Miata engine rebuild question

[Rcast]

in the last few months my 92 miata has been through allot of trouble starting with blowing 2 injectors a valve cover gasket and recently a rod bearing. I was wondering if anyone here has replaced rod bearings on a miata and if there is anything i should do or watch out for when doing this. I only want to get the car to work for this weekend i am planing on pulling the motor and doing a complete rebuild and actually do some performance work when i do this. I also wanted to know if any one has ever tried a engine swap in this car with a small block and how much work it is to get it to fit in a 92 miata, And what it would do to classing of my car.

[Loren]

Ryan,

I could spend an hour trying to answer all of your questions, or I could just do this:
http://miata.net/

If I'm reading what you said correctly, you're wanting to replace rod bearings before this weekend... and then you want to "pull the motor and do some performance work". You realize that the engine has to come out to replace rod bearings, right? You're talking about major surgery to replace rod bearings.

Engine swaps have been done, and it's a lot of work. Don't get me wrong, but if the kinds of questions you're asking are any indication, unless you have a bucket of money to pay someone else to do it, a big engine swap is probably way over your head.

Any non-Miata swap that you do is going to put your car into our M1 class.

[buddy bodean]

Ryan -- it's hopeless, don't even try to fix it. Just give the car to me.








j/k, or am i?

[Loren]

Ed, we've seen what you do to poor old Miatas.

[buddy bodean]

dats true.