{"id":863,"date":"2018-09-22T00:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T00:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:01:17","slug":"wtf-friday-5-0-twin-turbo-miata-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/wtf-friday-5-0-twin-turbo-miata-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF Friday: 5.0 Twin Turbo Miata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it\u2019s been a <em>long\u00a0<\/em>time since the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/category\/wtf-fridays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTF Friday<\/a> post. A drought as long as this one isn\u2019t something I plan on repeating. Shout out to all of you who check the site every Friday for something new. I\u2019m going to put some work in to re-up my stash and make sure your time is support is rewarded appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>This week, a Miata rolls through the WTF Friday archives.<\/p>\n<p>V8 Mitatas are far less common in 2018 than they were in 2014, but an Ontario based twin turbo V8 Miata certainly raises an eyebrow on my head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-1.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63118 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-1.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sitting on Kijiji at $25,000 after three days the Mustang lifted Ford 5.0 has to Turbonetic t3 turbos hanging off either side. Fueling and ignition for the set up is handled by MSD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63120 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While horsepower figures are mysteriously unlisted the ad boasts 7s at 100 mph in the 1\/8th mile and 30 miles per gallon in the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-4.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63121 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-4.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water and meth injection provide cooling and the owner states the car is a turn-key driver, and racer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-2.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63119 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exterior photos are not the focus but the body looks to be in reasonable shape considering the age. The hood is a little odd, but since the turbos (and much of the plumbing) sit above the fender line a stock unit is ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly the interior isn\u2019t too crazy, aside from the visible plumbing running through the center console.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-5-1.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63122 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5litre-twin-turbo-miata-5-1.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kijiji.ca\/v-classic-cars\/sudbury\/monster-miata-5litre-twin-turbo-600hp\/1384799800?utm_campaign=socialbuttons&amp;utm_content=app_ios&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=ios_social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious offers only<\/a> and the car is in Sudbury Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it\u2019s been a long\u00a0time since the last WTF Friday post. A drought as long as this one isn\u2019t something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fast-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.statorgears.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}