MX5 unleashed

Specs and Photos

2011-01-31T17:29:00.000-08:00

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

2009-08-02T20:54:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-31T08:39:00.001-07:00

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

2009-05-28T22:10:00.000-07:00

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.

Welcome to the blog

2009-05-27T23:04:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the blog about my MX-5