91 Miata Ka-T project
91 Miata Ka-T project
Just a few pics to start out...
Yup! A 91 Mazda Miata with the power house 1.6...
Yup! A 91 Mazda Miata with the power house 1.6...
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1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
Now.... my new engine for my new project....
Coolant hoses packed full of corn from some measly rodent....
Lot's of work, but it sould be fun!
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
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Welll, i have all the stuff sitting around to turbo it, so thats the plan.
50 trim .48 A/R, ANOTHER custom manifold, megasquirt, blah blah blah...
I think it would be fun to try and autocross it with the stock Ka, it would be nice to have a little midrange in a miata, i'm not a fan of the BP or the B6.
Goal is 300 whp, 300+ lbft.
50 trim .48 A/R, ANOTHER custom manifold, megasquirt, blah blah blah...
I think it would be fun to try and autocross it with the stock Ka, it would be nice to have a little midrange in a miata, i'm not a fan of the BP or the B6.
Goal is 300 whp, 300+ lbft.
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
Just a teaser.
We actually have the KA in the engine bay now. I did some measuring and found out that the KA is 2 inches taller than the B6 that was in it.... Should be interesting getting the engine low enough to get the hood closed.
Also started fabbing a lower intake manifold just because I had the material sitting around. Next weekend the plan is to fab up some mounts and get started on the oil pan and pickup tube, all of which I would like completed before the end of the year.
It's hard to fit it all in because the car is over 200 miles away, but we'll get it done by spring. Should be a pretty straight forward project, except for: DSM CAS install, oil pan, pickup tube, rearend, etc.
I'll try and get some more pics next friday.
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
what if you fab the motor mounts to sit lower...question is did you modify them already?
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The mounts are going to be completely custom. The problem is that the Ka has the sump for the oil pan in the front (crossmember in the back), and the Miata has the sump in the rear (crossmember in the front). So, the oil pan has to be fabbed from scratch, as well as the pickup tube, which has to be low enough to not get hit by the crank when the engine is running.... So the options are to either hack up the factory Miata crossmember, or find a way to increase hood clearance...supakat wrote:what if you fab the motor mounts to sit lower...question is did you modify them already?
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
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If I ever blow my F20, I'll have to throw a KA in my S2K
Cool swap idea, you can show all the monster miata V8 lovers how its done.
Cool swap idea, you can show all the monster miata V8 lovers how its done.
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i would vote for hacking the ka pan and extending the pickup at slow decent to clear...i dont like cowl hoods so that would be a now in my book...i wonder if you use hood risers that will give you enough clearance...how many inches are you looking at...[/code]
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would there be enough room to make it a rear sump??
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i just thought about it you think you could use one of the front cross memebers thay use for the v8 swaps?? you could go to miata.net under forums there is power adder section you might be able to see if sombody had already done it. may help some.
i have a seen a v12 packed it the same style miata before.
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i just thought about it you think you could use one of the front cross memebers thay use for the v8 swaps?? you could go to miata.net under forums there is power adder section you might be able to see if sombody had already done it. may help some.
i have a seen a v12 packed it the same style miata before.
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You should be able to get an inch by cutting away the underside of the factory hood, you could get the other inch by modifying the pan or shimming the back of the hood. You could always space the subframe off the unibody and space the mounts from the subframe to get clearance, you would just have to drop the suspension to compensate.
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That was my exact train of thought. I thought about spacing the subframe, hopefully I won't have to. I plan on hacking the hood supports up, but Miata's have aluminum hoods, so I don't want to take too much out. I need to fab a whole pan anyway, so it should be ok, may have to remove some material out of the subframe/cross member like the V8 guys do. We'll see what happens in the next month or so.Jordan Gladman wrote:You should be able to get an inch by cutting away the underside of the factory hood, you could get the other inch by modifying the pan or shimming the back of the hood. You could always space the subframe off the unibody and space the mounts from the subframe to get clearance, you would just have to drop the suspension to compensate.
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
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I did a ka swap into an 85 s12 and the motor sat a tad too high so u could always do what we did which is the easiest way to do it lol.. just make two little spacers that u put under the hood hinge... itll lift up the top of the hood closest to the cab sit a good bit higher... surprisingly its actually a nice efficient way to do it because i think cowl induction is fugly and ghey lol. this actually allows air flow under the hood of ur car and the heat has somewhere to escape... and its actually stylish.. lemme know if u like the idea.. u can use washers or little hard plastic tubes whatever
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hahahahha wtf. failxlitalianstallion wrote:I did a ka swap into an 85 s12 and the motor sat a tad too high so u could always do what we did which is the easiest way to do it lol.. just make two little spacers that u put under the hood hinge... itll lift up the top of the hood closest to the cab sit a good bit higher... surprisingly its actually a nice efficient way to do it because i think cowl induction is fugly and ghey lol. this actually allows air flow under the hood of ur car and the heat has somewhere to escape... and its actually stylish.. lemme know if u like the idea.. u can use washers or little hard plastic tubes whatever
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bwhahahahahahahahah^
Dude this car is gonna be reallly sweet. Liking the cross member. A miata with torque? Say whaaaaaaaaaa. You gonna run megasquirt 3?
Ayyy bra, donchoo know da ish aint formula d legal dawg, days be all, ay mayne, you cant cut dat crossmemebers, bu make sure dats got da flashy litesees to be originaile.
Dude this car is gonna be reallly sweet. Liking the cross member. A miata with torque? Say whaaaaaaaaaa. You gonna run megasquirt 3?
Ayyy bra, donchoo know da ish aint formula d legal dawg, days be all, ay mayne, you cant cut dat crossmemebers, bu make sure dats got da flashy litesees to be originaile.
It's always broken.
Plannin on an MS2 PNP for a 91 Miata and just modifying a few circuits in the factory harness, we'll see how that works out.... I kind of hate the wiring stuff, and just like fabbing. Hopefully a buddy of mine will get the harness sorted out.
Time to get working on the oil pan and rear end swap....
Time to get working on the oil pan and rear end swap....
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
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Finally some progress....
Fabbed up some solid motor mounts, got the pan completed ( except for the baffling), bought a bunch of parts, blah blah blah. It's going to be a lonnnnngggggg spring.
sorry for the crappy cell pics....
Fabbed up some solid motor mounts, got the pan completed ( except for the baffling), bought a bunch of parts, blah blah blah. It's going to be a lonnnnngggggg spring.
sorry for the crappy cell pics....
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
Well, instead of Manufacturing Engineers, where I work, we have Process Engineers....
I have a BS in Welding Engineering Technology, hence the welding part....
Also, I was stranded at my friends shop with only 7018 and a Thermal Arc 95S, so I was actually pretty happy with the outcome, I haven't stick welded in quite some time... lol.
I have a BS in Welding Engineering Technology, hence the welding part....
Also, I was stranded at my friends shop with only 7018 and a Thermal Arc 95S, so I was actually pretty happy with the outcome, I haven't stick welded in quite some time... lol.
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
OH! And a guy at work tig'd up the pan, lol.TinyT wrote:Alright, Im trying to hold back, but I cant. What exactly is a weld process engineer? Are you actually one?
Some of those welds look, well lets just say interesting.
1981 AC El Tigre 5000
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
1991 240 SE KA-T, 5 sp. -Sold
1991 Miata, KA-T - Project
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interesting build ... can't wait to check the end result
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305.7whp, 293.9 lbtrq @ 13psi
305.7whp, 293.9 lbtrq @ 13psi