It's a raw, noisy ride, but I like it that way. The extra stiff suspension adds to the noise level. If you want to go minimum weight, you want to start with an NA. And you want the 1. You'll also want the 1. The lightweights do drive well, you can feel the difference. They're just sharper overall. When my street car was at wet, with very few compromises - early Canadian cars are lighter you could feel the difference between it and the "lightweight" Club Sport.
You'll really want to judge how much you want to sacrifice liveability to get there - Miatas are built pretty light to start with, and doing things like pulling carpet don't drop mass as fast as you might think. Coming up with a clever fixed headlight that doesn't look awful would be a good way to lose weight, I can see the Mumpkin didn't bother with lights.
But that is more of what I'm looking for- still a car with a body, lots of extreme lightening, etc. But still street legal. Oddly enough, instead of extreme performance, I would kind of lean toward stock lowered suspension- as losing that much weight would still let it ride really well. The stripping of the interior would not do much, except illustrate a theme of what the car is.
Which is even more retro than that really nice dark blue-gray car you guys made at Flyin. I'd even consider retro guage backgrounds.
Yeah, the build threads for that car span 6 years and 4 owners. I only shaved the final lbs or so. The Mumpkin turn signal lights have been re-wired as "headlights". Weight reduction was the best mod I did to the mr2. Well the thrbo helped too but gutting it was Free.
You'll find the beam pattern in the turn indicator lenses is all wrong as well as they're designed to scatter light instead of direct it - I put high wattage lights in there years ago as an experiment. But a couple of well-chosen LED pods would help a lot.
I just figured that functional headlights were outside the design intent of that car. This would be the car Alfadriver has mentioned a couple of times: Project A stripped out interior certainly does make a statement of intent. It comes with the price of noise and heat, and given the weight of the Miata carpet that has to be a deliberate decision. Converting a Miata to a bolt on windscreen like an older car and continuing the body panels' sheet metal over the top of the doors and dash would give it a lot of that old school vibe.
You'll need to log in to post. Log in. Login Digital Edition Buy a Subscription. Forums » Grassroots Motorsports » weight of minimalist miata. Just day dreaming. DeathKart For the most extreme example. What generation? DP Miata I heard are close to 1, but they don't have windshields. I love when they remove the entire windscreen. Makes the Miata look even more like a soap bar. Question: how legal is it to not have a windscreen? Trackmouse wrote: I love when they remove the entire windscreen.
STS is not far enough, the caged Miata without a body is too far sort of. It still has a heater. Under the hood of this 2, pound convertible roadster was a 1. The power to weight ratio was outstanding and the weight distribution was near perfect.
As the little Mazda MX-5 Miata became more mainstream, Mazda had to keep up with the needs of new car buyers and introduced the second generation, called NB, which carried similar dimensions, but gained a couple hundred pounds in the process.
Power output saw a slight bump to horsepower from a 1. The Mazdaspeed MX-5 Miata featured a turbocharger and made around horsepower, but weight was also increased to 2, pounds.
To meet safety regulations and the growing needs for a roomier interior, the third generation NC Mazda MX-5 Miata was larger than ever before, and carried the most weight. Thankfully, a larger 2. Exterior styling was more aggressive, but weight was increased to over 2, pounds, and a power retractable hardtop was available and eventually became standard equipment in the Mazda MX-5 Miata. The first-generation Miata was claimed to weigh 2, pounds, so the new car is only pounds heftier than the original.
The more expensive Alfa Romeo 4C, which is made from carbon fiber, pegs the scale at 2, pounds. With this low weight, the Mazda MX-5 Miata should have no problem getting up to speed despite its somewhat modest power output.
In the U. In global markets, however, the Miata uses a 1.
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