Miata Mailing List: June 1995, Message #97
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   From: TAKAHARA@aol.com
Subject: Re: Bell Aerodyne anyone? (kind a long...)
   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 03:47:54 -0400

Today, I've spoken to Mr. Corky Bell.  He called me regarding on my questions
that I sent him.

I've found out few informations that wasn't on the written writeups.

First, bad news.....  Aerodyne or non of the turbo/SC's currently offered by
anyone for 94,95 models are not California Legal!!!  They've only approved on
pre 94s.  Since no one has these approved chargers, no one is going to do
that... Mr. Bell said... :-(
  However, these Aerodyne for 94, 95 will be able to pass the smog check
without going through any trouble Mr. Bell said.  Its just that Bell
Engineering never botherd to get a California emission aproval. (its quite
costly too)
  Aerodyne was made for 94 octane, although it works perfectly well with 92
octane if you purchase a MSD Ignition system for $200 more.  Or you can
retard the ignition timing by one extra degrees.
  Mr. Bell told me that This upcomming Begi S/C is truely the most state of
the art Supercharging system he has yet seen.  This S/C has so much boost
even from low end, it will have no lag at all, (he said even at 1000rpm, you
are getting about 3-4 lb of boost!)  He said he was serious about
highperformance unlike Eaton, and he said this BEGI S/C will give you the
most out of SuperChargers.
  .....but still I'm not too interested on either SuperChargers.... :-P
  I'm thinking.... I guess if you can pass the smog with no problem, and you
can disable the Turbo in about 2 hours, I could live with illegal turbos...
 besides, which Cops will know that I have Turbo and its illegal?  I don't
think any cops will  (Unless some cops read my postings here.... :-P)
  And I could probably get away by saing that this unit is legal (Well, pre
94 it is...) and I can just tell them to check on D-349.  :-)

  Oh and this 94 and up Aerodyne turbo system comes with everything including
Intercooler, High flow fuel pump, Turbo, pipings, headers, and etc. etc.
except for "Free flow exhaust" (Which I'm sure I'll custom make one out of
ultra flow or something) and "MSD Ignition system" for $200.


Gotta save up my $$$.....  :-)
Jay TAKAHARA
94 White with ACTIVE Bodykits.

P.S. Much thanks to all of you who has responded to my postings earlier.  :-)