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Old 07-16-2014, 12:22 AM   #72
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Originally Posted by Big D Design View Post
In the far future.... I am interested in a LS3 engine swap with a 520hp crate
motor from Chevy with a Tremec 6 speed XL trans. A company is developing a kit
that will be turnkey. And it will only weigh 30 to forty pounds more.
But that 40 pounds is not in the same place. The 86 platform has a center of gravity that is only 18 inches off the ground. That's lower than even the new Corvettes, and it's part of what makes this car handle the way it does. If you put more weight higher up, it would raise the center of gravity, and I would expect it to drastically impact the way the car corners.

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Thanks for the advice, I wish I had it a bit sooner. I am graduating high school and subsequently entering college 4 years ahead of when I would of been if I had stayed on the traditional education path. I have come upon the realization that I just traded some of what could've been really fun years for college, bills, and responsibility.
Don't regret that. The teenage years are wasted in high school. I would love to have been in college at age 14.

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Reminds me of a 1966 Triumph GT 6 except when I turn the key it starts!
What? You don't miss keeping a can of starting fluid and an extra set of points in the back?
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