New Hydra ECU Tuned and Running

[scannon]

It's been a long summer for me and my Caterham. I started on the conversion from Link to Hydra ECU and Hydramist water injection back in April but fell on my right shoulder, chipping the bone and tearing the rotator cuff.

 

The car hasn't run from April until last week. I only recently began to work on the car as my shoulder healed.

 

I finally got the car running just in time to load it in the trailer to take it to the annual Flyin Miata open house. I got there a day early to have the car dyno tuned and a few bugs worked out. The engine is a bone stock '00 Miata 1.8 motor with a turbo and 550 cc injectors.

 

I was hoping for an increase from 234 hp (at 10 psi) to somewhere around 275. The baseline run on the Hydra with no tuning produced 277 hp at 6 psi. After tuning we ended up with 301 HP and 262 lb ft of torque at 11 psi. We never did get the water injection working so there is another 20 - 25 HP waiting to be added along with the added safety of the water injection.

 

It pulls strong to the 7k redline and goes like a bat out of hell. Needless to say, I am very happy with this conversion.

 

I tried to upload a pdf of the dyno chart but couldn't make it happen.

 

Skip

 

 

 

 

 

 

[11Budlite]

Sorry to hear about your shoulder problem Skip, but that's some seriously impressive numbers on the dyno! :thumbs:

 

Bruce :7drive:

[Al N.]

Where are those "who needs high hp" guys when you need them?

 

And also, wasn't there a guy wondering if he could get the Westy Miata to "suitable" levels of power?

 

I think we have his answer right here. Way to go, Skip. Hope you are on the mend and can start enjoying the car for the remainder of great driving days this year....

 

[slngsht]

did 300+ hp make all the pain go away? :lol:

[scannon]

did 300+ hp make all the pain go away? :lol:

 

Sure makes it easy to ignore until I have to hoist my heavy butt out of the driver seat but the grin doesn't go away.:7fume:

[shiva]

I wasn't sure about the Hydra at first.

 

But seeing how a fellow turbo miata with 7psi develops the same power that I do at 12psi with my link ecu miata.

 

Glad to see another great example of the miata's engine power.

 

Now go have fun with it!