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Re: how about a real V8!

To: DANMAS@aol.com
Subject: Re: how about a real V8!
From: Mike Lishego <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:56:30 -0700
DANMAS@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 97-09-23 13:19:52 EDT, Spook37211@aol.com writes:
> 
> > I saw an interesting car the other night....it was a Miata with a Ford
> >  smallblock.  The engine had aluminum Twisted Flow heads on it, so the
> weight
> >  was probably around 400 pounds or so.  Since it also had a supercharger on
> >  it, I suspect that it produces considerably more than 200 hp; I might add
> >  that it made a very nice package.
> >  I don't know if this engine/trans would fit in the B's compartment, so you
> >  might be limited to the old Buick engine.

Actually, my well of useless knowledge runs deep.  Mazda will actually sell you 
a 
conversion kit to swap your Miata's 4-cyl engine with a 302.  Or, so they told 
me 
when truck shopping last year.

-- 
Michael S. Lishego (Who didn't buy a mazda)
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Elementary Education Major,
English Minor, Class of 1999
R.A. of Winston-Salem Hall

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