You = badass.
Damn nice Miata.

Sweet! No worries anymore with lubrication:willy_nilly::coolgleamA:

Just with the crank hitting the pan. :lol:

wow, you wreck v8's like most people destroy rotaries.. LOL

Ahhhhhhh, I remember this build from post 29 on... I even see one of my welds ;)

You guys have no idea how quick this car is.... it rearranged my internal organs on acceleration. The torque just doesn't stop.... it's odd.... it like not a rotary :rofl:

Glad you're loving the dash Glenn.... sorry you had to see it ;)

Thanks!

The pan is a really nice piece. It just didn't want to clear my crank even though I was told it would. There's nothing like hustling your ass off to swap the pan and build -10 oil lines so you can get home by midnight, and firing it up to hear thud thud thud. :( Had to take it back apart the next day, bang the pan out to clear my #1 rod, and all was well.

:rofl:

You're not pushing it hard enough if you're not breaking shit. :lol:

Wait till you ride in it when you come out. If you thought it was fast before...:suspect:

The dash is awesome! I just need to get my oil temp sensor hooked up to it and everything will be complete!

Which haltech model are you running? I have platinum sport 2000 from
Old build and was hoping to use it on my ls1 but i see that the it only goes to 6 cyl direct fire. Please let me know how you set up your haltech and which model. Thanks!

Deff needs 2 turbos.

i'm not sure where they would fit.

Rear mount. Plenty of room where the muffler sits ;)

I'm running a E11v2. You can run a LS1 no problem with a P2000S. You'll have to set it up to run sequential injection and waste spark ignition. Just pair the cylinders for waste spark (one on compression, other on exhaust stroke) and use the 4 ignition outputs. Make sure to use the earlier 24 tooth wheel, not the newer 50-something tooth wheel on your crank.

Yeah that would be interesting. :rofl:

You have an awesome car!

So you put the LS1 Camaro alternator in the G8 bracket, and that gave you the closer accessory spacing as used on the G8, CTS-V, Corvette, etc, right? Did you need to make any modifications to the G8 bracket or the Camaro alternator? What did you use for the rear alternator support - the G8 rear bracket?

Ultimate sleeper...

You sir have a death wish. That thing is just mental, id probably kill myself tracking it haha.

Any updates on this thing, was one of my favourite builds

Just been plugging away on it.

I took it to DGRR back in April. 5000 miles, 70 hours, averaged 26 mpg.

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...r12/miata1.jpg

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...r12/miata2.jpg

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...r12/miata3.jpg

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...r12/miata4.jpg

It started making a weird thumping sound in Louisiana...about 1800 miles into the trip. I thought it was the tranny but a friend suggested I replace the throwout bearing. So we did that outside the cabin when we got there and the noise persisted. Found out last weekend that it was because 5 of the 6 flywheel bolts came loose. I followed ARP's torque specs, so much for that. I used red loctite this time, hopefully they don't come loose again.

I recently put a dual wideband setup on it that interfaces with the Haltech and found that the original wideband I used to tune the setup was reading lean and the mixture was far too rich. I leaned it out some and found some more power according to the butt dyno. I've got a chassis dyno coming in a week or so and I'm gonna do some fine tuning with it, see where the power is at. Feels like 460ish at the wheels.

I ran a couple liter bikes a month ago, a new Kawi ZX-10R and slightly older Yamaha R1. By the top of 3rd I was pulling on them a good deal. ;)

Next month I'm gonna start gathering piping and flanges to build a new set of headers for it. The current headers have 1 1/2" primaries and 2.5" collectors. The new headers will have 1 3/4" primaries and 3" collectors. I'm gonna rework the entire exhaust system too, 3" duals all the way back instead of the 2.5" it is now. Then a new set of true LS3 heads and a 102mm intake and TB and hopefully I'll be over 500 wheel HP.

I was crewing for a stock car running a chevy 250 straight 6 a number of years ago. Had the same problem. No matter what we did it would spit off flywheels, even the LocTite didn't help. It turned out it was some sort of weird harmonic that kept loosening the bolts. We put a Fluidampr front vibration dampener on it and it cured the problem.

Interesting...I'm running a SLP front dampener on this build cause its keyed, as is my crankshaft and I wanted solid timing marks (LSx engines don't have keyed pullies or cranks from the factory, no timing marks either). The engine is pretty damn smooth through the rev range. I've heard that spec clutch assemblies can be out of balance though, I wonder if that contributed to it? I've been running the same flywheel/clutch combo since the beginning and this is the first time I've had this happen. :dunno:

It may not happen again, who knows. The six we were running had been internally balanced when the engine was built and it ran very smooth. Had the flywheel and clutch rebalanced too, didn't help. One of those weird things that you couldn't really tell just listening to it. It may be a balance issue or like you said it may just be the bolts, maybe something else. Have to see if it holds this time.

Wow, I haven't posted here in a while. :)

Since my last post I've made another cross-country trip, this time to Jax Florida, DGRR and then back home. No major issues. I've made some changes to the Miata, I need to put pictures up. In the meantime here's the most recent dyno run, done yesterday in 99 degree shop heat with the car's new water/meth injection system. :)

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...Miata Meth.jpg

this car, literally, hurts on WOT acceleration. It's INSANE.

this car has had all the monies!!!!

secret money printing operation?

mmmm LS powah!

This thing is insane!!

Yeah. Glenn's just not.. quite .. right .. in the head. He thinks he needs even more power. :icon_no2:

:Chevy_anim: 'merica

That's it?

Some pictures of the latest stuff done to the Miata...

Dual Spal fans, combined the fans move damn near 5,000 CFMs...(kinda hard to see in the pic)

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...miata_fans.jpg

Remote oil filter pedestal relocated to the driver's side frame rail to make oil changes easier and less messy :)

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...ata_filter.jpg

New Devil's Own water/meth injection system, along with a foam-filled 4 gallon fuel cell, and new yellow top Optima battery to ensure the car fires up in the heat ;)

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...miata_meth.jpg

And a dirty engine bay but lots of butt-warping fury :awesome:

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...ata_engine.jpg

Finally got around to giving the Miata a tune on race gas last night. I went with VP's MS109 unleaded race gas, considering how well it worked on a buddy's 2JZ single turbo we tuned. Did about 8 pulls and got it dialed in to the following numbers.

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...iata MS109.jpg

I had hoped for 560 wheel so this was a pleasant surprise. Because MS109 is oxygenated, I had to run a little richer than normal to get maximum power and detonation suppression. The mixture ended up in the 11.4:1 range. Timing was bumped up about 5 degrees.

On the street, I'm getting more wheelspin in 2nd, but 3rd is still holding. 4th gear feels like 3rd gear feels on pump gas. The chassis is handling the 90+ increase in torque well.

pssh still a miata

:suspect:

A fabulous hair dresser's car! http://www.illicitperformance.com/fo...es/gayaway.gif

No blow dryer under the hood though. Lame. ;)

Yet! Or the funny gas either. Wait till it has both.

I'll just leave this here.

hahahaha i bet the ford gt guy was like "mine still doesn't look like a girls car though"
good stuff pretty sick build

best part, that's the ford GT's 4th or 5th time losing to him :lol:

LOL actually he took lots of pictures of my car so he could show his buddies. He actually said there hasn't been a street car that he's come across that has beat him. He owns a S2K as well and likes little roadsters. Considering he owns a 250k+ supercar, he's a very humble down-to-Earth guy that has as close to zero ego as you can get.

Technically we've raced twice, but yeah I'm 2-0 with the GT.

technically is a technicality :lol: multiple pulls/runs in one go count :D

Been a while since I updated this thread. Got rid of the Haltech E11v2 and switched to an AEM Infinity. Found lots of hidden ponies and torque with the new computer...it would appear that the Haltech was not up to the task of controlling a LS3. Recently moved to Florida and tuned the car for 93 octane.

http://www.illicitperformance.com/im...tmiatadyno.jpg

Next upgrades are getting the traction & launch control functional and installing a 100 shot of nitrous that I've been sitting on for a few months. Hoping I can get upper 600s on race gas.

Your next upgrade needs to be having your head examined, but that's just my opinion.

Is your traction and launch control going to work with the stock ABS wheel sensors or are you going to have to mount special sensors to work with the AEM box?