John talking about restoring an 87/85 Mustang in 1992 as 'restoring' and not 'repairing' will never cease to be hilarious. The car was either 5 or 7 years old at the time, not 30 years old.
And put a Mustang engine in a Miata?
No, no, John, the real mechanics say: Put a 302 V8 or a 5.0 L Windsor V8 in a Miata.
And he put it in a Miata?
This dipshit looked up if you could and didn't realize that it requires a MAJOR fucking kit and thousands of dollars of work.
I knew someone that spent all summer putting a 350 small block in a fucking Gremlin. When he put it in gear it twisted the whole fucking body. It was funny, and he did it for fun.
I'm pretty sure if I asked him about torque bars, engine mounts, tranmission adapter kits, and all that shit, he'd immediately start screaming "WOMAN IN TECH!" at me.
I'm not even a gear head and I know that putting a 302V8 into something as shitty as an 80's or 90's Miata is just to watch the fucking car tear into pieces when you put it in first gear and hit the gas.
He has no idea just how much torque that engine is going to produce. He'd need to replace the transmission, the driveline, the transaxle. Shit, the driveline in the above mentioned joke conversion was like the size of a fucking soup can there was so little room left. (The guy who did it was a mechanic who owned a 40 year running wrecking yard, who did stupid shit like drop a straight six from an old Ford in a Chevette to see what happened)
Frame reinforcement, the fact that he just added a couple hundred pounds to the car.
And who the fuck pulls a mustang engine to put in a piece of shit faggot's car like a Miata anyway?
And he didn't answer the most important thing about the 85/87 Mustang. Was it a convertible? Hard top or soft top? Did it have a sunroof? Was it the original 302 or did some smartass put a 350 in it, which was all the rage in the mid-80s?