Piloted by none other than… myself. (As if the shades didn’t give it away)
It ain't pretty, but it's got it where it counts
Even with my relatively conservative (read: noob) lines I still managed to punt said racecar to a 1:56 PB around Track 1 at Taupo with the new ‘slow’ turn 12, which trumps my previous record in my own FWD TX3 by a whole twelve seconds. I can only imagine what sort of laptimes a more experienced/ballsy driver could be capable of doing in that thing.
the Mirage is running a mildly tickled Dirk-spec 4G63 out of a VR-4 and tricky diffs front and rear (yup it’s 4WD). There has been talk of re-tuning the car to run 20psi of boost; now we’re getting serious.
Thanks to Logan/Gorgasm for the photo, and to the guys from Rogue Racing for the chance to blaze around Taupo in this 
Nice!
I have fond memories of the Mirage/Colt: it was my first car.
Of course it did not feature a 4G63, nor 4WD… All it had was a FWD 4G13 econobox.
Yup, as always Japan saved the best models for themselves. This ‘borg originally had a 4G61T, however the 2 litre conversions are trivial. Voila, an instant 200ps in a sub-1000kg car!
I look forward to seeing what the RR guys decide to do next, the rear end needs a bit of development to smooth out the twitchiness especially on weight shift (it runs a rather dated solid rear axle, however a Watts link will go a long way towards improving that)