I had scorpio LCAs and inner tie rods ready to go on but the ball joints/outer tie rod end had completely different threading, so that was a bust
I had all the mustang swap parts here but the banjo I got wasn't the correct size and the line wasn't as long as I had hoped.
I did get the 15psi wastegate in, which is boosting it to 20psi from some reason. And I got launch control wired in and working for the hell of it. Then just before leaving (10pm saturday night) to make the 100 mile drive home I noticed the clutch pedal wasn't feeling right... Took the pedal cluster out and wow I was lucky to catch that before all hell broke loose.
Spent a few minutes getting it back together.
Then took a look at the gas pedal and noticed it wasn't even opening the throttle all the way... The cable spring mechanism had broke so I patched it real quick. Once in Tunerstudio my throttle sent from 0-70% open to 0-145% open! What a difference that made the car feel in response...
Added a heat sink and the copper plate back to a new sensor. I know I know this isn't a great fix but it helped calm the AFRs down a bunch. I want to see read the temp on the sensor at some point. Needs to be below 900 degrees on the outside.
Big thanks to Estaban for the advice on the Launch control. I hid the activate switch in the seat heater like he did. Thanks. I never got the limits set right (lack of time saturday night/sunday morning) to get it for autox. The next event has a test and tune so I hope to take advantage of it then.
Sunday the autox went well. I didn't have my ducks in a row to datalog and whatnot this time. However I took Ben's advice and set the tires to 40psi all around. That helped, a long with the boost coming on around the 3500-3800 mark with the new wastegate as help. Then set the rear shocks to full soft which didn't really help the tire lift, new springs it will be.
We ran 3 drivers and 2 in a single heat. The car, with two drivers, got a little too hot. Sitting around 210-215. I was a little uncomfortable with that and will be adding a oil cooler very soon to help combat that.
I hope David puts up some neat photos, a few people commented on the car. It did better even with those small changes. Running from mid/low pack last event to the bottom of the "quick people", top 20 out of 80+ in raw time. It was a tight course and I even used 1st in one hair pin before the finish, which have never had to do before. I think there is a second to be had with more camber and caster, and a half second or more in better brakes. Once the car has stiffer rear springs there may be as much as a half second or more there as well with the help of rotation. So it is looking very well indeed for a old POS, vs all these vettes, evos/stis and the typical miata.
Fastest CSP miata (national guy) 43.0
ASP evo 9 on slick 45.1
stc civic 46.3
My time 47.2
So with a little work I'm gunning for the somewhere between the civic and the evo on a tight course. Nothing to brag about but I like seeing the improvements, concerning everything.
. I'm almost done the headers for the swap. Pic below. Can't wait to get this out there.
