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  Jan. 25, 2012 12:10 a.m. Keith SuperDork

  Hey, the rabid FM worship was earned through a lot of hard work!

  There have always been options on the market. None have been plug-and-play - the Fuji ones were pretty close, but had little surprises such as fuel lines that weren't rated for fuel injection pressures but were labelled in oddball metric units so most people wouldn't notice until they blew out. Most of the others leave the hard stuff like idle control or air filters out. I've got a set of TWMs on the shelf in the garage that are just looking for an excuse to be used somewhere, though. They have a very yummy throttle linkage.

  The ones we're testing on the 2.0 I mentioned have one big advantage over others we've looked at - a burly flange with integrated airhorns we can use as a base for a pressurized plenum

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  Jan. 25, 2012 7:59 a.m. 92CelicaHalfTrac SuperDork

  peter wrote:

  92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

  Not to cut out fm's business, but if you want itbs right meow, they're already fairly easy to find.

  Meow I understand what you're saying, and I try not to buy in too much into the Miata world's rabid FM worship, but I just don't have faith that a site with 10,000 pieces of JDM Miata bling will stand behind their IRTB product, or has the technical know-how to back it up. I might go that route eventually, but an FM product would make the decision much easier.

  Thanks for the short threadjack, you can meow go back to your regularly scheduled programming.

  I can certainly understand that thought process.

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  Jan. 25, 2012 8:01 a.m. 92CelicaHalfTrac SuperDork

  Keith wrote:

  Hey, the rabid FM worship was earned through a lot of hard work!

  There have always been options on the market. None have been plug-and-play - the Fuji ones were pretty close, but had little surprises such as fuel lines that weren't rated for fuel injection pressures but were labelled in oddball metric units so most people wouldn't notice until they blew out. Most of the others leave the hard stuff like idle control or air filters out. I've got a set of TWMs on the shelf in the garage that are just looking for an excuse to be used somewhere, though. They have a very yummy throttle linkage.

  The ones we're testing on the 2.0 I mentioned have one big advantage over others we've looked at - a burly flange with integrated airhorns we can use as a base for a pressurized plenum

  Heh, no dig meant at you guys.

  I suppose i should have realized that with FM, it would be a 100% comprehensive kit, which would make sense.

  The Jenvey kit is pretty close i think, but like everything else, there's other things you need to source, figure out on your own.

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  Jan. 25, 2012 8:36 a.m. MG Bryan HalfDork

  Keith wrote:

  Hey, the rabid FM worship was earned through a lot of hard work!

  There have always been options on the market. None have been plug-and-play - the Fuji ones were pretty close, but had little surprises such as fuel lines that weren't rated for fuel injection pressures but were labelled in oddball metric units so most people wouldn't notice until they blew out. Most of the others leave the hard stuff like idle control or air filters out. I've got a set of TWMs on the shelf in the garage that are just looking for an excuse to be used somewhere, though. They have a very yummy throttle linkage.

  The ones we're testing on the 2.0 I mentioned have one big advantage over others we've looked at - a burly flange with integrated airhorns we can use as a base for a pressurized plenum

  You guys don't exactly seem like you're slaving away when you're at work I mean, hell, your customer support is always genuinely friendly and never seems disterested... it's almost like you like what you do and take pride in doing it well.

  Why do you tease us with thoughts of 2.0L turbo Miatas with ITBs though?

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  Jan. 25, 2012 8:51 a.m. joey48442 SuperDork

  I wish there was a FM branch in SE Michigan. Id spend all my time working there, and ten spend my paychecks there...

  Joey

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