Project Miatabusa Part 17: EVO II is Finally Here!
Project Miatabusa #17 Miatabusa EVO II is Finally Here! by Dave Coleman If you’re one of the 6 people in the world who isn’t familiar with this car, step back,…
Project Miatabusa Part 16: What’s that noise?
Project Miatabusa Part 16: What's That Noise? by Dave Coleman First things first: Where the hell has the Miatabusa been? There's a complicated string of excuses involving…
Project Miatabusa part 15: AEM Data Logging (and some RC plane parts)
As we inch ever closer to getting Project Miatabusa on a dyno, more and more unfinished business keeps revealing itself. Ok, the car starts and runs now, but it still…
Project Miatabusa Part 13 – Sweet Sounds and Donuts!
Project Miatabusa has been dragging on for a long time. So long, that our comment section is filling up with impatient demands to hear this baby run and…
Project Miatabusa part 14: The home stretch
Hope you enjoyed yesterday's tasty donuts. Now here are a bunch of details that have delayed the making of stinky donuts: At the end of the aluminum exhaust fab project, we…
Project Miatabusa part 12 – Why You Can’t Make Aluminum Exhausts, And Why I Did It Anyway
Project Miatabusa part 12: Why You Can't Make Aluminum Exhausts… And Why I Did it Anyway. by Dave Coleman From exhaust port to tailpipe, project Miatabusa's exhaust system fabrication has…
Project Miatabusa Part 11 – Shorai Lithium Iron Battery (and Lots of Plumbing)
Project Miatabusa Part 11 Shorai Lithium Iron Battery (and Lots of Plumbing) by Dave Coleman Odds are pretty good this is the first Miata in history to have its battery…
Project Miatabusa part 9: Thank God We Finally Found a Starter!
Project Miatabusa, Part 9: Thank God We Finally Found a Starter! by Dave Coleman This seemed like a problem with two easy answers. The Miatabusa would need a starter. Miatas…
Project Miatabusa Gets the Shaft!
Project Miatabusa Gets the Shaft! by Dave Coleman The last time any of you heard anything but excuses about Project Miatabusa was January. I almost can't believe that myself. The…
Project Miatabusa Part 5 – De-Powering the Steering Rack
Project Miatabusa Part 5 – De-Powering the Steering Rack By Dave Coleman That's right; this installment of Project Miatabusa has nothing to do with putting the engine in…
Project Miatabusa part 7: Mounting the Gauges
Last time we looked at cramming the Hayabusa's instrument cluster into the Miata housing, it proved to be a shockingly good fit. There was a very large unresolved issue of…
Project Miatabusa Part 6 – The Wiring Job From Heck
Yea, well, it wasn't really the wiring job from Hell, but it was damn near the wiring job from Purgatory, considering how long it took me to get around…
Project Miatabusa Part 4.3 – The Intake Manifold
This week's half step toward 11,000 rpm Miata madness is a good solid head start toward making a workable intake manifold. Starting from virtually nothing, the fertile mind and ghettofabrication…
Project Miatabusa part 10 – Tubular Subframes and Engine Mounts, Oh My!!
Project Miatabusa Part 10: Tubular Subframes and Engine Mounts, Oh my! by Dave Coleman In July, 2010, we posted Part 2 of Project Miatabusa and proclaimed, in a very carefully…
Project Miatabusa part 4.2 – Hacking the Hayabusa Harness
Next up in our pile of partially finished projects is making the Hayabusa's engine harness fit properly in the Miata. The Hayabusa is fuel injected (not always an obvious thing…
Project Miatabusa Part 4.1 – It goes to 11(,000 rpm)
Project Miatabusa is progressing on several fronts, with wiring, fuel delivery, induction, exhaust and subframe projects all happening in parallel. With three guys spread across so many projects, none…
Project Miatabusa Part 3 – Let the Weight Weenieing Begin
Project Miatabusa Part 3: Attack of the Weight Weenie by Dave Coleman Project Miatabusa's theoretical claim to Awesomeness doesn't come from power alone, but from the unique combination of…
Project Miatabusa Part 2 – The Engine Is In!
Project Miatabusa – Part 2: The Engine Is IN! by Dave Coleman A few short months ago, when we introduced project Miatabusa, (part 1 is here) it was little more…
Project MiataBusa – Part 1: What The Hell Are We Thinking?
Project Miatabusa – Part 1: What The Hell Are We Thinking? by Dave Coleman With all due respect to the rest of the project car stable, this is destined to be the…