Update!
The epic journey was a success with no hiccups whatsoever
we drove over 2000 miles in 3 days without a single problem in the miata
we went from Phoenix AZ -> Grand Junction CO (for dyno tuning) -> Kansas City, MO, to St. Louis, MO, then home to Murray, KY
30 hours in a miata is torture, but the scenery was amazing, i will post pics on the previous mentioned website some time this week
the car put down about 260WHP and 257 FT/Lbs at 5500 feet elevation on 91 octane gas, so the initial estimates of 300 hp are very close due to the home of the car being close to sea level, and on better gas, we still have some final tuning to do, but the car is very fast.
Bill Cardell and the Flying Miata Crew should win medals for their support, if you are a miata owner BUY parts from them, they are awesome
the Rototest dyno they had was being fussy, so Bill arranged some dyno time at the machine shop that done all the headwork on the motor, they had just got the dyno and it was still kinda buggy, but we eventually got the car basically tuned and dyno'ed . we had to retune the boost/wastegate setting here in ky cause we are 4000 feet lower in elevation. The Flyin Miata crew (
www.flyinmiata.com) were awesome, Long live turbodog
the odd points on the trip were, we seen a plane crash in utah (personal small aircraft) seen the presidental motorcade in st louis, and anough small animals were ran over to make a nice buffet, luckily none big enough to cause any damage. i seen a ferrari 575 in scottsdale az (i have a pic of the behind) along with two 355s, and two maserati spyders! the salt flats in utah were cool, but the mountain roads in colorado were breathtaking (ill post pics sometime)
i will be moving to the mesa az area outside of phoenix friday, so if theres any JB worlders in the area let me know!
Also, Valentine One radar detectors are the best, hands down, it saved our butts about 60 times lol