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[NorthernChaosGod]

I will parallel park my car with superb excellency into your buttcheeks, Bun-Bun. >:3

Apparently only if you weren't trying though.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Have to register.

I found one picture in my phone of the RX-7. If you want I'll track down and add more of the other vehicles. I love talking cars.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Hell yeah I do! All your cars are modded, right? What's the hp and torque of Petunia?

[Bunny]

Oh NCG, pretending you know what those words mean is cute on the internet.

I will parallel park my car with superb excellency into your buttcheeks, Bun-Bun. >:3

I'm game if you are.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I used to do some street races they held at the football stadium.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Hell yeah I do! All your cars are modded, right? What's the hp and torque of Petunia?

Well, she's never been dynoed so it's all ass-o-meter, but driving it compared to other cars we estimate around 240-260hp. I'm not sure about torque. Rotaries aren't the torquiest beasts known to man. Boost comes on around 3, and from there it's pretty strong. I've only had the car a year, so right now when I have time and money I'm just going through her and tidying things up. The car was a wiring nightmare, and a lot of the soft interior bits need some TLC. She has a full Racing Beat exhaust (that damn exhaust is 1,600 dollars on it's own so I'm glad the PO coughed up the money for that) that really helps spool, and a 9 lb. HKS flywheel to help things spin up much faster. The biggest issue right now is that under heavy(I say heavy, but I mean about 10 lbs.) boost she breaks up a little, and can't get a clean pull. We're talking to some stand alone ECU guys (DIY Megasquirt) about using her as a test bed to create an aftermarket ECU for a Turbo II. There's nothing out there like that unless you build it from scratch yourself. Right now she's using a Gameboy Advance to run a rudimentary boost controller program, but that's not ideal.

Once that's done, I plan to upgrade from the S4 to the S5 turbo, and switch the stock Hitachi turbo housing to a Greddy housing. Hitachi is basically a poor man's Greddy and switching the housing out is supposed to be straightforward. The nice thing about a rotary is that you don't need to upgrade to forged internals, so you just change the shape of your ports, get a good engine management system to control AFRs, spark, blah blah blah, and we should see 400hp and similar torque with just the stock s5 turbo and slightly better housing.

All this is long-term. I have school, racing, and plenty of other projects. She'll get there though. She gets some love about once a week.

That red hood in the background is a customer's Miata. It'll be putting down 375-400 rwhp, and going after z06s or Carrera Turbos here soon. We're pretty excited about that.

[NorthernChaosGod]

You pretty much answered any and every question I could ask. There's just one thing...

Right now she's using a Gameboy Advance to run a rudimentary boost controller program, but that's not ideal.

How the hell did you get this to work?

[sharkythesharkdogg]

You pretty much answered any and every question I could ask. There's just one thing...

Right now she's using a Gameboy Advance to run a rudimentary boost controller program, but that's not ideal.

How the hell did you get this to work?

You probably already know the term, but it's called a "piggy-back" system. It uses the stock ECU and an aftermarket communication box talks to it. Various sensors (WB02, knock, intake temp, exhaust temp) are used in tandem with the stock ECU and sent to that box. That box reads all the data and helps the ecu controls fuel, air, etc. to the engine. The Gameboy itself is actually your interface to that box so that you can monitor what it's seeing, and make adjustments to fuel maps and what not. It has it's cute little digital boost gauge, and other stuff. It's not terrible, it's definitely better than nothing, but to go further it really needs a more powerful complete stand alone system.

Then I can control AFRs, spark/ignition, injector load (opening and closing time), launch control, adjust rev limit, customize and auto-tune my AF maps. All that jazz.

[NorthernChaosGod]

That's pretty smurfing awesome for a GBA. Care to take a picture of that?

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Sure.

[rubah]

I bought a 2010 Altima last October. I loooooooooooooove her. She's kinda named Frona after someone who was basically my third grandmother, but I don't really refer to cars by name so that's only an "official" title.

[DMKA]

A 2006 Chevy Equinox.



I was driving a 2010 Toyota Prius before it. A really pretty shiny blue one that had a kickass stereo and got 50 mph.



I miss it. ;_____;

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Okay NCG, it was a busy day at work, but I snapped a few quick pictures. When I tried to load them some worked, some failed. I didn't get a picture of the GBA for example. I'll try again tomorrow. Here's a picture of the GSX-R, and the Miata. Also Petunia's engine bay.

The Miata pretty heavily modified, but it's not a straight line performance monster. I've added different chassis stiffening braces, thicker front and rear sway bars, Tokico 5-way adjustable gas shocks, and lowering spring. I added larger brake calipers and rotors. Dropping the cars center of gravity and firming up the ride really helps the Miata's already phenomenal handling, and also helps get the most of my brake up grades. The wheels are Kosie K-1's. That same we use on the race cars. They're light (11 lbs?), tough, and give the car a larger footprint. With handling cared for, I moved on to the motor. It's nothing crazy. I've added an Eaton M45 roots style supercharger with smaller diameter nose pulley. Right now it's making 8-10 lbs of boost. The 1.6l Miata is not a powerful car from the factory. About 116 hp at the flywheel. This one is making around 150hp give or take. I'm adding a stand alone ECU to it here in the next week or two. This will allow me to get more from my set up safely with out damaging my power plant. The ultimate goal is to swap in the same type of power plant Petunia has. A turbo 13b would be really interesting in a Miata. That's far down the line.

In preparing to wire up my new ecu I went ahead and pulled the entire interior out of the car to make wiring cleaner and easier. It originally had an all black interior. That one picture is with the tan carpet installed while I'm still wiring before I added the rest of the tan pieces.

Cosmetically, I've added a different front end. The nose provides a larger opening for an intercooler to be installed at a later date, and also provides openings for brake ducts and secondary coolers for the oil and/or transmission. The car has been re-painted, and the lower chip guard removed, sanded smooth, and painted to match the rest of the car.

I'll try to get a picture of the car all cleaned up here sometime.

The other mystery vehicle is Coma. She's called that because I don't have much time to ride her so she's basically in a coma. Also, eventually she'll put me in a coma. Nothing major has been done to her. She has some larger jets, and a different clutch setup. I might do a few more things to her, but 108hp on a 450 lb motorcycle is about plenty for me.

[Freya]

What happened to it DMKA?

[Bunny]

He let Rye borrow it for a day.