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Originally posted by MichiganMat
Guy around the corner races an X1/9 in the SCCA. I dropped in to chat for a few and was awestruck that he was able to keep it running. He told me the X1/9 is a really reliable car _only_ if the dealer had torqued down the head properly upon delivery. Don't torque the head and all sorts of stuff blows up. His X1/9 racecar had 120K miles on it and was still going strong. I told him to buy a lottery ticket while he still had time.
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I've always had a soft spot for X1/9s - another car with a Napoleon complex. I've seen a couple of X1/9s with fully tricked motors w/Webers, cams, high compression. Somewhere there's a Grassroots Motorsports article that showed a guy with a suspension-modded X1/9 with a tiny 75hp engine, that did loads of damage on the autocross circuit.
