A 500hp V8 Swapped Miata is the Best Idea Ever 

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get a TVR?! :)

@@davidstuart4915 If I could afford to run a 2nd or 3rd car, a TVR would be on the list. A mate at work owns a 4.2 Cerbera it's a death trap, I love it ! I wouldn't risk one as my only car though lol ....

But what of it was a 2900lb EVO?

Modern day cobra was the viper

pnw.yfz350 Viper had too long of a wheelbase

Cade McKee The Corba had a long wheel base too @90 inches (for the time, for a roadster) Ferrari had longer wheel bases, highest of the year was 102 inches on the 330 America The viper 1st - 2nd gen has a 96 inch wheelbase, and the cars was toted as the Modern cobra. (3rd - 5th gen has 98 inch wheel bases)

@@wolfgangkoeppen52 this is way closer to the original cobra, both in spirit and in build. small foriegn car, big American engine, the cobra yes it was a 90" wheel base but it was also fairly narrow. and an absolute monster to drive and a whole lot of fun! , compared to early vipers or even the newer ones (acr and hennessy aside as ive driven both)theyre not even in the same league handling, feel, spirit, cornering they are night and day! a v8 miata reminds me much more of driving a real cobro than the viper ever did. and ive driven more than a few FFR cobras, a couple of vipers both late 90s and a newer along with an acr, and a v8 nb miata

yes! bud youe got that right!

Just check out Flyin' Miata's RU-vid channel

Yea he loved JDM.

@@alexissixela6914 The point is small car with V8

...but with much better handling

It has an active exhaust so you can make it quite.

How about the big sticker down the hood that says LS3 V8 😂

@@robertburton8055 Sticker delete lol

put it on neutral and just roll down the hill when you want it to be a sleeper lolol

@@alphanation368 Ah, you must be an adult. you know what a clutch is. Most of my son's friends have no clue what a clutch is. They have "in my opinion" are bad parents lol

Same.

Manuel is always the answer.

Unless there's an S2000 in the neighbourhood 😁

Mr2

The weight distribution is actually not that different. It's 53/47 for the soft top, and 52/48 for the RF. Stock was 51/49 soft top, and 50/50 RF. And overall the car only gained 300lbs which brought it from 2300 to 2600lbs.

@@jakekiedaisch2279 And if you get the RF and put carbon bodywork on and rehouse a few things, you can easily get the weight distribution back to 50/50.

​@@jakekiedaisch2279 Yeah but it's not just about distribution, you now have 300lbs more weight in the front, on the front wheels. Tho I read the LS3 weighs 403lbs. It's hard to find the weight of a standard MX5, but it's possible that the engine has almost doubled in weight. I know americans love to their V8's into everything, no matter how small, but it must affect the handling, theres no way it wouldn't

@@Ladybirdsin16mm they've braced the entire frame of the car so the chassis is actually stronger and stiffer than before. So because the weight distribution is virtually unchanged, it actually makes it handle even better.

@Alpha Wërks they are really cool, but it ruins the weight balance unless done right and the suspension is entirely reworked and upgraded aggressively. and it is 100% a cheat code , itll make a half ass driver make themselves feel really good and like they can drive anything wich is very dangerous when they get into something that is much much less forgiving

@Alpha Wërks absolutely , theres a kid by me that has one and drives it like a cockwobble, and is just a danger to himself and anyone else with a few hundred feet of him at any given time, but your right it doesn't take much to fix it but most people either don't try , or dont know enough to understand that it isnt right, a good buddy of mine swapped a vw vr6 turbo into his miata and with a little weight balance work i think its how they shouldve come from the factory! its amazing.

@Perry Leduc it really doesn’t change the weight balance much at all a aluminum ls only weighs like 50 pounds more than the steel 4cylinder i had a ls swapped 97 miata and you couldn’t even really feel the difference besides all the power

Perry LeDuc You DO know a “cheat code” traditionally not the only makes something easier. It usually side steps a whole list of things you don’t want to do... Like putting an engine in something that neither the car or the engine was ever designed for.

@@perryleduc1954 What balance? from 49.5/50.5 to 48.7/51.3 The LS3 weights as much as a BP Turbo Stock Engine from a damn NB

And a ton of weight now over the front wheels, possibly near twice the weight. An LS3 weighs 403lbs

yes but needs more power ugh

the ls3 miata is bitchin

I miss mine

They do but it's a $50k conversion.

Yea protip. Miata if fast as it is. If u need to go 1 or 2 second faster. You dont need it

How unoriginal

I been saying the ND RF is perfect for a 26b swap. More power than the LS, just as much potential, about as reliable too. Much easier to rebuild. And weighs less.

If only they used this in there cars stock

*Fiat, yes.

Pissed of dinosaur noises. I love it. Never heard that one before.

It also has LS3 written all over it.