Need more umph in a MX-5? Shoe horn a LS7 into it. That should sort it, right?
Oh, absolutely. You just go ahead and give GM a call and suggest putting their most powerful engine in to their competitor's car. Lemme know how that turns out.
you'd think so, but you're pretty wrong.
the LS series of engines is actually pretty light and keeps the weight way down low. This has been debated thousands upon thousands of times in the RX-7 community when guys do V8 swaps, there are definate advantages and not just for drag racing. a lot of autocrossers, road racers and even drifters do LS swaps with very good results. I'm only against it because I'm in love with the rotary, so I consider it blasphemy to speak of such a swap.
Hot Rod magazine did a swap into a solstice and it still goes around corners just fine.
and again, you're wrong. I know exactly what you're talking about, but the actual results vary from the various bits of internet bench racing people do.I said Miata not Sky/Solctice.
and again, you're wrong. I know exactly what you're talking about, but the actual results vary from the various bits of internet bench racing people do.
Putting that big of an engine in a Miata is a big mistake. Even with it being all aluminium it is much to heavy and destroys the balance of the car. That is like the stupid people who put 5.0 and 5.8 liter Ford motors in Miatas.
Better off either turbocharging the stock miata motor or doing a rotary swap.
Educate yourself. The LSx series of engines weight LESS than 1.8 lt cast iron block used in the previous generation miata/mx-5. Almost ever LS Miata swap keep the car's 50/50 weight distribution. LS1TECH forums: Miata LS1 swap , LS1TECH forums: Miata LS1 swap post #28The few V8 Miata swaps I have seen were horible hack jobs. Granted I have never seen a LS Miata swap but I can't imagine it would be that much better. I guess with enough money you can make anything right though.
Well, you brits actually bought the Rover Street Rover, no one else in Europe did. (joke)
or on the flip side, perhaps the europeans just want to bag on US cars.Basically, every European review of it I read said it had terrible NVH, handled terribly and had a crap engine. Every state-side mag I read loved it! Does motor trend do bribery often?
Educate yourself. The LSx series of engines weight LESS than 1.8 lt cast iron block used in the previous generation miata/mx-5. Almost ever LS Miata swap keep the car's 50/50 weight distribution. LS1TECH forums: Miata LS1 swap , LS1TECH forums: Miata LS1 swap post #28
This was the first shake-down of the car at a Auto-Cross, so it doesn't show the true potiential of the car, imho, you would need a proper track curcuit for that. Also the car seems to be a little under tired, but iirc he has since put 245/45R16's on the rears.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxFDtDwBVN0[/YOUTUBE]
GM Slave cylinder with a home made adapter to get the hydraulics working.
I have no idea why these images, that I coded as images, are showing up as url links.
Oh, absolutely. You just go ahead and give GM a call and suggest putting their most powerful engine in to their competitor's car. Lemme know how that turns out.