Ron's Monster Miata Build

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:14

Wow I didn't realize your gears were so tall. It's a Ford rear end right? I'd try to get a set of 3.73s or maybe even 4.10s if you're not planning on doing a lot of highway driving. I bet just the gears alone would shave a few tenths and get you pretty close to 13.5.

94mx5 · Postby **94mx5** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:14

Still a respectable time for the car. A bit of tuning, some gears, and some practice, I bet you can bring that down. As stated, the gears will help, even on for autocross.

rugger · Postby **rugger** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:14

Landon out of Iowa is running 10s with his SBC miata. My goal is 11s. It can be done, but it is a simple fact that our cars are not fast out of the hole. You have to be able to get it on the big end. I'm building a 500hp 406ci to replace my 327. With a 100hp shot I should be cruising into the 11s easily. :cool:

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:14

Lol, 500hp alone in a 2500lb car should get you into the 11s by itself. Add a 100 shot and some slicks and I would think you'd be in the 10s.

rugger · Postby **rugger** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:14

erod550 wrote:Lol, 500hp alone in a 2500lb car should get you into the 11s by itself. Add a 100 shot and some slicks and I would think you'd be in the 10s.

I tuned my carb today and dyno'd Ms. Budweiser. My previous numbers were 270hp/306 tq. I had planned on building the 406 to get to the 400tq mark on motor then throw 100 shot at it. Then I produced these numbers today:

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:14

erod550 wrote:Lol, 500hp alone in a 2500lb car should get you into the 11s by itself. Add a 100 shot and some slicks and I would think you'd be in the 10s.

A guy with stock twins in a gutted FD and slicks ran 10.87 @ 130mph, he is making 423rwhp and weights around 2500lbs plus driver.

Of course, this was near sea-level.

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:14

420hp is 420hp. It's just harder to make that same 420hp up here.

coloskydiver · Postby **coloskydiver** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:14

Some nice numbers!!!. I am thinking that I might be going the Nitrous route as well. Like I stated, I can pickup a really nice kit for cheap and my motor is fully built so it can handle it. I like the fact that you can turn the system on and off when you want it.

I picked up a 5 point harness today for cheap and got one side installed. Talk about being straped in and being one with car. I picked up two Autopower harness's for $100 with trading a GT40 upper and lower intake. Not a bad deal and just ordered some harness pads and will take some pics once everything is installed.

coloskydiver · Postby **coloskydiver** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:14

Final to get some time to post of the pics from the recent weeks and pics of my new harness's. The pics I have are from High Plains, Bandi & a few others thrown in for good measure.

As seen in the photo's, I was able to ride around the track in a friends 911 Carrera 4 and then got to drive the BMW Z4-M for 5 laps. My car is violently fast but that BMW was smooth fast and handle so well. What a great car!!!

94mx5 · Postby **94mx5** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:14

Looks like a blast!

MSP SuperStreet · Postby **MSP SuperStreet** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:14

Great Pics.
Ride Ride looks at home on both tracks.
Did the carrera and BMW drivers get behind the wheel of you Mazda?

coloskydiver · Postby **coloskydiver** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:14

MSP SuperStreet wrote:Great Pics.
Ride Ride looks at home on both tracks.
Did the carrera and BMW drivers get behind the wheel of you Mazda?

The BMW driver and I swapped cars and we were both impressed with each others cars. He was impressed with how light and agile the car was. Out of the three of us I was the fastest but was more due to I knew the track a little better. The Carrera was quick but i was quite a bit faster around the track but towards the end that BMW and I were about even.

94mx5 · Postby **94mx5** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:14

Yeah, I bet the BMW is really well balanced with good powerband. Even though yours has more giddy-up, once moving it is probably a pretty good match with the better handling. Not much you can do with the V8 over the front.

coloskydiver · Postby **coloskydiver** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:14

In the persuit of "more power" I ended up buying a Kenne Bell suppercharger today. I have been watching Craigs List for months in hopes something would pop up for the right price and last night it did. I stopped by and looked at it today and bought it. It is a Kenne Bell for the 5.0 Fox Body Mustang with an 8 lbs pulley. It was a pollish with only 20k miles on it and picked it up for $1500. Wasn't planning on spending the cash so soon and had a few other things on my list (suspension, rear breaks & seats) but could not pass it up for the price. This is the solution to all my power need and am hoping to hit about 365-375 WHP and will eventually get an E85 tune and will pick up another 35-40 HP's . They say install is as easy as a lower manifold swap. I will need to swap the lower intake to a GT 40 manifold and then the SC just bolts on like the upper manifold. Everything else bolts right on. I hopping to have it installed this weekend and tunned sometime next week. Wish me luck.

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:14

Nice purchase! Can't wait to see the numbers you put down!

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