EngEd@aol.com wrote:

Hello, Paul,
  Me personally? E-mail? None, so far. -- Dennis

Dennis who at Mazda should we send email too?
Do you have an email address them?

BTW Dennis your an old fogey like me if you like the Miata
the way it is :-)  Heck I won't even drive my wife's
immaculate 70,000 original miles 1983 RX7. I'll take
my poor man's Lincoln Mark VIII Cougar with independent
rear drive V8 any day. I fit better and it rides better. 

You will never convince the import drag racers however.
A 200 pound side exhaust port NA 13B 250 HP Miata would just about eat 
every other less than 100K $ sports car in the world alive on a road
course if not the drag strip. You cannot beat the excellent power
to weight ratio of the wankel engine in a properly designed car
that takes advantage of this fact. With a little extra money Ford/Mazda
could take another fifty pounds out of the engine with aluminum end
and center housings.

A side exhaust port, turbo three rotor, with aluminum end housings powering
a current RX7  chassis would beat all cars regardless of their cost on the road 
course and on the drag strip.
 
Paul Lamar
 
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