Path: utzoo!utgpu!alliant.com!UUCP Reply-To: british-cars@alliant.com Errors-To: british-cars-request@alliant.com Sender: british-cars-request@alliant.com Return-Path: Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 19:42:55 EST From: bcstec!tahoma!gsds@uunet.uu.net (K.C.Babb) Message-ID: <9002090042.AA05367@tahoma.ARPA> To: british-cars@alliant.com Subject: Re: Has it been done? Newsgroups: list.british-cars Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu >Ed Burns asks: >>All this talk about MG/Honda mating has got me wondering. >>Do any of you know if this has been done using real British >>bodies and Japanese drivetrains. >There's a firm advertizing in the back of Autoweek every now & then which >claims to make a swap kit for the Mazda Rotary into Spridget. 135hp in >a Sprite - I'd love to try one sometime. >ed The fastest E-Modified autocrosser in the country is just such a creature; a mildly-ported, Weber-ized rotary in a Sprite (with mucho suspension mods and other pricey goodies). Goes like stink; one year at Nationals he broke his gearbox and had to drive the whole course in 2nd gear-- they won anyway. The car was recently sold to a Chicagoan named Kinser (former owners were the Kings, from Fresno CA). All it takes is money... KCB