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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - MX5 engine and gearbox

Hi all, Someone must have been down this road already ? Looking at possibility of changing changing my MK3 midgetcurrenty all original, to a twin cam with 5 speed box. Usual route is a K series and type 9 box but has anyone seen or considered fitting a Mazda MX5 engine and gearbox? They are excellent units and very cheap ar the moment, Any comment would be appreciated. Regards, Beegee
B:J: Gore

A gentleman by the name of Bob Chartier here in the US has made that swap with a turbo Miata engine. Here's the link to an article about his car with a lot of details and photographs. http://www.britishv8.org/Other/BobChartier.htm
B Young

There is the answer
Lots of body work!
Onno Könemann

I like that and I like Bobs Garage

He has got some quality kit in his garage wish I had it. But that said he has made a great job of his car.
Robert (Bob) Midget Turbo

That is some conversion - looks a nicely put together piece of kit.

Jeremy
Jeremy 3

that's a lot of lunacy for 155 tyres.

It's very very nice
Rob Armstrong

Wow.... Thats alot of work... Very nice but obviously he has no wife or life ither....lol.

Prop

Wonder how much that little lot cost to do?

And I like the result of the round wheel arches. Who needs flares?
Lawrence Slater

Very high standard of work... not 100% sure about the exhaust header design...

KTurbo also more work than n/a KSeries conversion: for just a couple of extra pipes (well, exhaust, oil, water...), a modified header, mounting turbo body plus an extra radiator, the extra work seems excessive...

A
Anthony Cutler

Hi if you google the mite you will get a complete history from when it started to the finish.
cheers, gary
gary knowles

http://the-mite.com/
Andrew Fraser

This thread was discussed between 12/10/2011 and 14/10/2011

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