Quote:
Originally Posted by dvldoc  A 2 quart for a miata should last a good little while do to the nozzle size you would use. |
Rate of consumption... That's sort of the unknown for me right now. I already have your kit, bought a progressive with a 3 GPH nozzle as part of WideOpenTuning's group buy over on MiataTurbo.net. It's not installed yet since I decided that with the extra bulk of the controller wiring I really needed to re-do all the wiring in the center section of the dash to clean things up. It'll probably be a week or two before I have time to finish the install, so right now I don't really have a good idea what my liquid consumption rate (quarts per week) is going to be like.
Pictures attached. You can see that it's a very tight engine compartment. Ignore the blue fuel pressure regulator mounted to the firewall, it doesn't need to be there. That's pretty much the space I have to work in, and you can see that the shock tower eats up a lot of the lower portion of it. The wiring and the stubs from the A/C evaporator can be moved around / eliminated if need be.
The plan for now is to use the stock washer bottle, which is normally located in the upper-left, attached to the side of that black fuse box. It's not there in the picture because I removed it to measure its capacity. Came out to approximately 1.75 quarts. So a 2 quart bottle won't really get me much extra. If the 1.75 quart tank that I have already turns out to be adequate for a week's worth of spirited driving (maybe 100 miles), then I'll just leave well enough alone.
Many of the 1'st gen Miata folks have taken to installing gallon tanks in their trunk, but this is my daily driver and I really need to keep that space available.
I wish I could just fabricate a tank out of aluminum, but I suspect that even at only 20-25% concentration (washer fluid) the methanol would not do it good.