

Agreed on that color choice.. I sat in one at the Denver Auto Show with that dark grey paint. Beautiful.

fast13b

Well, things have been going slowly. Putting parts together. Got my trans and rear end sorted out and cleaned up. I had big visions of cleaning/ repainting everything, but honestly, I just want to get the thing on the road and deal with all that another day.

Seam welding the chassis (mostly cockpit and engine bay) really helped out the chassis flex when trying to rock the window frame up and down wth the bare chassis on jack stands. I then installed a set of the FM frame rails and it helped even more! The thing is way more solid and I don't even have the roll cage in yet

Got the gas tank back in, and resigned myself to some custom work to run the fuel lines. Got my 550 primary (S5 TII) injectors, 1680cc secondaries, KG works fuel rails, and Aeromotive FPR. Still need to buy a lot of -6an SS fuel hose, the fuel filter, and decide on the EMS. I cleaned the gas tank and I have a Walboro 342 pump in there- should be sufficient.

Mounted the rear subframe tonight. Bolted the TII diff into it. I have custom solid mounts for it- need to play with the spacing though. The top of the cast section of the diff is actually resting against the subframe (front upper cross section). I need to raise where the arms bolt in (there is currently a spacer in there) so that the nose pivots down a little over that resting point- reason being the top of the 3 nose mounting bolts is reeeal close to the gas tank.

Once I get that all sorted I can decide what needs to be done for the axles. Next, I can start looking at the front subframe!

RX7UP

Looks good... Keep it up...

Don't forget where everything goes back...

Dwayne

PS. A guy here in NY built a rotary miata... Check NE forum...