My Lottery Garage: V8 Miata Maybe not the one pictured above, but that’s the basic concept — a tiny car with a freakin’ huge engine. You can get a Monster Miata kit for a few thousand bucks (Miata and donor Mustang not included) that uses a Ford 302 (5 liter) engine and comes out something like this (or see if they have one for sale in their classifieds) Or you can go even bigger and put in an LS1 Chevy smallblock (and there’s a kit for that as well). Or if you’re really nuts, you can go with a twin-turbo Lexus V8:
(pic of “Mr. Miyagi” at top via Tom)
No honey. You may not convert your current miata to have a “freakin’ huge engine”
Of course not! I don’t want to mess with that Miata. The V8 Miata would keep it company in the garage (next to the Wiesmann Roadster and the XKSS) that we’d also build with the lottery money!
[...] will brook no argument on this choice. You may sniff that the Donkervoort is too ugly, the V8 Miata too déclassé, the Morgan and Wiesmann too self-consciously retro – the [...]