6strngs's project drift miata Options

[6strngs]

So, somebody suggested I should make a build thread for my miata in the off-topic section, so, here goes.



I got it from a speed shop in santa clara, basically what happened was someone brought their car to this shop, the shop pulled the cylinder head to see what was wrong, found a chipped valve, the customer couldn't afford the bill so he sold the car to the shop and the shop sold it to me with a rebuilt cylinder head for $1900. It needed a few things, but was mostly sound. The only bad thing is the car was totaled on the passenger rear quarter panel, the damage is cosmetic only and the car is a drift car now, so it really doesn't matter. Anyway here's the first round of "fixes" I did:

rewired the stereo (it was staying on even with the car off, haha)
painted the license plate panel black (it was silver which clashed terribly with the red)
reconnected the left side speaker
broke off the wheel locks since I didn't get a key with the car
Made my own battery tie down, it didn't have one before, and I really needed one...
removed the stock antenna
added a new convertible top, the window was pretty much ripped out of the old one


New top being tested out in the rain


And a pic of the "before" ride height:


Next was a set of coilovers of course! Here's a pic of the megan racing EZ street coilovers that I got for it


slammed... my buddy josh in the car, he was visiting from hawaii where he is stationed, and told me this car would still be considered needing "moar low" if it were there


And just to say that I could... I had about a 1/4" clearance,


I drove it like that for a few days before deciding it was just too low to be practical, so I raised it about 3/4 of an inch which gave me this:

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Then the modification of the downpipe to get it to fit:


Adjusting the FPR with a fuel pressure gauge


Then the new exhaust I had made. It's as straight through as possible. starts at 2.5" but jumps to 3" as soon as there's room to. I put a high flow cat in, but I had him put v-bands on either side of it so I could swap it for a straight pipe easily. It has a v-band connection at the turbo also.




VDO boost gauge and AEM wideband



Cut the valve cover to expose the cams and had the valve cover powder-coated wrinkle red by a friend. Also added a catch can


Next I took apart my differential because it was not as aggressive as I wanted it to be so I measured all clutches in it and everything was in spec, but the clutches were arranged incorrectly when I took it apart. I was able to re-arrange the clutches so it has a slightly more aggressive grab, but still not enough. I just got a spare open diff I'm going to weld though




This is me discovering that I had the wrong turbo on for the 2 weeks that it lasted