So, Mazda is killing the Rotary again...

[Poodles]

Yeah, the NA door panels are absolute shit. I have to give Mazda credit for improving the creature comforts of the miata without seriously impacting it's performance (well, except for that stupid retractable hardtop).

Here's a link to the pics, dunno why the camera was being stupid and focusing on the wrong thing: http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/viru52000/Miata/

Car definately pulls harder than the NA did, and overall feels like a much better car.

 

[te72]

Nice car man, that makes your mom about 3 points cooler for driving it. How long until FM starts seeing money for it?

I'm tempted to get another one, just due to how incredibly cheap it is to make a really good handling car out of them. Power is the unfortunately expensive part up in the mountains...

 

[Poodles]

She says she doesn't want a turbo or supercharger, but I bet if she had or drove one...she's like it

Power isn't too bad as they take well to forced induction. Or you could drop an LS1 in it...

 

[Master_Spazez]

I actually prefer NA's to all the other Miatas. Granted I've never lived with having a Miata, I just love the "froggy" look they have.

 

[te72]

She says she doesn't want a turbo or supercharger, but I bet if she had or drove one...she's like it

Power isn't too bad as they take well to forced induction. Or you could drop an LS1 in it...

If you happen to have an LS1 laying around, I think it's like $2700-3000 or so for the conversion parts to make things easy. Full on balls out FMII turbo kit is only like $5k now. Not terribly expensive, but to get to the same levels of power as my relatively stock 1j... I guess that's the mindset I'm seeing things from. Down south you really don't need much more power than stock, but up here in the mountains they're rather anemic cars...

I actually prefer NA's to all the other Miatas. Granted I've never lived with having a Miata, I just love the "froggy" look they have.

Having owned both NA and NB, I can say that if I were building one for strictly racing, it would be an NA, but for actually driving and living with it, NB all the way. Definitely froggy looking though. There is even a part that connects under the windshield to the body under the fenders called "frog arms".

 

[Master_Spazez]

Well I'm big on cosmetics if I have to live with a car so knowing the NA's handling and me loving how it looks, and as long as its a 1.8 I'd love the snot out of it.

If its a race car I could give two shits about how it looks as long as it performs.

 

[te72]

Good engine that 1.8 BP that they used in these cars. They like boost, and are stout from the factory, much like the Toyota JZ. Had both of mine north of 10k rpm on accident... stupid super short shifters make 3-4 shifts into accidental 3-2 shifts a very real possibility.:arcadefre

 

[#04]

bo-urhns.....

 

[Poodles]

He, if it's a fuel cell car, it means it's electric and actually has torque :rofl:

 

[te72]

Torque? Bet that's never been mentioned in a thread about a rotary.

 

[te72]

Not sure how to update a thread title, but here's a bit of news on the subject, maybe Mazda's not ready to give up the magical dorito just yet...

http://jalopnik.com/5848193/a-new-m...nd-are-chryslers-really-imported-from-detroit