Kinugawa Turbo TD04L 19T 20T for Mazda Mazdaspeed MX-5 Miata 1.8T

The stock iHi turbo in my 04 Mazdaspeed MX-5 unfortunately developed an oil leak and had to be replaced. I went with the Kinugawa turbo because of the fact that it doesnt require me to swap out the exhaust manifold & the Flying Miata downpipe /exhaust. The supplied Kinugawa hardware didnt fit. Had to fabricate & improvise. The Kinugawa turbo sits further back than the stock iHi turbo causing some fitment issues with the exhaust downpipe & cat. Beyond that, the installation was fine. The tune shop who did the installation was able to dyno tune my Mazdaspeed MX-5 to 230HP w/ 230TRQ which is perfect for a daily Miata w/ stock engine internals. 12/12: I’m nearly reaching a 1000 miles on the turbo so far and all is good. The car is running beautifully. I dont beat up on it, running it hard doing a bunch of hard pulls. Ive done a few, not bouncing off the rev limiter, to see what it can do, but im mostly conservative with it. Im really having a good time driving my MSM now. Its fun.