turbo, supercharged, tuning, please sensible advice
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Hi all
Advice needed, I have mx5 2.0 2007 and looking to get some tuning work. I've had the car remapped by skuzzel motorsport, (great guy nows his stuff) free flowing exhaust from the main cat back, with a k&n filter, dyno reads 184hp but the main thing car drives aand feels great. Looking to get some more work done, looked in to turbo and supercharging, remember mine is the mk3 engine not the 3.5 engine, different people are saying weak bottom ends, so jumping from 180hp to 250/260 hp will blow the bottom end, look at the trouble mx5 parts had with there mk3. So instead looking at heads, cams, throttle bodies, and racing beat manifold, with remapping, or perhaps last option, 2.5l engine swap
What I'm asking has anyone out the had any of these mods or parts of these mods, what they really had gained in the real world in terms of hp, or any real problems with rereliability, the head and cams would be from ric wood racing, so has anyone had these fitted, the turbo will be from bbr so again reliability, the car is used every day, also track days here and Europe, I also do touring in Europe like the alps and passes in Italy,
I hope this makes sense
At the moment I'm sitting here getting a full gaz suspension fitted and setup by the guy's at bubble and kick racing in Essex,so will let you how all that goes later
Russell
Advice needed, I have mx5 2.0 2007 and looking to get some tuning work. I've had the car remapped by skuzzel motorsport, (great guy nows his stuff) free flowing exhaust from the main cat back, with a k&n filter, dyno reads 184hp but the main thing car drives aand feels great. Looking to get some more work done, looked in to turbo and supercharging, remember mine is the mk3 engine not the 3.5 engine, different people are saying weak bottom ends, so jumping from 180hp to 250/260 hp will blow the bottom end, look at the trouble mx5 parts had with there mk3. So instead looking at heads, cams, throttle bodies, and racing beat manifold, with remapping, or perhaps last option, 2.5l engine swap
What I'm asking has anyone out the had any of these mods or parts of these mods, what they really had gained in the real world in terms of hp, or any real problems with rereliability, the head and cams would be from ric wood racing, so has anyone had these fitted, the turbo will be from bbr so again reliability, the car is used every day, also track days here and Europe, I also do touring in Europe like the alps and passes in Italy,
I hope this makes sense
At the moment I'm sitting here getting a full gaz suspension fitted and setup by the guy's at bubble and kick racing in Essex,so will let you how all that goes later
Russell
Thanks for the reply lazza
I don't think they changed the engine internal for the aftermarket tuning, but another of mx5 tuners have turned round and said that alot of engines of the mk3 have a bottom end weakness, so it would be interesting to find out if there Many mk3s out there with big power hikes to see if they have had any issues
Russell
I don't think they changed the engine internal for the aftermarket tuning, but another of mx5 tuners have turned round and said that alot of engines of the mk3 have a bottom end weakness, so it would be interesting to find out if there Many mk3s out there with big power hikes to see if they have had any issues
Russell
Hi guy's this is great for a debate, but it doesn't answer my initial thoughts or worries, if I'm looking to spend more than £6000. On a turbo or supercharger is the mk3 upto the nearly 80hp more with out letting go. There must be people out there who have known of others who run these turbos, if so are they reliable with the engine or any other tuning like I asked heads,cams,throttle bodies.
Many thanks
Russell
Many thanks
Russell
This is great getting some good feedback back on turbo kits and it seems the manifolds have seemed to be sorted, and yes there are lots of different car running this base engine with more power, but have the intinternals been upgraded, do the last two who have commented know of any mk3 running turbos or is it only mk3.5 running turbo's
Hi nikpro
Rang blink motorsport they are under the same thought mk3 might not be up it (turbo) it would be better to go for a mk3.5 engine, cams would be OK and another remap with a racing beat manifold. Apparently the mk3 engines don't like to be revd and that's there weak point, even the bbr cam and manifold will only make 200hp at high revs
So it seems there is not much option out there apart from 2.5 conversion with plenty of torque but no high reving unless you start charging cams or a good 3.5 engine then a turbo, they are looking at there turbo own turbo conversion with adjustable boost which sounds great. So if anyone out there know of a really good mk3.5 engine at a good price please get in touch
Russell
Rang blink motorsport they are under the same thought mk3 might not be up it (turbo) it would be better to go for a mk3.5 engine, cams would be OK and another remap with a racing beat manifold. Apparently the mk3 engines don't like to be revd and that's there weak point, even the bbr cam and manifold will only make 200hp at high revs
So it seems there is not much option out there apart from 2.5 conversion with plenty of torque but no high reving unless you start charging cams or a good 3.5 engine then a turbo, they are looking at there turbo own turbo conversion with adjustable boost which sounds great. So if anyone out there know of a really good mk3.5 engine at a good price please get in touch
Russell
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