BUILD K swap miata

[AnimalMother316]

Was buzzed after a long week at work and felt like tinkering.

Moved my dumb GPS speedo to the a pillar for a slightly cleaner look.

It is some Amazon GPS speedo cause I'm anal and like having a digital speedo. I think it's meant for boating but it fucking makes me laugh every time I start the car as it flashes POS.

Had to take the the whole center console out and Tombstone which is only like 7 screws. Found out why my shifter felt wonky. The bolts were backing out. Threw some locktite on em and we're all good.


Except the rasp lol.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Averaging about 24ish mpg with me beating on it and my work commute is 10 minutes.

Not surprised. It's got 4.10 gears. Not upset at all. It's a 10 gallon tank, so I ain't hurting at the pump either.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Car swapped with my friend. Drove his 2017 gt350 and he drove my kmiata.

It was an absolutely lovely car but Jesus Christ I felt like I was sitting on top of the car not in it.

Also very pleasantly surprised that the experience is so different that it didn't ruin getting back into my slow car. lmao

 

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They're such huge cars it feels like you're driving a truck when you get out of a car as small as a Miata or s2000. That's why people like driving Miatas even with stock power because it just seems like you can feel each corner of the car and what it's doing.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Gonna try adjusting my tps sensor. Need to make sure it's reading a specific voltage at close and see if maybe that's why I'm getting bucking at low low throttle input.

Also turns out moving my gauge pod totally stopped the cluster hood from vibrating since all the weight wasn't hanging off of it. Don't feel any need to swap the motor mounts anymore lol

 

[AnimalMother316]

As far as I can tell getting the tps to read the correct voltage at close helped with the random low input jerkiness in low gears lol

Also removed a few more unnecessary pieces of plastic and hoses.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Makes sense that the old spark plug cover would fit this.

I like it. Could use some plastic restorer though.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Damn the plastic restorer worked pretty well.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Nothing crazy in the works.

Shooting for autocross on July 9th.

Off that Thurs and Fri beforehand. Will give the car a once over.

Gotta say that plastic wire cover still looks good after over 100 miles of driving. Didn't fade or shit.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Idk but car was driving fine all week then today it starts jerking right about 2000rpm.

Idk if it's tps still or not. Guess I'll try readjusting it again tomorrow. Maybe I just need to pony up for another 100 dollar sensor

 

[AnimalMother316]

Okay upped the closed blade voltage a hair to middle of the accepted range. Also changed min max readings per the swap kits instructions.

I flipped flopped on adjusting the min max readings cause I heard from some people not to do that, but fuck it if I'm having all the same issues may as well do as the Romans.

Either way currently back to no more bucks or jerking.

Gave it a well deserved vacuum and wash too.

Those wilwoods we're making a lot of dust lol.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Tps seems to be managed

Fluids look good.

Signed up for Autocross on Saturday, about to find out what my real problems are lol

 

[Intel]

Tps seems to be managed

Fluids look good.

Signed up for Autocross on Saturday, about to find out what my real problems are lol

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The nut behind the wheel.

 

[AnimalMother316]

The swap survived.

Bit the bullet and just ordered a new tps. It was causing me to bog on launch but rest of the course the car did wonderfully.

I do want stickier tires though lol

Weather was beautiful today and the car sounds glorious with all that wot

 

[AnimalMother316]

Looks like there's another event next Sunday.

Probably gonna sign up again even if the new sensor doesn't come.

I love that multiple groups set up events at Wintrust Field. 20 minute drive and with the miata club it's cheap as fuck.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

If the worse you had out of this is the tps you're doing phenomenal.

 

[AnimalMother316]

If the worse you had out of this is the tps you're doing phenomenal.

I know it sounds like I'm just bitching about this stuff. But trust me I know how incredibly, relatively painless this whole process has been.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Also turns out the photographer was at the event yesterday.

7in googly eyes are one of my best Amazon purchases.






Yes, I did hit that cone but that run was already ruined some dude ran out in front of my car and I got a rerun

Edit: the photographer informed me that the cone stayed in the box, so I would've been good, but my run got fucked up anyway lol.

 

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I've never seen those eyes before With those pictures GD-it if I didn't laugh my ass off.

 

[AnimalMother316]

I've never seen those eyes before With those pictures GD-it if I didn't laugh my ass off.

The last few times I've done it for autocross the guys who would photograph were always in my same heat.

Finally they were in a different one lmao. I frantically searched through hundreds of photos and got real excited when I started recognizing cars that were next to me in the staging lanes. Just need someone to get video now.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Okay tried fucking around some more.

Thinking it may be my idle air control valve. I disabled it and I'm gonna see if the car keeps acting fucky.

Aka more autocross tomorrow hope it's good

 

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IAC's are super common to have issues, 98-ish% of the time you can clean them and they're good to go.

 

[AnimalMother316]

IAC's are super common to have issues, 98-ish% of the time you can clean them and they're good to go.

That's the thing. It was a brand new OEM unit.

I know things can be bad out of the box, but it seems odd that it'd be one of those.

Plus I didn't have any leaks in the intake mani. So that was good.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Back at it again.

 

[AnimalMother316]

Alright 7 runs in. No bogging off the line. Car is great.

I still want some 200tw tires though