Jake's stupid poverty-spec Miata
 

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Grabbed some stainless tees and elbows and welded together some sort of godawful exhaust manifold for this Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 turbo and slapped it in my '91 Miata. Meh.

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Made a two-piece downpipe (for serviceability doncha know) and got oil plumbed in. Except the oil drain goes down to the dipstick tube hole because I'm a dumbass.

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Drove it around a bit with the wastegate wired open. Was nice to drive my car again.

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Wrapped with some wrap I got from Amazon. Not bad. Hides the godawful welds. The process of welding warped the piss out of the flange and I can't fit one of the nuts back onto the exhaust stud so the car has a really annoying ticking exhaust leak until it reaches operating temperature and the metal expands slightly.

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Wow my crap is dirty.

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Too poor for a wideband so a narrowband O2 gauge gets installed just to make sure I don't lean out under boost.

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The car at this point. Shitty stickerbomb vinyl wrap on the passenger door due to it being white instead of silver. Orange wheels because pumpkins. Fender mirrors because I swear it's a Nissan Z.

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Made ---- out of duct tape to prove it could be done. Worked great for two days. Note the charge pipe made out of the radiator hosing from a duramax truck.

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Finally got a boost gauge and some silicone couplers. Drove it around like this and accidentally hit 10psi when I wasn't paying attention. It pinged but somehow didn't run out of fuel. I don't understand how. Knockoff Vortec rising rate FMU is handling my fuel because megasquirts are for rich people.

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Extended the wiring harness to the eternally stupid vane airflow meter so I could mount the dumb thing right to the turbo.

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I got sent the wrong silicone coupler. Of course. More duct tape.

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Finally got couplers. They were out of black so I'm doomed to a life of rice.

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Did some custom interior stuff. New door cards, door pulls, shift knob, steering wheel, and seat covers.

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Also got a hardtop.

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Did some de-ricing.

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Screwed up while drilling a hole for the oil drain fitting and it ended up an oval and slightly too large. Three coats of jb weld later and this garbage is on there.

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Super legit drain line.

As of today I just did an engine oil flush and oil change, tidied up my oil drain line, bought a timing light and got it set to 6 degrees BTC, and filled up with Rotella T5. Got some 1.8 injectors to toss on, also have a wastegate actuator on the way so I can keep the car below 7psi. Should be fun.