MX-5 Club of W.A. - Dyno Day

[Okibi]

A big thank you to Top Racing who hosted the event on their DynoDynamics 2WD dyno at a discounted price of $25 per car.

Thanks also go to Leslie Proctor for organising and running the day, Simon Corston and Gary Wotzko for checking entrants cars, Ash Price for being the chief steward and making sure we stuck to the accredited \"Shootout\" rules, Marilyn Chen for cutting the onions and Robyn Thompsett and Rob Payne for cooking up some great sausages!

http://www.mx5club.com.au/eventspage.php?eitem=2006062400

[tinsfci]

Thanks to all the organisers, was an interesting day.

I would also like to thank all of my 67.9 kilowatts for getting up early and coming along. I could not have done it without them

[Okibi]

[pixola]

Yeah alot of hardworking people involved on the day !

It was fun and the sausages were pretty tasty.

Thanks to all folks involved.

But I need to open the chequebook.. sigh.

[mx52nv]

Thanks to all who helped and all entrants!
Special thanks to Top Racing for all the teamwork making every one of the 25 cars dynoed like clockwork!
...and thanks Dave for posting the results ;)

[Andrew]

Looking good guys

[Okibi]

Thanks Andrew,

Some interesting results, especially the NC's fuel curve.

It will be good to see the Vic Dyno Day sheets to help compare \"stock\" horsepower and mods.

[Andrew]

It will be good to see the Vic Dyno Day sheets to help compare "stock" horsepower and mods.

Yeah i was thinking the same thing

[StanTheMan]

gees pixola....i remember the days when you red beast was the only FI NB around LOL

[Okibi]

Don’t worry STM , Pixola’s NB8A still has HUGE AP brakes to make the most potent SP/SE quake in it’s retreads.

[StanTheMan]

Don’t worry STM , Pixola’s NB8A still has HUGE AP brakes to make the most potent SP/SE quake in it’s retreads.

i remember seing Gurglr for the first time.....must have been around 2000. with brakes that would have stopped a mac truck. It was built a few years before that. at the time if memory serves me correct, pixola was in the process of developing his NB8A. There was only one other NA6 in the Mx5 club of NSW being turboed. This particular NA was doing the 2000 supersprints but just dissapeared from the scene. Owner & car....so i don't know what happened to it.

I'm not saying Pixola was the first MX5 turbo. but he was certainly one of the pioneers of the ealier devlopments.....and i admire him for what he's done....bit like ...The master and the aprentice

at the time you could get a bolt on kit from the US.....but not many workshops were set up for developing & tuning turbo conversions. while today.....its the done thing.

[pixola]

I'll do a Wayne's World flashback for you guys

Early 2001.. Mazda start making noises about the SP project. I spoke to Allan Horsley and he said the SP wasn't my car.

AW has been eyeing off Flyin' Miatas for a long time, and with some money in my pocket ( $15k ) I began looking for a pill to cure my speed ills.

I spoke to Paul Brell from BD4s.. had a look at his NA ( white ) turbo he'd done with an AVO/HKS parts list. He was pretty vague about details, and the kit looked a bit of a DIY bitzer. I just didn't feel that BD4s had the care factor.

Then I caught up with another MX5 NSW club guy Vern who had just HKS'ed a Blue 10AE. 6psi.. bolt on.. tidy kit but not enough HP for me.

Then I met Matthew Hall who had a blue NA with a AVO kit. He introduced me to the guys who fabricated his Intercooler.. his setup was good, simple and quite strong. Performance Metalcraft told me they'd done some of the fab for the red 1999 SP prototype showcased at Natmeet 1999. I wasn't sure if that was all true, but Performance Metalcraft showed me some of their projects.. the skylines, the wrxes and big turbo SC400 builds. All really high power high quality work.

So I gave them the brief for 12psi with plan to extend to 15-18psi with an engine rebuild in the future. I wanted quality fit (no chopping up the stock chassis) and thorough matching of performance, reliability and the original MX-5 car. They did a great job building the car. Alot of time spent, quite alot of attention to detail. Ian Baker is an eccentric master fabricator.. as was Leon Sokalski.. who was just the nicest bloke you could meet.

SAS / David Alexander did a very good job tuning the car. With hindsight, his setup of my car is pretty much perfect. Dynoing it almost 5 years later, it's still producing almost the same HP (156kW wheels @ 10psi) and all I've done is change oil & plugs.

During the project I got introduced to Jim Donohue who was going to build me a spare engine to the 300rwhp design brief.. but it never happened.

So give credit to the guys who laid the path. I just had the $$$ and the will to do it (btw my budget was a disaster in the end).

btw Gurglrs brakes were IIRC 315mm and only suitable for 17\" wheels.. no good for the sleeper factory look

[garbev]

Good day out but now I have to spend some serious $$$$$$$$ on my ute.

[pixola]

Well an APS blower kit should fix your problem with all those parts !

[Okibi]

Dyno Graphs have been added.