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Originally Posted by nikitopo
I read the article. Nothing to educate myself. It contains known issues about the FI solutions on our cars and then makes a general critic on the boxer design. These guys don't know anything about the history of these engines. The boxer engines are well tested in racing for decades and they proved that can be very competitive comparing to other engine designs. Then they start discussing about weight savings and how to gain some weight from the exhaust, wheels, flywheel. These are solutions that can be used even in the NA car. What is the relationship to the engine swap? Of course, they never give the before and after overall weight of the car. I wouldn't even dare to question where is the new center of gravity.
Exactly!
I already did my search and know some things about the LSx engines. I didn't want to mention this, because I preferred to ask a person who did the whole swap thing.
From my point of view, his car is not anymore a FR-S/BRZ. Not so much for the reason of the more power, but for the reason that it is not focusing any more on the handling aspect. Whoever reads my complete reply, he'll understand. At least this is my personal opinion.
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They stated it made no change to the overall F/R balance, corner weighted well, and added around 134 lbs. Seems like it should handle mostly the same, but have a nice powerband on hand. With the gearing of the transmission and the overall more reliable V8 and T56 combo, the vehicle would do quite well on a road course.
Seems like that is the direction that vehicle is going in anyways with the responses in this thread @
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