ITB NB Miata Street Car / Drift Car

June 2024 - October 2024

After a long year of not doing much, Finally added my NOPRO canards to the front bumper and just spent most of the year drifting and streeting. Motor developed low oil pressure at Staggered Motorsports Featival. Decided to pull it and have my buddy drop in a complete MSM motor with some bigger injectors and go back to the boosted life. Forgot how much fun having a turbo in these cars is.

this things rad!

April / May 2024:

Finally got to test out the car with the new Hummelink ITBs and the 3.9 gearing. Long story short, I love it. Car feels well rounded now and isn’t banging off limiter off in 2nd! TEs fit good with the help of some spacers. Also unexpectedly drove Final Bout SSE and got 4th place so that was a nice little weekend surprise. Unfortunately car developed a slight miss and needs some maintenance/TLC and a Túne. Hoping to have that all done sooner than later and hoping to get this to a dyno to wake her up a bit!

Been following the last couple years. Makes me hopeful I can make my car less ugly, more style and hopefully drive more. Just tough as a broke college student lol.

I want to be you when I grow up

Some off season updates (2024):

Made the impulse decision at the end of January to upgrade the ITBs and that started the rabbit hole lol. While waiting for my new set of Hummelink ITBs to come in (Still waiting), I sourced a 3.9 diff from YAJ, and swapped my Tomei 2way into it. The hope is that now my second gear won’t be as short so I’m not bouncing off rev limiter with my six speed anymore. My buddy Jordan also sold me a nice set of TE37 SL's so now I can say I’m part of the TE37 SUPREMACY.

I also happened to buy a 1991 240sx hatch that had a s15 front end I removed, so that’s been taking most of my time as I wait for parts for the Miata to be back on the road. That will probably get its own little thread once there’s something to actually share haha.

man....y'all fancy with your 1.9 itb setups lol. Pray to god of nopro. this car fucks

Here's a 15 minute vid I put together of my FB6 driving. Its raw drifting footage, pretty boring but I know some people like it / like hearing the ITBs.

so much respect for this

Final Bout 6 (Sept 2023): New livery installed, new wheels arrived, and we were off to WI! Trailered the car to Chicago to street drive around and do all the pre meet stuff. Car was running flawless. Drove USAir like it owed me money. Cam sensor was starting acting up so we replaced it and it cleared right up. Words cannot express how happy I was to drive FB6 in this car.

Summer 2023 Highlights: At some point, I took the livery off because I didnt like how loud it was. Wanted something more subtle.

May - August 2023: We got the call to drive FB6. Since we're poor, we decided to help out at our local event, Lock City Drift, so we could preserve our cars for that event. I happened to drive a few events within these few months I had off and drove Palmer Motorsports park for a RSD event, and I drove a round of street series hosted by Lock City. Only hiccup from the car was a bad altenator from driving in the rain haha.

May 2023 Final Bout SSE: Street drove 10 hours to Summit Point in WV. Had a new livery installed for this event. Car never skipped a beat, drove hard all weekend, and drove home. Got 6th place so we didnt know if we would get accpected to go to FB6. Had a great time nonetheless.

March 2023: The season is starting up, aero is freshly painted, 15/16 staggared demon cambers and its time to hit the track! We got accpected for Final Bout SSE this year so we kept it on track as much as we could so we wouldnt have to do much before that event.

Winter 2022 - 2023: Winter was in full swing and it was time to get some aero painted and clean up my bay. Tucked as may wires as I could while keeping them accessable. Sanded my aero at work on my down time and got everything painted by the end of January. Even got to take the car out for a quick photoshoot.

October/November 2022: After a tiring year, I was ready to slow down and start getting into off season time. I started to source parts from JP auctions. Found my GV hood, bumper, skirts, seats, all before off season even started haha. even got some laps with FrontStreet Josh to end my year off right lol.

2022 Highlight Reel:

2022 in a nutshell: Didnt really do much to the car besides buy a Tomei 2way diff, bikini top and change the ITB adapter. Drove ALOT this year. Street drove to Vibes drift in Erie, PA for a weekend of drifitng and it was probably the highlight of the year, even after I hit the jersey barrier chasing my friend Eric. Didnt get into SSE this year unfortunately, but that was the goal for 2023. Entered my first comp this year as well, didnt place but it was nicec to see how my car stacked up with others.

Winter 2021-2022: Car went under the knife and refreshed again. New wheels, ITBs installed and tuned, alignment and a nice reflective livery for good measure! this ITB adapter was ass but did the job. Showed signs of cracking and eventually I upgraded to the one I have now. On the dyno, the most the car made on full kill was 202 HP. After tuning for drivability and reliability, we ended at 193 hp. Tuned on 93 pump gas by Turbo Mike in MA.

June to October 2021: Drove the rest of the year with some occational set backs like a blown diff, broke an axle, and aero flying off but all were repaired within the week thankfully. Car was still my daily up until this winter.