The ULTIMATE Miata Cooling System Upgrade: Radiator, Reroute, Ready to Drift! 

Tbh... I love the sound of the birds chirping in the background and the natural display of sound instead of ear raping music. Your channel has a chill vibe awesome you can bring us great content

I never comment on videos, but something about your content makes me feel like a child could work on a miata and do just fine with the video as a reference. Great job Greg and thank you!

those shots between 8:10-8:45 where you were slowly and quietly undoing stuff was strangely soothing

you : this car is gonna be 100% road driven also you : i'm gonna take it to a drift event hahaha good video

can't wait for the drift videos!!

As always man, your videos are informative and fun to watch :D

This RU-vidr from the Netherlands is probably the best when it comes to all things related to Miata.

What a great day. Carpassion channel and Gingium uploaded a video on Miata 😀

great work. love to see all the progress.

A few tips I've found on my car. 1. Loosen the bolts on the PPF on the transmission. Then raise the back of the transmission up to gain additional clearance to work at the back of the head. 2. You can drill new holes in the radiator to move it forward. On my CX Racing radiator I was able to move it almost 0.5 inch forward. I just put some foam between the radiator and the upper core support to prevent rubbing. 3. Be wary of wiring the fans together and running them through a single relay. That's a lot of amperage for a single relay.

"try not to spin this because it is going to go back on the same orientation it came off" god that will be so tempting to spin it

thanks for this well made tutorial. I have been waiting for you to do this. very helpful

Yeeeah finally! Such a great video Greg, you explain everything so well and with so much detail.. Love it! Thanks for making this video!

Greg your videos are clutch, and easy to follow! I just got done with depowering my steering rack. now on to the next one! #brokeandnotboosted

Sooooooo glad this vid finally dropped, thank you for the excellent content, the most informative channel on this site by far!

Thank you for finally doing a reroute!

excellent video! you have taking extra time on the important details and skimmed through the unimportant details really concentrating on the most important things. Love it!

this is only video i asked for the day i found your channel forever ago. FINALLY

Dude this channel is so f’ing incredible.

Yay, finally! Thanks for doing this!

Thanks a lot Greg, I think the coolant reroute will get done on my Miata over the winter before it hits boost for the first time in the spring!

Awesome video. Lots of quality information. Thank you.

Nice, the editing is really good

That M-Tuned piece for the back of the head is really nice, I'm going to be using a block and stock 1.6 thermostat housing cover on top...not as nice but it was cheeeeeppp!

Sweet vid as always bro!

you're videos are awesome man. thanks a lot 👍

thanks a ton man !! gotta do this on my 1.8 here soon to get ready for boost

Great Video Greg! Even though I don't plan on pushing my Miata to the extreme or turboing it, I still want to upgrade the cooling system because I have heard that Miatas sometimes have the tendency to overheat.

Excellent tutorial video, no stupid BS, no clowning around, direct and to the point. Good job, thank you!

Good tutorial. Clean and decisive presentation.

Great video. You make it look easy!

And by the way i love the new ending of the videos!

Holy shit what a coincidence! I was looking to buy some coolant and saw a page explaining how to cheaply do a coolant reroute, and then you upload this 10 mins later hahah!

Another great tutorial. Love how stumbling in someone else's footsteps becomes obsolete when some guy decides to film the path for you. I guess that makes you a cartographer of boost.

I felt confident in trying this out until I heard the term "reset ignition timing." Then I just nope'd the fuck outta that idea.

YES~! It's finally here!!!

Good video, very well explained I think i will do the conversions on my MX

Another awesome job thank you 😊

Very nice lesson. The cab of the car will run cooler as well. (firewall will run much cooler.) Greg you really have a gift for teaching. Thank you Bro.

i have the same radiator the stock fans definately fit. well worth the upgrade!

You are the reason I'm saving up for a 1992 Miata 😃

I wanted this so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️

great video. Another good reason to use that insulating strip around the fan shroud is to reduce vibration noise. ever since putting the stiffer motor mounts in my Miata, the fan shroud has made an awful racket against the radiator. $8 worth of foam weatherstrip tape solved that in about 15 minutes.

thankz for your time and lectures

Great video. Can confirm with the Begi spacer,Kia thermostat housing and a upper radiator hose from a 5.3 Tahoe I think. For a cheap setup the car takes forever to warm up compared to stock and i never see 200F in tunerstudio.

Dope video!

Awesome videos. Love them 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Liking the new video annotation text style, looks much cleaner.

Thanks Craig

great vid! like always

So helpful man, will follow when i do mine (Y)

Great video! Helps alot.

great videos. he makes it look so easy..

Great content man. I cant tell you how hard it is to find someone who puts as much quality into their work like you do.

Really awesome Video Greg! Will try this on my 1994 1.8L soon :) I'll take it onto the Nürburgring Norschleife a Lot next year and the cooling needs to be on spot! :)

Wow I just now noticed your shirt lol, love Molly... beautiful blue Miata. I'm at the point of trying to get by big hands in the back to clean off the last 20% of the gasket to finish the FM coolant reroute kit and I've been diving into old videos......I don't know how I didn't notice the shirt...lmao

another good video and i agree LS1 ignition conversion would be good

Greg, . . You're awesome !

Cool to see you rocking Gingiums shirt, I enjoy his material also. Glad that you covered the cooling reroute finally, just for the simple fact that a lot of people don't realize how weak the OE system is. Even a fully trimmed stock miata with the AC running on a hot day with a non observant driver can end up with a blown head gasket. Like you mentioned there are a range of re-route kits out there as well as radiator and fan combos. Just do research and find what is the best option for your budget and application. Great video quality, STREAM Lights are the shiz, Loved that you took the time to get good clear shots of all the hardware and parts. Looking forward to more content.

Greg, you did an excellent job of explaining how to do this job. Now try that on a Ford 4.6 liter 4-valve engine. You got to pull the heads.

Very well done video as usual! Getting those shots behind the motor has got to be a PITA. This channel is a work of art

subscribed boiii!

I'm probably going to own a reliable daily driver along with a project car. This should allow me to not worry about getting my project car ready in time for work. I have very low expectations for myself when it comes to projects, but I always struggle more than expected.

There's some cars (I think it's jeeps) that come stock that use the "ricer style" fan mounting

you can also wire your air con button to switch on the fans for those on demand emergency cooling moments

done it with this video thank you

Thanks Greg! No worries on the wait. The timing on this video couldn't have been better for me. Keep up the great work!

Now that's cool

loved it

you won't need a timing light if you scribe the position of the CAS

Aye that shirt though! Hopefully I'll be posting miata vids soon too. I have 180k miles and my cam tower snapped. ;(

GET WELL SOON GREG!!!!!!!

Hey if you ever get a chance will you do a video on a miata wire tuck????

you're da real MVP

Yes!

How come you didn't weld the pinion shaft. Jw there wasn't any play in mine. Still put 4 tac welds on to be safe. This video made it easy. Thanks Greg!

Thanks

ive seen this video like 10 times but its always a good watch when im pooping.

This is cool

You inspired me to buy a miata

awesome ... you are truley a scource of inspiration information and inflamation (and bloody knuckles).

you and Tyler fialko deserve more subs

yes ! radiator with shroud = smart +efficiency if only the shroud is larger to cover to the edge of the radiator fins, the top and bottom tower is ok

How is that Radiator holding up, any complaints, issues, or things we should know about before giving CXRacing our money? Once again thank you for the time you take to education the masses!!!!!!

FINALLY!!!!!

dude such a good video the coolant reroute is hella expensive i dont even got money for a splash guard lmaoo but i neeeed one

I'm at 3:57 and am like NO SHIT!? (Then I thought about it and was like NO SHIT!!) Cause I was gunna take mine off cause it's got this funky down-turn at the back mounting area. Dude! Thank you!

Do a face reveal

love the gingium t-shirt

Hey Greg! Do you think you could do a video on how to install ls coils I'm a Miata and get the tach to work? Thanks,

Awesome

YES, YES

I did the reroute on my 02 miata and its still running hot at low speeds. Is this common or so I have an issue? Any and all information would be great.. keep up the good work

thank you from México, can you make a ls1 or ls2 coil conversion video ?

Just a note, if you don't have a timing light, you can simply mark the position of the CAS with a sharpie or pencil and it should be exactly back to where it was before. ;) It is important to remember how the key is aligned, but it's not the end of the world since it was designed to only fit in one way. I forgot and it took me a good 30 minutes to slide the CAS back on, but it did eventually go on and ran like a charm.

Love the video, but I was stunned that you just yanked the spark plug wires without indicating how critical it is to identify each wire for proper replacement.

By splash gaurd, do you mean the plastic undertray?

How big are those fans? The reason I ask is I have Flyin Miata's SPAL fan setup (Stage 2 airflow kit) and they include relays for the additional load, plus I added my own small time delay to help with the huge load from the fans. I ask because I'm not sure the wiring you're tapping into would be rated for that kind of power, especially with both fans on the circuit (stock only has one). It's quite possible you did your homework on this (lower amp draw fans?) I was just curious. Your videos are great, love 'em as a fellow Turbo Miata owner.

Why add those extra points of failure/leaks with all the extra clamps n hoses? We split our (exact same kit) in 2 and also moved the thermostat a little forward.... And that shroud really works... We also grabbed the SPAL (?) fans, and an over-ride switch so I can run them at will....

hey Greg, what are the measurements on all the components of the silicone hoses you're using?