Protege Vs Miata
 

Both have the same exact engine....his has over 100,000 miles and is a 1990 mine is a 2001 31,600 miles.....hes alot lighter...by almost 1000 IBS...So we thought what the heck lets race...so we did he beat me by 2 car langths....wich is about a second faster....and I had a bad start....Hmmm oh well maybe that intake will help me ebat him next time:D:D

Bah... Miatas ought to be able to beat us if both are relatively stock....

but Miatas are still Mazdas so give a :bt:

An intake won't help you, the miata's are pretty quick stock.

Intake will actually slow you down a little at the start, but you have more gain at the peak. So, go get yourself some exhaust!

Every time I hop into my wife's totally stock 2001 miata, I marvel at how much faster it is than my P5.(even with an intake & Mazdaspeed exhaust). That little car's pretty quick.

That's why I couldn't believe that the Miata shares engines with a Kia! :p

The Miata's have a small/lightweight/RWD advantage over our Pros. It definitely helps in launching!!

I've beaten my brother's 1990 before.
I'm not sure if it was before he got a new engine in it, or one of his new engines It might have been just before he got it. His has over 200,000km on it and mine has about 190,000 km. He's an awesome driver and it was just a straight line, if it had been in curves he would have raped me.

Re: Protege Vs Miata
 

I thought 2001 proteges had 1.8L or 2.0L engines? My 1990 Miata has a 1.6L engine (the only one offered). How are these EXACTLY the same?

Is his Miata stripped out? My P5 weighs 2716lbs. My Spec Miata is only allowed to weigh 2200lbs and that is with a pretty stripped interior and lightweight wheels. How do you have a 1000lb weight difference?

The proteges came in a 1.6 also. I want a 94 on miata 1.8 Dohc..Jon

yeah the miatas are quick little cars. even with a 1.6 i wouldent mess with one.

What does a 3rd gen 1.6 liter run stock?.

a good bit quicker than it would take you to say something intelligent.

Coming from someone who drives a pink Mx-3 :rolleyes: . Please don't hurt my feelings ...

I should update my previous post to include unintelligent comments, cause I sure think it can run quicker than 2 hours and 1 minute. Wait, was it automatic or manual?

Please. Im glad to see jesse has a female sucking his dick nowadays. Goodjob Jesse......:)