Miata Mailing List: June 1997, Message #95
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From: 	NRAYNER%BDG8.Trimble@ngmsmtp.Trimble.COM (Nick Rayner)

Subject: Lots more power without p/s?

Date: 	Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:33:47 -0500



Hi,



Thanks for all the effort you put into Miata.net and this mailing list. 

I've enjoyed browsing it for sometime, and now that I'm about to buy my 

first Miata, the info and links here are invaluable.



I have a couple of questions that that arose after driving a 92 lastnight 

- wonder if someone could help. The main thing was this car seemed 

significantly more powerful than the two other I've driven. Where as the 

others seemed sort of "acceptable" at best in terms of acceleration, this 

one really pinned me to the seat when I wound it up - it picked up much 

faster and was quite exciting. The cars I have looked at were all 91 or 

92, and this had the highest miles (50k). The most obvious difference to 

the others were that this was the first without power steering - could 

this account for the significant power increase? Also, I think the 

exhaust looked larger than usual, and it had non-std wheels that had been 

on from new. Could these make much difference? Another thought was that 

the wheels may have been a little smaller than std (the arches looked 

more empty) - maybe this was it - more acceleration but higher revs at 

speed? BTW - The last two cars I tried were both red, so it couldn't have 

just been the colour ;-)



Also, here's a long shot but what are my chances of picking up std 

factory allows for a 92? Where would I start looking and what price could 

I expect to pay? I think I've seen an ad on this list in the past once 

before.



Thanks for your help.



Nick.