Another learn me Mazda Millenia

if i understand the technology, putting some traditional camshafts in it should make it pretty fast.

Yes, the 2.3 is the Miller cycle engine.....NO, NO, NO, do not buy this car unless you have money for the many transmission rebuilds it will go through. It's unfortunate, but pretty much all Mazdas sold with automatic transmissions had weak transmissions.

Does anyone know what size is the supercharger?

It's a funky IHI design.

Between 1200 and 1300cc per revolution.

Lubed by engine oil.

Runs somewhere around 14psi in stock form.

racinginc215 wrote: Anyway to swap a 5 speed into it?

Should share bolt pattern with the "regular" KL cars. (MX6/Probe/626.) The console will involve some custom work, though.

If you're going to mess with manual swapping one, i'd start with a non-supercharged variant, personally.

Then supercharge that motor.

On the flip side... a Supercharged Millenia with the shorter 5spd (Probe/MX3 GS) would be pretty damn quick.

Bringing this post back from the past, has anyone owned an early (pre-facelift) Millenia? Someday I want a big Mazda luxury cruiser, so it's either this or the 929. I really like the styling of the Millenia, but the 929 is rwd which is preferred.

Didn't own, drove plenty. Man they were nice cars to be in. Shame about the whole engine/transmission thing. 

Coming off the hot hit of the 1990 Miata, the 1992 Mazda 929 Gen2 was beautiful but not a big seller.  

If you know your Latin, you'll find Mazda's misspelling of millennia quite amusing. 'Mille' means 1000, but due to having 1 N instead of 2, the root of the second part could be interpreted as 'anus'. Literally the car of a thousand buttholes. 

In reply to John Welsh :

I like this, as well as the earlier generation which was a lot more square-looking. I love that this one has frameless windows and the solar powered vents for when the car sat in a hot parking lot.. wonder what they were like to drive, and how long I could own one without attempting a 13b swap :)