Well this is how it looks at the moment

[mx5ash]

Boot lip spoiler fitted




And the link ecu is installed and car is running. Not done much tuning on it yet and Dave is going to make me a nice cross over pipe.
Been out for a quick play this evening and I will say so far the car is running pretty sweet. Seems to pull better, throttle response is faster and it seems over all to be faster. Also sounds pretty sweet.

Install so far












Man i have a lot to learn!!!!!!

[MX5Steve]

very nice!

[leamyj]

Hi Ash. Looking good
I assume you'll be able to hide the ribbon coming from the controller?

The lip spoiler..How is it attached?

Oh Yes..how much are Benson & Hedges paying you to advertise their product on our forum?

John

[mx5ash]

Yeah the ribbon will be hiden under the centre consol eventually.
Spoiler is stuck on with 3m double sided tape. seems to be pretty firm. Time will tell if it flys off at high speeds but i doubt it.
B&H i wish the would sponser me. Good knows i spend enough with them.

[fabfiveferg]

Great work Ash. You have been a busy boy

[Stig]

Nice....nice and well, nice Ash.

[Steve]

Lookin good Ash! Where you thinkin of locating the air filter eventually? Must look for a pic of the setup I had pre-turbo, t'would be great to put a scoop just straight out from the intake manifold to get the "over the radiator" air..

Steve

P.S. That a fuel door matching engine oil cap ??
P.P.S. Do a datalog and send it on so we can see where you are pretuning..

[mx5ash]

Cheers steve, Never noticed that the oil cap matched, it came with the car but now you say it....
Not sure re intake, pics of yours would be great. Gonna meet up with Dave and see what he could make up for me.
Can't get the link to communicate with the laptop. Have a usb adaptor which when plugged in finds and installs the drivers but when i try to connect in pclink it keeps saying cant connect.
Any ideas??
Might try the work laptop in the morning as this on is running vista and other one has xp.
Also done a bit of tuning last night just to see but planning to do the seg fuel injection tomorrow so will have to start again.

[Steve]

Which do you have exactly? A USB link connector box or a serial box with a serial-to-usb adaptor?

see info below
Steve



Author: Bill Cardell
Date: 2005-04-12 00:36 +100
To: Russ, Bryan Downs,
Subject: RE: USB --> link ecu connection
I was wrong. Our website is correct, Link's is wrong. They stopped selling the USB link and just supply serial link with usb adaptor, like we do.

Bill Cardell (TurboDog's Dad)
bill@???
Flyin' Miata
1-800-359-6957 (sales only)
970-242-3800 (tech support)
http://flyinmiata.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Russ [mailto:lists@???]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 5:30 PM
To: Bill Cardell; Bryan Downs;
Subject: Re: USB --> link ecu connection


Ahh. It must just not be up on the web site yet.

Russ


On 4/11/05 3:50 PM, "Bill Cardell" <Bill@???> wrote:

> we already sell it..
>
> Bill Cardell (TurboDog's Dad)
> bill@???
> Flyin' Miata
> 1-800-359-6957 (sales only)
> 970-242-3800 (tech support)
> http://flyinmiata.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Downs [mailto:gokart4130@???]
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:31 PM
> Subject: USB --> link ecu connection
>
>
> Well I went to look at the link site per Bill's suggestion to compare it to
> the chassis ear thing mark mentioned. I noticed on links site they had
> something I thought was pretty cool.
>
> http://www.link-electro.co.nz/comlink.html
>
> Its like the serial link, but you can use a USB cable! Now this wont help
> me any since I have a tec2, but I thought maybe there might be some of you
> guys that, like me, have a nice newer laptop they would MUCH rather use to
> tune thier cars than an old cheap one they bought because their new one
> didnt have a serial port.
>
> Just a FYI thats its available. I wish other ECU makers would catch onto
> that trend
>
> -Bryan
>
>

[Steve]

BTW, might be worth running this past Frank to see what he did, fairly sure his is USB (mines serial).

RTLink is worth a download, see here :


Stan Mahaffey's RTLink utility includes a little utility that shows the
available com ports and which are in use - very handy for trouble-shooting
USB to serial convertors. You can download it here:

http://www.flyinmiata.com/support/RTLink.php

Once it's up and running, it integrates seamlessly with Data Log Lab to give
you real-time tuning information and then after the event log analysis in
Data Log Lab.

Glenn
Data Log Lab Support
www.dataloglab.com

[mx5ash]

Its a usblink connector box. Have a serial box as well but no serial port on pc.
Cheers for the link i'll load that up and have a play tomorrow.
This looks interesting for the intake.

[mx5ash]

Oh i wonder how Daves fabricators are!!!

[Reesy]

Hey Ash, well done mate and BTW I like the seats. Never noticed em before...

[Steve]

Oh i wonder how Daves fabricators are!!!

Thats the image I was looking for! Interesting to see the little filter put on the pipe that comes from the left of the intake manifold , didn't know you could do that..

[mx5ash]

Nor did i till you pointed it out.
Was down at daves this evening looking at what could be made up in the way of intake.
That little filter could solve a problem.
Think we are looking at something like the first picture i posted.
Still can't get the laptop to work with it though.