Yeah, it's not a Honda, but I figure someone might get a kick out of this...

You might remember this piece of crap from when I first bought it.


Well, I went ahead and installed a race built motor I found on ebay.

It's a rebuilt version of the stock engine. Mods include a Weber 32/36 downdraft carb, custom profile cam and custom header. Everything is ported, polished, blueprinted, etc. It was built back in the 80's by Team Highball, a Mazda sponsored racing team.
Right now it's running really bad, sometimes not at all (electrical problems) but when the gas is floored, it feels to have around 140 horsepower. Oddly torquey for a 1.5.



Here's a pic I took today while working on cleaning and tucking the bay.


And of course, late night open header action:

http://www.mikespock.com/wowitruns.wmv

 

lmao
pretty pimp

 

nice project

 

that's so badass

 

That is amazing.

 

wow that thing is cleaner than my mom's 2003 sentra...This car seems to be spotless. Cali car?

 

I love 80s econo-cars that are set up for racing. Make sure to take it to an auto X sometime.

 

for getting that motor in, saw the posts on TST

 

YOURRRR EVILLL TWINN MY BROTHER TURBO GLC.....226hp turbo 1.5 sickk sleeper

 

Holy crap! Another one still exists! Get in touch with me, I want to know more about that car!

 

get that **** running right, has to be faster than that. hella clean

 

Used to see those back in the Street races here in Cali. One of our friends had a Mazda 323 and swapped in a MAzda 626 turbo motor and converted the 323 to a Manual trans. This was in 1992 or so.

BAck then with a light car like the 323 with that stock turbo setup, it was beating most of the Hondas, etc at the street races.

 

lol, Awesome, my mom used to own one back in the day....ah the memories.

btw sweet project good luck!!

 

nice

 

lol...these cars are cute and ugly at the same time.

 

Wow that is one clean 323. Props for something original!

 

clean ride bro, that thing is fresh.

i have a 1979 mazda glc wagon, rwd. im hoping to swap in a rotary someday. but right now its just sitting.

anyone that might be interested in buying it PM me, its in north washington. i'd probly pass it up for cheap it need a lot of help.

 

Haven't seen one of those around here for probably 15 years at least, I remember a neighbor across the street had one parked out back when I was a kid. Pretty cool to see something like that with a nice swap from that era, would be nice to see it with some period-correct wheels from the 80's.

 

nice, my frriend has one with a klze v6 jdm engine in it

 

Wow, throw back.

Engine blew up 3 weeks after the swap went in. Piece of **** slow car.

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Look clean from the outside..

 

Coolness.

 

can u give me some info about this GLC?

Mike

 

cool *** old school car.

still got it ?

stratton.