Bought a '59 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite

[E30SPDFRK]

There is one near me with a fully boxed frame, chevy 327 v8 and a shortened ford 9" rear end. It has been sitting outside for about 15 years at a gas station and the guy said that I could probably have it for free. Its pretty beat though.

[Wishno87]

Funny you mention rotary, I considered it because we have a couple of 13B RX-7's, but I dont know if they are a practical engine to use, would it be better than an M10? more horsepower for sure.

they are not hugely practical to use. they get rather poor gas mileage for their size and tend to have problems with blown out apex seals. i think they would be better than an M10 though. they are lighter and the turbo II models have about 170HP stock. i dont know if the rear suspension of the Sprite would be able to handle the torque of the turbo one though.

[blunttech]

put a s14 in it

thats what id do too. that would be so badass

[McCoolidge]

you should try a rotary. im putting one in my 76 spitfire. in concept it should work great because the cars are really light (1800 in the case of my spitfire) so a lighter engine would help with handling and rotarys can be mounted fairly far back because they are rather short. probably not very reliable but a fun idea. i have a 12A and a 13B sitting in my garage but no fuel delivery parts for either:(

Funny you mention rotary, I considered it because we have a couple of 13B RX-7's, but I dont know if they are a practical engine to use, would it be better than an M10? more horsepower for sure.

[Turf1600]

put a s14 in it

[Wishno87]

you should try a rotary. im putting one in my 76 spitfire. in concept it should work great because the cars are really light (1800 in the case of my spitfire) so a lighter engine would help with handling and rotarys can be mounted fairly far back because they are rather short. probably not very reliable but a fun idea. i have a 12A and a 13B sitting in my garage but no fuel delivery parts for either:(

[JasonC]

Haha, those thing are so ugly that they are cool.

[McCoolidge]

for $200! The PO needed rid of it because of lack of storage. I just got the car, so I don't have any pics unfortunately. Its going to be a tear apart and rebuild project, so I need engine ideas, I was thinking an m10 with dual sidedraft webers, I really don't want to put original healey or MG bits back in it because of the lack in reliability.