Rb Corolla - Historic Racer

[ke70dave]

hey guys, has anyone ever put an RB engine in a corolla? and is it legal?

 

HAH! fooled yas all.

 

no this is not a thread about an RB engine in a corolla, this is about "RB corolla", this racecar i saw out at lakeside raceway on saturday, yesterday, 28th may.

 

thought you K motor nuts would find it interesting.

 

all information can be found here:

 

http://www.johnsredcar.net/

 

with some very good information, as well as a diary of the restoration.

 

essentially its an awesome open wheeler from the 1970s, running a 3k engine on av gas (10:1 compression apparently), twin carbys apparnetly making around 130hp, and it sounded tough...

 

i had a chat to the guy who owned it, he seemed knowledgable, mentioned that it used to be a 2k i think.

 

a few pics i took of it, but there are better ones on that website above.

 

 

and a few pics of the display he had setup:

 

 

anyway thought you all might like to see this, it was a good day out at lakeside, plenty of interesting cars going around, even a 1930 austin 7!

Edited May 29, 2011 by ke70dave

[parrot]

1930 lotus 7??? I knew Colin Chapman was a genius, but designing cars when he was 2 years old. :laff: Sorry Dave

 

 

I think this may be the car TE278U has helped out on?

[ke70dave]

sorry austin 7 ....not lotus 7!!!

 

(goes and edits first post)

[Sloth]

:bash: Talk to a local engineer or your road authority..... oh wait... I see what you did there! lol :laff:

 

That thing is awesome! According to the site it weighs 400kgs (which for 130hp is pretty good).

Edited May 29, 2011 by Sloth

[philbey]

Cool. Looks like another 623, very cool. I snapped a few pics of a blue 3k powered 623 recently. Very cool cars but will set you back 30 grand or more for a full rqce ready one.

[KEhendo]

I think this may be the car TE278U has helped out on?

 

this isn't the car that he helps on. saw that car and two other over the weekend at winton. two running K engines (1100 to keep in the class) and one running a 3K on twin 48mm webers. talked to one these guys about redlines and he said between 8500 and 9000 rpm. wow.

[TOM]

Have seen a number of similar looking K-engined open wheelers at our local (SA) Collingrove hillclimb - they still hold regular events there so I'll try to get some happy snaps and info next time we head out.

[philbey]

thats probably the blue one (elfin 623) thats in my album TOM, I got some more detail shots of it recently as well.