Stranglehold Broken

[Mr Revhead]

Heathen! How could you suggest such a thing!

[rollaholic]

power

[fangsport]

power

where ??

[Dell'Orto]

Everywhere a BDA makes it, and much smoother

[Snoozin]

BDA goes "BOING BOING BOING BOING"

But the Mahzdah goes "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

[TRD Man]

It's doubtful any of you would know that the late Willie Rutherford (a Pom recently resident in Canterbury) was, in the 70's & 80's, a factory supported Mazda driver in the UK.
He got his start in the rally business driving an RX3 Coupe from which he'd removed the rotary and installed a BDA, stating at the time "nobody's ever done anything with a rotary".
Of course back in NZ we were all outraged yelling into our CCC magazines ... "never heard of Rod Millen or John Woolf you plonker?"

I actually rallied both an RX2 & RX3 Coupe in the early 80's so I'm not totally anti the rotary, but you shouldn't strap one in a real car.

That said, Joe you've obviously forgotten that Marcus actually won Otago last year in the GrpB RX7.

[Leon]

there's a couple of really nice RX(various) rally cars around

Whilst I love the sound of the BDA, I have to say that I can see why people do the FJ repower considering the rather eye watering cost of buying and running the genuine engine. It's the difference between "OW!" and "OOOWWWW!!!".

[rollaholic]

I'm not totally anti the rotary, but you shouldn't strap one in a real car.

i lol'd. keen to hear your definition of a real car

[RomanV]

Rally costs bazillions as it is, I dont see a problem with allowing similarish engines to repower the older cars if it brings down the costs a bit.

I'd rather see someone wailing on an engine they have two or three spares of (or can rebuild/replace easy)

Rather than someone being a nana at 7/10ths because they're scared to blow up their $$$$$$$$$$$$$ impossible to replace engine that they had to steal from a museum.

[fangsport]

Rally costs bazillions as it is, I dont see a problem with allowing similarish engines to repower the older cars if it brings down the costs a bit.

I'd rather see someone wailing on an engine they have two or three spares of (or can rebuild/replace easy)

Rather than someone being a nana at 7/10ths because they're scared to blow up their $$$$$$$$$$$$$ impossible to replace engine that they had to steal from a museum.

in Neals case it is a good fit, as essentially the 18RG race motor (152e??) was the 3SG precurser.
unsure on the speaking too highly of FJ20, i heard from a reliable source, Derek could have bought a BDA with the deveolopment costs to get it going as good as it does, and i can't imagine it being super easy to get essential parts (crank/heads etc) these days.

[fangsport]

That said, Joe you've obviously forgotten that Marcus actually won Otago last year in the GrpB RX7.

yes i did, Bruce...... bit excited to see a decent marque at the top of the timesheets, and forgot about the chicken cookers success, but full credit to him, even though one could build 2 REAL cars for what i was told his build cost was

[Boost_4_Life]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTpkVZrAUeY