Welcome to another episode of mighty car mods proudly supported by 'Just Car Insurance' in this episode
We continue the turbo conversion of Martin's Miata M - X - ...that's a five
so last episode we got the car in there, we
started building things, Turbo-Yoda started rotating turbos,
We were doing front mounts VL style like this dude here,
Dude Madd, VL Style, the appearance of vl is not happening (PANTARA VL BOOM)
(muttering) not happening. What do you mean "not happening"?
Were not putting a VL style intercooler on my madd miata!
I'm just saying they are awesome cars
We continue last episode was massive is almost half an hour long this one is just about the same and we've got a whole lot
of things to do like plumbing in water and oil and
Building pipes and exhaust and all sorts of other Madd stuff we awesome up!
Give me a piggyback out of here to the closest tofu hotel! Yep that one (crash scream)
That was my (a$$) sorry
last time on Mighty car mods
We finished our mad turbo Manifold
Rotated our forester turbo got our oil supply and return line mounted the front and got a bunch of supporting mods ready for boost
Choo Choo! The manifold fix the engine perfectly and the turbo is sitting exactly where we want it.
Now it's all about plumbing it all together and making it work. Exhaust an intercooler pipes are next on the list
So we're talking earlier about our Ecu, and that needs a couple of inputs so it can calculate
how much fuel to put in and two of those inputs one of them is that that's an air temperature sensor
It's a standard general motors one that people use for a lot of aftermarket Ecu's that needs to go
just before the intake so we're going to put it in
to the pipe that's come there now air has already gone through the turbo being pressurized and being cooled so that is the actual air
temperature going into the mode which what is what it needs to know.
This wiring is going to run all the way around the motor and over
to where the old air flow meter plug used to be we chuck that air flow meter in the been quite ceremoniously
We're going to just um
jump those wires
Into there which sends it straight into the Ecu which saves us doing some wiring then the only other thing
We've got to do is run some vacuum line now the vacuum line goes under this spare bung here
That's going to get stuck under there
we're going to run it right through the engine bay through the firewall using a grommet that we've already got and is being drilled
that goes down to where the mega squirt Ecu goes and that's got a map sensor built in we plug it in and then we
Start it up. [Moog speaking] Well
we've still got to make a dump as well Martin
Don't we? Yeah and some intercooler piping and you know. [Moog] and we got to put some oil in it. [Marty] I'm getting excited
Yeah, I'm getting excited too Martin. I wanna start it now. Yeah, I don't start it now
That's not good. Yeah, but it will be when we do Martin
Turbo for the week
Our turbo install is coming along nicely, but there's still lots to do people
We need to get our exhaust adapted to fit the turbo dumb pipe that we haven't made yet
Wire in new Sensors, change injectors, fuel pumps, and lots of other mad Choo-Choo enabling things
Turbo-Yoda and DOS-Vader are using their combined knowledge of
Millions of Years of turbo experience to show us some mad custom methods
If you aren't using a plug-and-play system
Now would be the time to run your Ecu wiring loom to the firewall or to splice the factory loom at the floor
I've got it Martin!
Congratulations!
so they seem to have been modified for another purpose before, had some outlets on a little face in the wrong way, so we've
cut them off, got some scrap out of the bin, just gonna weld that on there, so it suits the car a bit better
((Music intensifies -Blair J))
now we've got to make a
dump pipe
Yeah, how does one make a dumb pipe?
so we're going to cheat a bit because
We don't have much time so I've got this old flange plate with just a single hole in it
i'm just gonna use that, and put some stainless on the end of it yep, so
Push the heater hose out of the way a little bit cause it was going to contact it
get a bit of clearance got plenty space now, so we just gonna
(grunting)do this
Awesome. (Alan struggling) so lets say that's where we want it. and it will fit
and then we eventually just reduce that down to our two and a half inch exhausts That's right.
Al was telling me that he turbo-ed a fire truck
literally the fire guys were like trying to get up to fires and away from fires in their fire truck and they get to a
hill with like you know nine tons of water, and they did what any responsible person should do in turbocharged there thing?
And they did! they rang up AM Auto and said: "hey dude,
we can't get up hills to put fires out" and Al goes: "no worries", and then like a week later
They like rang in: " this is incredible, we can get up hills" There's a fire ((ST CHOO CHOO CHOOO))
Yeah, how good is that? that's awesome!
TURBO-YODA (he's the turbo yoda)
Martin it's the moment of truth. I've been waiting a long time for this a good day. What you've been waiting a long time
to steal the turbo off my old Forester?
Yeah
..and put it on a good car? Is that why we did the whole like turbo swap thing just so you could have this? (Sheepishly) Might be.
This turbo certainly will do well dude dragged around my slow Forester There were romances in that car even. Yeah? Yeah, one night when i was by
myself and umm many good times and
now they're going to go into this car hopefully for some more good times
and you can have some romances with a fellow or a woman or anyone you like in this car!
I just want to have a romance with my turbo. Yeah, well yes look at it
Yeah at the moment the moment that ever it's going on Martin. it's going in
There it is have the line fitz am I going to hold it Martin you can hold my nuts and unlike the Garrett turbo
Yoda tells us, you don't even need spanners to put this on Martin just finger tight
Know you can put it on just with a socket Martin. you don't need anything else. Yeah, Martin, This is Subaru making love
With the Mazda a very small very boring creole engine. This is so good
It's it's an old man getting new balls. You know that you know that. We're actually increasing its efficiency
It's more efficient with a turbo on it. You know it probably is but that sounds boring though. I just want to hear it.
I'm going to talk about efficiency and how like Necro-Mancers are much more efficient because
for the same
Capacity for the same potato faced monkey enthusiasts what you're using more fuel and all this that that's what everyone talked about with Turbos isn't it yeah?
Dude, this is going to be awesome Yeah man
Turbo too small for a Forester, Too big for a Miata. Yes, it's Perfection look at it
Literally there. and look at it's rotated awesomeness. Yeah, I think we need to cut to that shot again
of Turbo-Yoda with the choir singing in front of the fan
TURBO-YODA (he's the turbo yoda)
Madd, how good is that?
Okay, so the turbo is on and that's pretty exciting
It's going to enjoy a new life on Marty's Miata Mx-5
Roadster machine where he's going to love many men and women and the occasional animal as he takes them for a ride
umm, this here is the oil feed that we need to lubricate the turbo, so this here is going down
uh, straight out of straight out of there straight out of that hole that was already provided to us by
By Mazda which was very very kind so that's literally just going straight on there
um, that is going to make sure everything spins and is nicely lubed up then the oil return
Is going down in the bung that's going into the sump
um, this here. We've lubed up one end of the pipe
We're going to put the bottom on first because otherwise it gets very difficult so lube this up
And then we're going to stick it in the bottom Martin of the bung which is right down here. It's like a it's up
It's going to be a little bit of a little bit of a tricky one mate because there's a lot of pipe in the way
But I'm going to force it into the bottom
Okay, here. We go. I'm putting it in Martin
That's in and then just going to bring this up to here. We're going to cut this
Cut this here and then that's going to be going on the return here
And then we've got a lubricated turbo Martin, which means it's going to Spin fast and juicy
Fantastic Martin Fantastic (Al) Where is that other one?
Where's the other clamp? I'll just get it for you. Thanks
I'm going to send it down the thing put your hands down so near your (GoAtSoUnDs)
This is awkward isn't it I'm glad this bit never made it into the video me, too
So good with the maddy one. I'm not coping with our loss and matters
I'm really excited Martin. So we're not running a boost controller
We're literally just running the wastegate pressure which on this turbo is around 7 or 8 PSI. So that is our boost controller
we're literally just going to put that there the other end in the turbo later on if we want we can snip that and we
Can put a t-piece in there or we can run that into an electronic boost controller or we can even program the boost pressure
with the new Ecu that's going to be in Marty's madd Miata so that is our boost control that's cheap
That's probably 20 cents worth of rubber, and that's about as much fun actually there's more fun
You can have with 20 cents worth of rubber
But in terms of your car, that's about as fun as it gets it's Gonna be awesome
Next up Marty is welding up a custom a dump pipe. Fo-shizzle
Our turbo oil feed is attached to the turbo. Which is now bolted firmly to the engine next up
We've got to make up our dump pipe. Which TURBO-YODA (he's the turbo yoda) lets Marty have a crack at himself
Let's have Yoda come and have a look and give it a score out of 10, this is nervous man out of 10
And I want you to treat it like he was a real student and give it an actual score
Does it improve or get worse at any point?
no, that's pretty good, pretty spot-on out of ten be honest
Nine yes, no, I thought I was expecting a six
It looks like like dimes and stuff isn't it the dime stacking thing everyone's always on about? not really because you're not filling it
Oh, oh, dime stacking is like
Aluminium welding Hey Marty, quit while you're ahead man. You've got a nine. yeah, nine nines good
The dump pipe is marked measured measured again, and then cut and welded it's tricky
But it needs to be perfect to get around the rest of the engine Bay parts
Hey it looks like you've got a better weld than i did. no i didn't Martin, you've got a nine out of ten Martin
You've got a nine out of ten Martin There's nowhere to go from there. Go in grace. Turbo-Yoda what's that look like?
Mean judging off a small one be honest. That's really good. seven?
Yeah, we'll go with a seven. It's not really
I'm not the judge, but it's good
for a first-time it's
about an Eleven for a first time. Eleven for a first time! BOOM
((The majestic sounds of rage quitting the 90's pc game: Quadrillion))
((Fade into some classic Blair J music))
The fines for not running a catalytic converter a huge and Captain planet
Doesn't like it which means he's going to land his foot in a hole in your body somewhere and MOST of you are not going
To enjoy it our dump pipe is 3-inch. So we're stretching out some 2.5 inch pipe to three inches to attach to the Dump
Up until this point. We've TIG welded everything, but a MIG welder comes in handy underneath the car for takking together pieces of exhaust
This is the last remaining piece of the exhaust for the MX-5 it's got a wideband bung in there ready to go and our hundred
cell cat all that's left to do is to weld that up and we can put it in and the exhaust is completely finished
We can move on to other fun stuff
Now that the turbo can expel its use gas just like
Rainbows out of the butt-hole of a unicorn (TM) we need to weld up the intercooler pipes
This is done in much. The same way by using a variety of bends to clear the various parts in the engine Bay
It's time-consuming but gets the most mad custom results
Everything is tack welded and checked on the car before it's all pulled apart and tig welded
((Elf passing through a colander))
so all the plumbing to get the exhaust gas in and out of the turbo is done we also have to plumb in water to the
Turbo it is water-Cooled
So we're going to tap that off from the side of the block where there's a bung it fits the same size fittings at our
Turbo which is awesome
So that's going to go on one side of the turbo then we're going to t-off and return it back into the cooling system
And then our turbo will stay cold!
We tap line from the top radiator hose sort of side of things and run from the bottom
So the part of the water pump circulates it through the turbo cool
With the turbo water lines installed we can fill the engine with fresh oil
It is possible to use factory injectors
But they're known to run out of flow when boost is added Subaru injectors and other common Japanese injectors also fit with some slight
Modification they are more modern and have a better spray pattern as well as flowing much more fuel
Now a lot of this stuff is optional
But we're also swapping the factory fuel pressure regulator for a rising rate unit of a 1JZ
It adds extra fuel pressure to compensate the intake being pressurized by the turbo
There's only one pipe that should be blown and it's not an intercooler pipe
So we're rolling the ends of the pipe with a join (bevel) to prevent blown inter-cooler pipes because they're not mad the finished pipes are
Then installed underneath the car and the exhaust can be fitted up along with the all-important Wideband oxygen sensor
And I was talking about a flute if you're wondering
Now at this point the car would still start and run if it had its air flow meter the flow
Characteristics would be changed a lot because of the extra exhaust and intake restriction
But you would be able to start it and move it around off boost
But there's no point in trying to boost it as the stock Ecu has no reference to positive pressure and would either Misfire or worse
Lean out and explode the engine which sucks ass. That's why an aftermarket or programmable Ecu is essential
It's time to see we can make this fit this
a plug-and-Play
Ecu like this one as a socket that is exactly the same as a factory ECU they are usually
Configured and have a base map on them which means you just plug it in and tune it
While Marty gets it set up Turbo-Yoda swaps out the 200,000KM old fuel pump for an aftermarket one
so our
Mega Squirt Plug-And-Play, I'm sure would be plug-and-play
If it actually powered up our particular one doesn't that's what you get when you um buy seccondhand stuff.
Luckily we have this left over from our Daihatsu show car that we never actually finished or wired in
so luckily this MX-5 now get a brand new
Haltech Sprint 500 Ecu which everyone here is really happy about it actually cheering saying. Thank you
Because they're really good tune. So we're going to shove [this] in
And then do some SKIDDDDS
Next time on mighty car mods
We install the aftermarket Ecu turn the car chuck it on a dyno and enjoy all the goodness of the Choo Choo!!
This is a whole new experience applied with hard ones before but I've never played with one. That's been be really yeah