Rasc’s RS Ltd

[Rasc]

Well after the fiasco that was Photobucket ruining my miserable excuse for a build thread over on Nutz I’d thought I would start one here.

The car was purchased in August 14 from Joe (Madda) and the original advert described it as thus:

Which means as standard it comes with:
15” BBS Wheels
Kevlar Recaro Bucket Seats
Yellow strut brace
Torsen differential with a nice high ratio
Air conditioning (fully working!)
Central locking

Chassis:
Tein Super Street suspension
Cusco roll bar with large spreader plates
Cusco harness bar

Brakes:
Brembo rotors all round
New green stuff pads front and rear
Wilwood Dynalite 4 pot front calipers
Flyin Miata big brake kit on the rear

Engine:
Low mileage mk2 engine
Begi log manifold
Big front mounted intercooler
Custom made downpipe with braces to engine block (prevents common issue with turbo mounting studs working loose)
Garrett 2560r turbo
Rx7 injectors
Custom stainless steel exhaust. (Sounds fantastic, not load but throaty)
Bailey dump valve
Flyin Miata induction and intercooler piping
Aftermarket clutch
Crinkle painted rocker cover

Exterior:
Mohair roof
Original 15” BBS wheels (10mm spacers to clear the brakes)
Mudflaps

Interior / monitoring / electronics:
Alpine CDE 103BT stereo with bluetooth and hands free microphone
Pioneer component speakers installed with dash mounted tweeters.
Alacantra cover fitted to instrument cowel
Aluminium gear-knob
Sparco steering wheel
Thatcham immobiliser
Motec ECU. Running 7psi and 15psi. (185bhp and 230bhp ish at this stage)
TechEdge wideband sensor and gauge
Oil temp gauge
Boost gauge
Knocklite

Pic of me and my friend Sam (female owner of a black NC) crossing the bridge to Wales to pick up the car.



And pic looking over the Black Hills on the way back to Reading, where I was based at the time.

[Rasc]

Engine shot:



And some runs at Skuzzle’s to check map was not to far out and more importantly no det being heard and about to launch the engine:

[Rasc]

Later on I booked myself back in with Skuzzle for a change of injectors, engine, gearbox and diff oil, a second hand starter and then a remap. Quite a long day as I remember, unknown to me the car already had a set of RC 550 installed which if known would’ve saved me buying the 650’s but hey ho. This was also the day I met the owner of this Forum who was working on his green MK1 supercharged NA. Hi Nick

Some pics to brighten things up:

New injectors from Dan



The clutch



And finally the remap that increased power and torque



All in all a great day and I can highly recommend Nick Skuzzle for any work.

[Horney]

That was a fun day. You not doing any work down this way anymore?

[Rasc]

Jan 28, 2018 22:50:15 GMT Horney said:

That was a fun day. You not doing any work down this way anymore?

I am but on the west coast, Bristol and Somerset based now with Thursday evenings in Reading. Car wise I’m on the hire car circuit so have taken the RS home to Scotland for the time being, if I get myself more settled in a permanent base I may take her back down to warmer climes:)