Its not much different at all.
I went from a full 79 MGB teardown and restore, only thing we didnt do ourselves is re-hone the block because we dont have CNC machines
. Definitely a weekend hobby project car
to a 1990 supercharged miata, also weekend hobby car/DD
to thew 99 boxster which is my current weekend hobby car/DD.
The boxster is EASIER to work on. The miata had stupidly designed frames and parts that had to be removed just to remove the oil filter..not a lot of attention to detail.
Boxster is 10x easier to do general maintenance on (once you get under the car, thats the only part that is more laborious than the miata) as well as hobby type stuff.
I have a garage full of every tool under the sun, so naturally I was covered for the miata, yet the boxster forced me to get a few new tools.