so far so good

i'm not 100% sure on the entire setup, but the stock TB may be bigger in area than the stock runners. and this throttle body setup may be wider. maybe shorter (which ideally helps highend if physics serves a purpose).

Indeed. Its very dusty in souther texas. Dust+oil/grease=big mess. I need to get some degreaser up in there. :)

While the 2 50mm throttles have a smaller cross sectional area, they will flow more than the stock throttles/intake manifold.

And as far as ppl running it N/A, try so find some ppl that Have E-prod race cars. This is the intake set-up that mazdatrix uses, although they use carbs due to rules.

Congrats, I've eyeballed that setup before on ebay. Went so far as to price it all out...then I got sad.

One possible way to look at the problem with the coolant -> turbo...get a dry T04. :D

Use the waterline that comes off the rear(?) iron that was normally connected to the TB, BAC waterline. The one that points up...I'm sure you probalby have that capped at this point anyway. It works great.

Water cooled turbos are better for longevity of the CHRA from the studies that I have seen. And being from Tx now living in Az, I know very well the heat that you will be dealing with.

-Chris

Yeah I was thinking about that one on the rear plate. But it is unlikly that the turbo I buy will be water cooled because the TO4's I have seen are only oil cooled.

would this happen to be it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2468091707

Those are my throtttle bodies yes. But What I got came with more parts that made it worth around 800+ USD from a dealer of efihardware's stuff. Good thing I payed almost 250 dollars less. :cool:

or www.tweakit.com (australian - check shipping prices)

thats gonna be real nice do u have a link though too where u got it from cause id like too take a look at the NA kit

cause the tweakit site seems too be down for now and i was typin when that came up

my bad. i guessed. http://www.tweakit.net/rx-7/index.htm
it works

ok i'm ready for an update. :)

i can update you.
Santi had a vision. since then, he has stopped posting (as much at least) and is focusing on other things in life. i believe the car is parked and sitting. anything more and he'll have to fill us in. last i heard, the T2 was gonna sit for awhile.

thks for the link it worked nice site too

The only thing that is still being done to the TII is the custom fabricated plenum for the TB's and whatever parts were already in my hands. Casio was nice enough to sell me his spare set of Series five tail lights so I could restore the original tails on the 89 TII and I have gotten it a pair of S5 TII mirrors and the new ignition lock/switch is going on today. I will be swapping the TII guage cluster over to an N/a unit because the TII will use a 1.5 BAR Greddy Boost guage and I want a stock Volt meter. I'm also working on getting it the missing fender it needs. Also to go in are the new white side mouldings and stock side marker for the fender and the ones that were bent up before. The TII will also get a new set of MANUAL windows because I don't like power ones. After all of this is done I will be swapping in another set of carpet because the one that is currently in it is soaked in oil as the idiots at the yard used it as a chemical storage. :mad:


As for me I am likely to return in a little bit better force during the summer months as I will have less of a load on my back and more time for the cars.


Santiago