In reply to Keith Tanner :
Remember the 80s Pro Street fad? What obscure car can we tub this week.
I think this is kind of the same thing.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Remember the 80s Pro Street fad? What obscure car can we tub this week.
I think this is kind of the same thing.
In reply to Appleseed :
To be fair, they were modding their Camaros and Mavericks and whathaveyou to look like street versions of Pro Stock cars, which in the 70s actually had to use stock (heh) chassis and engines. Thus the name Pro Street.
Which is where you'd see a Vega with 31x18.5 Mickey Thompsons on the back, VW tires on the front, a mild 350 in the engine bay with two Dominators on a tunnel ram poking through the hood, and a radiator the size of a motorcycle's, overheating and puking coolant everywhere if it were actually tried to be cruised on the street. Or purple anodized Hilborn stacks or chrome plated 8-71 blowers, and heavily polished Lencos with wildly colored shift levers.
Some of them were good, though. I had a customer with a Pro Streeted '67 Camaro, and it was legitimately a good car in the quarter mile. The trick is that 10.5 rule racing has made the fat tires more of a fashion statement anymore than anything else.
If you take a Mazda3, throw out the drivetrain and the chassis, and replace all of it, is it still a Mazda3? I remember seeing this car at first, and before they opened the hood I was hoping it was still MZR Turbo powered, just with it turned North-South.
In reply to NickD :
I like the front wheel drive drag cars that had a Ford 9" solid axle in the front, with a longitudinally mounted engine and trans in front of all that, hanging 4 feet in front of the front wheels.
The first time I saw that was a heavily turbocharged 13B in the front of a "Mazda 3" but I think the Honda guys got in on that action soon enough.
Matt and Debbie Hay enter the chat.
In reply to NickD :
Mm, the NHRA Super Comp of Theseus.
aussiesmg said:http://www.speedcafe.com/2014/10/20/marc-confirms-mazda-3-v8-bathurst/
I came here expecting this thread to be about this car
This is what I thought of.
Kinda weird seeing a "Mazda3" overtake an Aston Martin at the 24H Series race at COTA.
Nothing quite like debating with a canoe paddler who thinks he can push a stock Mazda 3 motor to 600hp.
This thread is 7 years old.
Watched the video. Dude said he took a "docile" 427 LS out of his street car and added a 110mm turbocharger. Makes "about 2,000" HP. Holy E36 M3balls.
SV reX said:Nothing quite like debating with a canoe paddler who thinks he can push a stock Mazda 3 motor to 600hp.
This thread is 7 years old.
Just like the car rose from the dead from some sort of calamity, this thread has done the same due to a canoe calamity. It's eerie!
By the transitive property, this should also be possible on a Mazda5...
In reply to BAMF :
At the level where you are hulling out the original car and building a new chassis under the skin and upper structure, anything may be your starting point.
there isn't much mazda 3 left in that
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