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Originally Posted by rusty76
Glad to see some updates. Sucks about the car not being what you hoped.
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Yeah, I wasn't thrilled about it but now I can put off building the Miata engine from scratch and converting it to suit the fwd setup. This one will go straight in and is identical interally. The small nose crank will hurt it some, I'll end up setting the rev limiter at 7500ish instead of 83-8500 like I'd planned. I'm not wanting to make power past 7500 but the ability to safely stretch it out farther when needed without shifting and without being stuck against a limiter can gain time on the track.
I'm still hoping to find a good deal on a decent XR2 that I can stow away until I find a clean '92/'93 GL Sport to build. I'll swap in the turbo motor and trans, do the same suspension setup as this one, but keep it all 100% factory parts under the hood so it looks like something the SVO team could have put together.