7 second Toyota Starlets

[robedwards99]

From 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.

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[Archbish]

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???

[DRAGON]

Fastest 13b, 2 rotor car has run a 7.2sec.

[BlitzBoy]

na I think they ran pure methonal Bish as the fuel its nice and chilly

[mullins]

do 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

[20B_boy]

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
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?

[yoeddynz]

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

[20B_boy]

Still- 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

[mullins]

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