BDA,
For now I'm going to keep the stock suspension and make my own twin link but eventually I am going to swap the entire rear suspension and the front spindles and brakes from a Miata into the Europa. As this is just going to be a street car for me and I have three sets of 13" wheels and tires (Panasports, Mini lites and Minators plus the stock wheels). I don't want to have to buy different wheels just yet. (anyone need a set of wheels?)
As for future plans....NG3 and turbo the Miata engine possibly or just build another Europa with a transverse Honda engine. Or possibly build a vintage race car as I have a full Omni Tech Twink motor (with Weber conversion) and a Hewland LD 200 trans axle sitting on the floor in my shop. I currently race with SCCA in a Lotus 7 or my Honda S2000, so I don't really need another race car. For now I just want to get the car back on the road. All in all, I have about 3+ cars worth of parts. I really need to start condensing as I just have to many cars and parts and not enough time.
Grumblebuns,
What do you mean width of the bell housing? I set up my new hybrid bell housing to put the input shaft in the same location as the stock Miata. I pressed out the pilot bushing holder from a stock Europa flywheel and turned it down slightly and it will press into the Miata flywheel now. Overall width (side to side) of the new bell housing is almost identical to the twink bell housing, depth (measured front to back) is slightly bigger buy less than an inch and I have more room between the firewall with the Miata engine than with the Twink motor.
