[notfarnow]

Well, the LeCar was just a regular R5. And the US cars had 1.3 or 1.4l engines, whereas most of the european ones had 1000cc engines. Archer racing sold a lot of performance stuff for them back in the 80's... you could squeeze 90 hp out of the engine with headers, a decent cam and a side draft weber. That's what I did with mine. Quirky handling too... it was front wheel drive & mid-engined. Onlt FWD car I ever owned that wanted to oversteer.

The LeCar MAXI Turbo, R5 Turbo 2 was a different beast altogether... Rear wheel drive and mid engined. I think they were 180 HP out of the box, but have heard of 400-500 hp "grenade" engines.