Bros, look at my daily heap

[SirHustlerEsq]

It haz VVTeez:

Discuss.

[SirHustlerEsq]

...and a six speed, and 3.63. lol Too 300k, and beyond!!!

If I have enough time this week, I'll do the half-flat bottom for aero goodness. I'm farily certain I can get to 35mpg, I think I can get closer to 40mpg with some aero under the car.

[Nexus Flux]

I'm getting ~27.5 mpg out of my K20, so 40 would be awesome. Is 40 mpg with hypermiling or just not driving like a dick?

[SirHustlerEsq]

I'm getting ~27.5 mpg out of my K20, so 40 would be awesome. Is 40 mpg with hypermiling or just not driving like a dick?

35mpg at 80mph on cruise at 3600rpm, I'll still probably get 20mpg around town. I went from 23mpg at 80 to 28mpg on the shit motor that came out. I'm going to do some experimenting with VVT at cruise and see what it does.

[Rogue]

Treycephus=Hypermiler This I got to see!

[SirHustlerEsq]

Treycephus=Hypermiler This I got to see!

It looks the same as it always did, but with better fuel economy.

[MoonieGT]

The winner for most motor swaps in a month, may I have the envelope please....

[trickyrix]

Nice work!

Needs skinny tires, fender skirts, and a fastback hard top for hypermile baller status.

[SirHustlerEsq]

I had a productive day. I started at 9am, swapped the rear end, cleaned and tightened up the PPF, removed the 01 alternator which I forgot and replaced it with the 94 alternator, added trans oil, gear oil, engine oil, water, discovered this engine had a turbo on it and picked-up a plug for the old turbo oil return in the pan, picked-up a new O2 bung plug, replaced all hoses aside from the lower rad hose, new belts, added the new SS clutch line, and I think that's it. Today was basically all the nit-pick mechanical stuff. Tomorrow I will get up early to start the wiring and probably drive it if my wire stuff is right. For now, I'm going to a bar.

Things left to do:
Bolt the wheels on
Bleed the clutch
Wire CKP, CMP, coils, VVT
Wire VVTuner and VICS into the factory harness and switch them to output headers on the computer.

[SirHustlerEsq]

Nice work!

Needs skinny tires, fender skirts, and a fastback hard top for hypermile baller status.

No, lol.

The winner for most motor swaps in a month, may I have the envelope please....

No shit, but the green car wasn't really a "swap" since it didn't require thought and didn't require mods to the wire harness. After this I still have to put the new computer in the green car. After that I plan to get away from cars a bit. The next time I drive the green car will hopefully be the toy run with the car set-up properly.

I'm really anxious to get this finished tomorrow, get it road tuned, and see what kind of fuel economy I can get. Then I'm going to Quaker Steak and binging on wings and beer.

[SirHustlerEsq]

Does anyone have a cheap intake they'd like to sell me?
I'd like to get another one of these but they aren't on TDR's site:

[MoonieGT]

I have a total crap one from ebay... Yours for nada if you want it. Did I mention it was crap?

[black roadster]

I'd like to get another one of these but they aren't on TDR's site:

Gary makes them one off. We don't have a kit. I've been bugging him to make a kit. Give him a call and he can get you set up.

[Flyin96M]

Does anyone have a cheap intake they'd like to sell me?
I'd like to get another one of these but they aren't on TDR's site:

I know Gary just pulled one off his yellow 96 so maybe ask him if he wants to sell it.

[SirHustlerEsq]

I know Gary just pulled one off his yellow 96 so maybe ask him if he wants to sell it.

The one from the yellow car is in the picture above, lol.

[SirHustlerEsq]

Man this is great, 80mph at 3600rpm is nice to have again, this will be a great road trip car. I got it road tuned and PW is signifcanly lower in cruise at 80mph, over one point and 500rpm lower. I expect a significant increase in fuel economy. I will put more spark in it later because right now it's very slow, lol. Although slow, it drives better and there's no more smoke.

It's still pretty slow and I had to work through a few little problems mechanically and with configuration on the VVTuner. I will add some spark later tonight and keep filling it up with 87-octane. I fill-up over 100-times per year so running 87 instead of 93 is half a set of tires annually. I'll still tune on 93 to get a max-power number because I want to know, but I'll back-out to run the 87 octane.

[SirHustlerEsq]

Day one:

This stuff is complex. Finding optimum output on my 99 head was super easy compared to this. I ran 4* advance and called it done. This is another world. It took about an hour to get the PID control working right so it would pop to target and not fluctuate. Now I get to find optimum cam angle throughout the RPM range. This is why it costs $1500 for a tune on an Evo or STI, they have VVT on two cams, making it infinitely more difficult to tune.

Now that I have that all worked out, the car feels pretty fast for a stock engine Miata.

[MoonieGT]

That's a ton of fuel up top ya?

[SirHustlerEsq]

That's a ton of fuel up top ya?

It's all relative to required fuel values but yes, I increased VE values up top by 20% after installing larger injectors. I'm severely limited by the exhaust on the car so when I get the new exhaust it will take much larger values. Right now KPA is dropping from 96kpa to ~89-90kpa above 5000rpm because the exhaust is so small that exhaust is not clearing the cylinders, lol.

[SirHustlerEsq]

What a heap:

lol: