thetech

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As some of you know I bought this car from John Weisberg about 18 months ago and spent money and time restoring it to its former running state. This car was the runner-up in the 2004 Runoffs.

Nearly every part on the car is 1 race and 2 test-days old. I have all receipts and well over $25k into the car. I recently blew the engine at Buttonwillow during testing, not entirely sure of the cause yet. My next step was to have Mazdatrix rebuild, but I will keep the car if I go down that path. It's sitting as it was running, just needs the engine rebuilt. Car was recently wired with a redundant-relay Painless wiring harness, and I just bought the Setrab 60-row oil cooler about 2 hours before the engine blew Engine made just over 208rwhp (chassis dyno with stock timing) and the car was finally getting set-up to the point of being extremely fast. I'm sure with some more tweaking and a new engine (and an appropriate driver!) this will be an extremely competitive car.


My work schedule is becoming too hectic to spend the time I need on the car and racing which forces sale. I'm asking $15k as it sits with all the spare stuff (theres a whole bunch of gasket sets, calipers, spare trans, springs, fuel pumps, etc etc).




More pictures here, and available on request.

Body/Suspension:

AWR Fiberglass fenders front and rear
BERG Racing front splitter (carbon) + spare
Factory aluminum hood
Gutted doors, hood, etc
Full production-legal cage
Lexan windshield
Painless wiring 8 circuit harness
Longacre Carbon Fiber switch-panel
Lonagcre Kill-switch
ATL 15 gallon fuel cell
Delrin/aluminum bushings throughout
JIC FLT-A2 Shocks
Multiple spare springs
Adjustable rear camberlinks
RacingBeat 5/8" Rear Swaybar + adjustable endlinks
Speedway adjustable Front Swaybar + adjustable endlinks
Tilton pedals w/triple master cylinders
Rebuilt front/rear calipers
New Hawk Blue pads front & rear
New factory brake rotors
New steel braided brake lines
Tilton balance bar + adjuster
8 Diamond 15" racing wheels + Hoosier slicks
8 spare used Hoosier 23x9.5-15 R45A and R55 slicks
Fresh Viper GTS Blue paint

Engine:

Currently blown '90 motor, built by Tony Rivera, damage unknown
Factory FI manifold
Megasquirt v3 ECU + Innovate Wideband o2
Setrab 60 row oil-cooler, -10 braided hose
Griffin 3 core crossflow/dualpass radiator
ACT 4 puck clutch
Fidanza aluminum flywheel
New counterweight, bearings, rear main seal, slave cylinder, trans xmember, race trans mounts
Miata short shifter
Walbro 255lph fuel pump
Aeromotive FPR
Racing beat roadrace header
Racing beat megaphone/collector
Borla XR1 muffler
Spare stock trans

Interior

Cobra Suzuka seat + mounts
Autometer gauges throughout
Autometer tach + shift light
Momo steering wheel + quick release
Simpson platinum 6-point camlock harness
Schroth window net
AMB Display-IT lap timer
ESS 2.3l fire system

2a+RoN

good looking car. good luck with the sale.

kendark2light

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wow my dream car good luck with the sale should be worth buying

initial D is REAL!

Im curious what kind of port job this engine had to hit 208whp?

Turbo23

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I remember when john was racing it. Beautiful machine, good luck with the sale!

kendark2light

iTrader: (1)

what class are/were you runing in?

jgrewe

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That would be an E Production class car in SCCA.

thetech

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Just saw that people were still posting here!

Car is no longer for sale and is in the process of becoming a 20B powered Super Unlimited car. Progress is in the blog in my sig!

Thanks for all the comments.

initial D is REAL!

oh man, i hope I see it at the tracks. Where is the car going? Ask him if I can hump it a few times when hes done doing the 20b swap

thetech

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I'm actually doing the swap myself

initial D is REAL!

2nd dibs then

theflatlander

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now if only i had an extra $15k.