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Originally Posted by Dantilla
Never occurred to me that the Viper and Miata have anything in common (other than two seats and four tires).
Miata has an iron block from Mazda trucks.
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Miata has an iron block from fwd mazdas, not a truck, at least as far as the 1.6 and 1.8L motors for the first 2 generations are concerned.
It started out as a 1.3L in a Ford Festiva, then eventually got stretched to 1.6L in the 323 and GTX. The first gen miata 1.6L is based on the FWD turbo motor with a different head for the n/a application and some slight changes for the RWD / longitudinal setup. The 1.8L is a stretched version of the 1.6L.
Maybe you're talking about the 2.0L from the NC.
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