13B-Swapped Sleeper Bug

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Earlier this month when I was at the Bug-In event at Autoclub Speedway, I found myself spending a lot of time wandering through the staging lanes looking over all the cars that came out to for the drags. As you saw during my Bug-In event coverage, there was a wide variety of VW’s there, ranging from lightly modified daily drivers to VW-powered rail dragsters.

With that said, there was one car I saw that really threw me off. From a distance, this oval-window Bug looked just like any other rust-covered project car, but as I got closer I saw that the engine was bit different than your average Volkswagen flat-four. Finally, I got close enough to find out that this mystery engine was in fact a naturally aspirated Mazda 13B rotary engine. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Mike Garrett

13B-Swapped Sleeper Bug

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Posted at 8:47 am in Bug, Mike Garrett, Speedhunters, VW

Comments

pttransamdriver
May 26, 2009 at 6:08 am

now I’ve seen lots of Rx-7s with LS1s are rotary conversions actually easy to do or does it take major modifications.

Monk73
May 20, 2009 at 10:16 pm

Actually the rotary conversion is not as far-fetched or rare as you might think.

oldscoob
May 20, 2009 at 4:05 pm

so now there is the v8 hacked to fit up front, flat four, six, liquid, air, turbo, supercharged, EJ versions, porsche versions and now the craziest nutcase of all. I do not want to mention the inline four..it made me sicker than a rotary sighting.