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Another small project I've been working on this winter. The stock miata intake manifold has a bunch of ugly casting marks on the runners, ports that I'm not using and some connections for smog. It generally just looks pretty ugly.
So I got a grinding bit and got to work. Took out the big casting lines on the rear runner, took out the smog connection at the rear of the manifold.
Mid grinding.
After taking out some of the bigger chunks.
And took out the big blocky casting marks between each intake runner.
And I picked up a valve cover from a mazda protege which will let me run exposed cam gears.
Sent everything out for powdercoating. So far just the intake has been finished so I threw that on. And while everything was apart, I polished the throttle body and painted some of the intercooler piping that was getting scratched up.
The color is tomic black with gloss clearcoat.
Should look alot better when I get the valvecover back.
Oh and a quick teaser. I'm ditching the rotas and ordered some real wheels. Took 2.5 months from order to arrival.
Got some tires on them already.
So I got a grinding bit and got to work. Took out the big casting lines on the rear runner, took out the smog connection at the rear of the manifold.
Mid grinding.
After taking out some of the bigger chunks.
And took out the big blocky casting marks between each intake runner.
And I picked up a valve cover from a mazda protege which will let me run exposed cam gears.
Sent everything out for powdercoating. So far just the intake has been finished so I threw that on. And while everything was apart, I polished the throttle body and painted some of the intercooler piping that was getting scratched up.
The color is tomic black with gloss clearcoat.
Should look alot better when I get the valvecover back.
Oh and a quick teaser. I'm ditching the rotas and ordered some real wheels. Took 2.5 months from order to arrival.
Got some tires on them already.
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