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The Miata's big problems are the truly awful gearing—the high ratios way too short and the low ratios are too tall to just swap the rear end out. If I do an aero Miata project (it's 2 designs for a Miata, a tandem 2-seat Impreza IF I can make it look marginally attractive, and a cessna-bodied 3-wheeler I'm deciding between), I'm swapping the transmission with a 2nd generation RX-7. I believe you can swap the bellhousing and bolt it in, but I need to look into it better. From there, I'd be covering the undercarriage, building an external hood vent for the radiator, extending the rear bodywork into a Kamm/boattail type thing, and either building an aerodynamic hardtop or covering the passenger side of the cockpit over, removing the windshield, and installing a sliding teardop aircraft canopy over the driver's side. I'm just reluctant to only have a single seat vehicle.
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