James,
If you are only interested in an auto-x car, you may want to rethink the
Sprite idea. First of all you can put whatever motor you want in there for
the go-fast part, but you still need to stop fast and corner fast. Putting
a new motor in there will put you into a modified class against outright
racecars. That will take some serious bucks in your Sprite to come close to
competing with. Unless your local competition is really weak, you won't be
taking home the trophies.
For a lot less money and a seriously fast auto-x car, think about buying a
used Formula 500 SCCA race car. You can pick up an older one for a few
thousand dollars which is peanuts compared to what you will put in that
Sprite and you will be much, much faster. The F500 is one of the cheapest
and fastest ways to compete in auto-x. If you can drive well, you will
rarely, if ever, get beat by anything.
Larry Daniels
ex- F500 road racer and auto-x
----- Original Message -----
From: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@gmail.com>
To: "James Coppage" <apexshot@att.net>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] New Person on the block
For poop you pants speed check out a Mazda 13B. For real fast check out
the Toyota AG4xx engine series. Plenty of go fast parts and you won't
be the first to transplant these power plants.
Where are you located?
Gilroy
James Coppage wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a older AHS or Austin Healy Sprite it the one with the half rear
> leaf spring. It has many thickness of rust so it would be a poor car for
> the rebuild. So I have a need for speed
> so I am planning on building a rocket ship for Auto x using a Datsun
> engine and a Datsun 5 speed but having a difficult time locating engine
> parts. Any ideas! Or would I better off to use
> a different engine due to its too old?
> Jim
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