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Originally Posted by fatoni
Please dont resort to name calling. you can want to reduce cog by lowering a 60 lb roof, 180 lb driver and 8 lb hood. id take the 800 lbs of drive train. if what you were saying held any weight, i dont think the cayman would have such a high center of gravity, right? i mean, there is no engine in front so the hood can be as low as they want.
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I apologise. I got heated and that was unwarranted.
Lowering the driver lowers much more than just the roof. There's all the glass, the pillars, crash beams, wiring looms and more.
I'm not saying that the boxer is the only reason the car has a low CG. I'm saying that if you replaced it with an I4, you'd have to raise up a significant portion of the car to get it to pass international regulations. In fact Tada has said that the car initially sat 15 mm lower than it does, but in order to comply to some countries standards they had to raise the suspension, causing it to have slightly more ground clearance than the WRX 😆