So you are saying a 10 hp miata could not handle 15hp cause they would have only designed it for 10hp?

So if you had a 290hp miata, you'd have to make it handle 450 hp for the same factor of safety.

Why do you think the engineers at Mazda designed/specified - for the Miata, their purposefully lightweight car - a transmission, driveshaft, differential and halfshafts that would endure DOUBLE the torque the car was going to make?

Not that simple. Doubling the power means making a beefier driveshaft, beefier transmission, beefier diff, beefier chassis to handle the power, beefier suspension and beefier wheels/tires to handle the weight you just added everywhere else. I agree with your sentiment, but I appreciate that they cut power in the new…

That's not a proper use of the word 'utilization.'

I'm glad you narrowed the scope of the needlessness of those words. 'Basically' is an essential term to describe that two systems have applicable basic similarities, even if their don't share details.

I have no data to back this up, but here's my personal experience for you to make a poor anecdotal argument from:

t mobile has a prepaid $30 per month unlimited data/text w/ 100 voice minutes. It's kinda a hassle to find it, but google around and you should still be able to get in.

"ITBs are for pussies, just gimme one half meter diameter throttle plate."

As a straight dude living in Central California, I'm going to go on the record as shocked and appalled that some neanderthal going by "doeboy" managed to struggle out a couple of fully backwoods sentence fragments.

I'm amazed that someone apparently stuck in the last millenium has managed to pick up an abbreviation for "laugh out loud."

Shouldn't that just lead to getting a decent raise? If not, his skills were definitely not that valuable.

Instead of a timing chain, the engine uses a relatively new belt-in-oil system that takes up less space and manages to save about 1% of MPG. It's because of this I learned that there's a sort of engineering rivalry between the Belt Guys and the Chain Guys, and this is a victory for the Belties. Your move, Chainheads.

Seriously though, don't go to Salinas. The scary thing is that the gang problems there are so bad that this vehicle,to me as a semi-local, seems almost inadequate.

Can't speak for the Viper, but I replaced the alternator in my 240z the other day, and the front hinged hood didn't make it any harder.

I just gave it a try in my gas - my car sat a bit this summer while I had a hurt wrist, and the carbs gummed up a bit. It seemed to work pretty well for me. I can't say anything about it's claims of removing carbon buildup, but everyone I can find on forums everywhere swears by it.

Anything less than 3 hours and I just wake up as a zombie. 4's about perfect.

Ouch, thanks for the heads up. I'm on the central coast and I've never even heard of someone here getting pulled over for not having 'em.

What part of California are you in where they care?

These motors are RARE in Zs. Most have L24s, or were swapped with the L28s out of 280Zs.
The L-series are brilliant too though.