200 pounds over the front axle would be mostly front axle increase, but some of the weight will be carried by the body of the car to the rear axle. That would have to do with... the spring rate.
Of course, the N/A VQ35DE doesn't have that much more power than the first turbo kit for the 1.8L I4, and has less power than the second stage turbo kit.
So an N/A V8 is good... but I like the idea of a turbo motor. Not so much an SC motor, that's parasitic. A turbo scavenges, it's efficient, and that's appealing.
A single turbo doesn't really work on a V8, but twin turbo V8 means silly amounts of power - like an effortless 550. Like 1000 with some building and tuning.
550 is already too much for a Miata though, because, being a V8, it has this wonderful thing called "torque", and 550 ft-lbs going down to two skinny little wheels with only 1200 lbs on top of them doesn't get very far.
So it'd need to plus size the wheels, put on enormous slabs of super-wide tires, probably drag radials even, then get fender flares attached to overhang the tires properly.
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