- We're back at the track, baby.
It's been a long time coming,
but the Miata finally has a turbo on it.
(engine roaring)
So we figured it was high time
that we came back to the scene of the crime,
back to Willow Springs International Raceway,
to see if we could improve on our track time results
from last time and whether or not all these mods
and all this money we've spent has been worth it.
I'm Zach.
And this is Turbo Pit, baby.
Let's race.
(upbeat music)
Alright, We've been here before.
Our friends at EAD Exotics
are hosting another track day at Willow Springs.
So we've got the run of the big track all day.
Now, last time we were here,
things didn't go exactly as planned.
We had a few issues with the car,
like we were overheating and my gauges kept shutting off.
So since then we fixed the cooling system.
We've added big breaks.
And most importantly, the PAs their resistance,
we have added the beautiful CX racing turbo kits to the car.
(engine roaring)
- [Eddie] Yeah sutututu!
- So if you've been following along for the last six weeks,
you know that that kit came with everything we needed
to turbo this car save for some fuel injectors.
We got a turbo manifold,
we got a downpipe,
we've got the turbo itself,
we've got the whole inter cooler setup.
We've got the blow off valve
and we added some fuel injectors.
And then we finally dyno-tuned it
to make a whopping blistering insane
(car engine roaring)
227 horsepower.
Now that's almost double,
before that we were making about 120 horsepower.
So the question still remains
whether or not all the money that we spent
getting to that 227 horsepower has been worth it.
And if I'm actually gonna be able to run
a respectable lap time at the track today,
last time I was trying to run a one minute 46 second lap,
but now I've got almost double the horsepower
I had last time.
So there's no reason in my mind
that I shouldn't be able to stop on a 1:46
and walk myself all the way to a 1:40 flat,
maybe even a 1:39.
Those are my goals for today
but to be perfectly honest with you,
as long as I get to put some hard laps in,
and this thing doesn't have any major malfunctions,
I'll be a happy camper.
It's time to see what we got.
So the game plan is
I'm gonna head out and I'm gonna do a few shakedown laps,
make sure this thing stays in one piece
and nothing blows up.
Then after that,
it's time to start trying to go fast.
(upbeat music)
(car engine roaring)
(electric music)
and hit the cone, yeah
(electric music)
yeah baby, let's go!
Tamps look, good.
Gauges are still on.
I mean, that's two successful shakedown laps,
boys and girls.
She works.
It all works,
- [Eddie] We got a little bit of smoke.
- Coming out of the hood? - [Eddie] Yeah.
- Yeah so this is the first time
a lot of this stuff's getting hot,
like real hot,
although I should probably inspect.
(car engine roaring)
There's a little smoke smoking.
Well, the car fields so good.
That was awesome.
I had my foot in it most of the time,
I was actually kind of pushing it a little bit
and it ran great.
I mean, it didn't skip a beat.
The gate, just stay on.
We didn't overheat.
There is a little smoke coming from the engine bag.
It looks like it's coming out around the valve cover gasket.
So that would be no big deal,
but I'm gonna need to figure out sooner than later
what's going on.
Also, it looks like it might be pushing out
of the oil fill cap.
And if that's the case,
that means that we're probably pressurizing the crankcase.
There might be some blow by getting past the piston rings,
which is a larger problem altogether.
Not sure what's going on but there is definitely some oil
getting pushed out of this engine
and it's making a smoke.
I think I'm gonna join the
(beep)
club and just run this thing today anyway
and see what happens.
It's now or never baby make it or break it.
I hope it's not break it.
I'm hoping for make it.
Basically what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go out
and I'm gonna make a lap
so I can come across the start line at speed.
And then that's the start of my hot lap.
Christina is gonna be out there with a stopwatch timing me.
So hopefully we get into those 1:40s.
Wish me luck.
(upbeat music)
- [Eddie] Solid click.
- Thank you
(car engine roaring)
(electric music)
(car engine roaring)
1:50:22.
Little slow.
- Give me my time.
Aah!
Alright, I'm going back out.
- [Eddie] But you're smoking.
- Oh yeah.
Dang, all this oil.
I wanna keep running we're getting faster.
Alright, so I mean there is oil coming from
seemingly a lot of places.
Just check the underside of the hood.
It's like wet with oil.
This is not necessarily good.
it's at least coming out around the valve cover gasket,
but that is a lot of oil on the exhaust.
Even the turbo's wet.
Good Lord, not great.
A lot of smoke,
but I think we're just gonna keep running.
So I'm gonna give it one more go, one more hot ass lap
and I'm gonna try to break into the 1:40s.
It's still not the goal that I had in mind,
but you know I'm really good at changing my goals
and sliding my expectations
based on what's happening.
Let's go shred.
(upbeat music)
- 1:50 ooh.
Ashamed of 22 milliseconds.
- You just lied to me.
- No you were so close, 1:50 flat .
- Oh my God.
You couldn't just...
This is in your hands.
(laughing)
- It's not
- You couldn't just hit it a little early.
- It was ann accurate click.
It was a very accurate click.
- Oh my God I just wanna go back out and try again
and again and again.
I know I can run that fast,
but I'm really kind of concerned about the oil.
I gotta check under the hood and see how much is coming out.
Alright so we're still making a lot of smoke
and I still haven't gotten into the 1:40s
so probably be pretty easy to look at today
and take it as an L,
but I'm taking that as a win.
The cars are running great.
We turboed this thing and it's making power.
Yeah, there are still some things to figure out
like these oil leaks, namely,
but that's okay.
We'll get that figured out.
That's just more episodes.
So thank you so much for watching.
Huge, thanks to EAD Exotics for having us out
and having this great track day and letting us come out
and film an episode.
Huge thanks to them,
follow them on Instagram @EADExotics.
Don't forget to follow me @zachjobe.
And of course follow Donut @donutmedia.
I'll see you guys next freaking week.