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Tom’s Turbo Garage<\/a> is selling his 2004 Mazda Miata on Bring a Trailer<\/a>. Tom built “Project Thunderbolt<\/a>” several years ago with a 6.2 L LS375\/525 V8 crate motor. The motor features a Moroso aluminum oil pan and Flyin’ Miata tubular headers and fuel system. Tom paired the V8 with a Tick Performance Level 4 T56 Magnum six-speed manual transmission and Cadillac limited-slip differential with a 3.42 gears. The Miata rides on a V8 Roadsters front subframe with Flyin’ Miata V-Maxx XXTreme coilovers and Miata \u201cFrog Arm\u201d chassis braces. A set of 949 Racing 15-inch wheels with BFGoodrich g-Force Rival tires cover Wilwood front brakes and factory rear brakes with Hawk Performance HPS brake pads.<\/p>\n

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Tom’s Turbo Garage is selling his 2004 Mazda Miata on Bring a Trailer. Tom built “Project Thunderbolt” several years ago with a 6.2 L LS375\/525 V8 crate motor. The motor features a Moroso aluminum oil pan and Flyin’ Miata tubular headers and fuel system. Tom paired the V8 with a Tick Performance Level 4 T56… Read More »Tom’s Turbo Garage is Selling Project Thunderbolt – 2004 Miata with a LS3 V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miata","category-mx-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2004-Mazda-Miata-with-a-LS3-V8-01.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1514,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=1514","url_meta":{"origin":100769,"position":0},"title":"Project Thunderbolt: Building A LS3 Powered Miata – Part 1","author":"swaptastic","date":"February 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom's Turbo Garage is starting a new project building a LS3 powered Mazda Miata. 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