When Flyin' Miata announced it would begin selling BBR Turbo kits for the latest Mazda MX-5 yesterday, we knew we had to get behind the wheel. Fortunately, that wasn't too hard—we're hanging out at the Classic Motorsports Mitty presented by Hagerty this weekend, and Flyin' Miata happened to have a freshly built turbocharged ND MX-5 sitting in their booth. …
5 seconds faster to 60? Seeing as a stock one can do 6.5 seconds to 60, that would put it at about 1.5 seconds. Does that seem feasible? You might want to reword that paragraph just a little.
jstein77 wrote: 5 seconds faster to 60? Seeing as a stock one can do 6.5 seconds to 60, that would put it at about 1.5 seconds. Does that seem feasible? You might want to reword that paragraph just a little.
I understood that to mean it goes from 6.5 to 5, but yeah that is a bit confusing. Maybe something like "how much faster? 0-60 in 5 seconds!"
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Lol! I read it that way too!
So fast it actually spins the earth backwards.. making time go in the other direction! Beat that Tesla!
Sounds like another fun FM upgrade 
I'll be holding shifts to 7,000 rpm and above
Hey, Tom was scrambling to get this out while also in the middle of a very chaotic weekend 
You know what he meant, even if it is fun to play the pedantry game.
Sounds awesome, but $5,695... whew... (gulp). 
Ian F wrote: Sounds awesome, but $5,695... whew... (gulp).
That's a pretty fair price for a high-quality, well made turbo kit.
z31maniac wrote: That's a pretty fair price for a high-quality, well made turbo kit.
I've never really priced turbo kits, so I wouldn't really know. I'm sure it's worth the price, but 20% of the cost of the car gives me reason to pause.
It gets worse. It still costs the same to do a good turbo kit for a $1500 car Man, am I tired of that phone call.
20% of the cost of the car, but 33-50% more power. And it's still pretty much alone in the market, there aren't a lot of 230 hp lightweight roadsters in the $32,000 price range.
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Ask any frisbee twin owner what they'd be willing to pay for 70HP.
In reply to captdownshift: Frisbee twin?
Care to enlighten me please? I only speak truck...
In reply to Recon1342:
Subaru BRZ/Scion FR-S - I have no idea why they call them them "frisbee" twins here.
FRSBRZ
Say it out loud and it will sort of make sense. 
captdownshift wrote: In reply to Keith Tanner: Ask any frisbee twin owner what they'd be willing to pay for 70HP.
Yeah, but there are cheap knock-off turbo kits sold by SBD for $3k.
A quality turbo kit with everything you need is still going to be approaching $5k. The only kit I would buy is in the $7k range. And that doesn't include things like bigger injectors/pump if you want more than 300whp (the stock fuel system in the Twins is capable of that) an upgraded clutch or cooling solutions.
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