TThere’s nothing like a last-minute thrash to get a car ready. Street Machine Smyrnatus, but J. Doca of the Low standards The YouTube channel has taken it to a whole other level with their latest Summer Nets build.
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The South Aussie is no stranger to building out-of-the-box and out-of-the-box cars, taking the rotary-converted VN Commodore to the Smyrnatus 34 we covered last year. This time he’s building another rotary machine, but unlike the VN, the starter car isn’t exactly a wallflower.
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The story goes that Donald, Jay’s partner from Automotive Carnage Got this RX-3 Out in the bush as a roller, and it certainly shows. Jay then got his hands on the car, and just a few weeks after Smyrnatus he decided to change the high-speed engine to a three-rotor 20BPP he had lying around.
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Jay says the engine is a Maztech piece that was actually the fastest Espoo rotary in the country for a while. He’ll throw it into the RX-3 with a six-speed manual and a four-speed R31 Skyline diff.
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“I’m not even going to turn it into a drift car, I’m just going to make it a car,” says Jay. “I just want it to be moving, driving and super low.”
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So low, in fact, that he had to build a whole new trans tunnel and tailshaft bulge in the floor to give the box and tailshaft clearance at his desired ride height.
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It also lost the original crossmember and steering box and replaced it with a rack and pinion conversion from an AE86 Corolla. Jay also grafted Nissan S13 rear strut towers into Mazda’s boot to accommodate the new four-link, allowing him to run S13 coilovers for maximum downforce.
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It’s part of what Jay says will be a two-part build to get the Christy RX-3 to Smyrnatus, where it’s expected to join a rear-wheel-drive, 2JZ-modified Honda Odyssey. As we said, the man isn’t afraid to build machines outside.
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You can see the build series and all of J’s cool cars on Odyssey. Low standard On YouTube channel This link here.