NZ Performance Car

NITRO BLAST

t’s a chassis that has seen nearly every rotary engine combination you could dream of over the past decade, from the original 13B turbo that propelled it to a 7.6 during the first season, to the triple-turbo 20Bs back in 2011 when we first featured it, to the turbo quad-rotor that saw it dip into the sixes, then back to a 13B in search of 200mph (322kph); even a compound turbo set-up was flirted with for a brief second. For Brent Curran of Curran Brothers Racing (CBR), his full-tube-frame RX-2 has been and always will be a hot rod. More important, though, is that it’s a way for Matamata’s mad scientist to learn new tricks; test out crazy

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