Russ
Moffatt won the Touring Car champ. with the RX7 in 1983, after running 3rd in
1982. One of it's greatest races though would have been Bathurst 1981, where
Moffat came 3rd in the shortened race. He had worked his way up from about 9th
after the V8s swamped him at the start. If the crash that stopped the race
hadn't blocked the track he would have been 2nd - with 43 laps (260 km) to go.
I always reckoned he would have then got past Dick Johnson, either on one less
fuel stop, better reliability, better handling of pressure or a combination of
all 3.
I would guess that the RX7 must have had about 300 bhp in race trim so even
allowing some loss for a roadable exhaust system, that must have been one quick
Imp. I wonder if I could fit an injected, peripheral-ported, 13B rotary to the
MX5.......
Cheers
Vic
Russell & Neola wrote:
> For a short time I was in possession of an Imp fitted with a Mazda rotary.
> It had been equipped with not just any old rotary, but a rotary originally
> fitted to a Group C RX-7 driven by one Allan Moffat. (For the benefit of
> non-Australians, Allan is a Canadian who migrated here and became one of our
> greatest ever racing drivers. His RX-7 took out the Australian Touring Car
> Championship at least once, I think - haven't actually looked this up
> though.)
>
> Russ Maddock
>
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> Sunbeams hit the Gold Coast in June 2001 - www.qld.sunbeam.org.au/national
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Hughes" <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au>
> To: "Russell & Neola" <rmaddock@petrie.hotkey.net.au>
> Cc: <alpines@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Spark plug gap
>
> > Speaking of Hillman Imps, did you know that a guy in Sydney once had one
> fitted
> > with a 289 ci Ford V8 - for circuit racing only. Not great in corners, but
> gee
> > it was quick in a straight line.............
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Vic
> >
> > Russell & Neola wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > At one stage I decided they were getting too old and replaced them with
> > > Champions. The car started to misfire immediately so I put the
> Splitfires
> > > back and it was right as rain again.
> > >
> > > R
> >
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