Learn me some turbah kits

[WRXtranceformed]

Everyone's given pretty much everything you need so far. Flex lines should be fine for the oil / water, get all the necessary gauges and don't skimp on the engine management. Don't forget too that you're probably going to want to run 93 octane from then on.

[KPWSerpiente]

It won't make you or your car any cooler*, Evan. But you can do a nice 1.8L turbo miata on the cheap. I'd fly out to help.

-T














*Mandatory MM smack talk. I actually get hard when I see turbo miatas.

[Goodspeed]

..or buy a small block

Hey, for 16 grand, you can pick this up in Pittsburgh

[CaptainHenreh]

16 Grand for a "Hello World!" program?

Must be a government contractor...

[REED]

..or buy a small block

Hey, for 16 grand, you can pick this up in Pittsburgh

yes! yes! a thousand times yes!

[WRXtranceformed]

LS7 CRATE SWAP DO IT ... FANTASTIC SMOKE SHOWS GALORE!!

[HAULN-SS]

Jeebus, that's a fucking steal. The motor alone is like 13 grand.

[D_Eclipse9916]

Some good info in here, some not so helpful info, but your on the right track. Its the smaller things that add up. Fuel pumps, injectors, possibly fuel lines, afpr (ill go into that in a moment Rex), oil return/feed, tapping the oil pan, coolant lines, heat shielding, downpipe, manifold, turbo, new intake pipe, intercooler piping, intercooler, wastegate (unless going internal), boost controller (or run off wastegate spring), and some sort of EMS ( I personally do not know much about miatas ECU and boost), gauges, check valves possibly on breather/pvc, colder plugs, possibly radiator or getting rid of ac condensor, shit I just got back from spring break and im tired, im sure theres more.

Rex, I dont know wether you are calling out goodspeed on a rising rate fpr (one that just ups fuel pressure for more fuel as a "tune") or a proper Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator. A proper AFPR does many things including making fuel pressure more reliable and safer. First issue could deal with flow, the stock one maybe cant keep up.
Second issue and possibly even more important is pressure. A proper 1/1 ratio afpr (a proper Aeromotive one does this) ups the fuel pressure 1 psi for every psi of boost. This is not as some people think when they read about afpr a way of tuning, in fact this is just counteracting the forces of boost. Lets say base fuel pressure is set to 40 (base not idle) as you build 10 lbs of boost, your net fuel pressure is now 30psi coming out of the injectors, to get it back at 40, the fuel pressure regulator must up the pressure in the lines to 50 to get the injectors at 40 again. Deadtime and duty cycle is what determines your tune, so if you are overrunnning your stock fpr, your injectors could see less pressure than what the computer thinks (and it should be) and youll see a shitty tune or one that is unreliable. This also applies to vacuum, but of course that is why you have a stock fpr.