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  • karburatorMtoMX-5 MiataThoughts on a K24A4 swap?
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    3 years ago

    You didn’t mention what generation you’re talking about, but based on “a more popular 2.5 swap”, I’d guess this is about NC.

    From what I’ve read, putting the 2.5 is a no-brainer: very easy swap with nice improvements in torque and power in the whole RPM range. It’s obvious why it is so popular among the people.

    Now, can you put K24 in? Well, everything is possible, but it’ll probably be much much more complicated. My vote is that you use that engine to play with it to learn stuff and/or sell it, and then you get the 2.5 and do like 98% of other swappers did.





  • Anyway, if you’ve driven multiple cars, which one(s) have you loved the most?

    I’ve just sold my (well not mine anymore :')) NB Miata this morning.

    I had it for three years and it’s the car that “started it all” for me:

    • I met one guy whom I barely knew who also had an NB Miata, then the other one, who also had a friend with a Miata, and yadda yadda yadda, we now have an unofficial Miata club, we regularly go on drives, we hang out, help each other with car repairs, etc.
    • My girlfriend and I went on so many road trips and enjoyed every minute of it.
    • This car also re-ignited my passion for cars, so thanks to it, at some point I also bought my childhood-dream car: EF Civic (and I’ve sold it a year later; even though it was my childhood dream, it was pale compared to the NB).

    Today I’ve sold my NB, but I will always remember it and all the good times in it.

    (But don’t worry, I’m still driving a Miata — NC2 :))





























  • Lemmy.ml is overloaded

    But that is (hopefully) just temporary and they will fix/scale it to work with all these new users coming in.

    have explicitly stated to use other instances

    I thought that was just for creating new user accounts (but I might be wrong). E.g. there are five new posts in last 8 hours and lots of comments, so it seems to be working fine.