Watch: 900 KG Mk2 with Hayabusa Heads Makes 400 HP at 11,000 RPM

Motorsport regulations are great because they occasionally create deeply weird and inventive interpretations. This Mk2 Golf, for instance, races in Hill Climbing’s E1-2000 class and somebody decided that the obvious best solution was a Hayabusa engine.

That’s a little odd since a Mk2 engine would fit within the 2000cc limits laid out by the rules, but that doesn’t leave much space for forced induction. You see, the rules in hill climbing account for turbocharging, multiplying their engine’s displacement by 1.7 times.

So Franz Pobst decided that the natural solution was to stick Hayabusa heads onto a KR block (combining for 1170cc of displacement) and boosting it up to 400 hp at 11,000 rpm with a Garrett turbo.

Despite sending power to all four wheels, the car still tips the scales at just 900 kg (a little less than 2,000 lbs).

Built in 2017, the car continued to evolve through 2018, earning its first class victory this year at the Voitsberg Hillclimb, in its home country of Austria.

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