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Re: NC Light

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Congrats Brian, love to see the little miatas beating the high dollar, high horse power cars!
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I finally put our car on the scales tonight and it looks like I'm going to have to add a LOT of weight back to the car to get to the DP minimum weight of 2225.....

The current weight with the stock suspension on the car still (the new AST 4220s should weigh less!) is 1998 pounds!

So, Brian, not sure where you're at with your XP project, but my calculations show a minimum there of 1894 with the 2.3L Turbo. Obviously that drivetrain will weigh a little more, but with replacement fenders, hood, trunk lid, etc. you could probably get pretty close. That sounds incredibly fun to me!

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Hi Ron,

Congrats on the getting the weight under 2K....that's awesome.

Our project has been just sitting, waiting on me to have time and the season has been too busy for me to get to it. I expect this Summer to finally get more accomplished.
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Re: NC Light

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Hey Guys, NC LIGHT made the June Issue of Grassroots MotorSports Magazine!

Reprinted with permission.
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Re: NC Light

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Brian,

Yep, I saw that in GRM. Nice job. Congrats on the coverage. Perhaps you'll see a bump in business because of it.
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Re: NC Light

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Nice mention. With due credit to Lyn St. James, it seems they forgot all about Janet Guthrie.
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Post by methos »

[quote="Brian"]


Motor mounts are an issue. Factory mounts for this motor do you no good at all and attempting to work with them leaves the motor too high, too far forward, canted a funny angle, etc, etc. Thankfully, Tony at AWR is a custom motor mount pro and makes all our upgraded NC mounts. Tony's custom mounts dropped the motor down and back...but even all the way back as you see in the second photo above you can't use the stock alternator location. This alternator is a super small race unit from Cosworth and it still hits the steering. So, alternator will move to the bottom of the passenger side of the motor (better for our weight distribution anyway).





I'm obviously a little late on this thread but noticed the mention of Factory mounts for this motor do you no good at all. Is that still a concern with a 2006 NC? Pardon my tardiness on the thread here! :mrgreen:
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Re: NC Light

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Remember this thread is FULL 2.5 install.

As noted in other threads you can use short block 2.5 with all the top 2.0 bits and then stock mounts work.
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Re: NC Light

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Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying! :!:
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Re: NC Light

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Hi Brian,

Great looking and running car. I was reading through and could not find what flywheel you are running? Does the 2.0L flywheel bolt pattern match the 2.3L?

RJ
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