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LOL

 

I'd do it. It should be a fun car. Who cares if its a girls car. Most people consider civic's girl cars.

 

Working for a mazda dealership now an i would like to do a turbo install on one of these lil cars. The twin cam engine is a good starter for boost. I bet it could handle 10 psi no problem. Fuel control an ignition control would be easy. If you had a buddy who could rewire it to a honda ecu then infinite tunning. The ecus are not programable from wheat i have read an seen . Had a guy come in here the other day with an older miata an it had a fuel injected 302 with the t5 ford trans.Was a sweet setup an it cleared the hood. Definite sleeper

 

ah snapz is that ssautoshitz? dam i got a 16g in my garage too

 

use it anyway, i hear they make honda manifolds worse cuz they dont care for em? haven't seen to many problems with the manifolds on other kinda cars. wouldn't hurt to try it... either way the miata motor loves boost.

 

yea the only manifold that cracks AFAIk are civic and eclipse
anything else hold up just fine

 

its probably just becuase less people buy other manifolds and every kid on the blocks got a turbo hawnduh

 

ya thats what i figured, they probly sell %80 honda manifolds which is why theres more storys about those ones cracking

 

That mazda speed factory turbo set up is interesting. I wonder if they did anything to the motor there-low compression forged etc. The amount of power the turbo adds is amazingly low tho. A DIY setup would rock.
Erich

 

Go to miataturbo.net - lots of DIY turbos there.
Both the 1.6 and 1.8 are good to go mechanically as-is for boost.
Lots of parts available for HMT Miata build up

Weak spots-
* 1.6 rear goes first- but easy to upgrade to the 1.8 rear using the half shafts and drive shaft- bolts in.
* Next to go is the 5 speed transmission- 6 speed is much stronger and easy bolt-in
* Simple swap to 1.8 also- extra 200cc with same strength- bolt up 99-00 cylinder head to 1.8 for more flow

I have an SSA header for a 1.8 that's been modified to fit a Mazda 2.0 FE. I've got it braced in two places to relieve stress on the welds at the flange- plus a flex pipe. I believe the cracking is due to the orientation of the header for fwd. When a transverse motor rocks it focuses all the stress of the exhaust on those welds at the flange. And that's the weak point of the cheap headers. The big problems with the SSA Miata headers are flange flatness and misalignment of bolts holes.