RGTorque

check with other brands if you want more foot room...

thanks for the support guys!

i sat for 5 min trying to think up a witty comment but im speechless.

f20c from s2000

i would love to join in... but as usual i am 7less. she will be in texas getting her transplant for a few more weeks! if im lucky i will have her back for the date and she will be turnkey upon arrival! if anyone is pushing for a later date i will go for that as well!

maybe i should have sent my 7 to stanford while i had the miata engine.

turbo, manifolds, and hydra are already done. i hope to find a new home for the miata engine and trans as well as all the other parts soon!

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ken is the tuner that installed, wired, and failed to get my car running properly after the upgrade to hydra 2.7... neither of us know whats wrong and im done sinking money into this mazda mess. good by miata hello s2000.

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yes i put in a new battery and made sure the it was reading high enough.

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she is officially under the knife. disassembly http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6702/20120801170006.th.jpg http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5096/20120801165647.th.jpg http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4097/20120801165700.th.jpg http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9915/20120801165715.th.jpg

na. goin back to my roots steve. f20c s200 engine.

2001 engine with roughly 40,000 miles $1200 2001 miata 6spd trans 15 miles since rebuild $1000 flying miata level 1 clutch kit with flywheel 15 miles $350 hydra 2.7 engine management (gamma) $1500 600cc deatschwerks injectors 0 miles $300 gt2650r turbo 20,000 miles $300 custom turbo manifold with down pipe $300 will make a deal if multiple items are bought together.

officially took the first step tonight...

haha, im always "that guy" who has the "special problems"... my luck. the vw power train is actually a great setup for me since i am very heavily rooted in the vw community in this area. i also have a fantastic fabricator that will take on the job. also the factory ecu can be used so no more bullshit with wiring, hello obd2 scan port. that being said i am currently speaking with Loren about a certain naturally aspirated option that has seemed to work very well for all the other wcm's... i feel i am getting closer. if only i did not buy to buy the car twice over in getting it running.

ken hill is the guy who is tuning my car

another day with the tuner... still no dice. started cranking away at 8:30 left defeated at 5pm pulled the front of the motor apart. confirmed timing, placement of timing sensors, and swapped over another known working cam actuator to the front of the cam. also swapped the oil driven cam drive bits that are on top of the cam. the harness was pined out AGAIN and we followed the electrical schematic for the harness he built. everything LOOKS and pins out correct. we literally untaped the engine harness and were looking for any rubbing of broken wires... we found a few small issues but nothing that affected the car running. i should note that the ecu was sent out and tested by flying miata. they also sent the tuner a harness and he tested the ecu in his 2001 miata. both times the ecu performed without any issues. so... ecu checks out harness checks out sensors check out engine checks out arrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg~!!!!!! so there is no one else who knows this engine management system except flying miata in colorado, and i cant afford to mail the car there. i think it would be cheaper to just put in another engine. very very very frustrated 7 owner here. im starting to think about getting rid of it or swaping in a vw engine 1.8t engine.

man, thats a lot of work to do. here in pa i just when registering i just labeled the car "lotus" and they took the manufacturers plate number with no issues. my title says "lotus" in the make, nothing in the model and the year is 2007. dmv never saw the car as it never tested for specialty title. the inspections in pa are fairly simple if you "know a guy". the only main issue i had was emissions because i had no obd2 scan port but there is a workaround for newer cars with ports that dont communicate well. after that first inspection i state that i drive less than 5000 miles a year and never need to do smog again. happy days now it if would only run...

when my tuner was here we checked the wiring that is associated with the cam functions plus a few others from the sensors to ecu.

my problem is that there is no equivalent setup to my car. there are no other ultralite with miata drive train, and my wiring is all custom from the hydra because its fairly specific to the equipment on my car. at this point we are not even sure what parts to swap. the thing is the vehicle ran, it was driven to its current location. all that really changed is the ecu and injectors. ive tried installing 3 different sets of injectors with same result and the ecu cannot be "downgraded". perhaps ill send it in to get tested once more.

hello all, im posting now more out of frustration and the need to vent man than anything else. beware... :rant: for those who dont know of my 7 it is a world class motorsports ultralite with a 2001 miata engine, the only one of its kind. i have had my 7 for since 2007 and when i bought it the car came with many problems because it was poorly assembled by the original owner. i have since corrected and upgraded almost every system in the car. one of the recent (2 years and 200 miles ago) upgrades done is custom turbo system. there were many issues with fabrication, and fitment but we managed to put it all in. i put the car away about 2 years ago because the injectors i was using (430cc supra) were giving us tuning troubles, i had a crack in my exhaust manifold, and i had serious issues starting the car (poor coding in the hydra ems version 2.5). fast forward to this spring. i upgraded my hydra ems from 2.5 to 2.7 to fix my starting issues, purchased a set of 600cc injectors that there was already a great fuel map for, and fixed my exhaust manifold. i put this all together and go to start the car (2 years not running) and it starts right up YAYAYAYAYAY starting issue solved... not so fast. within a few revolutions its only firing on 2 cylinders (3/4). speaking with the tuner and flying miata over the past month and a half i check every possible thing. plugs, coils, battery, injectors, harness with no issue found. i end up sending the computer to flying miata for testing and its working properly as well. today the tuner drove 2 hr to me to work on the car. after confirming some basics we find that the hydra is not reading cam position correctly. we swap the cam and crank sensors out of the miata that he drove up with no effect. as it sits: cam and crank are properly timed (as they should be since i drove the car like this when i parked it) sensors for cam and crank work harness leading to the sensors test out working the ecu that the harness connects to is also working (in flying miatas test car) sooooooooooooo at this point the next time we can meet is in 2 weeks. if not fixed then we will tow it to shop 2 hr away. :banghead:

thanks mike. tomorrow 9am i will do battle with the 7 again. i cant wait to get her on the road. so much new gear (new suspension, new wheel/tire, working turbo system, big injectors, etc) on her that i really want to feel out. once she is running the next thing i will be doing is replacing those craptastic glasspacks with hushpowers so i will be able to go for a drive without my head hurting. so close!!!

7 is still down. to upset at it to come and say hi. the tuner is making a house call tomorrow as a last ditch effort! wish me luck!