About the one that kept up with the viper. I know he did and that is no BS. We built his car about a year ago. It was making 250whp on his street tune. He has the Link stand alone so with a few quick changes to the hand held controller and he is at 300whp. We have graphs that show he makes 298whp on a stock motor with 130k miles with only the 460cc injectors. We put 550cc in the day before the viper run so he may have turned it up even more.

Back to the miatas in general. First off they handle boost very very well. Stock they make about 105whp. You can put the jackson sc and make 150whp with stock ecu, stock inj, stock everything. This is enough power to have fun at drifting or autocross. You can also put the Flyin Miata turbo kit on and make 220whp with no internal mods. I have customers that have had the FM kit for years and years with no problems. Finally you can do a custom kit and make around 300whp with no internal mods, but must have a good tune and a well maintained motor.

The car we did that made 300 but just blew up was a custom kit. The car had a supercharger on it for about 5 years with no problems. Then we turboed it a year ago and has had no problems until now. This car has be used and abused its whole life. So it lasted about 70k miles on boost. Not bad for stock motor. Hell the car even has the stock fuel pump from 94 in it. Also, the car has pasted emission twice with the 300whp turbo kit on it. It even has a 3in cat on it and egr.

Finally, when looking for one try to get a 94-95 R package. These come lighter weight , LSD, no PS, and Bilstien shocks. Next put a good set of springs and sway bars, a Hard Dog roll bar, and good brake pads. Very fun and fast car.