A Hoonigan's Dream? Someone Stuffed A Hellcat V8 Into This MIATA

I’ll confess I’m not all that interested in or impressed by burnouts but, uh, there’s no denying the pure majesty of a 2,580-pound car putting 685 horsepower to its wheels.

This clip from Hoonigan Daily Transmission features what can only be described as a comically aggressive engine swap, I mean, then again, it’s really more its own animal than just a regular-old repower at this point.

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TomM - 7/22/2019 10:15:25 AM

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Years ago - they used to do this with Triumphs and Mgs, Sunbeams, Cobras, and even some Jaguars - I see nothing new here

Now if FCA actually took their version of the Miata and put in the Chrysler
Hemi as a semi-production vehicle - that might be news - but they will not be doing that one

MDarringer - 7/22/2019 10:40:33 AM

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V8 Miata conversions are common.

MDarringer - 7/22/2019 11:00:10 AM

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Bigot

Moo1 - 7/22/2019 11:14:32 AM

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neat, remember car & driver did a tuner test back in mid-to-late 90s I think, where someone had dropped a Mustang V8 in a Miata.

MDarringer - 7/22/2019 12:05:38 PM

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The Ford V8 into a Miata is available in kit form and has been for virtually as long as the Miata has existed.

PUGPROUD - 7/22/2019 11:19:15 AM

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With that short wheelbase a regular Miata likely faster down B roads.

MDarringer - 7/22/2019 11:32:39 AM

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Depends on the conversion. There are Ford V8 conversions that I guarantee you will blister the wheezing Miata down B roads. The Miata is for nail girls, fruity-drink hair dressers, and old men that want to relive their youth fantasies in an MG. The Miata is slow and it's an average handler. The chassis can easily put down double the stock horsepower and that option should exist because then the Miata would be a sports car. Right now it's just a pretty convertible for stupid people.

MDarringer - 7/22/2019 12:04:43 PM

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They did it to a Miata. That's not a nice are.

PUGPROUD - 7/22/2019 1:54:43 PM

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Say what Matt..."That's not a nice are." ?

MDarringer - 7/22/2019 4:18:40 PM

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typing with thumbs is an imprecise science LOL

carloslassiter - 7/22/2019 2:30:17 PM

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The Miata is for nail girls, fruity-drink hair dressers

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