Riceburner the full story,
As I first came in contact with this car
it was owned by a frequent streetracer in Avesta (230 km from Stockholm)...
...or actually his girlfriend, as if anyone would care.
He was the one using the car, and he was racing it quite alot.
Not neceserily illegal. he ran some leagal races too,
Kopparracet 2001 was one of the bigger leagal events he used the car for.
I got invited to Avesta a saturday evening to take part in the races there,
and that was how I got in contact with the car.


After that I didn't hear much about the car for a while.
I knew Martin had sold it, but I didn't know to who.
Now afterwards I got to know it was a guy called Anders who had bought it,
Anders is mostly known in Sweden for his amazing Honda Civic with NOS.
He usually helps people out with installing NOS systems in other peoples Hondas too.
Altough, Anders didn't have the car for that long until he sold it on to a guy calling himself Tiger.
Tiger used the car verry hard and brutally,
and not long after he bought it the bearings started to dislike his way of using the car.
He was having far too much boost in relation to the standard feulpressure.
As the engine was sounding worse for every day,
Tiger eventually got tired of the car.
He sold the turbo, the chair and some other things, to various people.
Then he called me and asked if I wanted to buy it for the remaining parts.
I wasn't hard to convince when the price of the car was below the feulcost to get it home.



One could say it was a car for the handy man.


Since the Wok took just about all my time during the summer,
this car was left untouched a couple of months until I got the time to fix it.
The fixing was to change or renovate the engine and to get a new drivers seat.
I chose to put in a new engine and renovate the other engine later on.


The new engine was bought from a Guy calling himselfe Toyaman.
He usually concentrate on building Toyota Staret Turbos,
but he had a Cherry once that he was fiddeling some with.
A new drivers seat was picked from my basement,
just as the turbocharger and some other parts that was missing.
Down below are some pictures from the engine swap.





Just a couple of weeks ahead of when I had planed to start off with the Riceburner,
it got hit pretty badly by a truck (and didn't leave a note)



I tryed to repair the damages as good as possible, but it just looked worse.
Instead I had to find some new bodie parts, and the only parts I could find was from a red Cherry.
I tested some variations of flames on the destroyed parts before I changed them.
As the new parts were red, I decided it was easyer to just repaint the whole car
instead of trying to get the right color for the new parts.




After the engine was switched, and the car had it's new color
the only thing remaining before I could sell it was to get it thrue the yearly MOT.
In Sweden all cars has to be tested by the Swedish institution for car safety.
As they check the car for rust, the brakes, lights, emmision and safety,
it's much easyer to sell a car that just has passed than a car that has to be tested in the next 2 months.
Anyway, to get throu I had to change some brake fluid pipes (read all),
and a headlight that had a rusty reflector.




The car is now sold to a happy owner.
Exept for the fact that it just had passed the MOT,
it had a KN filter, complete and tidy interior, boost gauge, adjustable boost,
fully prepaired for puting in a dump valve, new generator, and so on.
The new engine had only run 45000 km and was untouched and unraced,
so it was a verry good oportunity for further tuning.

Still we will have to wait and see if the new owner will make it a winner,
Hopefully we will see further on this spring.


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