RE: Mazda MX-5 GT road car concept

RE: Mazda MX-5 GT road car concept

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Builder

1,225 posts

241 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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FlyinMiata, 949 Racing, FastForward Superchargers... How fast do you want to go? To say money = HP is redundant.

There are guys at the track with 400HP in their Miata. Sure, they go through transmissions, diffs, and axles, but who cares. In the U.S., you can pick up an engine and trans at "the Breakers" for $400...allows for comparatively affordable experimentation with boost (out of my budged, mind you)

The V8 swap is cool...so is the less-than-gorgeous 1,400# MEV Exocet. Put a V8 in that with some big meats and some aero!

Riknos

4,700 posts

203 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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What kind of work was done to achieve that power? And how much will they charge to do the same to mine? 160BHP isn't enough for me, but I don't fancy spending £5k on the BBR upgrade!

K2MDL

2,673 posts

218 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Riknos said:
What kind of work was done to achieve that power? And how much will they charge to do the same to mine? 160BHP isn't enough for me, but I don't fancy spending £5k on the BBR upgrade!
Its actually nearer £7k with the VAT now, totally mad. I would love to get more power out of my MX-5 but no way at that sort of money, however good it is.

3000GT ANT

347 posts

155 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Crap.......... Yep i said it, its crap!

Robstar111r

97 posts

160 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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I owen a 2010 mk 3.5 sport to which I've up graded a few bits, Eibach springs, Milltech exhaust and K&N filter. Short of putting a straight through race manifold on it to acheive 180bhp, which would fail and MOT. Or spend 6K - 7K on the Cosworth super charger, what else is their. I would like to see a tunning company to come up with a cheaper, reliable NA option looking to make 200bhp as an after market option. So Mazdaspeed or Jota/other company, can we please have this. Oh and I want on of those splitter's.

KM666

1,757 posts

182 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Robstar111r said:
I owen a 2010 mk 3.5 sport to which I've up graded a few bits, Eibach springs, Milltech exhaust and K&N filter. Short of putting a straight through race manifold on it to acheive 180bhp, which would fail and MOT. Or spend 6K - 7K on the Cosworth super charger, what else is their. I would like to see a tunning company to come up with a cheaper, reliable NA option looking to make 200bhp as an after market option. So Mazdaspeed or Jota/other company, can we please have this. Oh and I want on of those splitter's.
Throttle bodies perhaps? There must be a kit around by now.

coogy

955 posts

210 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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3000GT ANT said:
Crap.......... Yep i said it, its crap!
Why is it?

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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OK, if you believe that more power and a crashy suspension always = more fun. They may have made a superb job of this, but it's all too easy to balls up a fun little car by trying to turn it into a one trick power pony.

jeffw

845 posts

227 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Robstar111r said:
I owen a 2010 mk 3.5 sport to which I've up graded a few bits, Eibach springs, Milltech exhaust and K&N filter. Short of putting a straight through race manifold on it to acheive 180bhp, which would fail and MOT. Or spend 6K - 7K on the Cosworth super charger, what else is their. I would like to see a tunning company to come up with a cheaper, reliable NA option looking to make 200bhp as an after market option. So Mazdaspeed or Jota/other company, can we please have this. Oh and I want on of those splitter's.
Since this car is NA and makes the figure you quoted this could act as a template for you...

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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griffdude said:
That Mazda 2.0 is a cracker. It's the same as fitted to the Morgan +4SS & is a cracker. Better internals than the std Ford offering & will rev to 7700 out of the box.
Next MX-5 will have a SkyActiv engine

jatinder

1,667 posts

212 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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I Like it!

daveco

4,122 posts

206 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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It looks great but a Boxster 2.5 would cost you less, give you a better noise and better handling too.

Before it explodes, of course.

rotarynutcase

8 posts

154 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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I think Mazda have had Jota play with the head and a few other tweaks, exhuast alone is worth 5 bhp over standard apparently and it will be warrantied if it does go pop.

richb77

887 posts

160 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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I REALLY like this. Shame i cant get into one frown

thewheelman

2,194 posts

172 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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richb77 said:
I REALLY like this. Shame i cant get into one frown
Why can't you get in one?

garypotter

1,483 posts

149 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Captain Muppet said:
Hairdresser.

I've had an MX5 for 5 years, so I'd heard of him before.
I am just clearing up the coffee i have spit over my desk, brightened up my day
thanks...


ps the future bright the futures orange and all that but I am starting to like orange cars now, maybe I am watching to much THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX!!!!

ZesPak

24,422 posts

195 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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thewheelman said:
richb77 said:
I REALLY like this. Shame i cant get into one frown
Why can't you get in one?
Length?
I had a friend who always wanted one, but couldn't properly fit into one without opening the roof.

mizx

1,570 posts

184 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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I like this in principle, would love to have more power from mine, but I'm sure not the arches work as well as on the Super 20. The wheels look a bit odd too IMHO, get it on some 8" +45-ish offset wheels and some 235/40 rubber and it'd look far better.
KM666 said:
Robstar111r said:
I owen a 2010 mk 3.5 sport to which I've up graded a few bits, Eibach springs, Milltech exhaust and K&N filter. Short of putting a straight through race manifold on it to acheive 180bhp, which would fail and MOT. Or spend 6K - 7K on the Cosworth super charger, what else is their. I would like to see a tunning company to come up with a cheaper, reliable NA option looking to make 200bhp as an after market option. So Mazdaspeed or Jota/other company, can we please have this. Oh and I want on of those splitter's.
Throttle bodies perhaps? There must be a kit around by now.
I think I read somewhere that throttle bodies aren't possible, cams are probably the way to go for NA tuning. Cosworth and Tomei both make cams for the LF-VE/MZR, neither are particularly cheap, I'm not sure where you'd get the Cosworth cams but SRB Power stock the Tomei cams. Integral Kobe in Japan are running 220ps with Tomei Poncams and some other internals work (would love that splitter and other carbon bits if I had any idea how to get hold of them smile), they've also got a car with the 2.3 block running 226ps. I think they're running their own cat'd manifold on those cars too.

PPE Engineering in the states make cat'd manifold, so it's legal for certain autocross categories. Not sure why they mention the state legality and later say it isn't street legal, so who knows what implications it might have if imported here. It's expensive too as far as I know, but I did read on Miata.net that Good-win Racing are working on their own cheaper version.

You see more younger people driving NCs now so hopefully we'll see more products here soon. I contacted Moss about some parts from the huge range Moss USA have for the NC, they neither seemed interested in supplying them or answered my question whether they'd be stocking more products in future, they'll have one less customer when they do.

Edited by mizx on Wednesday 27th June 15:12

thewheelman

2,194 posts

172 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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ZesPak said:
thewheelman said:
richb77 said:
I REALLY like this. Shame i cant get into one frown
Why can't you get in one?
Length?
I had a friend who always wanted one, but couldn't properly fit into one without opening the roof.
I'm 6'3" & fit in them with no discomfort, ok I can't fully straighten my legs...........but that's the same with many cars.

richb77

887 posts

160 months

Wednesday 27th June 2012
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thewheelman said:
ZesPak said:
thewheelman said:
richb77 said:
I REALLY like this. Shame i cant get into one frown
Why can't you get in one?
Length?
I had a friend who always wanted one, but couldn't properly fit into one without opening the roof.
I'm 6'3" & fit in them with no discomfort, ok I can't fully straighten my legs...........but that's the same with many cars.
Well i am 6ft 5in and used to play rugby (getting the image?).

I sat in one once (a late Mk1) and can understand the appeal except i could'nt drive it... Having to peer over the windscreen and the tiny (10") steering wheel jammed into the family jewels meant I couldn't operate the pedals or reach the key!