On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:31:22AM -0700, Mark Smith wrote:
> An Acura motor in an Elise? I knew that the British road version and the US
> Motorsports versions (but not the 500hp "race" engines in LM cars) used the
> Rover K-Series engine (in no way related to the Honda/Rover collaberation a
> few years back) but I've never seen or heard of this Elise/Engine combo.
Mark,
A company called Sun International imports Elise chassis and installs
B18C5 engines. That's the engine used in the Type R Integra. They
have a web page somewhere out there, and Sport Compact Car magazine
did a review several months ago. 200HP, 1600 Lbs. If only it didn't
cost $55,000...
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john@idsfa.net John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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