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Old 04-25-2004, 08:33 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by lemming
so, it can synergize really nicely that whole market of aftermarket tuning for turbo miatas but start with an engine block that has been designed to deal with all of the needs of a turbo engine.
The block is the same as the stock Miata block. From the first one in 1990, they were all overengineered for NA and turbo very well. Strong cylinder walls, low compression, oil squirters on the bottoms of the pistons... a guy in our Miata group has been running 15psi on his daily driver/track 1.6 for several years, and the only thing that failed is the thing that fails on all turboed 1.6s - the differential. The 1.8 diffs can take it.
my new car philosophy is to buy the fastest OEM package that i can and then start thinking about mod's because it's more cost-effective usually. i learned this the hard way, but it always turns out to be the case that the car's limits are usually higher than mine, with some notable exceptions.

so i'd still opt for the mazdaspeed miata because the 'limited' edition miatas with the 6 speed tranny (very worth the money, i think) are up there already in the mid to high 20's. the m-speed package adds so much more for not a lot more $$$. wheels, turbo, the suspension.

it's nice to know that they still make engines that are overengineered, though.
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