now i need one for sure.. jus need to work a lil on my fd and than i will start saving for a miata

 

Turbo Miatas are not slow whatsoever...I drove one with the smallest ****** compressor I've ever seen and it was the one of the fastest cars i've ever driven.. It actually felt faster than an RX8 or Mazdaspeed 3.

 

They are so crazy. lets say you have a 94-95 miata... I pulled out what I could from my 95 (which was really just the softtop, spare tire)... When I got it weighted, the thing said 2200lbs... holy ****.

So anyway, im talking from experience: 94-95 miata, 14-16psi, maybe 260-280hp... you will be running low 12s, high 11s. crazy ****. (GT28 turbo)


Getting traction w/o grenading your tranny or rear end is the other story. (hence why people swap turboII rear ends and trannys into miatas. racingmazda.com used to sell a total swap in kit, with custom made driveshaft and mounts.)

 

I saw a stock 2002-style miata at the track this weekend that popped a half-shaft on its first run. Obviously this was driver error but I can only imagine if it was turbo how much worse it could have been.

 

wow... I dont talk ****... but how did he do that??? idiot.


I will say... Miatas DO NOT....






Hey, down here, I repeat...

Miatas DO NOT like wheel hop. Wheel hop will **** YOUR **** UP QUICK, in a miata... I still to this day dont know why... but yea... its true.

 

Miata rotary swap is definitally on my list of cars to build some day. The two were meant to be.

 

I had a 1990 Miata years back, best handling car I have owned. Mine was stock, so it's a little slow.... put on some Yoko and it's hard to understeer. It's fun little car, cheap on parts, tires and maintain.

 

it was meant to be a cheap REAL sports car. It just plain is.




(I too want to build a rotary miata one day.)

 

yeah i can imagine a miata with a rotary siiting in it
will it fit tho?

 

drude. bro. brah. guy.

Yes. it fits. (custom mounts, but yes.. fits better than the stock motor.)

 

i found a working 94 miata with 220xxx is it worth it?

 

he is asking 4k?

 

I say keep looking
There are plenty of low km miatas out there, including five sitting on the lot at my work right now; I just wouldn't recommend buying from a dealer because prices can be too high.
Another thing to watch out for that I thought of yesterday: try to get records of service done and check for any leak repairs to the soft top. I remembered about a year ago having a customer's 2nd gen. miata report the sound of water sloshing around when turning and braking, and we found the drain holes in the bottom of the car at the frame seams (below the door? you know where I mean?) were plugged with rust and we unplugged them, brown water drained out for about 5 minutes. The Apple who repaired the soft-top said there were holes in the drain pockets of the top(in the same location but not visible like the rx7s). Since that one I have seen 2 others.
I wouldn't want to think what kind of rust damage it caused in places you can't even see, and I don't know how easily you can avoid this.

 

doesn't fit better than the stock motor if you gotta cut the subframe :P

there only a handful of guys that have done it

Depending on how they decided to put it in Some try to leave the subframe stock and it sits up on an angle so the driveline isn't straight and some cut the subframe

I'd love to see someone make a kit for the car but currently there isnt much demand for it

A bridgeported n/a with 10-1 rotors in a 2200 lbs car would be alot of fun

I have a spare S5 n/a motor here and I Just missed a deam for a 90 miata for $750

 

I believe Mazsport or something like that made a kit a few years ago. I found it one day just looking around on the internet. Only problem is it cost like 3 grand just for the kit. Fujiracing is developing a more cost effective kit right now.

 

ok, so a little cutting is involved... Still a perfect match!@

 

A lot of 89-90s have a short nose crank problem, so avoid those years. Buy a Miata after 1994 and it'll have a 1.8l BP motor, which is more tunable/stoutly built than the 1.6 B6 motor.

 

Buggy I think Fujiracing has abandoned the project