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i am new to the whole mazda and tuner scene i just got rid of my bagged truck i built and have always built big v8's in my dragsters and boggers, anyway besides all that. i just purchased a 92 mazda mx3 1.6 sohc and am trying to learn alot and see what i can do with it. im already ordering the corks sport header and i have a cam on the way from bullfrog performance. but i have been wondering if anyone makes or can find a performance chip for this and i believe its obdI seeing the year and all. and if anyone else has any info that i should know ahead of time let me know please it would be highly apriciated!!!!!

there's nothing really like a performance chip, but you can look into something called Megasquirt

honestly have no idea what that is or how to begin on that and honestly is it going to be a huge hassle to do much to this car without just doing a motor swap if so i just get rid of it

your best bet is a motor swap, but it's one of the easiest motor swaps i've seen, its literally a plug-and-play kind of deal, i recommend you look into it, seach "BP swap" on our forums

Any sort of bolt on you do to the SOHC will be for fairly insignificant gains. As you're used to bigger displacements, you should know that any modification produces results on what it has to work with. Thats why a cold air intake on your 5L might indeed add 25hp, where in these, it might ad somewhere around 2-5.

Honestly, I could BP swap your car in the time it would take you to fit that cam and headers. It is ridiculously easy, and its only a $300 modification for 30 hp and 0.2L of displacement, which will bolster your other mods.

thanks guys but i almost feel that i should just go back to my v8's i know so much more about them i always built all mine from the ground up but this is seeming a little more then i figured i was hoping for decent amount of power on small budget and good gas mileage

The BP engine costs less than the corksport header. And my mileage didn't change from SOHC to BP swap.

Are you simply making assumptions?

With most sports cars, there is no performance chip that works. Would it not make sense that the sports car manufacturer would make their car as powerful as possible from factory? I think anyone who falls for the idea didn't think it through.

Maybe for bigger motors, where mileage can be exchanged for power, but not on little motors...

I don't think you're being fair Ryan. If you have a bunch of experience in one area you tend to believe that some of what you know is goIng to transpose. In truth, almost all of it does. The difference is tuning.

Hardluck...it is very easy to do this swap and all the information you need to do it is available right here. It's not expensive and for someone with lots of experience there's a lot you can do and you'll find it very easy. I've also done V8 work and an engine is an engine. The difference is in the control system. There are so many aftermarket solutions in the V8 world that are not available here. The MX-3 ECU is just not very easy to reprogram and even if it were you need a power added like increase compression or forced induction to get any serious gains. But you can have a nice peppy sports car that gets good mileage for very little money.

The BP swap is easy and inexpensive.

I for one, would enjoy watching you swap in a V8. =]

lol oh believe me i have thought about the v8 swap alot. but at the moment i dont have to pull a motor swap right now i got to get my drag quad and top fuel rail ready for the season so i was hoping to do bolt ons basically... but guys honesty i really appriciate that words big time and after mainly my rail is done i think i will really look into this motor swap but what does this bp motor come out of and like tell me a little more about it please if you all dont mind.... is anyone on here from oklahoma that i could like meet up with and talk some this stuff over with in person and check out there car and what it consisted of to do such mods

4cyl FAQ contains everything you need to know. Like...everything.

most common is your 90-94 protege's and ford escort gt's.

Don't doubt a BP, Oklahoma not that far away from TX.