This is a behind the scene article about SR Motorsports and Ray Lochhead. Ray originally started his company in 1991 racing his Rotary Powered Dune buggy at Sears Point International Race Way. I remember being there and watching him break, rear ends, trannys, axles and blow up turbos. I was quite impressed by the amount of horse power he made with the little 12A motor he had in that car. I think he was running some 12 sec. quarter mile times back then. After being restricted by the many safety rules and breaking more parts, he decided to build a stock body 1985 RX7.
When he was first building this car it started out looking like a brown turd that he got from a junk yard. After a few months of tuning his Tech II, New T04 Turbo and stock motor it was then worthy of a new paint job! The image here you see is a burn out he made after he finished building the Mazda. He ran a 10.10sec. quarter mile in this pass. The fastest car at the show! This must of been in about 1994. He then realized the potiential of his new project and his dune buggy was growing spider webs on it.Making horsepower was not a issue for Ray. It was getting the power on the floor that was a challenge. The stock rear end was not holding up to all the power he was making in his stock chassis RX7. This is where he had to make a decision! He ended up putting a 4 link into the Stock Mazda Body! And what a difference it made. With his first several passes and minior adjustments he was in the 9 sec. quarter mile range.

There will soon be a write up on his 3rd gen Mazda RX7, which will include unscene pictures of the chasis build up.