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by **bluemaumau** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:37 am

lawtons RWD

-+=gon-zo-crazy=+- · by **neo** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:02 am

ohhh the worst of all worlds, honda shell, rotary engine..

On the plus side, its got a toyota gearbox.. That pricked my ears up!

This would be extremly cool to now transplant into an old mini!

by **narlystarly** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:48 am

bluemaumau wrote:lawtons RWD

From no cams website
http://www.racespec.co.nz/Products.htm

Mazda 323 fwd conversion kit to adapt 12a engine to front wheel drive gearbox, kit comes complete with custom flywheel, custom cv input shaft, bearing retainer, custom starter motor bracket and i will require gearbox to machine starter position into gearbox housing. $ POA

Mazda rotary fwd conversion kit to adapt 12a engine to late model Toyota corona front wheel drive gearbox, kit comes complete with custom adapter plate, custom flywheel, custom driveshaft and bearing retainer and retains original starter motor and clutch $ POA

The honda I believe uses the same style kit as the above with corona gbox, done by avenue autoport.

There has also been a number of FWD BG mazda sedan rotarys floating around.

by **bluemaumau** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:08 pm

im sure ive seen a huge diff under that thing

by **Defective** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:15 pm

i think the lawtons familia was 4wd... could be wrong but.... dont they run a sp20 now? that thing definetly has a big diff....

OMG so shiny! · by **Dell'Orto** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:08 pm

Their SP20 isn't 4WD, and as far as I know they never made a 4WD one. James built the original orange Familia FWD wagon.

by **narlystarly** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:52 pm

Unless your talking about the OLD Lawton rotorsport car which was a 323 sedan, rwd had the plate [26B323] from what i remember, was a pale green colour and ran well into the 11's before they retired it.

by **Defective** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:57 pm

narlystarly wrote:Unless your talking about the OLD Lawton rotorsport car which was a 323 sedan, rwd had the plate [26B323] from what i remember, was a pale green colour and ran well into the 11's before they retired it.

thats the one i was thinking off, was in one of the very early NZPCs, dunno why i thought it was 4wd...

by **narlystarly** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:40 pm

Edit it had the plate [20b323] Pics as follows

pwn

OMG so shiny! · by **Dell'Orto** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:54 pm

That was a later stage of development, it won the burnout comp at the '99 I think when it first debuted with a 13B

by **Dragger_Dan** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:30 pm

They had another car that looked very similar, but FWD. I"ll see if I can find a pic.

by **RS13** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:13 am

Actually, thinking about it now, I believe I saw a red FWD BF Mazda wagon in town at the nats weekend a while ago, that was rotary..

by **bluemaumau** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:23 am

oh i was taking about that sp20 thingy

OMG so shiny! · by **Dell'Orto** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:14 am

Dragger_Dan wrote:They had another car that looked very similar, but FWD. I"ll see if I can find a pic.

That was built well after they'd done the 20B323.

by **Adoom** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:22 pm

Defective wrote:
soopachargen wrote:so you wouldnt have a high revving n/a front wheel drive?? The power that they make for the physical size of the motor is cool... i'm not a big fan of rotors but if you lined that thing up in an fxgt or bzg im sure you would get ur ar*e handed to you... unless its just all noise and no power.

haha, thats what i was thinking... id own it just for the sheer WTF factor...

If I wanted WTF factor. I'd go ahead with my plan of putting a fwd V6 turbo in the boot of an EB civic...... or in one of those 3cyl daihatsu thingies. Then make sure it looked like there wasnt a big engine in the boot

by **bbq1988** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:01 am

Adoom wrote:...... or in one of those 3cyl daihatsu thingies.

Those are some serious fun

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