So it finally happened. My daily driver speed had an engine failure. Rings aligned on cylinder 1. At 176k of hard driving the baby finally had enough…
Or so it thought
Forced to get another daily driver, and unwilling to sell I am now in the position to dedicate panda to the art of racing.
And...
When I do the rear I have to widen the track by at least .5” to fit the RS sub. Might as well go 2” wider right? Go wide or go home
The MAZDASPEED and RS KW coils looks very similar. I wonder if they would let me do a half n half kit
Purpose built road course and hopefully still kinda street legal. I am going to tube at least the lower, cut out the rear floor pan, drop the fuel tank. That way I can set it up to take whatever subframe will match the wheelbase, and have completely custom mounting points for the subframe. I...
The block is 21” long with the belts and pulleys, and with about 33” from firewall to front clip. I’ll have to cut and fab some of the firewall anyway to make the transmission tunnel, how much depends on how far back I want the motor for the weight distribution
Very true, too close and you can’t take advantage of your boost. I’ll take a trip down some gearing rabbit holes and see what I come up with as optimal for track. The amount of godforsaken rabbit holes I’ve gone down, I feel like Alice. Another thing I’m considering is with the silicon nitride...
When’s it’s finished, you’ll know. My career path is engineering so I intend to use this to teach myself, take my time and do it right. RWD hatchback Porsche killer.
Like this Awa? L337 that’s another reason I didn’t want to go with the Miata, as I’m fairly certain it would be harder to find...
Smogged till I sell it, so as long as my names on the pinks it won’t get checked
Fully built DISI engines can handle 500+ easily, 88mm bore Mahle 2618 Pistons, eagle conrods, keyed crank, ARP studs, crower cams, decked, bored, 8th port, BSD, new springs, retainers and valves, ported and...
Yes but then I’d miss out on those beautiful MS3 body lines. And RWD hatches are the shit. I’d love to use RX8 parts though
The Miata transmission would work for the 2.3? I wasn’t thinking mustang motor I would stay MZR and use the trans since it’s RWD. I’ll check out the focus thanks for the...
Been thinking about a rwd swap. 2.3 stang transmission, have to do a lot of custom fab for the rear suspension, fuel cell in the trunk, motor mounts. Relocating the exhaust routing would suck but once that’s moved and the fuel tank you have good routing for the driveline. turbo would be cooler...
The VVT write up is super easy to follow. I did it in my garage by myself. Edge has a complete VVT kit with the chain and tensioner, all OEM parts. Definitely worth doing it all at once.