For those who don’t follow along on Discord, our sweet beautiful four cylinder has gone to the great big road course in the sky. Born in Yokohama, Japan it immigrated to the US in 1993, spending the first 93 thousand miles of its life on the road behind a pair of pop-up up and down headlights. Afterwards it hit rock bottom, rusting away on a shelf in a junkyard.
But it got a second chance, reborn as the heart of a race car for 9.5 endurance races (a record!). Unfortunately its elderly bones proved too brittle for 6969 RPM, and its rod bolt threads finally gave up the ghost.
For those with a strong stomach, find its final moments below captured on video. It leaves behind a shrimp pink Nissan 240sx. Out of respect, we’ll be retiring the KA series and moving to a Honda K motor. Come join the engine swap fun, Thursday nights at 7.
