FSP 1st Gen Protege Project

[Mazda_Powered]

http://www.kingsbornewires.com/product.sc?categoryId=24&productId=1428

i use these on my KL, resistance checked out insanely lower per foot, amazing wires and a decent price! you can get them in 8mm too which i recommend.

[FE3-323]

look up taylorwires. NGK is just another junk OEM bit. short of plugs

[therieldeal]

i am a big fan of my taylor thundervolt wires. they are pretty affordable from summit

[Hadoken]

Do you realize that what you shaved off of the oil pan is a heat sink to help with cooling the oil?

[therieldeal]

i'm sure he does... its an autox car so it only gets run hard for like 1 minute at a time. check out the pictures of his brake rotors...

[XelderX]

Yep, technically the car only runs for about 10 minutes tops on any given day and it usually has a 5 minute break between each 60 second run. Heat isn't too much of a concern. The flywheel and clutch arrived today. The new pilot bearing should be in tomorrow. The only things I'm waiting on now are the spark plug wires (backordered by the way), exhaust gasket, and a plate to mount the coils to. It doesn't look like I'll have a chance to crank it this weekend, but we'll see.

[XelderX]

The BP is now back at home in the engine bay. I was hoping to crank it last night, but I forgot to bring the wiring conversion for the 4 wire TPS with me and I want to make sure I have the injector settings right. I'm pretty sure my settings for the FS-DE injectors are different. My girlfriend is coming over to the garage tonight to help me bleed the clutch and if everything works out she should crank. If anyone out there has the pulse widths and relevant numbers for the stock BP injectors can you please post them up so I can update my maps?

[therieldeal]

Matt Fulghum may be able to help you out with base maps, his MX3 has a "stock" BP with high comp pistons only

[XelderX]

Whew....long time absence from the forums. The last several months have been very interesting for me. I had major trouble getting the Pro cranked with the 36-1 trigger wheel ignition. I've abandoned the trigger wheel setup and replaced it with a Miata ignition system. The big delay came from waiting on the Megasquirt to be reconfigured by a friend of mine for the Miata setup. I've got the Miata coils custom mounted to the passenger strut tower. I got her cranked several days ago, but we forgot to check the Spark Inversion setting in the Megasquirt and it looks like the coils got fried. I've got another set of coils being shipped in so I'm hoping she will be on the dyno within the next week or so.

Wish me luck...this car sure has been a headache so far.

[XelderX]

Oh yea....and I bought a house. That didn't help the car get done any quicker.

[FE3-323]

should be nice hen its all said n done tho!
regardless, glad to have you back posting i've missed you

[cojsl]

congrats on the house, good luck with the car!

[XelderX]

Success guys! The car cranked over and ran for about 10 minutes tonight. I wanted to get the coolant up to temp and check my timing. Everything appears to be working, but she is idling a little high...around 1300-1400 rpms. Plugs look pretty black...time to mess with some fuel and idle settings.

[FE3-323]

still with megasquirt???

[XelderX]

still with megasquirt???

Yep. Idle settings looked good. I'm going to pull some fuel out during idle to see if I can calm it down a little. I've got a dyno appointment Friday afternoon so I'll be buttoning up all the loose ends tonight and tomorrow.