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My Dad just got finished telling me about a Sprite that belonged to a
good buddy of his - this was in Santa Barbara, about 1964. He put a 283 chevy V8 in his Sprite - bored it out to a 301 with a big cam and 4-barrel. the headers were routed through the fenders and a salvaged boat out-drive system was used to route the steering shaft between the header tubes. He wanted to use a 4 speed, but couldn't because the tail section was past the rear axle (a narrowed chevy), so he used a 3 speed manual. With that setup the drive shaft was 12" long. Other than that it was all 100% stock. Performance was "blistering"... until one of the stock wheels sheered in half and sent the car into a tree. "Fun while it lasted" he said. :) I can't imagine that level of power with stock Sprite brakes and wheels. Yikes! -Chuck -------------------------------- Brad Franks wrote: Cool! A friend had a Sprite for a long time and he envied my motor. We always wondered if it could be done. I find it interesting where the shifter landed in the cockpit. Either the Sprite has WAY forward seating (or the Miata way backward) ot the Sprite had a really short tranny...Interestingly they opted for a 1.8L motor in this car. I would have imagined a 1.6 for the marginally lighter weight and marginally shorter nose to tail length. I am actually surprised to see how much fore/aft room is in the bay of that car with the motor installed. It looks like they pushed it as far forward as hey could just to keep the shifter in the cockpit and not coming out of the bulkhead! Brad Aleksandr Milewski wrote:...you guys think there's room for a turbo in there? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/car/736441939.html -Z _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower_______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower |
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