Cars by Model Type => Cosmo's and Other Rotary Powered Vehicles => Topic started by: robedwards99 on March 16, 2007, 07:42:59 AM
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: robedwards99 on March 16, 2007, 07:42:59 AM
QuoteFrom the giant turbo bolted to a rotary engine and stuffed into a small rear-wheel drive car department comes this video of two heavily modified Toyota Starlets tossing it up out on the drag strip. The red Starlet in this video is also known as La Atrevida. Under its hood is a 1995 Mazda 13B rotary that packs just 1.3 liters of displacement, yet kicks out almost 750 horsepower thanks to near 40 pounds of boost. The proof? On the timeslip, and in this video. Behold the sight and sound of angry rotary Starlets and the people that love them.
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: Archbish on March 16, 2007, 08:17:50 AM
FORTY POUNDS OF BOOST?????Christ on a bike - do they just carve the housings and endplates out of one chunk of kryptonite or veryhardinium or something???
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: DRAGON on March 16, 2007, 08:45:50 AM
Fastest 13b, 2 rotor car has run a 7.2sec.
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: BlitzBoy on March 16, 2007, 08:46:59 AM
na I think they ran pure methonal Bish as the fuel its nice and chilly
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: mullins on March 16, 2007, 09:43:01 AM
Quote from: Archbishdo they just carve the housings and endplates out of one chunk of kryptonite or veryhardinium or something???
No, a lot of the Peurto Rico guys (including the Major League RX8 6.81@200.6mph) get their engines built in a sleepy backwater called New Zealand. :Yawn
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: 20B_boy on March 16, 2007, 11:11:23 AM
Quote from: mullinsNo, a lot of the Peurto Rico guys (including the Major League RX8 6.81@200.6mph) get their engines built in a sleepy backwater called New Zealand. :Yawn
A lot of the PR\'s get their engines built by...PRs too! Siguel has been known to build and tune a few cars there for e.g. :cool
Major League is an Alec Bell motor which was stripped, inspected and put back together before running from recollection.
Glenn might know the answer to this; whatever happened to Dennis Marquis\' chassis that had the big engine in it from Kiwi-RE? I think it went to the US to race but never really heard much else about it after that :( Looked awesome :cool Think it may have changed hands once or twice, wonder where it is now?
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: yoeddynz on March 16, 2007, 01:27:27 PM
simply awesome!!!
Always liked the little starlets but they seem to have all gone to Ireland..I think they have a race series there for them?
Still- I got a chevette- its british (leaks) and its BROWN
Cheers
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: 20B_boy on March 16, 2007, 01:40:05 PM
Quote from: yoeddynzStill- I got a chevette- its british (leaks) and its BROWN
Lol, some one seems to have forgotten to tell Mazda that only British cars leak :Laugh
Title: 7 second Toyota Starlets
Post by: mullins on March 20, 2007, 05:12:44 PM
Bit OT but here\'s some info on the PR ML RX-8. Whos going to be first in the UK to import one of these packages? http://www.kiwi-re.com/gallery_29.php