Mazda IMSA Prototype Racer Is Our Bring a Trailer Auction Pick of the Day

This 2014 Lola/ Mazda IMSA prototype racer, our pick of the day from the transaction point Bring a. Caravan — which, like Auto and Motorist, is part of Hearst Motors — is most interesting for what it does not. have an machine. But it has enough much everything differently you need to go racing, including. pushrod- actuated Multimatic DSSV mutes, carbon- carbon thickets with AP Contending calipers, and .an XTrac 1059 successional gearbox. But as it sits, it's just a mortal-scale Pinewood Derby racer. And that is part of the fun — daydreaming about what kind of powerplant you ’d stuff into the space between the cabin and the hinder bus. 

That XTrac gearbox is rated for 590 pound- bases of necklace, which means there are lots of. possibilities as to what you might bolt to it. A Mazda rotary would be applicable, of course. Or 

how about an LS7? Or perhaps commodity like this. You presumably will not use an machine of the kind that firstly powered the auto at the 2014 24 Hours of Daytona — a four-cylinder diesel. That was back when Mazda was promoting its Skyactiv diesels as the future, a future that noway relatively. materialized. This auto spent two seasons as a diesel before contending a final season with a 

turbocharged gas four-cylinder. We would also guess that whoever wins this auto will not install a turbo four. Unlike Mazda, we do not have to suppose on- brand, then."Siri, will a Lamborghini V-10 fit in a. Lola B12/ 80 lattice?

"This auto, lattice MM07, noway finished better than fourth place in any given race (that was with. the gas machine). But you will surely win your original track day if you show up with this monster,. turn the key, and unleash the ragged blat of a Metzger air- cooled Porsche flat-six. Or an Alfa Romeo2.9-liter turbo V-6. Or... Okay, you get the idea. But we are just saying that if you are Formerly shelling out the plutocrat for this tasteful assemblage of road- course- rubout tackle,. you may as well spend another$ for a-rpm, 600-hp naturally aspirated four-rotor. rotary. That's all. 

 

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