Mazda Miata Battery install:

For those who were interested in the Ohm Racing Harness; here's a few photos as I started to run them on the inside. It is plug and play. The *only* exception so far if the MPI Relay. The aftermarket one fits fine, vs. the OEM one which encases the two relays. Very minor.

Hopefully will find out shortly if this thing actually starts. Then I'll have more to say about this harness.

So far its been lovely.. and looks fantastic.

View behind radio:


ECU connector, and the MPI wires before i moved them back to the other side. I'll get a better photo of the ecu side:


Mostly installed and hidden:


Carpet down:


Comparison with the aftermerket MPI relay and OEM Style:

Updates:

Car is just about ready to be cranked over!

So close to the Shootout! Will you make it?

All right I get to check out the car again see you next weekend.

Don't forget to pull that bag off the air cleaner before you fire it!

Ran into electrical issues.....

:/

So still no official startup. It probably won't be at the shootout due to this.

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Wow - I have quite a few updates to add to this!

First off, it runs and drives. In fact, the car has about 1100 miles on it now!
Secondly, it now makes 442 WHP, with quite a fun power band!
Thirdly, I need driving lessons.

Took the car on Hot Rod drag Week, where it ran great, but the driver was to scared to launch it, since the rules stated that all cars needed to run a drag radial or slick. So I had it on drag radials. That being said, the soft launches led to bogging, and really crappy E.T's. However, the car's MPH was up quite a bit. Trapped 124mph on several tracks. Started to loose boost by the 4th track. Found out one of the exhaust manifold bolts backed out. Tighned it back up, but never got another run in

Took the car back to the track about a week later. Still not launching it, but netted a new best mph of 126.4mph. By the 5th run, lost boost again, and of course this was when we started to use the 2-step. Come to find out that the wastegate was stuck open.

Fixed that. Was going to drive it to work before leaving for Dallas for a month. Looked under the car and saw a large puddle of transmission fluid. Looks like I lost an axle seal. So, hoping to get that fixed and back out to the track before the snow flies. I'd really like to see a low 11 E.T.before the end of the season.

On other note, the solid motor mounts are something else! so far had the exhaust manifold bolt back out, alternator bolts back out, and I lost the cross bolt on the front motor mount! sheesh!! Looks like the lock tight will have to be broken out

95talongirl said:

Wow - I have quite a few updates to add to this!

First off, it runs and drives. In fact, the car has about 1100 miles on it now!
Secondly, it now makes 442 WHP, with quite a fun power band!
Thirdly, I need driving lessons.

Took the car on Hot Rod drag Week, where it ran great, but the driver was to scared to launch it, since the rules stated that all cars needed to run a drag radial or slick. So I had it on drag radials. That being said, the soft launches led to bogging, and really crappy E.T's. However, the car's MPH was up quite a bit. Trapped 124mph on several tracks. Started to loose boost by the 4th track. Found out one of the exhaust manifold bolts backed out. Tighned it back up, but never got another run in

Took the car back to the track about a week later. Still not launching it, but netted a new best mph of 126.4mph. By the 5th run, lost boost again, and of course this was when we started to use the 2-step. Come to find out that the wastegate was stuck open.

Fixed that. Was going to drive it to work before leaving for Dallas for a month. Looked under the car and saw a large puddle of transmission fluid. Looks like I lost an axle seal. So, hoping to get that fixed and back out to the track before the snow flies. I'd really like to see a low 11 E.T.before the end of the season.

On other note, the solid motor mounts are something else! so far had the exhaust manifold bolt back out, alternator bolts back out, and I lost the cross bolt on the front motor mount! sheesh!! Looks like the lock tight will have to be broken out

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Same thing happened to me. My tranny bolts actually backed out. I had to Loctite them in a couple places.

Adding some photos form Hot Rod Drag Week.

Currently making plans to get rid of the internal wastegate, adapting a 3000gt rear end, and upgraded transfer case. Maybe then I won't be so timid to launch the thing.

Car is looking great. Keep up the awesome work.

A 3KGT rear is a bit overkill for a sub 500hp car. Why are you so afraid to launch it? Do you already have a 4 bolt rear and axles?

Well, haven't updated this is a while. Will have to do a recap after Drag Week.
But here's a photo from the shootout!

A few photos from the other day, when i disturbed its winter slumber to play with light painting.

To recap, the car made it through drag week again. Was an interesting one, too. After day one, drove to Memphis on a bad cv axle, as no one in the area had one. Ordered on at O'reilies, and picked it up the next morning, shoved it in the car just before having to run it for the day. The only other real hiccup it had was a blown throttle body gasket, and a bunch of exhaust manifold nuts backing off and thus disappearing. Tim Zimmer was kind enough to bring me some nor-loc washers for Greak Lakes dragaway for day 4, and that ended that fight! Overall it didn't perform like I wanted, some of that it my fault, and the other is not having the two-step (or anti-lag) enabled. So the car would leave on virtually no boost. Off the two-step, it still was only building 2-4psi. So while it was trapping decent MPH (125-127) it was giving it all up on the line with mid-high 12-sec times. Also had the it turned down a bit from 28psi where it was tuned to 23/24psi for this event. Never got a chance to turn it back up.

After drag week, took it back for one last trip and messed with the antilag. Now it was seeing 8-10psi at the launch. What a difference that made. It's still bogging a little bit, so haven't found the sweet spot yet. But that netted an 11.43@126. Still with the boost at the 23/24psi mark. Much closer to where the times should be, though. So next season the goal is to finally get this thing to run a 10-something.

When are you gonna ditch the PS?

Coming along nicely