About the new car: Engine: 1.6L Ported Exhaust Torco SR-5r 20w50 race oil AEM air filter Magnecor competition Spark plug Cables Toyota Supra 305cc injectors High output Fuel pump Lighten aluminum pulleys from Garage Star Turbo set up: A lot of custom pieces at this point T25 28 water/oil cooled Turbo Helicopter Intercooler with downdraft High flow catalytic converter Custom downpipe made by www.classiccustoms.net 2 chamber muffler Engine Management: MegaSquirt PNP Tuned by, MX5 Unleashed Transmission/driveline: Mazda Miata 5 speed Chromoly flywheel ACT Stage 1 Clutch kit Torsen LSD Torco SGO 75W-90 gear oil Brakes: Custom drilled, slotted and cryo disk brakes Hawk HPS brake pads Wheels/tires: Front: 14x7 Kosei Rims 8.5 lbs Rear: 15x8 Kosei Rims 14 lbs Falken Tires Suspension: Adjustable front shocks Polyurethane bushings Interior: Added Gauges -AFR -Boost/EGT -Fuel pressure (outside/through hood) LED shift light Short Shifter Roll Bar Body: Front splitter Projector lights RX8 side skirts Civic Si rear spoiler (modify) Hood intakes and vents Rear diffuser Rear wheel flares from Autokonexion

Dyno: 8 psi pump gas (Torco Accelerator at Autocross for safety) around 170 hp in the summer and around 200hp in the winter (Car is in Arizona)

Sadly the Orange car got totaled.

Here is build history of the new one:

Specs and Photos

About the car: Engine: 1.6L Ported Exhaust Torco SR5 20w50 race oil K&N air filter Accel 8.8mm Spark plug wires Koyo Aluminum Radiator Turbo set up: A lot of custom pieces at this point T25 28 water cooled Top mounted Miata Mazdaspeed intercooler High flow catalytic converter Custom downpipe made by www.classiccustoms.net 2 chamber muffler Mallory Fuel Pressure Regulator Engine Management: MegaSquirt PNP Tuned by, MX5 Unleashed Transmission/driveline: Mazda Miata 5 speed Chromoly flywheel ACT Stage 1 Clutch kit Torco SGO 75W-90 gear oil LSD Torco Type F limited slip additive Brakes: Custom drilled, slotted and cryo disk brakes Hawk HPS brake pads Wheels/tires: Front: 14x7 Kosei Rims 8.5 lbs Rear: 14x7 Kosei Rims 8.5 lbs Riken Tires Suspension: Adjustable front shocks Polyurethane bushings Interior: Added Gauges -AFR -Boost -Fuel pressure (outside/through hood) LED shift light Short Shifter Roll Bar Body: Porsche Carrera Orange Painted by MX5 Unleashed Front splitter RX8 side skirts Civic Si rear spoiler (modify) Hood intakes and vents Dyno: 7psi pump gas Haven't been dyno yet ? rwhp ? ftlbs

Photos:

Evolution of the car

Here I will update all of the photos of my car in chronological order.

This is the first image that I have of the car, but I already changed the lights:

This one is after the front spoilers have been added:



2 Aug 2009
I have been painting it myself, mostly one panel at the time, and this is what I've done as of 2 August 09:

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23 October 2009

Finally painted the hood and the light covers. Also Fuel pressure gauge has been installed and yes, the sprinkler has an LED which lights up the gauge.



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23 March 2010

Finally Finished !!!

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1st changes

After discovering 2 tension bars in the messed up trunk, I felt like I got a deal. 1st bar was top one for the shock towers. That got installed the same day. The second one was for under the engine,

I put that on the next day when I jacked the front of the car up. You could feel the car getting tighter already. Next I needed a new trunk for my mx-5. So I found one on e-bay, coincidentally the one I found was maroon, the color of the stripes. The day it arrived I taped off the sripes and painted the rest of the trunk white. It mached great.

It all started

I'm Peter and I'm originally from Poland so my grammar and spelling is not the best but I will try.
In the late 90s I was in the Navy with the greatest US NAVY Squadron VF-103 Jolly Rogers.

We were on the Top Gun training and I was a technician, so we were either very busy or very bored. I was into cars already and I had a 66 Mustang Fastback and I modified the crap out of it.

So one day when I was bored, I picked up an import car magazine for a change and there was an article about this car.

I read it and I thought it was so cool that a guy built this sweet ride for something much less than I was putting into my Stang. Well years went by and after the mustang I got a 1990 Infiniti M30, it was a fun car with a V6 rear and wheel drive but it was an automatic and there was no aftermarket stuff for it but I also modified the crap out of it.

My motto is that you can improve every original. Well that car got totaled after someone pulled out in front of me, without yielding the right of way. Well I needed a car quick but insurance $$$ did not come yet so I remember the MX-5. In the next week I got one off the Craig's list. Faded white with red stripes. It had a banged up trunk and the rear piece between the lights was cracked to pieces. It was running rich and the plastic window in the back was taped with clear tape, that lasted about 5 days in AZ sun before the crack reopened. I paid $1,600.00, I think I over paid, but it had OZ rims and some parts in the trunk. On the way home I started loving the ride. And the rest you will read about soon.

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