Hey you are talking to serious skill, what can i help you with?

I own a stock 94 1.8L Miata & a 385 whp 6.0L Miata. It’s funny haha

just means you cant use the throttle

I think the world hasnt caught up with the newest engine potential: the gm LV3 (aluminum OHV v6) its the perfect miata swap

Radbug yep exactly. That’s why I drove my stock Miata 4-5 times a week, but the 6.0L 1-2 times a week

First choice has to be 13b!

Mazda been there done that with the excellent, but Failed RX7. Did you "put your money where your mouth was" when they made them? Rotary was not the answer then or now.

Papa torr sounds like one of those guys who just doesn't like rotary engines 🤣 For non-car people, yea, they are absolutely terrible. I mean who the hell wants to constantly be popping their hood every other trip to the gas station to check and top off the oil? That along with ever increasing emissions requirements is what killed the rotary engine... not because it wasn't a competitive engine. As a go fast smile generator, it works pretty damn well. Also, it turns out that as a legitimately competitive racing engine, the rotary does pretty damn good job at that too.

@@quickcooper61sounds like one of those guys who just can't accept rotary reality. Had the industry dedicated a tenth of the R&D money into the German/Wankel engine that it dedicated to making piston engines more fuel efficient it might be a commercial option today. Intuitively, an engine that has parts continuously going in the same direction appears to be a superior design to a piston that moves in one direction then in the opposite direction many thousands of times per minute. Many examples of this in the market where the less efficient design won: Original Apple OS vs DOS. PC won, and PE won. (Piston Engine).

It's INCREDIBLY difficult to 13B swap a miata compared to a turbo BP, K series, LS, or even J series swaps.

so far they havent really talked about the swap i want on my 99. I live in california and i want to street it so ive got to be a little more picky, but that opened my eyes. Seeing the k24 puts out around 260h, i wanted something similiar, and thats how i came to my decision. my swap sposed to be 275 stock, and its still a straight 4. and thats all im gonna say about that

Honda K-Swap or the 1.8L K8 v6?

@@henrikwillamo6287 the 1.8 v6 is pretty weak compared to a K24, even a KLZE (2.5L) will be down on power compared to a K24.

Radbug GM Ecotec?

@@k1ng878 TRASH! GM Ecotrash!

Yo i live in florida if i do that engine swapp i talked to you about the other day in the comments section would you want to review the (mostlikely death trap) unique build?

Oh also, the monster Miata kit is way easier than the V8R kit. No cutting of the firewall or anything like that.

Thanks Taylor, CD009 is a great way to go since the shift quality of the T56 is 💩. Impressive you did your swap so affordably! 👍🏼

Taylor, do you ever wish you would have went turbo k series? I would absolutely love to see someone of your caliber and attention to detail, build such a vehicle.

Well said

The best engine swap is the one that works^*

@@gabemullenpowerlifting2334 coincidentally also being the more affordable option

The best swap is the swap you can actually complete.

Which is?

game changer as in cheaper to swap?

@@chanmanthegreat1429 it would be cheaper not having to replace the subframe

@@kolourblind3124 I still have no idea how much a kswap costs. People say $7000-10000 but kmiata has swap kits for way less

@@chanmanthegreat1429 the swap kit is the least important part of a swap, you neex everything else, ecu, headers, intake, axles, and thing by thing the price goes upwards

@@ulisesavila2879 ohhh

Most likely end up with a cracked oil pan by the end of the session lol.

That problem has been resolved with the Gen 3 oil pan from Mini Tec

@@colinmerry3544 Many posts in the J swap miata group on facebook say otherwise lol

This

Maybe try contacting Rocketworks Sports Cars, they do these turnkey conversions in the US.

Also the Honda V6 as well

@@jewelcoNL I thought they only offered it for UK, but if available in the US that swap is the one I might be doing....its between ecotec or rocketeer if its US possible

Do a V6 Swap

Or Tuning and Aftermarket!

Well inst problem with swaping engine from FWD car into RWD ?

@@lukaskarpisek9659 No, not at all, K20/24s are usable in a RWD configuration thanks to RWD kits. Jinak ahoj:D

Yes. Car Throttle is literally a joke as is his car and as are all of us who’ve watched his stuff

I think the 3.7 in the 370z/G37 would fit perfectly

@@urgayifyoureaddis there are multiple people swapping in the LFX/LGX 3.6 out of the Camaro, (which is a great sounding engine.) Kits are readily available. There is also a kit for a honda/acura V6 I believe as well.

RV6-r32 swap?

@@zeanyt2372 Theoretically that would be really ideal. The power of a V6 with the simplicity of a 4 cyl. But it being a VW, I worry about the cost if parts when stuff do break. They’re relatively reliable, but the cost of the parts are just expensive.

@@devandrasimanjuntak1646 well it's built like the old air-cooled boxer 4. Keep up on maintenance and it's relatively cheap. The one thing you have to worry about is the timing chain and Associated tensioners, any of those fail and you might have a ruined block. In-my-mind regularly inspecting the timing assembly should be part of regular maintenance anyway. So yeah there kind of built like a brick house. Also a great platform for Boost, easily can get over 300 horsepower.

Most definetly they are. I get alot of my bits for my RX-8 from them.

Yep!!! For sure lower to the ground, light, closer to the center of the car, mazda engine and makes good power. Renises, 13b REW and 20b na.

I haven’t watched the vid, but it’s obv. the best swap yea. High rev. NA 13b

@@arrivendrive6831 Too low to the ground in fact. The rotary swap has problems with the oil pan being too low since the output shaft is higher up compared to the BP.

@@dek4de I have no experience in this swap although I do own a Fd. I have seen a few rotary miata engine swaps on youtube and one REW 13b swapped in person. I wonder how they did it.

what do you guys daily drive?

more 1uz miatas!

What ever! The ideal for me is a 240-260 wph! This much is enough for track day, and enough for every day drive!

LFX v6 pushing about 320whp naturally aspirated is quite good for me.

For me, it's got to be the basic stock block turbo miata simple recipe ftw. I still appreciate any attempt made to perfect stock block power out of a turbo miata build. K series >OR=to Built BP >OR=to LS Swap >OR=to LFX swap & ITB Miata is it's own separate category.

All joking aside I bought a pet project my mechanic & machinist buddy built for shits and giggles in his spare time. Lets just say I owned it about 6 months before I sold it back to him lol. SO much fun I just couldn't keep it together. Hes a Geo/Suzuki man, has built a few trackers/samaris (or a mix of the 2 really lol) for rock crawling. Had a 3 cylinder Geo and engine needing rebuilding. He ported and polished the head, intake manifold & even the exhaust manifold. (You can buy peformance Suzuki 1.3 4 cylinder parts, not much for the 3 cylinder tho). Ported the throttle body out as big as possible, so much that he had to weld a piece of an old Alen wrench to hold the injector in the middle. Head and the block were both shaved as much as they could possibly be for compression and the rotating assembly had a total of 7.5 lbs cut off... Thats insane for a 3 cylinder. It was so drastic that when installing a new clutch it wasnt balanced right so I had to go get a spare crank he had cut to match and have the clutch rebalanced to match. Just a nightmare. Yes it made almost 100 hp N/A, and in a 2 door Geo Metro with about 500lbs cut out it was fun as hell to drive. It would rev so fast it would crack the air like a streetbike lmao. Seriously sounded that pissed off and with a 2.5 inch straight exhaust from header back it would pop a flame. Drawback is it was about 1/10 as reliable as my other stock Metros have been tho. You pay a price when you start stretching the rubber band too far lol

The ULTIMATE swap.

what’s the 0-60 srry if thts a stupid question

Isnt the engine setting lower supoosed to help the CG and be better for handling? Lol just asking. Im not familiar with either of the swaps just a general statement

You must be referring to the Mini-tech V6 kit that has the engine too close to the pavement. The new kit from OZ Engineering solves all those issues and retains the stock subframe and transmission with a rear sump oil pan.

4g63 is the coolest swap for miatas

@@johngorgis aren't 4g63 iron blocks tho?

@@lol-ok5sq yeah , iron blocks only weigh about 20 pounds more than an alluminum but are stronger for boost

K swap isnt everything ffs. People swear that's the GOD engine.

Has the problem with turning left been figured out? Matt Farah mentioned it in his review of the K-miata a couple of years ago.

Why is no one talking about the oil starvation issues for track use on the K motor due to the orientation of the engine. it is really known here in California. Otherwise you would see alot more K builds.

Gabriel Rubio Bluetooth oil feed lines will solve that problem

I looked online for the lines and found nothing. I would like a link to send all my friends with blown k motors including s2000s

My imaginary build - An F20C in an NB. Just call it an AP0 S2000 😅

CarThrottle has a Duratec V6 Miata that was built by Rocketeer

All about those jv6's

I'm barely sleeping dreaming about J37 swap... It's such a sexy combo.

LFX yes. JV6 doesn't really fit under the hood height wise and the miata 6 speed won't last long behind it.

LFX > J-series swap. The LFX swap kit is much more refined, and the transmission behind the LFX is designed to withstand the power. The J swap is a cool idea, but the kit is really really rough around the edges and clearance for the hood and oil pan is always going to be a challenge.

#7 LFX miata autocross shootout results limerock.com/sites/default/files/2019%20Autocross%20Standings%2010.22.19.pdf

The production Bullet made in Australia used an MX5 body with custom made front clip to take a supercharged Lexus V8. Awesome

Regular Car Reviews dude drove a 1UZ-swapped Miata in New Zealand... looked like lots of snarly, barky fun :D

oops, replied to the wrong comment lol

Just buy an RX7 they're better looking and still super light.

@@Shakshuka69 Price of an RX7 vs a miata are vastly different. plus any rotary car or motor you get, you will probably have to get all the seals replaced anyway. do the swap but rebuild the motor before dropping it in since youll have to do it anyway

@@mugen91integra you honestly think it's cheaper to buy a clean miata and rotary swap it than to buy a clean RX7? How you gonna have AC or power steering or functioning gauges? You gonna swap to a standalone? Now you're into it another couple grand and your car doesn't want to start when it's hot.

@@Shakshuka69 clean Miata can be bought for 3 to 4 grand. A clean fc rx7 Is anywhere from 9k and up. A clean FD is over 25k. For another grand you can have your AC and power steering and still be under 8k. Chances are.... The AC in those rx7s probably don't work anyway due to age. Besides...it's his car. Let him do what he wants. Maybe he likes the Miata better than the rx7... Who knows

There are some out there and I really wish these guys would test one. A NA rotary is very dependable and one can get over 200 hp out of one, turbo ones at 300 are also dependable, check out the hoonigan chanel.

also to add, as far as budget sports cars go, I paid $19,000 Canadian for it and it has a totally clean carfax (hamilton car) all the service records and it only has 52k km on it. Awesome car for the money. I dont plan on doing any mods beside tires and possibly rims although i like the stock rims, you just cant fit decent size tires on them.

Was thinking the same. There's even a kit for the KLiata

A turbo on the stock 1.6 or 1.8 in the Miatas works damn good. Friend built one with a big 16g TDO5H turbo from an EvoIII. You can pick one up for less then 200$. Even cheaper then that if you settle for the "regular" 16g that come on some DSMs. Mitsubishi had some good turbos stock no doubt. Dont have to spend 1000$ on a turbo. Especially when 250-300 hp would be a TON of fun in one. Any more then that and your really overpowering the car. Nothing wrong with that tho lmao

There is a fantastic version of that swap , originated in England, from : www.rocketeerltd.com They also have a U S affiliate: www.rocketworkscars.com

Just because an engine exists doesnt mean swapping it is a good idea. Those engines are unreliable crap, dont make very good power. Aren't that common. More reasons not use them in a miata than there are to use them. Multiple better v6 options now that have already had solutions engineered for the miata. Look up j35, lfx, and rocketeer swaps.

@@gwodark repeat after me... that is not the same engine. The duratec v6 can actually make power, sounds amazing too, at least the jaguar ones. The KLZE barely makes as much power as a 1.8 with cams, itbs, and a tune. Makes less power than a 1.6 or 1.8 with a cheap ebay turbo setup.

Getting her ready for paint

@@speedacademydave very excited to see what's going on ol' Conny.

Love those celica's! I've had 4 of them. Man I miss that car

Sounds Actually rad

@@driver694 They're both light, well built and can have 400 HP easily as I understand it. I'm a Camaro 6.2L guy.

You can make 210 hp on the stock Miata 1.6 with a turbo tho. I do love the Ecoboost engines tho

@@willspicer3190 I just did a quick KZfaq search and even the turbo Miatas make no torque. There are two types of car people. Those who "get to rev it out" and those who "have to rev it out". I'm a "have to" person. I prefer torque over HP. I fully understand the other party, though. The sound of a rotary hitting 9 grand is a wonderful thing, just not for me. Cheers!

@@pandanoff for sure, I love the Ecoboost engines for sure. Would like to see a 2.3 ecoboost in one lol. But ya for the average guy a turbo on the stock Miata engine will get you a pretty damn fun car lol. Even using a stock Mitsubishi TDO5H. Obviously with a little work and a better turbo power & torque both would go up. But im a Ford man at heart so absolutly no hate here brotha

That would be awesome. What a great suggestion.

@@jonathanstoddard7712 thank you, I'd really like to see how Wyatt would do in a Miata on the pavement lmao. Please make it happen David haha

Or have someone from the Miata spec class from SCCA. You'd be surprised how fast they can drive with a stock motor.

@@Kawaii_Life. I think the episode with carpassionchannel and slip angle they said Quinn was an ex spec Miata racer so i don't doubt it

Would love to see that too. Think its expensive but interesting.

I think it's a better track car than the v8

They aren't viable cost-wise around here because they're too rare. Around here, an LFX would be a better power plant in that vein because it will deliver similar power for a fraction of the cost.

That would be cool.

The vulcan 3.0?

I just looked at you're video. You're MX5 is MENTAL 😍😍 ! Omg a DCT/400whp MX5 must be crazy ? Please upload more vids. Lots of respect for that. How long did it take to do ? How did you manage the DCT is it with a the main ecu ?

@@CharlieboySLONDON took me a few months to build :) not an easy swap. But should be pretty much bulletproof as the DCT with higher oil pressure can handle 1000nm on stock clutches.

I definitely think the BP with stronger internals and more boost is a great engine for the Miata. I have one. With a 6 sod and a 3.6 rear it is amazing. However for an actual race car the DCT is unbeatable. That has to be wicked fast around the track.

@@Red2l16v Ill know for sure in a few months(waiting for summer). but it was already a really fast track car, and now i have added more power, and DCT. It should be epic :D

lol get out the wallet!

Can you street that? Cosmos are older than Miatas. Here the engine has to be newer than the chassis to pass emissions. Custom eccentric shaft three rotor rx8 renisis! Might as well go 4rotor.

Rob stop it... We know it is you

@@speedacademydave Tavarish got one for cheap!

David Pratte - Not really. Sure, you'll need an adapter plate for the trans, but If you're willing to be patient for the, "right," Cosmo to come up for sale then you shouldn't end up paying more than a K swap (until you need a rebuild*). *Premix your fuel for a rotary!

WTF how to find K engines in europe ?xd

@@lukaskarpisek9659 Ford and Mazda both released cars with the K-V6s. The 1.8 and 2.0L are less common, but the 2.5L KL is plentiful. Got mine for 1800zł out of a T-boned Ford Probe GT. There is a whole Facebook group dedicated to K-V6 swaps (mostly Miatas, but people have started putting them in other cars too)

Null Eror Poland is great for getting jdm parts damn

Cuz nobody wants to be working on the motor every week lol. Audi’s are junk

a newer vw 2.5 would fit. the old 2.2 5 cylinders are massive.

Id Rather a LLR or L52 then an Audi

@@terrabnadia1793 theyre durable

1.8t 20v would be my dream

How about the Rolls Royce Merlin engine from a ww2 Mustang plane? They do sound great.

@@jeffruebens8355 that is inspiring genius!!

this.