{"id":66849,"date":"2021-01-27T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=66849"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:40:26","slug":"mazda-mx-5-with-a-3-6-l-lfx-v6-racing-and-guide-on-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=66849","title":{"rendered":"Mazda MX-5 with a 3.6 L LFX V6 Racing and Guide on Nurburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=52361\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52361\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52361\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=52361\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Klaus Stamm - D-40721 Hilden&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1991 Mazda MX-5 with a LFX V6 21\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;1991 Mazda MX-5 with a LFX V6&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1991 Mazda MX-5 with a LFX V6\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Konstantinos Sidiras from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCl4RQX3VFlxZPp0jd9cuBBA\">One Lap Heroes<\/a> saved their racing guide on Nurburgring Nordschleife for the last in the series. The beginning of the video (starting at 0:58) shows Konstantinos driving his MX-5 with a 3.6 L LFX V6 for one lap. After that professional driver Gabriele Piana takes over and gives his guide to driving the Nurburgring Nordschleife.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8TVs4Utzeh8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCl4RQX3VFlxZPp0jd9cuBBA\">One Lap Heroes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OneLapHeroes\/\">One Lap Heroes FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konstantinos Sidiras from One Lap Heroes saved their racing guide on Nurburgring Nordschleife for the last in the series. The beginning of the video (starting at 0:58) shows Konstantinos driving his MX-5 with a 3.6 L LFX V6 for one lap. After that professional driver Gabriele Piana takes over and gives his guide to driving&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=66849\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mazda MX-5 with a 3.6 L LFX V6 Racing and Guide on Nurburgring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52361,"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":0,"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-66849","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\/2020\/02\/1991-Mazda-MX-5-with-a-LFX-V6-21.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31008,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=31008","url_meta":{"origin":66849,"position":0},"title":"Mazda MX-5 with a LFX V6 &#8211; Part 6","author":"swaptastic","date":"December 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"One Lap Heroes is back with another update on Konstantinos Sidiras' 1991 Mazda MX-5 project. 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