In message <20000125144259.9240.qmail@web1101.mail.yahoo.com>, Scot Zediker
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> FWIW, Dealer Alternative in Colorado is working on a
> 200-mph Miata. I don't recall which engine the car
> has, but it is turbocharged. This same company also
> sells a turbo kit that will put out around 250 hp to
> the rear wheels and is completely street legal
> (outside California, anyway).
Great, they've got almost half the horsepower they'll need to get to 200mph.
Top speed is drag vs HP, and the Miata Cd is, as someone once said of
motorcycles in general, "grotesque". A C5 has much better aerodynamics,
will go +/- 170 mph stock, and needs another 150+ HP to get to 200mph.
BTW, is that package called the LAT option, by any chance? ;)
>A 15-psi turbo on a Miata puts out around 250 rear-wheel horsepower, and
> reportedly can beat Vipers and their ilk in acceleration. And you
> still have that wonderful Miata handling. I suspect one would give
> most any Corvette a run for it's money, and then some. The trouble
> is, it takes a driver with very good throttle control to handle
> that much power in that light of a car. And many of those who
> turbo/super-charge their Miatas are the sort that think that the
> reason they're not fast driving a Miata is merely lack of power.
> So you often see boosted Miatas being driven below their
> potential. If you can't drive fast with 100 hosepower, you can't
> drive fast with 200.
Half the HP, 2/3 the weight... I'll put money on the Viper at the drag
strip.
>The 200MPH Miata project expects to have a completely street-legal
> Miata (non-California that is) that'll do 200mph. They expect to have
> it working this summer. Right now they're working on the aerodynamics
> to keep it on the ground at that speed. :-o They're planning on using
> a stock Miata engine with serious turbocharging.
>See http://www.200mphmiata.net/
Yeah. Don't see a lot of hard numbers there, but the site certainly is
pretty. Now try here for an idea of what it actually takes (and costs) to
get *close* to 200mph.
http://www.lingenfelter.com/packages/pricing_stageI.htm
KeS
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