[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in our December 2005 issue. Some information may be different now.]
Like so many prescription stories, this one starts with a visit to the emergency room. Brian Kraus was driving back from work in his MG Midget when he was rear-ended—the driver was too busy playing with the radio to notice the fully stopped, bright-orange MG.
“I got a trip to the …
Lightweight roadster with Mazda 13B rotary power is a great combo.
If you want such a beast without having to do the conversion, I'd suggest considering the 1992-93 Maxton Rollerskate roadsters. http://www.maxtonrollerskate.com/ About 50 were made, some sold in kit form but most were sold completed, all with 12A or 13B rotaries.
Typically they change hands now in the mid/upper teens, though I saw a nice one sell for $12K a couple years ago and have seen as much as $25K bid and no-sale on a brand new condition super low mile car recently, so there is quite range.
I own #19, one of less than 10 long-wheelbase cars, running a ported 13B, MicroTech LT-9c and fuel injection. I also added the later RX-7 rear with discs and LSD just like the owner of this MG. With over 200 horses and weighing only 1700 lbs. it is blast on local back roads.
I've got nearly the exact same car and engine combo waiting to be finished. I've seen this car before and already stolen some of the suspension ideas from it. Great to see a more in depth article.
Great build! This is a well documented winning combination on the national autocross scene. Bob and Charlotte King won multiple E-Mod national SCCA championships in their rotary Midget. Looks like your heading toward the same kind of record. Congratulations!
Always like more entries in SCCA E Mod at the Lincoln Solo National Championship. I have the yellow E Mod Jeep (there is a 2nd yellow Jeep in D Mod) originally built by Del Long but mine has gone through extensive upgrading over the years (and more coming). Here is the 5 part blog -
http://www.northgeorgiawx.com/the-jeep.html
See ya'll in Lincoln,
Jim
A guy from the Little Rock area brings a Midget to our car show regularly. It has some kind of Dodge 4 cylinder in it. Then a big bottle of NOZ, then a turbo. Running MegaSquirt. Year before last he mentioned getting a speeding ticket in triple digits.
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