mrpham's summer build

[mmx005]

Id be keen to bring my itb monster out too if you are down :-)

[mrpham]

Put some proper filters on now, they're UNI Filters which came with the ITB kit. Not a huge fan of the red colour, so might sus out some black filters down the track.

[16bit]

http://www.pipercross.net/competition/p ... _socks.asp

[mrpham]

I've been thinking about getting this style of filter, seems to be the best performance out of all the filters.

http://www.pipercross.net/competition/p ... _px500.asp

[sailaholic]

An airbox and moving the filter away from the trumpet will be superior still, but as we know that's easier said then done

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[mrpham]

An airbox and moving the filter away from the trumpet will be superior still, but as we know that's easier said then done

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And using an airbox means I could use a MAF/AFM from an R35 too, always liked the idea of tuning with a (good) MAF/AFM.

[16bit]

http://www.pipercross.net/competition/p ... airbox.asp

[bruce]

But one of the main reasons to go ITBs is for the look of four individual trumpets (it would look so good filter-less). But we know that's not wise.

[16bit]

here is a guy who did it.

http://www.mx5nutz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=129859

[16bit]

and if you have a spare kidney there are more here.

http://www.reverie.ltd.uk/product_list. ... AIRB%204CZ

[koop21]

here is a guy who did it.

http://www.mx5nutz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=129859

beaware that the depth of that airbox would actually hinder airflow as the trumpets themselves would be pretty close to the face of the airbox. Of course if you take of the trumpets off it may solve it the distance issue between trumpet and airbox but you sacrifice the benefits of using trumpets.

[16bit]

that is the exact opposite of what he says?

[mrpham]

WTAC Road Trip - http://omgpham.com/wtac-road-trip-update

Hey everyone!

Long time no speak, been too busy driving/tuning/enjoying the car. It's easy to get caught up in all the fun and forget to update the blog . In all honesty, there hasn't been much to post about. I did however just do a road trip down to Sydney for WTAC 2013.

I really enjoyed the 900km each way drive, the seats were surprisingly comfortable. But with no AC, windows down and sitting my 4100RPM, we were slightly deaf from the ITB noise!

I'll post photos I took with my DSLR soon, but here are few I've collected in the last week. Photos were taken by various friends and props to them for the amazing shots.



Half-way through our drive down, the MX-5 was having some misfiring issues. It would lose RPM sync for a fraction of a second randomly. I packed spare cam and crank sensors but replacing them didn't do much, even bought a brand new one once we arrived in Sydney. But the problem turned out to be a bad plug, the one that plugs into the front cam sensor.



We arrived in Sydney a couple days early so stopped by at Zen Garage for a quick visit and chill. Photos taken by Sergio.





Excuse my camera phone photos





Now some photos from WTAC of my car, these ones directly below were off my phone.



Some photos from friends.






Photos below are from BioHazard/Jacob, checkout the rest of this set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/102767982@N04/

[mrpham]

So this happened last night at Mt. Nebo....

[OurCognitiveSurplus]

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