On a street driven car there’s no pro whatsoever to a welded dif

I basically spent 6 months looking for mine, owned it for just short of 5 years. I definitely agree it’s one of the best looking, yet under the radar, cars out there. Lots of my WRX friends complain about the attention they get, but the 4th gen Legacy has very similar potential with none of the attention. With 5 years…

If all you did was eliminate the delay to the closed closed loop switch many people agree it is very helpful. Of course most of the time when you have a tune done you also increase boost and timing thus increasing risk again.

There are several theories, but the one the experts tend to agree on is a combination of the stock tune, short ring lands and poor scavenging due to unequal length manifold. The stock tune tries to keep a lean afr for a couple of seconds into boost. This does wonders for emissions compliance, but is generally terrible…

I loved mine too, but I wanted to focus on my Miata for more track days so combined with the potential of engine failure it made more sense to sell the Legacy.

Yeah but if you caught the headgasket failure early the repair cost is about a third of the cost of a proper EJ255/257 rebuild.

Part of me is sad I sold it, but the other part is glad to be rid of the EJ255 time bomb.

Oh hey my old Legacy spec.B was tuned by Snail Performance on that very dyno. Always fun when someone you know shows up on here.

NC Miatas can be had well under budget enough to make sure you have funds to put much better suspension!

I always enjoyed reading his articles in Car & Driver :(

Their NA/NB conversions are significantly cheaper than the the ND one if I recall correctly. Since there’s only one ND V8 Miata trying to pin down the resale value of it is basically impossible.

Actually the LS Miatas that have verifiablely been built by FM resell at pretty high prices regularly. 25-30k for a NA/NB FM V8 Miata is a great buy all day long assuming you have cash.

Looking less terrible is not the same as looking good...

My thoughts are he missed the quick 2-3 shift there. All I know for sure is someone said it was their dad’s car in the group D download.

When’s the last time you saw an Aztec? The prius while ugly is many times better looking than an Aztec.

Oh so true!

I was also at the event with my NB2 Miata... You should ask your buddies over at R&T about how Sam Smith grenaded a spec Miata motor between the Corkscrew and turn 9....

Came here to post this, left satisfied!

Not sure if facepalm or laugh

Alanis, your are quickly becoming one of my favorite writers on Jalopnik! Well written and making me root for the underdogs!