Isn't stage 2 normally use the stage 2 belt with the 3.1 pulley though?

I also just picked up a filter wrap

 

stage 2 belt was very tight with the 2.8 pulley. no way you will get it on that 3.1

 

Well that sucks man. Can't wait to see this finished.

 

Soz to delay but school is more important. Plus it gives me a chance to improve some aesthetics. I'll get stuff mounted up and be all set come fall. And a chance to practice drag racing at the strip so I get it down and put good numbers out the first time I run on the blower hahaha

 

So delayed half a year?

 

probably more like 4 months, unless he chooses to go with some other tuner.. the build spot in my garage is kinda taken up for what looks to be the rest of the semester unless i make some crazy fast progress.. we live too far apart from one another to realistically do it over the summer, but who knows

 

Now you at least have to explain what's going on to the Miata.

 

Well I'll try to keep it short.. it was all stock when I started with it (rather rusty as well from being a 23 year old Wisconsin driven car, everything suspension wise needed a huge refresh) and the current build list is as follows:

Koni Yellow Sport Struts
Flying Miata Springs
Flying Miata Front Sway Bars
Flying Miata Rear Sway Bars
Heim Jointed Adjustable Endlinks
Polyurethane Bushings in all joints (upper/lower control arms, Front/rear sway bars, and rear diff)
Installing Grease Zerks in all Control Arm Bushing Joints for easy/quick future lubrication
Ceramic Brake Pads
R1 Concept Blank Rotors
Refurbished OEM Calipers
Braided Stainless Steel Brake Lines
DOT4 Brake Fluid
Sandblasting and Painting all components

basically, everything from where the driveshaft connects back under the car will be either new or sandblasted and repainted. Same will happen to the front subframe in the fall at some point (maybe this summer if I get ambitious). The sway bar, koni's, and springs are just installed on the front for now. Also plan on having it boosted with a 14b by next year so I can finally get it to be quicker than the LNF (miata has about 850lbs to its advantage so it should be a close one, excited to find out).. too many plans and not enough time to realistically complete them.. car modder probs

 

Ans that's 4 months? I guess with school but it being summer I'd just try to finish it in one.

 

no.. I started this about 2 weeks ago and plan on having it done by the end of this month

problem then lies in finals in May come up fast for both of us, then we live like 5 hours away from one another over the summer where we both will be working. I'll be doing 50+ hr weeks of work, a summer class, and 1.5 hrs of driving a day to boot so getting time to go drive all that ways to perfectly dial in a tune and do all the build will be hard pressed (especially considering its his only car so it cant really have much down time either if something were to not go as planned, which is always possible).

 

We got 4 weeks of school left which isn't too bad but between golf tournament and basketball league starting up, all my weekends are pretty much gone now. Then finals and a couple projects that will keep me busy. Fall is much better when I can do months of downtime and your schedule is better too hahaha. Between all these miatas driving around campus I kinda want one hahaha but i'd still rather have a 240. maybe I should just go on a coop next spring so i can save up some rwd money since registration went so bad this semester lol. But the balt will kick some ass and take some names come fall ( as well as the miata!).

 

takes a full day to do le swap!

 

Well its looking like I no longer have a shop to work on some of the mounting stuff over the summer so that will have to wait until fall. But at least the supercharger is almost done getting painted

 

Finished this bad boy up today

 

QFT. I still haven't been able to get a stage 2 belt onto mine with a 2.8 lol

 

Reading through threads and planning my build. It will be a few months until then, but learning in the mean time.

 

Wharz sandman, he never posts anymore

 

I'm alive. Does anybody got a base tune floating around anywhere?

 

Yeah like 6 computers ago.

 

lol

I found some fake 2.5 bar tunes but they have all been for j-bodies.

 

progress is being made.

 

About dang time! I can't wait to see the end result.

 

Might have wired in the TB wrong. lol. Hopefully I can get it redone tonight

 

Awaiting the final results

 

Oh yeah, I'm in for this ride. I'm thinking of just getting the ZZP 8pin to 8pin harness.