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May 29, 2011 1:24 p.m. peter Reader

I needed to push my non-running WRX into the garage this morning. The garage is up a gentle gravel slope and has a 3" concrete lip at the threshold. My buddy and I tried three times to get enough momentum to clear that lip, even built up the gravel a bit to try to make it easier. No dice, the WRX is a pig! The bumper on my friend's Land Rover was too high to push the WRX bumper, but the rear bumper on my Miata was just right. So with a bit of tarp as a cushion between the cars, the Miata made short work of pushing the WRX into the garage.

We should have just gone with the Miata to begin with!
May 29, 2011 2:09 p.m. DrBoost SuperDork

Now just put the WRX engine in the miata and.......

You know you are deep in boost territory when you get tire pressures and boost pressures confused
May 29, 2011 2:39 p.m. peter Reader

More tempting is to take the Lotus 907 out of the Jensen Healey shell we had to move out of the WRX's way and drop that in the Miata... Even if it isn't exactly more powerful than the Miata power plant, something about dropping a Lotus engine into a Miata seems so right...
May 29, 2011 6:46 p.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork

Peter, megasquirt the 907 and then tell me it doesn't have more zap than the Miata.
May 29, 2011 6:55 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

megasquirt both and compare!

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May 29, 2011 8:40 p.m. peter Reader

Hmm... I do have a Megasquirt lying around that I built and never quite got running on the Miata...
May 30, 2011 9:23 a.m. White_and_Nerdy Reader

I once did that when a housemate's Saturn SC2 (actually my old car) died at the bottom of the uphill driveway. I was driving an SL2 at the time, and figured that meant the bumpers would be the same height. I was right - stuck an old tire in between the cars, pushed it up the driveway, and didn't even scratch either of them.

- Justin