{"id":2650,"date":"2015-03-24T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2015-03-24T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:37:40","slug":"for-sale-1979-toyota-corolla-with-a-turbo-mazda-13b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: 1979 Toyota Corolla With A Turbo Mazda 13B"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This 1979 Toyota Corolla with a Mazda 13B rotary engine is being sold on eBay. The Garrett GT45 turbocharger provides 12 psi of boost to give the engine around 485 horsepower. The seller claims the car has over $32,000 put into it. The current bid is $10,100 with 32 bids at the time of this article. The car is being sold out of Cohutta, Georgia. I don’t how many classic brown Corollas with a turbocharged rotary engine are in the world but it can’t be many.<\/p>\n

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This 1979 Toyota Corolla with a Mazda 13B rotary engine is being sold on eBay. The Garrett GT45 turbocharger provides 12 psi of boost to give the engine around 485 horsepower. The seller claims the car has over $32,000 put into it. The current bid is $10,100 with 32 bids at the time of this… Read More »For Sale: 1979 Toyota Corolla With A Turbo Mazda 13B<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corolla"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113747,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=113747","url_meta":{"origin":2650,"position":0},"title":"Corolla with a Turbo 13B","author":"swaptastic","date":"April 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This Toyota Corolla KE10 was built SDR Motorsport in Windsor, NSW, Australia. 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