Posted: April 21st, 2006, 1:30 pm
The Miata kit is pretty much a straight bolt on. There is a guy around here with a B5-ZE putting out some where around 170 WHP at 8psi with the Rage B5 DOHC 4 to 1 header for the 323. Actually the way the Miata kit is make is to your advantage the outlet points to the passangers side which make the most direct path to a FMIC which is something missing with the original Miata kit. The first time I saw this done was back in the mid-late on a (8V) 1.6 SOHC 323.
As a side note I have been playing with a small industrial engine S/C that is about a 1 bigger that the stock A/C compressor. Instead of importing a complete compressor from Europe. I just had a Chantele plug the cad dimensions into their 5 axis wood mill and had a MDF mock up made. For test purposes I'm fabricated a mounting bracket using an old style OE Mazda A/C bracket left over from one of the scrapped KL's. There is no intention to design or make a kit for the K or B series even though I have about 90% of a full bolt-on kit that was mocked up about 6 years ago for a KL. Right now the goal is to produce a kit for the FS-DE and L series engine since there is enough of a market to make it worth the time and effort to manufacture.
As a side note I have been playing with a small industrial engine S/C that is about a 1 bigger that the stock A/C compressor. Instead of importing a complete compressor from Europe. I just had a Chantele plug the cad dimensions into their 5 axis wood mill and had a MDF mock up made. For test purposes I'm fabricated a mounting bracket using an old style OE Mazda A/C bracket left over from one of the scrapped KL's. There is no intention to design or make a kit for the K or B series even though I have about 90% of a full bolt-on kit that was mocked up about 6 years ago for a KL. Right now the goal is to produce a kit for the FS-DE and L series engine since there is enough of a market to make it worth the time and effort to manufacture.