Mazda IMSA Prototype Racer Is Our Convey a Trailer Public sale Decide of the Day

• This ex–SpeedSource/Mazda Lola B12/80 competed within the IMSA prototype class from 2014 to 2016, and now it’s up for public sale on Convey a Trailer.
• Necessary element: It doesn’t include an engine.
• Bidding is at present at $52,888, and the public sale ends on Monday, February 14.

This 2014 Lola/Mazda IMSA prototype racer, our choose of the day from the public sale web site Convey a Trailer—which, like Automobile and Driver, is a part of Hearst Autos—is most intriguing for what it doesn’t have: an engine. But it surely has just about every thing else that you must go racing, together with pushrod-actuated Multimatic DSSV dampers, carbon-carbon brakes with AP Racing calipers, and an XTrac 1059 sequential gearbox. However because it sits, it’s only a human-scale Pinewood Derby racer. And that’s a part of the enjoyable—daydreaming about what sort of powerplant you’d stuff into the area between the cabin and the rear wheels.

That XTrac gearbox is rated for 590 pound-feet of torque, which suggests there are many prospects as to what you would possibly bolt to it. A Mazda rotary could be applicable, in fact. Or how about an LS7? Or perhaps one thing like this. You most likely gained’t use an engine of the type that initially powered the automobile on the 2014 24 Hours of Daytona—a four-cylinder diesel. That was again when Mazda was selling its Skyactiv diesels as the long run, a future that by no means fairly materialized. This automobile spent two seasons as a diesel earlier than racing a closing season with a turbocharged fuel four-cylinder. We’d additionally guess that whoever wins this automobile gained’t set up a turbo 4. In contrast to Mazda, we don’t need to assume on-brand, right here. “Siri, will a Lamborghini V-10 slot in a Lola B12/80 chassis?”

This automobile, chassis MM07, by no means completed higher than fourth place in any given race (that was with the fuel engine). However you’ll positively win your native observe day when you present up with this monster, flip the important thing, and unleash the ragged blat of a Metzger air-cooled Porsche flat-six. Or an Alfa Romeo 2.9-liter turbo V-6. Or . . . Okay, you get the thought. However we’re simply saying that when you’re already shelling out the cash for this delectable assemblage of road-course-slaying {hardware}, you could as nicely spend one other $40,000 for a ten,000-rpm, 600-hp naturally aspirated four-rotor rotary. That’s all.

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