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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo
I’ll tell you one thing that’s exactly the same as before, the Rev limiter comes down like and anvil, it’s brutal. I kinda forgot after years of driving around with a tuned FA20.
Other than that it feels like a different engine. It still has the quirks and weird rattles and sounds of a boxer motor, but it’s more smooth in its power delivery. Besides the power difference it feels like a much better calibration than especially the early FA20s. When flooring it from 2.5-7k it feels much more linear and less choppy. It’s not BMW-inline6 level smooth, but it’s much better than the old car. My only complaint is that first gear feels a bit too short now that there’s more power, glad they went back to the OG final drive, with the ZC6 facelift ratio it would have felt even more ‘too short’.
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Hahahah 100%. Coming from my Miata, 1 out of every 5 pulls or so I hit the limiter because I didn't expect it to come so fast. The car is also pulling so much at the top end that when it stops pulling you really do go flying forward in your seat a bit.
The Miata gave me time to think about shifting while doing a 2nd gear pull. 2nd gear in the new BRZ is like 1st gear now.