Does anyone have any good links to tech support and advice on a swap for a 90 miata?

 

I know someone has information on a swap for a miata?
Any help? Please!

 

Great idea, that's all I can tell you. I want to put a rotary into an 87 Porsche 944, and I'm running into the same trouble you are. We'd probably see almost the same performance gains as well. But anyways, can't help you, but very interesting idea.

 

I remember seeing a Miata with a 13B one time in either SCC or Superstreet. Does anyone know what issue? I looked back through but don't see it.

 

I rode in one with a 13bt in it. It was fast. The guy who built it owns a shop in sacramento ca. or around that area.

 

all i know is that supposedly mazda might release one aroudn 06? rumors i guess haha

 

www.rotarymiata.com

Not a street car though.

 

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/search...by=&sortorder=

sleeperrex-- i am going to go out on a limb here....you didnt use the search function before poting this question did you? i know its hard to do, and many people think they will get quicker answers than doing a little searching. sometimes that is not the case.

 

Actually, I did use the search but didn't find any useful information. Most of the threads are about the next gen miata that may have a rotary.

 

call mazdatrix. They've done one. 562-426-7960

 

the shop in sacramento is checkpiont motorspots. I think its in rancho cordova. Try info I don't know their #. You could also try a web search. I saw the miata they did and talked to them about it they were pretty open with info. Give them a call. The problem with the swap is all in the front crossmember. You can get the motor to bolt to the tranny and making motor mounts is not that big a deal. the plumbing and wiring is easy enough. That crossmember is a problem. a rx7 carries its motor higher in its chassis. so with a miata you run into clearence problems with the crossmember and steering rack. their are two ways to deal with this 1ry sump=expensive 2:hack the hell out of the crossmember and move steering rack=flexing chassis and bumpsteer. The miata's not a stiff chasis to begin with. the later is what checkpiont did. they charged the guy something like $11,000 for the hole enchilada. He supplied the car.

 

umm, there have been a few done down here in OZ, there is one featured in the latest HOT4s magazine I believe, maybe there will be info on who did the conversion at www.HOT4s.com.au

good luck with it though.

 

From what i've read about a little history of the rotary in some recent car mag, Mazda purposely put the steering rack in the way of a rotary engine. They didn't want people buying the less expensive miata only to drop a 13B in it, they thought it would steal sales from the FD. So they had engineers rework the steering to put it purposely in the way to make it wicked hard (yeah, i'm from massachusetts) to put a rotary in the car
-Jeff

 

I thought "wicked" was canada? (J/K)

 

wicked is definatly something a masshole would say. ( not saying Jeff is an ***) its just an expression used when someone from Mass is driving and cuts you off. probobly cause they were drinking *beeear* from the *packy*.
damn...typing an accent is hard. so is spelling the word accent (did i get it right? )

 

F*ckin eh is what Canadians say

 

dose anyone know a site that tell you step by step how to install a rotory into a 2nd gen miata?