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Originally posted by WarWagon
An iron headed 5.0 with all of the swap materials should add no more than 250 lbs to the front. Take off a good bit more if you consider aluminum heads. If you're serious enough to drop a v8 in a miata, you're sure as hell not going to leave the front suspension alone, so it's not particularly difficult to make this car handle comparably to what it did stock.
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I was not implying that they left the suspension alone......if you do this kind of swap and dont touch the suspension, you are a fucking jackass.
And 250# is a lot of weight to add,
especially when youre talking about a car that only weighs 2200# or thereabouts in the first place. Adding 250# to a car that already weighs 4000# isnt as big of a deal, but 250 is around 11% of that measly 2200. Big difference.
Now if you swap in a turbo rotary instead, you should actually
lose weight, as well as lowering the car's center of gravity, since typically rotaries sit very low and arent all that tall.
I dunno....just what I would have done if I had this guy's time and money. I'm a big fan of keeping a Mazda all Mazda and a Ford all Ford. Automotive cannibalism just isnt my thing. Its still a cool swap, I guess.