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Old 03-24-2003, 01:27 AM
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After alot of thinking, I realized a rotary miata is the perfect car for me bacause...



1.Total sleeper

2. rotary+mita=fierce combination

3. unique

4. 50/50 blance and can get less than 2000 lbs



I've thought about it for a while and considered it. My dad is gonna give me the gsr he drives now when I turn 18 and eventually, he'll let me do whatever I want with it and I can sell it for maybe $8,000 which is enough for the rotary miata. I'm a youngster, but I'm not dumb and I know what it's gonna take to get this... blood, sweat and tears. But it'll be great at the end.



By the way, I'm new here, I'll be asking ALOT of questions, I hope I don't bother anyone
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Old 03-26-2003, 08:34 AM
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You didn't try http://www.rotarymiata.com/ by any chance, did you?



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Mmmmm, 98 or later Miata with an N/A version of this mounted in it, sweeeet

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Rotary miata. RX-7's little brother..
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Old 03-26-2003, 11:37 PM
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I heard thats a very easy mod to do. Pretty much like just

dropping it in... I may have heard wrong though//
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this means that it is perfectly fine for me to put a miata 1800 4cyl in my vert? i can get about 220hp n/a out of them..



or should i put a chevy in it?



its a rotary...it stays in an rx7
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Old 04-24-2003, 10:18 AM
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Theres an article in a magazine I have where someone here in Aus did it. Its definetly not an easy thing to do, from memory, it was damn near impossible. If I get a chance I'll post some info from the article up.
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i think a lot of people make it harder than it needs to be. if you cant keep the stock tranny (you can, with an fc bellhousing) all you need are motor mounts to get it mounted



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Some people are just impractical, thats why it becomes such a pain in the ***..
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Let me get some info. My buddy was going to do it a while back instead of putting a TD04 on his miata and we had got some info from 2 different shops that

the mounts are the same, and pretty much a drop in. Granted Im pretty sure you had to keep the tranny for the FC, and do some cutting for the shifter, and also get a drive shaft on some car...



Let me get some info, granted these were drifter shops (if you know about dirfter shops then you know what i mean) so I dont know how good the info was... I can look into it.
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