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It's not what you want to hear but you're much better off swapping your car for a factory turbo car and starting from that as the base. You'll have far fewer regulatory/insurance hassles and it will be worth more when you're ready to sell. If you do the sums I think you'll find that the cost difference between keeping your car and adding a proper DIY turbo kit and a newer car with pre-built factory kit will be pretty similar.

Pity you werent at the RAC driver training centre this afternoon, I could have shown you examples of different setups.

There is no easy legal way to turbo your NB, most people tend to upgrade to a factory turbo MX-5 then start improving on it.

AVO kit has been tried and tested, it would be one of the most obvious solutions to turbo your NB8B.

Okibi wrote:AVO kit has been tried and tested, it would be one of the most obvious solutions to turbo your NB8B.

Sorry Okibi but the avo kit isnt that good on the NB8B SVT , The NB8A on the other hand is a different matter


Beside if you want a car already done thats as reliable as a nuclear war head look at my car. more money spent on it than you''l ever considering spending on a car. Bullet proof, drivable and leaves 99% of the exotics wondering which way you went....

BJ

BJ is it just the poxy computer that's the issue with the AVO on the NB8B? or are there other fitment VVT issues?

My bad, I never considered buying an ECU when looking at their kits.

Are you in Perth?

No, I'm located in Sydney Mazfan

From my own experience the Garrett T28 works marvellously on my NB8A. Have no idea on how it would adapt to a NB8B.

I, would probably agree with the majority, better to buy something that as already had the work done.

Besides turbo and intercooling, you have the cost of tuning which I have spent a small fortune on, cooling, turbo heat and hoses of all different types under the bonnet, tend to go kaput.

You may also add a) turbo timer b) boost gauge c) coolant bypass reroute/oil cooler.

Aftermarket computers are necessary and costly. Finding a good tuner is harder than it sounds.

Make sure if aftermarket computer the tuner doesn't lock the tune, tying you down to being only able to use their service.
Expect less fuel economy, shorter engine life.

Positives that surge when you put the foot down.

Cheers Novice1

Mazfan wrote:Anyone running Fuji ITB?

Sounds like you've discovered Clubroadster.net

Should have been at the driver training centre on Monday, there was an MX-5 with quads on it (it won the day). There's a lot of experienced people in the club, get involved it could have you a lot of time and heartache.

Novice1 wrote:From my own experience the Garrett T28 works marvellously on my NB8A. Have no idea on how it would adapt to a NB8B.

I, would probably agree with the majority, better to buy something that as already had the work done.

Besides turbo and intercooling, you have the cost of tuning which I have spent a small fortune on, cooling, turbo heat and hoses of all different types under the bonnet, tend to go kaput.

You may also add a) turbo timer b) boost gauge c) coolant bypass reroute/oil cooler.

Aftermarket computers are necessary and costly. Finding a good tuner is harder than it sounds.

Make sure if aftermarket computer the tuner doesn't lock the tune, tying you down to being only able to use their service.
Expect less fuel economy, shorter engine life.

Positives that surge when you put the foot down.

Cheers Novice1

I have to agree with everything above......EXCEPT "shorter engine life" if you do it right in the first place and spending 5 to 10k doesnt cover doing it right your engine will last just as long, admittedly you have to keep a service schedule shorter and followed to the T (kms or time - mines been time as of late)

Yes I most probably have spent alot more than anyone else on doing up my 5 close to 6 figures, keeping it engineered and road worthy, but I know one thing, its reliable, its fast, it stays cool damn cool (44deg day ran medium boost went up 1deg....)

I can access the computer (any laptop can hook up to it and run the tuning program/s)
I have access to my engine builder.
I have done everything mentioned and more

Who ever buys my car will also have the above,and alot more not mentioned here, I know its going to be a sad day when it goes but we have a family now and a family car is used 99.99999% of the time Im behind the wheel now.

What I would tell anyone that wants to do up, turbo charge, supercharge, nuclear charge a 5.... Unless you have bucket loads of money to do the job once and do it properly just buy one thats already done, theyve done the spending sorted the bugs and spent a bit more. Doing up a car is not an investment it is somewhere to put your money and have alot of fun when its done....

BJ

Should have said Hi ! If I was about to have a run i would have been "in the zone", I couldn't afford to muck up any runs and I war praying Pete would screw up at least one of his

There's a few mechanics locally who can easily install and tune a set of ITB's but not many have played with them on the MX5.

Warwick Gate's MX-5 (which was easily the quickest all day) is running a set of ITBs.

Check out clubroadster, there's some good advice on the different setups there.