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Howardflat

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Just picked up this baja from a friend. Street legal cruiser. It's a '64 bug pan with a tube chassis. Has a 13B rotary motor with fuel injection. Runs good and looks cool.
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What's your plans with it? Looks too fun to just drive on the street.
 

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Let me know when you are ready to sale it...Been looking for one similar.
 

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Bad ass with the rotary in it. I tried to buy a baja bug years ago with a 2.3L Pinto engine in it.
 

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Ive never been a big baja guy, but that thing is rad!

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Im sure ill buzz it around in the desert. I have a rzr which would probably blow the doors off it. But mostly just torture the town. Thing is fucking LOUD!
Is the motor ported, bridge or street? The only thing that seems to quiet down a rotary is a turbo...:rolleyes:

Looks like a lot of fun. The last baja I had was a few years "B.C." as in "Before Children";) and it was only a 2276 motor.
 

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Is the motor ported, bridge or street? The only thing that seems to quiet down a rotary is a turbo...:rolleyes:

Looks like a lot of fun. The last baja I had was a few years "B.C." as in "Before Children";) and it was only a 2276 motor.

tell you the truth I dont know what has been done to the motor. The guy told me (a good friend) that the motor and trans was rebuilt a while ago but has hardly any time on them.
 

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tell you the truth I dont know what has been done to the motor. The guy told me (a good friend) that the motor and trans was rebuilt a while ago but has hardly any time on them.
Aside from sounding like a chainsaw on crack, I love rotary motors. Keep oil and coolant in them, and stay away from the pipes;)

Regardless of the build, the motor is a good fit in weight and power. It'll be fun out in the desert:)
 

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Then is it just a nuclear meltdown waiting to happen :)
Around 1997 or 8, my buddy had swapped over from a built type1 to a 13B, street ported and turboed. It was a JSC mid engine with no weight, and less travel.
Maybe second trip out, I saw what happens when you lose the oil seal in a turbo...He went up Olds, and it looked like the space shuttle launching:eek:
He never lost the motor, it was actually pretty dependable. He's long since sold it. Built a 5seater and that has one of my old ricky-racer 5 liters in it. Not as fast, but sounds good;)
 

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Bad to the Bone!
 

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Im sure ill buzz it around in the desert. I have a rzr which would probably blow the doors off it. But mostly just torture the town. Thing is fucking LOUD!
Torture is right. I’m up on the roof wiring and plumbing up the new AC units.
Then I hear this loud thunder coming down the road.
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not once, but 4 times, everyone in the city but me got a ride in this thing today. lol.

what’s that running on? Smelled like race fuel.

Congrats on the new toy!
Beers tonight?
 

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That thing is seriously bad ass
 

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Torture is right. I’m up on the roof wiring and plumbing up the new AC units.
Then I hear this loud thunder coming down the road.
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not once, but 4 times, everyone in the city but me got a ride in this thing today. lol.

what’s that running on? Smelled like race fuel.

Congrats on the new toy!
Beers tonight?

Lol. Hey it's still fresh so I've been driving it a bunch. Going up town tonight if you guys are around.
 
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