I wasn't able to edit my
old post, but I am putting the rally car up for sale. I had it listed last year, but decided to hang on to it. A year has passed and I have not found the time for it...so I want to let it go to someone that has the time to enjoy it. I do not want to part it out. It is located in Fayetteville, AR. I originally bought it from Dave Kern 5 years ago and have only driven it a handful of times on farmland after I purchased it. It has been in storage and hasn't been started in the last two years. It was a hill climb car that competed in the Colorado Hill Climb Series, Pikes Peak, and Rally Idaho. My plan was to rally cross and then stage rally it.
Currently the car is set up to run normally aspirated, although it needs a jump/charge (probably new battery), radiator fan, ECU tuning, rear quarter window install, wire in IAT sensor. I have the turbo parts to set it up turbo again, it just needs some additional intercooler piping fabrication.
If you plan on running stage rally, you will need new safety harnesses as these are out of date. The door X bars and roof bar would need to be redone along with the addition of an a-pillar reinforcement bar to get a rally logbook. The GTX weighs 2600 lbs with the glass windows and both skid plates installed. It is a used rally car, it has dents and scrapes.
The trailer can also be included, it was purchased from Dave Kern when I bought the GTX. It is a custom 16' steel trailer with two 3500lb axles, with trailer brakes on both axles. It has a tilting bed (with hydraulic hand pump, so no ramps are needed), it has a rail down each side (~30" wide) with a big opening in the middle, so when the car is on the trailer you have good access to the underside. Will include a Tekonsha Prodigy trailer brake controller as well.
1988 Mazda 323 GTX: (
pictures on flickr)
Safety & Rally Gear and other stuff:
Roll cage by Salta Motorsports (1.75x0.095 main hoop, 1.50x0.120 other bars)
Momo Start seats
Sabelt 3" 6-point seatbelts
Custom skid plates
Front ¼" 6000 series skid plate – covers everything from the bumper to your feet
Middle 0.090" 6000 series skid plate – covers from your feet to the rear axle
Terratrip intercom
Roof vents (driver & co-driver)
Momo steering wheel and spacer
Back 5 windows tinted (CHCA requirement for glass)
Lightened front and rear bumpers
Odyssey PC680 battery mounted in trunk
Kill switch
2 fire bottles
Starter button
10" tall shifter stand with short throw shifter mod
5 gallon water tank for IC & radiator misters, and water injection
Three stage water mister setup (I-intercooler only, II top of radiator, III bottom of radiator) powered by at 40psi RV pump
Custom lightweight fiberglass hood with 2 GTR hood vents for radiator/exhaust manifold, and one large vent for the intercooler. Made with 2 layers of fiberglass and balsa core – very stiff.
Suspension, Brakes & Handling:
GAB Rally Struts (3f 3r some others with blown seals)
Eibach 12" springs, 150#, 200#, 250#
Mazdacomp rear LSD
No-front sway bar, stock rear bar
Escort/Galant front brake upgrade with long wheel studs
Miata/Galant rear brake upgrade with long wheel studs
Porterfield R4 brake pads ( one new set in box)
S10 front air dam
Motor & Accessories:
LINK standalone ECU
Knock sensor
air intake temperature sensor
electronic boost control
550cc RX-7 injectors
AEM wideband o2 sensor wired into ECU
Greddy memory boost & egt gauges
Greddy fuel pressure gauge
Bored out 1994 protégé 1.8L motor
9.0:1 Weisco Forged Pistons (1.88L final displacement)
GTR Forged Rods
Re-worked head from Corksport
Gasket matched porting
1mm oversized stainless intake & exhaust valves
Eibach high performance valve springs
GTR intake manifold
BPT exhaust manifold with garrett adapter plate welded on
Garrett GT2560R ball-bearing turbo
Spearco Intercooler and Evo 8 Intercooler (smaller top mount setup or large front mount setup)
Greddy Type-S blow-off valve (vented to atmosphere)
Walbro RX-7 Turbo fuel pump
GM coil packs (readily availabe at any autozone)
Magnecore 8mm plug wires (custom done from V8 domestic kits)
2.5" downpipe with divorced wastegate
2.5" test pipe, 2.5" high flow cat
2.5" cat-back exhaust
Two rear sections, one with muffler, one with high flow cat
Supra Twin Turbo fluidyne radiator
Fidanza 9lb flywheel with SPEC Kevlar clutch
Spares/Extras:
12 Stock GTX wheels with used rally tires in varying conditions
1 torn apart stock transmission
1 set of black doors with gutted interior and lexan windows
1 set of red doors with crank windows
1 spare rear hatch with lexan window
1 set of rear ¼ lexan windows
3 front bumpers (one with some minor damage, 2 with some stratches)
1 front bumper beam (un-touched)
1 spare rear bumper (some damage)
1 spare shifter cable
1 spare control arm
Trailing and lateral links (couple of each)
5mm, 8mm, and 10mm wheel spacers
Protégé N/A exhaust manifold & downpipe (in case Rally America won’t let you run a turbo car for your first few events)
Front axles
Mold for fiberglass hoods (ok for rally car, not ok for show car)
E-bay water injection setup (not hooked up)
I'm asking $4,500 for the car and spares, or $6,500 for the car, spares, and trailer.
Thanks,
David Bednar
davidbednar AT gmail dot com
870-243-ten seventy
But good luck with the build