VVT, My Miata Shall Have It.

I love this forum. Thank you for the help. You should have a PM from me, and, if I'm ever in Ohio, I think I owe you a beer.

Today, the connector arrived from Evan and my '99-'00 fuel rail arrived from FM. The rest of the parts except the VVTuner are paid for and shipped.

It looks like I'll have the room in the budget to buy another a steering rack to depower, and after having it sit in a box under my bed for two years, I finally put the FM Butterfly Brace on the car.

Does anyone have pictures of a Miata with a flocked dash?

You enjoy enabling people don't you? I'm pretty sure that would make me like being inside my Miata significantly more.

I actually found that picture while I had my dash out because I wanted to flock it. It never happened though.

I would enjoy being in my Miata significantly more if I could drive it...

I have my fingers crossed that this thing fires up and runs normally when it's together. If it doesn't, I'm going to have to find a baby seal to club to death.

I could use a baby seal right now, something is going to get clubbed if I can't figure this out soon.

I just had to clearance the intake manifold for the fuel rail and straighten the hose barb on the fuel pressure regulator.

I hope that's normal.

Yes, it is.

You will also have to trim the vacuum nipple on the FPR to clear the valve cover and be able to get a vacuum line on it.

I just got a 1.8 FPR because I kinked the hose barb trying to straighten it.

Sweet. I was concerned that I might just be an idiot.

Well I had to do it, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of us both being idiots.

MG Bryan wrote: Where the magic happens, or something like that:

Your magic needs more shelves

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

MG Bryan wrote: Where the magic happens, or something like that:

Your magic needs more shelves

A lot more shelves, and pegboard, and a bigger tool box. It could use more power outlets and some better lights, too...

I remember reading about cheap dwell reducing circuits so people could run Toyota COPs a while back.

Has here anyone built one? Factory dwell on a '90 is 5mS right? Is there any reason I can't reduce that down to work with the '02 coils?

We use LS3 coils - lots more spark than Toyota or Mazda ones. The Toyota ones haven't really shown themselves to be better than stock in testing.

On a Hydra car, we'd use the 01+ coils. Dunno what needs to be done on a MS, though.

On ms you just need to change the dwell settings.

Are you running the stock computer though?

I'm coming to the conclusion I just have run the hideous stock coils for now

Stock ECU for now. I need to save the money for shocks.

http://www.miataturbo.net/showthread.php?t=19780

That's the concept I was looking at applying in order to not have to mount the 90 coils somewhere.

For the sake of double checking my numbers, what is the dwell on 01-05s?

2.6-3.0

Things with electrons are the next step.

Sek-c.

Building a bracket to mount the coil. It's hideous and I'm not happy about it.

Opening the mailbox to find a check is always great. VVTuner will be ordered shortly.

I don't know if I'm an idiot or not, but I had to take the harness I got from DIYAutotune apart so I figure out which wire was coming from which terminal.