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Old 09-16-2019, 03:11 PM   #338
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Originally Posted by John V View Post
Probably not a bad idea.

So I called the local salvage yard (Condon's, up in Westminster). The guy who answered the phone was curious what I was doing with a 2.5L Fusion engine and a 2006+ Miata automatic transmission, so I gave him the 30 second spiel about the car and he knocked $50 off of the engine and $40 off of the transmission and waived the core charges. I thought that was pretty cool.

So... why the automatic transmission?
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Originally Posted by Nick M3 View Post
Bell housing cut, or are you going two pedal?

Edit: seems like you could do fun things with a torque converter on a car that never sees street time, or gets run for more than a minute or so at a time.
That's awesome!

Jericos don't come with bell housings?
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