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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
Woah, tell us more about that little monster!
My friend built it from a junk yard '58 Sprite. He built upper/lower control arm front suspension and 3-link rear suspension designed around four CR250 rear shocks that he picked up from his motocross buddies. When I first started driving with him it had a street port 12A rotary. He won SCCA EM autocross nationals with this setup. The next year he lost so he bought a 3 rotor 20B engine from Japan. We removed the turbos, tore the engine apart and made the 3 rotor into a peripheral port engine. Then built a custom 3 hole slide valve and custom Burns Stainless exhaust. The 3 rotor made 450hp in a 1500 lb car! Wheels are 13x10 and 13x13 with Toyota Atlantic sized Hoosiers.

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