thats going to be the only thing gleeming in the sunlight behind the ms bumper

 

ATP

You know that there is a change compartment just above your left knee?

 

weekend update, picked up the manifold and downpipe from the ceramic coater:








Does anyone know where to get a replacement gasket to go between motor and manifold?

 

Uh, a Mazda dealer? It is about $40 ($23 if you have a MazdaSpeed MotorSports Development account).
N3H1-13-461C

 

Thanks Jeff, I figured the stock gasket is what I needed.

 

new question/advice needed:

I have read several different things regarding thermal wrapping of the manifold. Now that I have it ceramic coated, is thermal heat wrapping needed? I heard its bad for the motor to retain that much heat in the manifold. Thoughts here?

 

Wont hurt it. Treat it like a one night stand. Wet it, wrap it then stick it.

 

Never wrapped mine - let the ceramic coating do its job .
Just worry about heat shield around the turbo that sheilds the lower inlet manifold .

 

here are some pics of the block off plate made for the manifold where the external wastegate would have mounted.

 

another update for you all. Tear down of turbo to see what is needed for the rebuild.











looks like the wheels are still nice. the housings seem fine. I had a slight play in the shaft so I will be ordering a rebuild kit.

 

Any updates?

 

Things are moving along slowly. I am currently parts sourcing to finish up the build.

I ran into a snag with the car. the crankshaft sensor went bad so I just had to replace that. The car ran very rich as a result so I also need to replace the spark plugs. I also need to replace two of the vacuum solonoid valves for the ssv.

 

I know that feeling. I need to replace my coolant reservoir, MAF, O2, my EPS is acting up again, and now I think my first gear synchro is going

 

WoW...the type of FUN Im about to walk into It will be all worth it in the end... Stay in the fight fellas!

 

Yeah it's all good, I will have an extra tranny soon and the rest of the stuff needs to be replaced eventually anyway. I did a lot of reliability mods prior to pulling the trigger on the turbo kit, now it's just replacing worn stock parts with 125,000 on them.

 

so far in the past two weeks I have replaced the maf, front o2, crankshaft sensor, fuel pump, and ignition

 

Which ignition you go with

 

I got an esmiral kit with my turbo kit sooooooo that went in

 

Too small

 

lol too true.

although, while the car has been parked in the garage waiting on new parts to get here, I have had the pleasure of driving another members greddy turbo'd 8. I gotta say, I will enjoy this "too small" turbo when it goes in

 

Heh - I'm sure you will .

 

And I have had the pleasure of staring at a very fine looking silver 8 in my garage for the past few days. If Chris put that in my garage while turbo he wouldn't be getting it back.

 

Nice build, what is your total price running so far?

Just a little FYI/heads up. Having a gap between the FMIC and the radiator isn't necessarily a good thing. Air doesn't like to make turns, and it's not efficient with high turbulence. Since your (and most) FMIC is positioned directly in front, you want the incoming air to go through the FMIC first and then be forced (to keep the velocity and straight airflow) straight to the radiator/condensor.
Having a gap between the two will create the air to swirl thus loosing efficiency.
It would be wise to seal your FMIC to the radiator core support opening.

It's been tested by myself and many others on the dsmtuners forum with positive results.

 

Having the IC aganinst the rad could give good result but there are multiple hick-ups that prevent me from being able to do this.

Just to name a few:

-Design is the first problem, all the greddy piping would need to be re figured to get the IC back that far.
-second, is that we already have the ac condenser up against the rad as well (although I don't think that this would be a problem).
-Third, my intake cone sits low and is between the IC and the rad.


After test fitting the front mount and driving around with the IC mounted for about a month, I did not see an influential increase in coolant temps. I know that the temps will change with boost through the IC, but I doubt it would cause any kind of drastic impact on coolant temps.

 

Fourth - it works fine in the stock location as evidenced by hundreds of installs .