You gotta chop this fuck out of it like you're Paul Bunyan or John Henry. Pretty much chop the roots to the middle of the stump, and then it should come out pretty easily.
I don't know that I'd say they're small. Since they're 2 stroke and there are 3 faces/ rotor and 2 rotors they're more like a 2.6L 4 cylinder. They love to spool up big turbos.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/Stebbins97/2012-03-31_15-13-51_789.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/Stebbins97/2012-03-31_17-56-32_36.jpg
It's filthy and a shitbox, but you get the idea.
The only envelope you pushed was the envelope containing the check to build this car. IPS is building the car, if anything, they're pushing the envelope, so to speak.