{"id":405,"date":"2010-06-10T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2013-09-15T15:09:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T22:09:35","slug":"out-of-the-ordinary-sz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Out of the ordinary @ SZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity sometime last year to tune a Miata that had a turbocharger hanging off its exhaust manifold.\u00a0 Boost can really make a &#8220;chick&#8221; car that much better.\u00a0 This Miata was running terribly bad and we offered to lend our services to make it even better.\u00a0 On its first visit the turbo was running off the base wastegate setting of around 3-4 psi.\u00a0 We cleaned up the ECU maps\\settings (Megasquirt) and ended up with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatabasetunelowboost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-406\" title=\"Miata Baseline Before and After\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatabasetunelowboost.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatabasetunelowboost.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatabasetunelowboost-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>You can see how bad it was running (green run) to a much improved performer (red run).\u00a0 Boost peaked at 3.8 psi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-407\" title=\"Turbo Miata\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So fast forward and back up to last month.\u00a0 The customer purchased the add on boost solenoid for more well, you guessed it&#8230;&#8230;..boost!\u00a0 Once you have a taste its like crack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatamoreboosttune.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-408\" title=\"Miata MORE BOOST!!!!!!!\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatamoreboosttune.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatamoreboosttune.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miatamoreboosttune-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Needless to say this thing hauls for as light and nimble as it is.\u00a0 The boost gods can rejoice.\u00a0 An increase of 5 psi for a total of 8 psi.\u00a0 Specialty-M?\u00a0 J\\K!\u00a0 Zs rule!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-409\" title=\"Miata Tuning\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miata2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity sometime last year to tune a Miata that had a turbocharger hanging off its exhaust manifold.\u00a0 Boost can really make a &#8220;chick&#8221; car that much better.\u00a0 This Miata was running terribly bad and we offered to lend our services to make it even better.\u00a0 On its first visit the turbo was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dyno","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}