Well the swap was finished on Friday, made it to the dyno on saturday, and the track on sunday :D

The car started at 5am on friday for the first time, and I left town at 11 am to go to New Orleans to dyno and race.

There were some issues on the way there though. (I drove the car 500 miles for the race :D) The car had been running hot the whole trip from San Antonio. It did it in odd ways. It was loosing water, but not leaking it. The car would drive at about 180-190* for about 30-45 min and would then start to over heat. I never let it get over 235. One leg of the trip we drove about 40 min and stopped for lunch.. it was not hot when we stopped. Before we left we checked the water. It was over a gallon low. We did not know where the water went. There was no water under the car so it didnt leak out there. We thought it was just leaking under pressure. We didnt worry about the leak too much as we did not have time to deal with it right now.. Just kept an eye on temps.


I get to the dyno and strap the car down.. First pass at 9psi it made 230 with a a/f way below 10:1 (I did not mess with my settings. I was sill on a 1.8 map with 550 injectos, now I have a 2.0 with 720 injectors.)

But we started getting worried. I noticed on the runs that the overflow was spewing water during the pass. I thought the car was running hot since it was a hot day outside. At 15psi it spewed more than 9psi. I decieded to make one more pass to make sure. We turned the Profec B all the way up. I was hoping for about 22-24 psi but got just under 20psi. This time the water went everywhere. It was shooting out my 21psi radiator cap, and out of the catch can like a gyser. The car made 370hp with the blown headgasket. Not bad IMHO I think 400 would of been easy. I did a compression test cold about 3 hours later and it was 150 100 100 150 Yanked the head and the gasket was bown between he water jacket and #2 and #3 cylinders. It was one of those composite POS headgaskets... It looked like it went out from overheating (I think it was blown when I got the motor.)

Well I could not get a headgasket in time so I went the crazy way... JB WELD :D I used that to patch the blown parts, and copper coated it to hell. I only expected to get 1 maybe 2 passes on it if I was lucky, but it was worth a try. I take it to the track and it is no longer loosing water.. It is running great. I go for my first pass. I launch and this leaves like a rocket. Hit 2nd and it was scarey as hell. The absolute fastest I have ever felt the car. I hit (after 2 tries) 3rd gear and it doesnt feel as good, then 4th it feels like crap. The car was still moving good, but not as good as 2nd gear. I look behind me and nothing but smoke. Headgasket let go. It actually blew on #3 and #4. The JB welded spot held fine. The car still went 12.2@120mph with a double missshift to 3rd, and a blown headgasket. I was told that as soon as I got into boost it started smoking. So I started to blow in 1st gear and went from there. The car will start now but wont idle and if I hold the gas it has about 3-4" of vacuum....

I believe I will be hitting 10's by the end of next month :D.... We will see...

More later

Danny

damn dude, that is crazy! i take it you trailered it to the track? if not, how did you get it home?

how many times have you had the head off, you talk about pulling the head like i do changing oil (or taking the manifold and turbo off, something i have had to do like 15 times!)

So the run went something like this, psssssssttttt, shift, psssstttttt, shift , shift again, (blow Headgasket), ppsssbbbhhhtttt , (blown headgasket boost sound) , shift , ppsssbbbbhhttt = 12.2 @ 120. Ok I'm sick now, I can't imagine anywhere near 400hp in a Miata. GOOD JOB!! keep us posted.

Danny--

Two things cross my mind here:

1. That 120mph trap speed is all you need to know about your car. If you can't run 10s with a good head gasket in there, you never will. :)

2. The weekend should not be a total loss. Call up the JB Weld company and tell them your story. You might have the fastest piece of JB Weld in the country. Hey, it could be an endorsement or something. :D

Good job, none the less.

The car is on a stock Motor with a sheetmetal intake and .63 housing.... I am happy I made that power....

I hope to god I can hit 10's. After that here are the plans.

VERY near future.... PAINT!!! No chance of Mag article without it. Anyone who has seen the car will tell you it needs paint. After that I am going to put pistons into the motor. The rods are plenty big enough for 500+hp. I might drop in stock supra pistons as they drop right in with the same compression and all. Then Axles, stubshafts, and KAAZ. Little (ok maybe a lot) of spray, .82 housing, some cams, and some headwork, I think 500+whp and 9's should be in the futiure... Unfortunatly that is a good bit of money... But all in good time... I am just going after Ari Yallon (RX7.com american flag car) :D I am going to be serious in the RWD Street Class.

BTW noting aginst Ari... He is just at the top right now.. I have to shoot for something :D.

Right now the cars are dominated by Supra's and RX7's.. Lucilly with my light weight I can run less power for the same times which helps on the DOT tires.

As I said... All in good time...

Danny

Good to hear that everything is working out some what. I'm gonna PM u about where u got ur engine (cause my fathers friend wants the same one for his Escort).

Oh and you shouldn't be worrying about Ari. You should be worrying about Tiatan Motorsports with their MKIV Supra's!!!! One runs 9.4 on radials with full interior (with power everything) and no bottle yet.

I remember when ari used to take the rx7 down to the street races when it *only* ran 10s. needless to say unsuspecting.... anything would get a nice surprise :)

I know about the titan car... They havent brought it to any Texas events though... It is a beast.

Well I wish you the best of luck. It's been really cool that you've posted all of your progress over on this forum. I always thought Miata's were nice cars. I just never imagined one being such a rocket. As for the Titan car, is that the same Titan Motorsports as the one in Orlando? If so I've seen some of their Supras. Wow. The one guy I spoke with who owned one, told me he "only" races bikes..

I saw the miata run at the track Sunday... and OMG!! That thing is scary! The car was sideways halfway down the track! I must say that the turbo II drivetrain is a nice upgrade and hey...at least the tranny didn't blow out this time...lol. It was nice to meet Rick too.. his shit is NICE! That guy with the supra was online talking shit to Bruce with the 300zx.. I wouldn't be bragging considering he makes about 200whp more than bruce and only beat him by 2 tenths. Matter of fact, I think he would have beaten him if the supra wouldn't have sprayed it at the end. I'll give you a call tomorrow when I get up so I can come get those injectors from you.
Travis

Hehehe; have you heard this one? What do 700, 800, and 900 HP Supras have in common? Ten-second time slips.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! OMG!!! *sides hurting*

Eh, Cowboy? The joke is 12 seconds. Not 10's. Supras have a very hard time hooking up. Many also do not have a very useable powerband. That's why most are dyno queens.

I stand corrected; mostly. The joke's good, but they are getting faster. A buddy of mine has a 12-second 300HP Supra (don't ask me how he does it, but he rolled a 295 peak HP with 10:1 A:FR and then pulled a 12.99 the next day at the strip), and I've seen a hand full of 900 HP Supras that couldn't pull a 9 if they were pushed by the Hand of God.

It's funny, laugh. ;)

HEE HEE HO HO he he :D

I'll second that one... I've seen plenty of 10 sec. Supras but none in the 9's..
Travis